Bob Dylan - Outlaw Music Festival, Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, New York, 8-1-2025

Here's a Bob Dylan concert from only a few months ago (as I write this in December 2025). It's rare that I post a concert from this recent, often because of sound quality issues. But this is a special case. Someone managed to record the IEM (in ear monitor) version of this concert. This is a wireless feed of the music the band members were listening to, so they could easily hear each other. That means the sound quality is fantastic, like an excellent soundboard bootleg.

There was only one downside to this IEM recording. In this case, almost nothing of the audience was heard. Furthermore, often the tracks ended immediately after the song ended, because otherwise one would have just heard eerie silence. So I fixed this in two ways. One, I used the MVSEP program to split the songs into crowd noise and everything else. Then, if there was sufficient crowd noise to work with, I greatly, greatly boosted the volume of the crowd noise. Unfortunately, there were only a handful of songs with enough crowd noise to use this method. So that took me to the second method. For all the songs where I had no other option, I copied and pasted crowd noise in, from the ends of other songs. 

So now one can hear the crowd reactions you'd expect at the ends of all the songs. With this change made, this is probably the best sounding Dylan concert bootleg of the last ten years or more. That's my guess, at any rate. The previous one that had similar quality is from 2009, and I've posted that here.

Actually, there are three Dylan concerts from 2025 where someone captured the IEM feed. The other two have more issues though. In my opinion, this one sounded the best, so that's why I put in a lot of work to get the crowd noise problem fixed. 

This album is an hour and 17 minutes long.

01 Gotta Serve Somebody (Bob Dylan)
02 I Can Tell (Bob Dylan)
03 Forgetful Heart (Bob Dylan)
04 Axe and the Wind (Bob Dylan)
05 To Ramona (Bob Dylan)
06 Early Roman Kings (Bob Dylan)
07 Under the Red Sky (Bob Dylan)
08 I'll Make It All Up to You (Bob Dylan)
09 All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan)
10 'Til I Fell in Love with You (Bob Dylan)
11 Desolation Row (Bob Dylan)
12 Love Sick (Bob Dylan)
13 Share Your Love with Me (Bob Dylan)
14 Blind Willie McTell (Bob Dylan)
15 Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan)
16 talk (Bob Dylan)
17 Searching for a Soldier's Grave (Bob Dylan)
18 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Bob Dylan) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/RX9e1xVK

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/ZMCc1aifpWeJfVQ/file

The cover image is from this exact concert.