DVDylan ID: D387.su
Recording type: Audience
City/Venue: Fréjus, France/Les Arènes
Date: Tuesday, 13th June 1989


1:25:53:05
NTSC
Center floor
5-point DASH-F rating: 5-5-/4/4/4
15-point DASH-F rating: 13/13/8/8/8 (12.5 avg,/B+/A-)

MISSING SONGS (filled w/stills):
Hey La La (Hey La La)
Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)
I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
In The Garden

DIFFERENCES FROM SWINGIN' PIG YOU TUBE EDITION:
-NTSC format
-sound upgraded: less audience chatter; warmer
-fully authored with title menu, sub menus and chapter divisions
-missing songs, cuts & obstructed parts filled with stills

PERFORMANCE/HIGHLIGHTS/SPECIAL MOMENTS:
-unique setlist includes the only known performance of "Peace In The Valley" and one of only three performances of "Hey La La (Hey La La)."
-appearance of Ringo Starr on "Highway 61 Revisited" and "Like A Rolling
Stone"
-drummers change places toward end of "Like A Rolling Stone"
-Dylan in fine voice and spirits
-moving performance of "Lakes Of Pontchartrain" and "Peace In The Valley"
-lots of harp
-G.E. Smith's slide guitar on "Highway 61 Revisited" and tremolo acoustic
guitar on "Lakes Of Pontchartrain"

DISTANCE/POSITION: 13 (center floor; camera mostly closely focused on Dylan with occasional zooming out and panning to other players)

AUDIO: 13 (excellent LB-10380) (original audio is good, but the upgrade audio has less audience chatter and is warmer; some squeaking noises)

STEADINESS: 11 (filmer does good job despite position amidst crowd on the center floor)

HEADS/OBSTRUCTIONS: 11 (filmer stayed mostly on target, but lowered camera between songs)

FOCUS: 11 (good focus and color; adequate light though venue dark between songs)

EDITING: missing songs, cuts and obstructed parts filled w/stills; some brief cuts & stills used to maintain a/v sync; audio cut during intro fixed; pre-encore audio & video cut)

Concert # 82 of The Never-Ending Tour
Bob Dylan (vocals, harmonica & guitar)
G. E. Smith (lead electric guitar and acoustic guitar; backup vocal on song 1)
Tony Garnier (electric and standup bass)
Christopher Parker (drums & percussion )
Ringo Starr (drum & percussion on songs 11 & 12)

Thanks for filming & sharing the video to ZIMMY21.
Thanks for editing and sharing the video on YouTube to SWINGIN' PIG.
Thanks for sharing the MP4 file to MARKITOS & ANTHONY.
Thanks for recording the audio to LEGENDARY TAPER D.
Thanks for sharing the audio to BLINDWILLY.
Edited, sound upgraded & authored to DVD by YASSOU.

VIDEO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
A "Zimmy21" master source
Shot with a Sony 8mm videocamera
Edited & added to YouTube by Swingin' Pig
Edited, sound upgraded and authored to DVD by yassou
Earlier Swingin' Pig edition authored to DVD by markitos
master source > swinging' pig > youtube > mp4 > MacBook Pro hard drive > iMovie 6.0.3 > iDVD 7.1.2 > VIDEO_TS folder > you

AUDIO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
LB-7248
LB rating: A-
Taper: Legendary Taper: D
Sennheiser MKE 2002 > Sony WM 6 (Maxell XLIIS) > DAT 44.1kHz > Hard Drive > wave convert to flac (dbpoweramp Music Converter) > md5summer
LB-7248 > Dropbox > flac > Toast Titanium 11.0.4 > SD II disk images > iMovie 6.0.3

LB NOTES ON LB-7248:
-bittorrent download 02/09; same recording as sb LB-7146 based on same background talking at beginning of d1t6 which makes it different recording than LTJ LB-6551 which has different talking; in comparison this has a fuller warmer sound; excellent sound [A-]
-has same lots of squeaking noises mentioned on some of the other versions; it is bad for first 6 tracks and then comes back lighter for d2t4 and d2t5 and then bad on d2t6

DVD PRODUCTION PROCESS:
Produced by yassou on a MacBook Pro running Mohave OS 10.14.6 and Apple software.
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)

OLAF'S NOTES:
Only known performance of Peace In The Valley.
First performance of Man Gave Names To All The Animals during The Never-Ending Tour.
10 new songs (62%) compared to previous concert. 3 new songs for this tour.
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Reviewed by yassou on 21st January 2021