Rochester Hills MI (18-Jul-88)

NOTE: Above average for an early-N.E.T. recording, but not quite a "must-have" such as D1121)

3/4+/3+/3+/4
8/12/9/10/11 (avg.10.50 B-)
Left balcony 50˙
1:12:00:18
PAL

DIFFERENCES/IMPROVEMENTS OVER FROM MS-262/D816.ms:
-sound upgraded
-cuts & obstructed parts filled with stills
-different title and track menus
-all on one DVD

PERFORMANCE/HIGHLIGHTS/SPECIAL MOMENTS:
-high energy show, especially Dylan’s singing and Smith’s guitar
-fairly routine setlist except for “The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest”
-some new lyrics on “You're A Big Girl Now”
-Dylan breaks string on “Like A Rolling Stone”

DISTANCE/POSITION: 8 Left balcony 50˙ (camera fixed on Dylan with good views of Smith and Aronson; Parker unseen

AUDIO: 12 (very good sound; upgrade source runs faster than video soundtrack so had to be reduced by 0.75%

STEADINESS: 10 (relatively steady until “Like A Rolling” and the encores)

HEADS/OBSTRUCTIONS: 10 (obstructed on left, relatively unobstructed until “Like A Rolling” and the encores)

FOCUS: 11 (good color light and focus for an early N.E.T recording; tracking static probably due to transfer and/or age of source tape)

EDITING: cut & obstructed parts filled with stills; sync problems fixed with speed reduction of upgrade source and brief cuts and stills

Concert #27 of The Never-Ending Tour
Bob Dylan (vocals, harp, electric & acoustic guitars)
G. E. Smith (backup vocal on “Silvio,” electric & acoustic guitars)
Kenny Aaronson (electric bass)
Christopher Parker (drums & percussion)

Film courtesy of “THE TWO DAVES”
Transferred & disseminated by COOPS2009
Audio recorded by LEGENDARY TAPER C
Audio shared by BLINDWILLY
Edited, sound upgraded & authored by YASSOU

VIDEO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
MS-265.ms1
D2 A7 S7 H7 F8 BR3D 75mins
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-265:
Quite outta the blue the surviving member of the "Two Daves" team found another (small) box of their films and generously has sent them to me, so the Masters Series goes a little further. Heres the second one another worthy one as you'll see, all these extra shows date from 88/9
This is the last (for a while) there may be 1 or 2 more if the problems with them can be rectified.
As I have said before my aim here is to place these things
on line in the best quality I can find.
None of these have ever been posted direct from the master tapes and in HD quality before.
So - Enjoy - the Caretaker

AUDIO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
Not a circulating recording
Taper: Legendary Taper C
Flac files hared by blindwilly via DropBox
?? -> cassette master -> audio-CD -> audio-CD -> eac
-> wavelab -> tlh
flac files > hd > Toast Titanium 11.0.4 > SD II disk images > Audacity 2.0.0 > 0.75% speed reduction > aiff > iMovie 6.0.3

FURTHER NOTES ON THE AUDIO SOURCE:
cut before To Ramona

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)