London/Brixton (25-Nov-03)

3-5/5/5/5/5
9-14/14/14/14/14 (avg. 14.50 A)
Right floor 30˙
1:50:32:03
PAL

IMPROVEMENTS/DIFFERENCES OVER D328.m/MS-178:
-sound upgraded
-filled missing songs and cuts w/stills and one movie clip during intros
-different top and track menus

IMPROVEMENTS/DIFFERENCES OVER D328.su:
-sound upgraded with Tyrus recording rather than Crystal Cat; Tyrus
considered to sound better according to LB notes
-sourced from master video source (MS-178)

PERFORMANCE/HIGHLIGHTS/SPECIAL MOMENTS:
-Dylan “on” from start to finish with energetic singing, keyboard pounding,
harp blowing and gesticulating
-terrific setlist with a solid mix of the old and the new
-Koella and Campbell trade fierce licks on the rockers
-only live performance of “Yea! Heavy And A Bottle Of Bread” since NYC
11–Nov-02; no other performances as of May 2016
-superb performance of “Blind Willie McTell” - though unseen, Campbell’s
cittern tremolo and Koella’s lead quite effective
-a tender reading of “Boots Of Spanish Leather”
-a breath-taking “A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall” - Dylan spits at end
-Dylan dances during “Honest With Me” and the crowd goes wild
-cool transition from “Cat’s In The Well” to “Like A Rolling Stone”
-Dylan remarks before band intros: “Thank you, friends. Somebody just threw
something up here. ??? Great Britain. Now we're going to find that fellow
and hang him!”

DISTANCE/POSITION: 9-14 (right floor 30˙) (camera was apparently on a tripod or fixed surface and mostly trained on Dylan’s piano with Dylan waist-up; others rarely seen except during bows before encore break and at the end)

AUDIO: 14 (excellent Tyrus recording - LBF-01371; editor of audio made cuts between tracks probably to save space; editor of D328.msu made cuts in video or extracted audio from video soundtrack to compensate)

STEADINESS: 14 (shaky start to first song as filmer adjusted the camera; steady after that)

HEADS/OBSTRUCTIONS: 14 (a few bodies passed, but mostly between songs)

FOCUS: 14 (a bit grainy on closeups and between songs when lights are low; color and lighting was fine; focus occasionally out between songs)

EDITING: used stills and a movie clip during the intros to fill the missing cuts (see setlist details)

Concert # 1588 of The Never-Ending Tour
Bob Dylan (vocal, electric keyboard, harp)
Freddie Koella (electric & acoustic guitar & fiddle)
Larry Campbell (electric & acoustic guitars, cittern, mandolin, pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar)
Tony Garnier (electric, acoustic & standup bass)
George Recile (drums & percussion)

VIDEO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
MS-178/D328.m
Taper: “The Two Daves”
Transferred & disseminated by Coops2009
D6 A7 S9 H9 F8 SR 107 min
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

AUDIO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
LBF-01371
Taper: Tyrus
Shared by lbp51 via DropBox
DPA 4021 > Lunatec V3 > Sony M1 FOB/DFC ORTF, Transfer: Sony D8 > Emagic 6/2 > Peak 3.10 (G4 Powerbook), > Shorten 1.2.3/Shntool 3.5.1
shn files > hd > xACT 2.37 > aiff > Toast Titanium 11.0.4 > SD II disk images > iMovie 6.0.3

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)

COOPS2009 NOTES FOR MS-178:
Quite a set list for this excellent show, you had no ida what was coming next (things have changed!)
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

LB NOTES FOR LBF-01371:
"The sound in the sweet spot was not a good as it should have been. Regretably, the recording is a little boomy."; similar quality to previous version with this one with clearer vocals but slightly harsher, and some will see this as an upgrade

RELATED LB NOTE FOR LB-1470:
excellent sound; similar in sound quality to others but I still preferred the sound on tyrus recording;