Bob Dylan
Pacific Coliseum
Vancouver, BC
November 11, 1978
JEMS Master

Recording Gear: Sony ECM-22p microphone > Sony TC-55 cassette recorder

Transfer by Bas for JEMS: Nakamichi CR-7A azimuth-adjusted playback > Behringer Ultramatch 24/96 > XLR digital out (AES/EBU) > Edirol R44 (digi in) > SDcard 2496 .wav . iZotope RX10 and Ozone 9 > resample to 1644 > > Audacity > xACT 2.50 > FLAC

01 My Back Pages
02 She’s Love Crazy (Tampa Red)
03 Mr. Tambourine Man
04 Shelter From The Storm
05 It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
06 Tangled Up In Blue
07 Ballad Of A Thin Man
08 Maggie's Farm
09 I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
10 Like A Rolling Stone
11 I Shall Be Released
12 Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power)
13 Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35
14 The Times They Are A-Changin'
15 It Ain't Me, Babe
16 Am I Your Stepchild?
17 One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below)
18 Blowin' In The Wind
19 Girl From The North Country
20 We Better Talk This Over
21 Masters Of War
22 Just Like A Woman
23 All Along The Watchtower
24 All I Really Want To Do
25 Band Introductions
26 It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
27 Forever Young
28 Changing Of The Guards
29 Stan, Jan and fans after the show

Known Faults:
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The release of the Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown got me thinking about how much the late great Stan Gutoski, patriarch of JEMS, would have loved the movie.

Dylan meant everything to Stan and the his purchase of Great White Wonder in 1969 is what began his fascination with bootlegs and ultimately got him taping concerts beginning in 1972. While he recorded many artists over his long recording career, none was as meaningful to him as Dylan.

His Dylan taping legacy began in 1974 when he taped the afternoon and evening shows in Seattle and Oakland. Rolling Thunder never got close to the Northwest, so the next opportunity he had was in 1978, when Dylan hit the Northwest to play Portland, Seattle and Vancouver.

JEMS released Stan's Portland master cassettes five or so years ago, and his outstanding Seattle recording, done on the Tandberg reel to reel, has been in circulation for decades including a master transfer way back in 2011. But his Vancouver master cassettes had never been given a proper modern transfer, so now felt like a great time to do so.

The Vancouver recording lacks the fidelity of Tandberg tape from Seattle and its more distant than the Portland pull done on the same gear. But it remains the best and perhaps only recording of the show and is still a solid and highly listenable recording. Samples provided.

If you're a fan of this era of Dylan, you'll likely enjoy this performance. But for me the best thing on the entire recording came after the show ends.

Stan keeps the deck rolling and captures he and his wife Jan talking to the couple who sat next to them at the show. Stan thanks them for being quiet and they begin to exchange information so Stan can send Sylvie, who traveled in from Quebec, a copy of his recording. It's a quintessentially Stan moment of generosity, thankfully preserved on tape.

If you'd like to learn more about Stan and his taping legacy, please watch Committed of One: https://vimeo.com/503750464/493aa4f757

Thanks this week to Professor Goody for pitch checking, to Bas for doing the original transfer (sorry it took so long to get to this) and to mjk5510 for post production.

Cheers to the late, great Stan Gutoski. There will never be another man like him.

BK for JEMS