Bob Dylan
The Point Depot
Dublin, Ireland
February 5 1993

Source: "From the Righteous To Me Series. Review by gopherstick, discs via blair."

LB-02343

CD 1:
01. Maggie's Farm
02. Lenny Bruce
03. All Along the Watchtower
04. Tangled Up In Blue
05. Positively 4th Street
06. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
07. She Belongs To Me - Part I
08. She Belongs To Me - Part II
09. Tomorrow Night
10. Jim Jones
11. Mr. Tambourine Man

CD 2:
01. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
02. Cat's In The Well
03. I and I
04. The Times They Are A-Changin'
05. Highway 61 Revisited
06. Ballad Of A Thin Man
07. Everything Is Broken
08. It Ain't Me, Babe

Total time = 121:39

Personnel:
Bob Dylan - vocals, harmonica, & guitar
Bucky Baxter - pedal steel guitar, electric mandolin, & electric slide guitar
John Jackson - guitar
Tony Garnier - bass
Winston Watson - drums & percussion

NOTES: Some track transitions are not entirely seamless.
D1 T2: [1:15, 1:26] dropouts; crowd noise clipped at end
D1 T7 & T8: She Belongs To Me split into two tracks for some unknown reason
D2 T14: [4:16] cable bump/wire jiggle/whatever
D2 T18: [6:04-6:12] ending clipped

REVIEW: SOUND: Vocals barely discernable for first track but begin to round into listenable shape a minute or so into Lenny Bruce. Bob's guitar is so up front during 'Lenny Bruce' if I wasn't such a professional I might be frightened. This recording ends up sounding pretty well, the crowd is far away and when Bob yells the high end buzzes a little, but not too bad. COMMENTS: Songs like 'Tangled' and 'Mobile' are pretty good here, Bob is singing a little more quietly than he will in the coming months on these, nice. Whoops, guess the Old Harper just kicked in, 'She Belongs To Me' is vintage '93 caterwauling. Strangely that same caterwauling works to some degree on 'Tomorrow Night.' Bob's solo comes through bright and magnified, an ugly little gem. Great acoustic set, these are fun. Dig Tony's small bass solo in 'Jim Jones.' After the song Bob muses that it's a tough tune to play, so maybe that's why it sounds cool...Bob had to focus. Sadly that proves so taxing he vocally blunders his way through the rest of the show. Kidding. 'I and I' is fascinating in a train wreck kind of way; you can't help but stare at your speakers and listen to the entire thing. And on it goes, during 'Highway 61': "Yes I think it can be easily done...I'm not sure though!" Another tumbler of Maker's Mark for the big guy, I'm buying. BOTTOM LINE: Overall, I'd say this is a minor step up from the audience recording; take a listen to the three filler tracks from the bootleg 'Apollo Landing' for an idea of the sound quality of that. It's pretty good; when the sound on this balances and warms up it's okay, too. In the end it comes down to which you prefer, but don't lose sleep over having one and not the other, the performance isn't that great.