Grand Rapids, MI (05-Aug-89)

5 Stars: Great and setlist performance with rare technical quality for an early N.E.T. show

Left balcony 20˙
4/4+/3/3/4
11/12/8/8/11 (avg. 10.00 B-)
1:29:49:09
PAL

DIFFERENCES OVER & IMPROVEMENTS TO D189.m/D324.m:
-sound upgraded
-filled cuts & obstructed parts with stills
-different title & track menus

DIFFERENCES OVER & IMPROVEMENTS TO D324.su:
-sourced from the PAL master (D324.su sourced from transcoded NTSC copy)
-used improved audio source
-better use of stills & transitions
-divided into 2 discs to achieve higher bitrate
-different title & track menus

PERFORMANCE/HIGHLIGHTS/SPECIAL MOMENTS:
-dynamic performance by Dylan with a raw garage band sound
-alternate lyrics here and there, e.g., on “You're A Big Girl Now”
-great guitar by Smith on the rockers
-a couple of rarities: “You Don’t Know Me” and “Man Of Constant Sorrow”
-lots of cross (blues) harp playing, e.g., on “The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll,”
which is usually played straight harp”
-one of the best “Knockin' On Heaven's Door” performances ever

DISTANCE/POSITION: 11 (left balcony 20˙) (steady focus knees up on Dylan limited left panning; few shots of Smith and Parker)

AUDIO: 12 (very good LB-7993) (ran faster than video so speed correction needed)

STEADINESS: 8 (mostly steady)

HEADS/OBSTRUCTIONS: 8 (occasional obstructions but really sustained)

FOCUS: 11 (color and light good for an early N.E.T. show; focus soft but acceptable)

EDITING: cut and obstructed parts filled with stills; cuts also made to maintain a/v sync

Concert #118 of The Never-Ending Tour
Bob Dylan (vocal, acoustic & electric guitar, harp)
G. E. Smith (acoustic & electric guitar)
Tony Garnier (electric & standup bass)
Christopher Parker (drums & percussion)

Filmed by “THE TWO DAVES”
Transferred & disseminated by COOPS2009
Audio recorded by AN UNIDENTIFIED TAPER
Audio shared by MARKITOS
Edited, sound upgraded & authored by YASSOU

VIDEO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
MS-189/D324.m
Filmed by “The Two Daves”
Transferred & disseminated by Coops2009
VIDEO : Mpeg-2, 720 x 576. 25 fps, pic ratio 4.3. PAL
AUDIO : AC3 Dolby Digital, 48000 Hz, stereo 38.4 kb/s
EC30 tapes transferred to PC via a Panasonic NV-W1 Professional triple standard vhs machine.
Files authored to DVD with Tempgenc DVD Works Author 4
vob files > hd > MPEG Streamclip 1.9.2 > dv > iMovie 6.0.3

COOPS2009 NOTES FOR MS-189:
Fairly watchable, very nice setlist could be lighter and this is effecting the focus slightly so not one of the Daves best
Remember even if you have some of the Daves films already that at best your copies will be 2 generations poorer than anything in the Masters series, so get em all.
These will be with original sound though many will feature as sound upgrades eventually with my two mates Yassou and Madhasse helping out.

AUDIO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
LB-7993
LB rating: B+ (very good to excellent sound)
Unidentified taper
Shared by markitos via DropBox
no info on equipment or post-processing
CDs > hd > Toast Titanium 11.0.4 > SD II disk images > Audacity 2.0.0 (speed correction -0.50% & -0.75% > aiff file > iMovie 6.0.3

LB NOTES FOR LB-7993:
bittorrent download 09/09; about half the tracks have a flac fingerprint that matches the shntool md5 hash of LB-2234; as indicated this has some noted flaws on that one fixed; (did not listen to all of this) drop end of d1t8, between cdrs, end of d2t4

Nice show with a few nice surprises on the setlist, one of them being the first of three 1989 performances of "Watching The River Flow". Sourced from LB-2234 - but I've done some clean-ups, I removed a pop from "Masters Of War" and "Mr. Tambourine Man", plus a small gap after "Man Of Constant Sorrow" plus some other minor gaps. Therefor different md5 signature. Very good to excellent sound.

DISC AUTHOR’S NOTE REGARDING LB-7993:
Speed correction was needed using Audacity 2.0.0.

DVD PRODUCTION PROCESS: Audio and video assets edited in iMovie 6.0.3; authored, multiplexed and burned to VIDEO_TS folder in iDVD 7.1.2 (Professional Quality 2-pass variable bit rate encoding)