Bob Dylan – She Buttoned Her Boot & Straightened Her Suit, 1999 Spring Tour

Bob Dylan
1999 SHE BUTTONED HER BOOT & STRAIGHTENED HER SUIT
Pink Panther Records
The 1999 European Spring Tour
The final PP installment of the four 1999 tour legs

1999 is a very, very great year for Dylan and the Never Ending Tour. The preceding American leg was great (but underated),
next was the European tour (this one), and then followed the testosterone-fuelled dual-billing North American concerts/battles with first Paul Simon and then Phil Lesh.

1999 Europe offers beautiful, laid-back and majestic performances of a large portion of his repertoire.
Like the rest of 1999, Bob performed a small core of songs regularly and a huge number of songs only once or twice.

Europe 1999 is one of the great performance peaks of the NET, and thanks to Schubert, Bach and others, it is almost all available in wonderful sound.
Bach v Schubert? Bach is brighter and more transparent, Schubert is rich and full due to sound-processing.
Generally, Bach is better for acoustic songs and Schubert for electric but it is not that simple – there are many exceptions.

All the known generally circulating Bach and Schubert FLAC, along with many other unspecified tapers, were tracked down for this compilation.
The FLAC was then converted to mp3@320kbps for comparison, song by song, on a 160GB ipod with high-end earplugs.

High art by any standard – performed everywhere from classic opera houses to bullrings to flying saucers to snow-covered mountain tops (outdoor concert, of course!).

66 different songs were played in Europe in 1999 – they are all represented here. So are all 21 concerts played over four weeks from early-April to early-May.

Parque das Nações
Lisbon, Portugal
7 April 1999

1.Roving Gambler (trad.)
2.Tryin’ To Get To Heaven
3.Maggie’s Farm
4.Lay, Lady, Lay
5.Blind Willie McTell
6.Like A Rolling Stone

LB-1862;
Remaster: Schubert;
Additional sound mastering (ASM)

Colisio Oporto
Oporto, Portugal
8 April 1999

7.Watching The River Flow
8.Tough Mama

LB-4134;
Remaster: Schubert;
Additional sound mastering (ASM)

Pavillón Multiusos do Sar
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
9 April 1999

9.The Times They Are A-Changin’
10.Fourth Time Around
11.God Knows

LB-4098;
Remaster: Schubert

The Times They Are A Changing’ Sourced from

LB-6411;
Taper: Bach;
Equipment: OKM II Rockversion > Sony DAT TCD-D8 (48 kHZ – 16 bit) >
TASCAM DA-40 professional > ssrc convert to 44.1 kHz > WaveTerminal >
HD > WaveLab 6 >, convert to flac dBpowerAMP > md5summe

Teatro Jovellanos
Gijón, Spain
10 April 1999

12.You’re Gonna Quit Me (Mance Lipscomb)
13.Desolation Row
14.All Along The Watchtower
15.Rainy Day Women #12 & 35

LB-4126;
Remaster: Schubert

Desolation Row sourced from

LB-6395;
Taper: Bach;
Equipment: OKM II Rockversion > Sony DAT TCD-D8 (48 kHZ – 16 bit) >
TASCAM DA-40 professional > ssrc convert to 44.1 kHz > WaveTerminal >
HD > WaveLab 6 >, convert to flac dBpowerAMP > md5summer

Velodrômo Anoeta
San Sebastian, Spain
11 April 1999

16.Everything Is Broken
17.Not Dark Yet

LB-4208;
Taper: Bach

Sala Ataulfo Argenta
Palacio de Festivales
Santander, Spain
13 April 1999

18.Gotta Serve Somebody
19.Positively 4th Street
20.Silvio (Bob Dylan & Robert Hunter)

LB-4194;
Taper: Bach

Palacio de deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid
Madrid, Spain
14 April 1999

21.Love Minus Zero/No Limit
22.Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power)
23.Simple Twist Of Fate

LB-4115;
Taper: Bach

Velódromo Lluis Puig
Valencia, Spain
15 April 1999

24.My Back Pages
25.Mr Tambourine Man
26.Forever Young

LB-4171;
Taper: Bach

La Malagueta Bull Ring
Plaza de Toros
Málaga, Spain
17 April 1999

27.To Ramona
28.I Want You
29.I Shall Be Released
30.Not Fade Away (Norman Petty/Charles Hardin)

LB-1873;
Volume 9 – Was That Some Kind Of Joke? From Lisbon To Barcelona –
Spring ’99 – The Complete Collection

