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| DVDylan ID: | D504 |
| Recording type: | Audience |
| City/Venue: | Hammersmith Apollo, London, England, UK |
| Date: | Thursday, 11th February 1993 |
Never-Ending Tour Concert #461
- All Along The Watchtower [missing all but final 1:55:03]
- Tangled Up In Blue
- Watching The River Flow
- Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again [Last few bars missing]
- She Belongs To Me
- Tomorrow Night
- Jim Jones
- Desolation Row
- Girl From The North Country
- Cat's In The Well
- I And I
- Simple Twist Of Fate
- Highway 61 Revisited
- What Good Am I?
- Everything Is Broken
- It Ain't Me, Babe
| Number of discs: | 1 |
| Running time: | 01:53 |
| Video standard: | NTSC |
| Authoring: | DVDs with menu and chapters are circulating |
Standalone NTSC transfer (some circulating copies have chapter/menus)
Incorrect time signature is on during several songs.
Mostly decent (overdubbed/upgraded?) sound, but obtrusive sound problems during the acoustic set. LB audio sources are available for a sound upgrade.
The Good:
The view is unobstructed, and the sound is excellent most of the time. Dylan fingerpicks on every song, using electric and acoustic guitars. For me this was unusual to see and I enjoyed watching his technique. I like this band. Winston Watson was the most ferocious drummer Dylan ever toured with. Bucky Baxter's hallucinogenic pedal steel guitar solo on "Tangled Up in Blue" is a song within a song. J.J. Jackson's guitar playing never made my jaw drop, but he could usually cover up the gaping holes Dylan made in the instrumentals. At the end of "Highway 61" Dylan introduces a simple but magical guitar riff, and the other musicians respond to it like sparring partners. "I and I" and "It Ain't Me, Babe" are both sung exceptionally well, right from Dylan's heart of darkness.
The Bad:
The picture is always shaky, making it hard to watch for more than a couple of songs at a time. There are obtrusive sound problems during the acoustic set, on my copy anyway.
Reviewed by Wiggler on 14th October 2005