Glasgow, Scotland (11-Apr-07)

2-5-/5+/4+/4+/5-
5-13/15/12/12/13 (avg. 13.00 A-)
Right center balcony 5˙
120 mins
PAL

DIFFERENCES OVER & IMPROVEMENTS TO D187.m/D741.m:
-sound upgraded
-filled obstructed song and parts of one song with footage from alternate camera
-different title & track menus

DIFFERENCES OVER & IMPROVEMENTS TO D741.suu:
-sourced from the master
-split into 2 discs to achieve higher bitrate
-does not incorporate special effects
-more judicious use of stills
-different title & track menus

PERFORMANCE/HIGHLIGHTS/SPECIAL MOMENTS:
-good mix of newer and older songs
-Dylan’s voice a bit rough but he sings quite clearly and forcefully
-military drum beat on “It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) with great banjo by
Herron
-“When The Deal Goes Down” very nicely sung
-tasty harp on “Most Likely You Go Your Way And I’ll Go Mine”
-“John Brown” sung to the beat of a military dirge
-effective slide guitar by Freeman on “Rollin' And Tumblin’”
-a majestic “A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall”
-brilliant performance of “Ain’t Talkin’”
-rollicking performance of “Summer Days” would make Bob Wills proud
-crowd sings along on choruses of “Like A Rolling Stone” with Dylan’s tart harp,
plucky piano playing, and Freeman’s smooth lead guitar prominently featured
-bearded interloper delivers something to Dylan during “Thunder On The Mountain”

DISTANCE/POSITION: 5-13 (center balcony 10˙) (excellent position hampered at the beginning by obstructions and related focus issues; filmer skillfully zooms and pans to feature all players with Dylan and players behind him and on his right (Receli, Herron and Kimball) getting the most attention due to bodies on the left blocking Garner and especially Freeman

AUDIO: 15 (excellent LB-4912)

STEADINESS: 12 (shaky at beginning and between some songs but quite watchable)

HEADS/OBSTRUCTIONS: 12 (passing bodies, especially at the beginning; intermittent obstructions on the left, some possibly caused by filmer hiding camera lens, limited panning to Garnier and Freeman)

FOCUS: 13 (excellent color and light with soft focus; obstruction-related focus issues

EDITING: cut and obstructed parts filled with stills

Concert # 1922 of The Never-Ending Tour
Bob Dylan (vocal, electric guitar, harmonica & keyboard)
Stu Kimball (guitar)
Denny Freeman (guitar)
Donnie Herron (violin, mandolin, steel guitar, banjo)
Tony Garnier (bass)
George Recile (drums & percussion).

VIDEO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
MS-187/D741.m
Filmed by “The Two Daves”
Transferred & disseminated by Coops2009
Files authored to DVD with Tempgenc DVD Works Author 4
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.
vob files > hd > MPEG Streamclip 1.9.2 > dv > iMovie 6.0.3

COOPS2009 NOTES FOR MS-187:
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

AUDIO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
LB-4912
LB rating: A
Taper: soomlos
Shared by OutsideTLaw via trade
11th row center, km140 > v3 > mt24/96 (24/48), audacity > r8brain > cd wave > flac; bittorrent download 05/07; excellent sound [A]; background talking d1t3 CDs > hd
CDs > hd > Toast Titanium 11.0.4 > SD II disk images > iMovie 6.0.3

LB NOTES FOR LB-4912:
In comparison to spot LB-4750 this is warmer sound.

RELATED NOTE FOR LB-5279:
In 3-way comparison this is different recording based on different crowd at end of d1t9; soomlos LB-4912 has the fullest warmest sound, then this, and then spot LB-4750; (did not listen to all of this)

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)