Bob Dylan - Outlaw Music Festival, Jones Beach Theatre, Wantagh, New York USA August 2025 | Albums That Should Exist

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

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

Now as Paul at ATSE notes this is worthy of our interest because of the quality of the recording and as I said on his page I had rather stopped downloading the never ending gigs as the soundboards were somewhat of a muchness! Bass and Drum heavy with the vocals often indiscernible and muddy or mixed down far back in the mix. But this is an exception and check it out if only for a recent set from a couple of months back now and the quality alone makes it worth our paying attention

NOTE this is very much NOT the recording that Paul shares above and I included just to share some visuals from that gig

Bob Dylan performing 'Don't Think Twice, It's All Right' to end his 2025 Outlaw Music Festival concert on Friday, August 1st at the Jones Beach Theatre in Wantagh, New York

Band Members

Bob Dylan - piano, harp

Tony Garnier - electric and standup bass

Anton Fig - drums

Bob Britt - acoustic guitar, electric guitar

Doug Lancio - acoustic guitar, electric guitar