Ottawa, Canada (30-Jul-89)

Early N.E.T shows in this quality are hard to come by; hence, a '5' "must-have" rating seems reasonable.

Left balcony 10˙
3-4/5-/4/5/4-
8-11/13/11/14/10 (avg. 12.00 B+)
1:34:35:08
PAL

DIFFERENCES/IMPROVEMENTS OVER FROM MS-262/D816.ms:
-sound upgraded
-cuts filled with stills
-different title and track menus

PERFORMANCE/HIGHLIGHTS/SPECIAL MOMENTS:
-some special ballads (“Pretty Peggy-O,” “One Irish Rover,” “Barbara Allen”)
-false start to “Pretty Peggy-O”
-plenty of harp
-exceptional electric slide by Smith on “Highway 61 Revisited”
-interesting transition between “Highway 61 Revisited” & “It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It
Takes A Train To Cry”
-nice acoustic interplay between Dylan & Smith w/exceptional tremolo guitar by Smith
on “The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll”
-odd ending to “Silvio”
-a seriously mean “All Along The Watchtower”

DISTANCE/POSITION: 8-11 Left balcony 10˙ (camera kept mostly on Dylan head-to-toe; drummer frequently seen, Smith & Garnier less frequently)

AUDIO: 13 (very good/excellent LB-3793) (upgrade source ran faster than video soundtrack so 0.5% speed reduction needed)

STEADINESS: 11 (shaky at times, especially between songs)

HEADS/OBSTRUCTIONS: 14 (mostly unobstructed)

FOCUS: 10 (good color, light & focus for a 1989 show)

EDITING: cut & obstructed arts filled with stills; sync problems fixed with brief cuts and stills

Concert # 114 of The Never-Ending Tour
Bob Dylan (vocal & electric & acoustic guitars)
G. E. Smith (electric & acoustic guitars)
Tony Garnier (electric & standup bass)
Christopher Parker (drums & percussion)

Thanks for the video to “THE TWO DAVES”
Transferred & disseminated by COOPS2009
Audio Recorded by LTE
Audio shared by BLINDWILLY
Edited, sound upgraded & authored by YASSOU

VIDEO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
MS-262/D816.ms
Filmed by “The Two Daves”
Transferred & disseminated by Coops2009
D2 A7 S8 H8 F7 BL4 93 mins
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-262:
Bet you thought that drain on your share ratio was over!
Well I'm back!
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 first effort a worthy one you'll see, all these extra shows date from 88/9.

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

AUDIO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
LB-3793
Taper: LTE
Shared by blindwilly via DropBox
LB rating: B+ (very good to excellent sound)
Runs faster than video soundtrack
Audio disks from taper > (feurio) wav > (flacfrontend) flacCDs > hd > Toast Titanium 11.0.4 > SD II disk images > Audacity 2.0.0 > 0.5% speed reduction > aiff > iMovie 6.0.3

LB NOTES FOR LB-3793:
in comparison to LB-2226 that one sounds hissy and muffled so this is an upgrade; looks like same recording as most of the claps match up at end of d1t9; very good to excellent sound [B+];

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)