BOB DYLAN : LOVE SICK AT WEMBLEY ARENA

 

Disc One (75:20)

  1. Absolutely Sweet Marie
  2. Señor (Tales of yankee Power)
  3. Tough Mama
  4. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
  5. Silvio
  6. One Too Many Mornings
  7. Tangled Up In Blue
  8. Rank Strangers To Me
  9. stuck inside of mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
  10. Blind Willie McTell
  11. Highway 61 Revisited
  12. Like A Rolling Stone

Disc Two (72:57)

  1. Don't Think Twice, it's all right
  2. Love Sick
  3. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
    Bonus Tracks :
  4. Cocaine Blues
  5. I Want You
  6. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
  7. Stone Walls And Steel Bars
  8. It's All Over Now Baby Blue
  9. My Back Pages
  10. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
  11. a Hard Rain's a-Gonna fall
  12. Forever Young

Label : Crystal Cat

Venue : Wembley Arena, London, England

Date : October 5, 1997

Quality : Audience recording (B+)

Review (Bob's Boots) : Crystal Cat has fallen prey to that of many inexperienced manufacturers. When producing a piece from analog masters, the high end is left artificially exaggerated with the knowledge that the low end frequencies will be inadvertently boosted in the mastering process. The trick is in knowing where that balance will lie in the future mix. Too little high end boost and the overall finished sound will be too boomy. This CD exhibits the other extreme. The high end has been pushed so far that the resulting sound is hard to listen to. The vocals have thinned out, the music has lost many mid, and most low end frequencies. Very sad too, considering that this is one of the nicer looking packages around. The photos, collage, graphics, and overall aesthetics are superb. Interestingly, the filler material has a great sound. However, it doesn't warrant the cost of this two CD package. Instead, the fill material can be found on the CD "Never Mind the Bollocks... Here's Bob Dylan"