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Bob Dylan: Love Sick At Wembley Arena

2CD
Crystal Cat 442/443
Townsend number: T-548


London, England, 5 October 1997
Absolutely Sweet Marie
Señor
Tough Mama
You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
Silvio
One Too Many Mornings
Tangled Up In Blue
Rank Strangers To Me
Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
Blind Willie McTell
Highway 61 Revisited
Like A Rolling Stone
Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
Love Sick
Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35

Bournemouth, England, 1 October 1997
Cocaine Blues

Cardiff, Wales, 3 October 1997
I Want You
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
Stone Walls And Steel Bars
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
My Back Pages

Bologna, Italy, 27 September 1997
Knockin' On Heaven's Door
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
Forever Young


Crazy Joe rates the overall quality C (on a scale from F to A), meaning good, and the recording quality 7 (on a scale from 0 to 9), meaning excellent.


>From: www
>Subject: Re: Love Sick At Wembley...
>Newsgroups: rec.music.dylan
>Date: 17 Jan 98 15:48:04 GMT

>rcj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Craig Jamieson) wrote:

>>Love Sick At Wembley Arena
>>Crystal Cat, 1997. 

>i got mine at a record "fair", several items were on stock, price was
>ok (DM 55,--)
>
>quality is good audio throughout. performances are quite good...


>From: alan.fraser@mcmail.com (Alan Fraser) >Newsgroups: rec.music.dylan >Subject: Re: Love Sick At Wembley... >Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:18:08 GMT >On 27 Jan 1998 10:49:15 GMT, Kevin.Fletcher@man.ac.uk (Kevin Fletcher) >wrote: >>Definitely worth buying. A good recording of a great performance. Vocals tend to be a little >>lost though on some tracks. However the real gem is It's All Over Now Baby Blue from Cardiff >>(added as filler/extra tracks on disc 2). This version is quite simply stunning. A simple >>slight change of tune and a much slower pace, combine to make this IMHO the best track I've >>ever heard! Bob's voice is at the "extreme" end on this track, yet it suits the lonesome sad >>feeling generated by this arrangement. You must hear this. >The full Cardiff concert is on Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's Bob >Dylan, with Rank Strangers from Wembley, a couple of Bournemouth >tracks and the Pope Show. There are also excellent quality tapes of >all these concerts. (Tailgates and Substitutes is one of the >Bournemouth shows, too). > >Bob's voice was definitely mixed too low for Absolutely Sweet Marie at >Wembley, although the sound improved later. Paradoxically the sound >was much better in the centre of the hall in the banked seating than >it appears to have been in the front of the hall.
>Subject: Where beauty goes unrecognized #14 >From: E.W.Schoneveld@caiw.nl (Eric Schoneveld) >Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 15:42:26 GMT >Love Sick At Wembley Arena >Crystal Cat, 2cd >Complete recording of the Wembley Arena show from Oct '97 with filler from >the other UK oct gigs and the complete Popefest from sept. 97. Despite the >acoustics at the W.A. this recording turned out to be good. The performance >is great, as we have come to expect now, the odd one out in the setlist of >this show was a beautifully done Rank strangers to me. One too many and >Blind Willie are amongst the hilights too, all in all a very good disc. >Rating ****/*****