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Ancient Odes
source: Italy  July 8, 1996
Tracks: 

Disc one
Down In The Flood
Señor
All Along The Watchtower
You're A Big Girl Now
Most Likely You Go Your Way
Silvio
Mr Tambourine Man
Masters Of War
Don't Think Twice
Jokerman
I Shall Be Released
Obviously 5 Believers
Disc two
My Back Pages
Like A Rolling Stone
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
Bonus:
Shake Sugaree
Tangled Up In Blue
Hard Rain
To Ramona

Review:
This is a fair set, though nothing to get too excited about. The package is nice enough, the recording is only average. The problem came with mastering. A completely amateurish job of digital transfer renders this CD hard to listen to. Everything is bottom end muddy and buried. The performance is interesting. Powerful and energetic, with several songs being altered in tempo. If your stereo system has a good (at least 10 bands per channel) equalization (EQ) unit, and you are competent with its operation, this set can be made quite enjoyable. The lowest frequency band needs to be dropped nearly as far as it will allow. Increase the next band slightly, and each remaining band should be slightly boosted until the highest frequency is inversely proportional to the lowest frequency. In other words, the sliders will appear to run uphill from the lowest to the highest frequency bands. From there, each band can be adjusted to personal likes. It takes a little trial and error, but the overall result is well worth the effort.
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Front
CD1
CD2
Ins.(b)
Back
Information: 
Source / Venue:
Villa Manin, Udine, Italy  July 8, 1996
Bonus: Piazza Duomo, Pistoia, Italy  July 7, 1996

Manufacturer / Catalog No.
Watchtower   /   WTP 001/002 

Released:
1997

Quality:
5 stars 
(Can be 7½ stars - See Review)

Bob's Boots ref  #
BB-a32

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