Edinburgh, Scotland (06-Apr-95)

BOB DYLAN
Edinburgh Playhouse
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
April 6, 1995
DVDylan ID #679.msu
Masters Series #154.msu

4–5+/5+/5-/5+/5-
11-14/15/14/15/13 (avg. 14.00 A)
1:44:30:24
PAL

DIFFERENCES & IMPROVEMENTS OVER PREVIOUS EDITIONS
-original PAL format (D679/D679.su were transcoded to NTSC)
-divided into two discs for higher bitrate
-better selection of stills for missing, cut and clipped songs
-did not use unnecessary special effects
-different top and track menus

PERFORMANCE/HIGHLIGHTS/SPECIAL MOMENTS:
-like the other Spring 1995 European shows, Dylan and the band were
stellar
-first “What Was It You Wanted” since Glasgow February 3, 1991
-only performances of “What Was It You Wanted?” and “Disease Of Conceit”
on this leg of the Spring 1995 European tour
-Dylan plays harp on “Masters Of War”
-Dylan sings verse 3 of Mr. Tambourine Man”
-Baxter’s pedal steel sounds like an organ
-great to hear “God Knows,” “Lenny Bruce” & “Jokerman” all in a row

DISTANCE/POSITION: 11-15 (right balcony 40˙) (mostly on Dylan, knees up, but zoom to chest up; Jackson often in the picture with Watson and Garnier sometimes seen when camera pans right; Baxter unseen except in intros)

AUDIO: 15 (outstanding LB-1946)

STEADINESS: 13 (admirable control)

HEADS/OBSTRUCTIONS: 15 (virtually unobstructed; lip of balcony rail sometimes seen when camera zooms out)

FOCUS: 13 (color excellent though a tad vivid in red/orange light; light more than adequate and focus mostly good)

EDITING: all songs included with missing parts filled w/stills and to maintain a/v sync (see setlist details)

Concert #662 of The Never-Ending Tour
Bob Dylan (vocal, acoustic & electric guitar, harp)
Bucky Baxter (pedal steel guitar, electric slide guitar, dobro, mandolin)
John Jackson (acoustic & electric guitar)
Tony Garnier (electric & standup bass)
Winston Watson (drums & percussion)

Video courtesy of “THE TWO DAVES”
Master video transferred & disseminated by COOPS2009
Audio recorded by AN UNIDENTIFIED TAPER
Audio shared by OUTSIDETLAW
Edited, sound upgraded & authored by YASSOU

VIDEO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
MS-154/D679.m
Filmed by “The Two Daves”
Master transferred & disseminated by Coops2009
Source has some vertical hold tracking issues
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. (Source or transfer has vertical hold tracking issues)
Files authored to DVD with Tempgenc DVD Works Author 4
MS-154 VOB files > hd > MPEG Streamclip 1.9.2 > iMovie 6.0.3

AUDIO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
LB-1946
LB rating: A
Taper: Unidentified
Shared by OutsideTLaw via trade
unknown camera > CDR > EAC > WAV > MKW > SHN > ??
LB-1946 > Toast Titanium 11.0.4 > SD II disk images > iMovie 6.0.3.

DVD PRODUCTION PROCESS:
All work done on MacBook Pro running El Capitan OS 10.11.1 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-154:
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

DISC AUTHOR’S NOTE RE. MS-154:
The song 1 (“Down In The Flood”) footage on MS-154 didn’t match the sound upgrade audio or any of the other available audio recordings. This was very odd since the rest of the songs matched perfectly. Whatever the reason, the disc author used footage from D679.su for the first song.

LB NOTES FOR LB-1946:
SOUND: very good +, SIZE: 474 MiB; bittorrent download 07/04; excellent sound; seems to be same as previous recording with lower levels, channels switched, tracked differently, and has different set of flaws; drop d1t7 3:38; big digi-pops d1t7 3:45, 3:56, 4:10