Yassou has opined, “This item, were it to be sound upgraded, would be a clear improvement over D453.su, which is inferior video quality, probably not sourced from the master, as this item is. As it stands, the sound of this is quite good for an un-upgraded video, and thus worth getting in its own right.” I agree. D453.su rates as 3/5/3/4/3 – gaining a point for improved audio but losing a point for poorer video quality.

Bob Dylan
Meadowlands Arena (then called the Brendan T. Byrne Sports Arena – from 1981 to 1996)
East Rutherford, New Jersey (USA)
July 21, 1986

Source: “A zimmy21 video recording! Only a few 1986 audience videos are circulating. Sony Video 8mm recorder> DVD recorder > DVD…Quality: Good. Audience film from my PAL mastertape.

DVD 1:

1. The Times They Are A-Changin’
2. One Too Many Mornings
3. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
4. I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know
5. Happy Birthday (for Howie Epstein)
6. Like A Rolling Stone
7. In The Garden
8. Blowin’ In The Wind

Total time = 49:38

Filmer’s notes: “We have any people up there wanna come down and sit in front? Come on down. We want four people right here. All right, there we got four people right there. Put them in those four seats right there. There ain’t nobody in those seats. Put them in those seats. That’s right. That’s what we do every place we play. Sometimes rich people get all the front seats and they don’t care what they’re seeing. Tom and I are gonna sing an old song for you now. They don’t write songs like this no more, ha-ha. I wish they did. I don’t sing until there’s some people in them seats right there (before ‘I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know’). Is it past anybody’s bed time? Ha-ha, itís past mine. I should have been in bed hours ago. Ha-ha-ha. OK it’s Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers right here. Benmont Tench playing the keyboards. Come on right up against that, … right up against that, fence whatever it is. Yeah, you can come on right up on stage now if you want to. Lead guitar player, Michael Campbell. One of the best guitar players around. Stan Lynch, one of the finest drummers in all the USA. I know, born in the USA. Well were we all born in the USA, anybody here who wasn’t born in the USA? I’d like to meet them. OK, we’re gonna sing Happy Birthday right now. We’re gonna sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to the bass guitar player in this band. His name is Howie Epstein. Now you sing all those words what you want, but you sing it. What key we gonna sing it in? He’s gonna chose the key himself, it’s his birthday. OK, we’re gonna go on with some serious business. Also you know I have my own Heartbreakers now. I can’t…I wanna introduce them to you now. That’s Louise Bethune and Madelyn Quebec. Carolyn Dennis and Queen Esther Marrow. All right, now anybody else out there wanna be introduced? What’s your name? I’ll introduce you! Ha-ha-ha-ha. All right now, we’re gonna play this song. I recorded this song over 25, 30 years ago. I can’t remember when. Anyway, I don’t know where that band is now, that recorded that song with me. But one of the guys is here, he played the keyboards on that particular song, that night. His name is Al Kooper, I want you to give him a big hand now. Ha-ha ha. Anything you wanna say Al? I like this place I really do, I been here before and I hope I’ll be here again. (before ‘Like A Rolling Stone’). Ok now, before we go too far, I wanna introduce the man responsible for me being here right now. Mr. Tom Petty. He’s a great artist in his own right and he’ll be around for a long time. OK, we’re gonna play this next song. I wanna dedicate this to all the people who have been imprisoned injustly. And I’m not talking about somebody who committed a crime now. I’m talking about somebody who’s done good things and gets punished for it. A lot of people lie and they cheat and they steal and they murder. Iím no big stranger to that stuff. Sometimes people feed the hungry and they visit the sick and they do tell the truth. And for those reasons sometimes people get put into prison. And those are the kind of prisons I’m concerned about. And you should be to, cause you got a lot of them here in this state (before ‘In The Garden’).”

Personnel:
Bob Dylan – vocals, harmonica, & guitar

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers:
Tom Petty – guitar, vocals, & bass
Mike Campbell – guitar
Benmont Tench – keyboards
Howie Epstein – bass & slide guitar
Stan Lynch – drums
The Queens Of Rhythm: Carolyn Dennis, Queen Esther Marrow, Madelyn Quebec, Louise Bethune – backing vocals
Al Kooper – organ

Type: Video
Type: PAL, no menu and chapters to speak of
Codec: MPEG-1/2 Video (mpgv)
Video resolution: 720×576
Aspect ratio: 4:3
Frame rate: 25

Type: Audio
Codec: A52 Audio (aka AC3) (a52 )
Channels: Stereo
Sample rate: 48000 Hz
Bits per sample: 32

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