To Ramona sourced from

LB-6401;
Taper: Bach;
Equipment: OKM II Rockversion > Sony DAT TCD-D8 (48 kHZ – 16 bit) >
TASCAM DA-40 professional > ssrc convert to 44.1 kHz > WaveTerminal >
HD > WaveLab 6 > convert to flac dBpowerAMP > md5summer

Palacio Municipal de Deportes
Granada, Spain
18 April 1999

31.Love Sick

LB-6400;
Taper: Bach;
Equipment: OKM II Rockversion > Sony DAT TCD-D8 (48 kHZ – 16 bit) >
TASCAM DA-40 professional > ssrc convert to 44.1 kHz > WaveTerminal >
HD > WaveLab 6 > convert to flac dBpowerAMP > md5summer

Narciso Yepes Hall
Auditorio y Centro de Congresos de Murcia
Murcia, Spain
19 April 1999

32.Tomorrow Is A Long Time
33.Tombstone Blues
34.You’re A Big Girl Now
35.Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right

LB-4093;
Taper: Bach

Pabellón Príncipie Felipe
Zaragoza, Spain
21 April 1999

36.A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
37.Blowin’ In The Wind
38.What Good Am I?
39.’Til I Fell In Love With You
40.Make You Feel My Love

LB-6409;
Taper: Bach;
Equipment: OKM II Rockversion > Sony DAT TCD-D8 (48 kHZ – 16 bit) >
TASCAM DA-40 professional > ssrc convert to 44.1 kHz >
WaveTerminal > HD > WaveLab 6 > convert to flac dBpowerAMP > md5summer

Palau Municipal dels Esports
Barcelona, Spain
22 April 1999

41.Mama, You Been On My Mind
42.To Be Alone With You

LB-6394;
Taper: Bach;
Equipment: OKM II Rockversion > Sony DAT TCD-D8 (48 kHZ – 16 bit) > TASCAM DA-40 professional
> ssrc convert to 44.1 kHz > WaveTerminal > HD > WaveLab 6 >, convert to flac dBpowerAMP > md5summer

Le Dome
Marseille, France
23 April 1999

43.Cocaine Blues (trad.)
44.Masters Of War
45.Visions Of Johanna
46.It Ain’t Me, Babe
47.Tangled Up In Blue
48.Can’t Wait
49.Just Like A Woman
50.Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again

LB-10186;
Remaster: Schubert;
Additional sound mastering (ASM)

Visions Of Johanna & It Ain’t Me, Babe sourced from

LB-4183;
Taper: Bach

Hallenstadion
Zürich, Switzerland
25 April 1999

51.Highway 61 Revisited

LB-4099;
Remaster: Schubert;
Additional sound mastering (ASM)

Sporthalle
Linz, Austria
27 April 1999

52.She Belongs To Me
53.Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat

LB-4121;
Taper: Schubert;
Additional sound mastering (ASM)

Ljubljana, Slovenia
28 April 1999

54.It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
55.Every Grain Of Sand

LB-6422;
Taper: Bach;
Equipment: OKM II Rockversion > Sony DAT TCD-D8 (48 kHZ – 16 bit) > TASCAM DA-40 professional
> ssrc convert to 44.1 kHz >WaveTerminal > HD > WaveLab 6 >, convert to flac dBpowerAMP > md5summer

Eishalle
Graz, Austria
29 April 1999

56.Friend Of The Devil (Jerry Garcia – Robert Hunter – John Dawson)
57.The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll
58.One Too Many Mornings
59.Girl Of The North Country

LB-4539;
Taper: Bach;
Equipment: OKM II Rockversion > Sony DAT TCD-D8 >
TASCAM DA-40 professional > WaveTerminal > HD >
WaveLab 6 > flac dBpowerAMP > md5summer

Friend Of The Devil sourced from

LB-2980;
Taper: Schubert;
Additional sound mastering (ASM)

Stadthalle
Wien, Austria
30 April 1999

60.Boots Of Spanish Leather
61.Cold Irons Bound

LB-7731;
Source: Unknown > Audio CDR’s > EAC (secure mode) >
wav (adobe audition – checking tracks / spectral analysis)
> (Traders Little Helper (Flac Level 8) with align on SB option) >
Traders Little Helper – torrent

Silvretta Ski And Funsport Arena
The Idalpe
Ischgl, Austria
1 May 1999

62.Oh Babe, It Ain’t No Lie (Elizabeth Cotton)
63.Under The Red Sky
64.It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
65.If Not For You

LB-4122;
Taper: Schubert;
Additional sound mastering (ASM)

Olympiahalle
München, West Germany
2 May 1999

66.I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)

LB-9642