Zipperman 002 (Set Of 2 Discs)
 
 
PROBABLE ORIGIN OF CD -
Europe (CD-R format)
 
 
TOTAL PLAYING TIME - 
101 mins 24 secs (16 tracks)
 
SOURCE - 
El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles, CA. 20th December 1997	
 
 
TRACK LISTING -
Disc 1	
1.  Maggie’s Farm
2.  Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You
3.  Cold Irons Bound				
4.  Under The Red Sky		
5.  Can’t Wait			
6.  Silvio				
7.  Cocaine Blues			
8.  John Brown			
 
Disc 2
1.  Tangled Up In Blue
2.  I & I
3.  I’ll Remember You
4.  ‘Til I Fell In Love With You
5.  Highway 61 Revisited
6.  Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright
7.  Love Sick
8.  Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35
 
 
TRACK LINKS - Mostly continuous (occasional cut).
 
 
OVERALL SOUND QUALITY - Quite Good
‘Audience’ digital mono. Less crisp than we are entitled
to expect from digital recordings. 
 
The volume is uneven during the first few bars of Maggie’s 
Farm, and there's a sound glitch five seconds into Tonight 
I’ll Be Staying Here With You. Sound glitches also occur 
in the audience section between Highway 61 and Don’t 
Think Twice, and during Love Sick. There is a surge in 
volume in ‘Til I Fell In Love With You.
 
 
PRESENTATION - Quite Good
Slimline 2 CD jewel box with see-through disc tray. 
All-colour folded insert; close-up facial shot on front, 
‘Bob-with-Charlton-Heston’ across ‘pages 2 & 3’, plus 
off-duty pic and disc-production credits on ‘page 4’. 
‘Pope-gig’ performance photo under disc tray. Further 
facial close-up on back of box, overlaid with track / location 
detail and the ‘Zipper-Deke’ logo. Basic cream custom 
discs, showing only Zipperman, Disc 1 & 2.
 
 
OVERALL ASSESSMENT - 
I can’t say that this is my favourite bootleg of all time; 
however, let’s start with the positives. This is the full El Rey 
set from 20th December 1997, and the audience is justifiably 
enthusiastic. These are good performances, but unfortunately, 
our mic-person doesn’t have the best seat in the house. 
Many songs come over emotionally flat. On top of that, 
Bob’s voice isn’t always as prominent as it could be. 
There are standout numbers - the ever-dependable Silvio 
is followed by a nice slow Cocaine, and an even better 
John Brown - but not everyone will stay around long enough 
to sort out the wheat from the chaff. Oh, and one-hundred-
and-one minutes is not very long for a double-CD; I’d rather 
have quality than quantity every time, but the fact remains 
that many double sets offer upwards of three-quarters-of-an-hour 
more playing time than PARTING THE RED SEA FROM JERUSALEM AND 
BACK. Three words appeared on my pad after I & I - ‘frankly, 
rather forgettable’. That just about sums up my feel for the 
CD as a whole.
 
(Note: This full set is also featured (in better quality) on the 
‘Oh Babe It Ain’t No Lie’ CD. I've recently run down a copy of 'Oh Babe...', 
which I'll review in detail as a future Web Bonus.)
 
 
STANDOUT TRACKS -
Silvio, Cocaine Blues, John Brown, Love Sick.
 
 
VALUE FOR MONEY - Quite Good