London, England (12-Jun-93)

BOB DYLAN
Fleadh Festival
Finsbury Park
London, England, UK
DVDylan D688.msu
Masters Series 142.msu

3-4/5-/3-/4+/4-
8-11/13/7/12/10 (avg. 10:50 B-)
Left floor 20˙
1:17:05:14
PAL

DIFFERENCES & IMPROVEMENTS OVER D588.m and D588.su:
-used used master source (D588.m)
-sound upgraded with excellent LB-7251
-better selection of stills to fill missing parts

PERFORMANCE/HIGHLIGHTS/SPECIAL MOMENTS:
-energetic singing by Dylan, especially on “Tangled Up In Blue”
-fine performance of “Hard Times”
-Bucky Baxter’s accordion on “Hard Times,” lap steel on “Maggie’s Farm” and mandolin
on “It Ain’t Me, Babe”
-Van Morrison duet w/Dylan on “One Irish Rover”
-nice arrangement of “Jim Jones” with acoustic guitar by J.J. Jackson and dobro by
Bucky Baxter
-cool acoustic guitar passes by Dylan on “It Ain’t Me, Babe”
-solid percussion and bass throughout by Winston Watson & Tony Garnier
-rowdy, chatty, sometimes argumentative crowd
-rain starts falling during encore

DISTANCE/POSITION: 8-11 (left floor 20˙)(effective panning and zooming)

AUDIO: 13 (excellent/A- LTJ/LB-7251 recording; annoying crowd)

STEADINESS: 7 (jittery, but watchable)

HEADS/OBSTRUCTIONS: 12 (audience obstructions from time to time, but not too bad for a floor shot in a rowdy crowd)

FOCUS: 10 (excellent color & adequate light; color too vivid when lights are bright; focus on the soft side)

EDITING: stills and clips from alternate cameras used for missing song, parts of songs, transitions between songs, and some of the special effects put in by the filmer (see setlist details)

Never-Ending Tour Concert #481
Bob Dylan (vocal, harp & guitar)
Bucky Baxter (accordion, dobro, mandolin, lap steel guitar, pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar)
John Jackson (guitar)
Tony Garnier (bass)
Winston Watson (drums & percussion)
Van Morrison (vocal and guitar on “One Irish Rover”)

Thanks to the filmers “THE TWO DAVES”
Master tape transferred & disseminated by COOPS2009
Thanks to the audio recorder LEGENDARY TAPER J
Audio shared by OUTSIDETLAW
Edited, sound upgraded & authored by YASSOU

VIDEO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
MS-142 (D688.m)
Taper: “The Two Daves”
Transferred & disseminated by Coops2009
D6 A7 S6 H7 F7 SC
66 mins
filmer added slo-mo & freeze frames
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
MS-142 > hd > VIDEO_TS folder > MPEG Streamclip 1.9.2 > PAL dv > iMovie 6.0.3

AUDIO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
LB-7251
LB rating: A-
Taper: Legendary Taper J
Shared by OutsideTLaw via trade
Sennheiser MKE2002 -> portable Sony DATrecorder - clone ->(digital transfer) m-audio delta audiophile 2496 -> Wavelab -> ssrc -> cdwave for tracking -> tlh
LB-7251 aiff files > hd > Toast Titanium 11.0.4 > SD II disk images > iMovie 6.0.3.

DVD PRODUCTION PROCESS:
Produced by yassou on a MacBook Pro running El Capitan 10.11.1 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)

COOPS2009 NOTES ON MS-142:
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 LB-7251
Taper: Legendary Taper J
bittorrent download 02/09; nothing above 16k; does not have lego parapets; in 3-way comparison these are different recordings based on different crowd at end of t4; this is warmer fuller more upfront than NTI LB-5787 and LB-2419 is overly harsh; excellent sound [A-]; background talking t5
I did not harm the sound of the recording in any way