True_Confessions_Tour

True Confessions Tour

True Confessions Tour

1986 concert tour by Bob Dylan and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

The True Confessions Tour was a concert tour by Bob Dylan and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.[1][2][3]

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A concert video, Hard to Handle, filmed in Sydney, Australia on February 24 and 25 was directed by Gillian Armstrong. The HBO Special was released on Virgin Music VHS in 1986[4] and CBS/Fox Video laserdisc in 1988.[5]

Background

The tour started with two concerts in New Zealand and thirteen concerts in Australia before four concerts in Japan.[1] Both Dylan and Petty took a break after this tour before returning to the road in June to perform a forty-one date tour of the United States and Canada. During the tour the pair performed two concerts at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC,[6][7] three concerts at Madison Square Garden in New York City[8][9][10] and two concerts at The Spectrum in Philadelphia.[11][12] The tour came to a close on August 6 in Paso Robles, California.[2] The pair would tour together the following year on the Temples in Flames Tour.[13]

Tour dates

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Setlist

Typical first leg setlist

  1. Justine
  2. Positively 4th Street
  3. Clean-Cut Kid
  4. I'll Remember You
  5. Trust Yourself
  6. That Lucky Old Sun
  7. Masters of War
  8. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
  9. Girl from the North Country
  10. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
  11. I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know
  12. Just Like a Woman
  13. I'm Moving On
  14. Lenny Bruce
  15. When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky
  16. Lonesome Town
  17. Ballad of a Thin Man
  18. Seeing the Real You at Last
  19. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
  20. Across The Borderline
  21. Like a Rolling Stone
  22. I and I
  23. In the Garden
  24. Blowin' in the Wind
    Encore
  25. Rock 'Em Dead
  26. Knockin' on Heaven's Door

Source:[15]

Typical second leg setlist

  1. So Long, Good Luck and Goodbye
  2. Positively 4th Street
  3. Clean-Cut Kid
  4. I'll Remember You
  5. Shot of Love
  6. We Had It All
  7. Masters of War
  8. To Ramona
  9. Shake a Hand
  10. One Too Many Mornings
  11. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
  12. I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know
  13. Band of the Hand
  14. When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky
  15. Lonesome Town
  16. Ballad of a Thin Man
  17. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
  18. Seeing the Real You at Last
  19. Across the Borderline
  20. I and I
  21. Like a Rolling Stone
  22. In the Garden
    Encore
  23. Blowin' in the Wind
  24. Knockin' on Heaven's Door

Source:[16]

References

  1. [1]
    "Still On The Road: True Confessions Tour: Part One, Tour Down Under". Bjorner. Retrieved 2011-11-26.
  2. [2]
    "Still On The Road: True Confessions Tour: Part Two, US Summer Tour". Bjorner. Retrieved 2011-11-26.
  3. [3]
    "Rock Moment: Bob Dylan and Tom Petty, 1986". WordPress. 2008-04-29. Retrieved 2011-11-26.
  4. [4]
    "Hard to Handle". longandwastedyear.com. 27 June 2014.
  5. [5]
    "LaserDisc Database - Bob Dylan: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Hard to Handle [3502-80]". www.lddb.com.
  6. [6]
    "Concert: Jul 6, 1986 - Washington, DC - RFK Stadium". Bob Dylan. Retrieved 2011-12-30.
  7. [7]
    "Concert: Jul 7, 1986 - Washington, DC - RFK Stadium". Bob Dylan. Retrieved 2011-12-30.
  8. [8]
    "Still On The Road: True Confessions Tour: Part Two, US Summer Tour: Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York, 15 July 1986". Bjorner. Retrieved 2011-12-30.
  9. [9]
    "Concert: Jul 16, 1986 - New York City, NY - Madison Square Garden". Bob Dylan. Retrieved 2011-12-30.
  10. [10]
    "Concert: Jul 17, 1986 - New York City, NY - Madison Square Garden". Bob Dylan. Retrieved 2011-12-30.
  11. [11]
    "Concert: Jul 19, 1986 - Philadelphia, PA - The Spectrum". Bob Dylan. Archived from the original on December 16, 2011. Retrieved 2011-12-30.
  12. [12]
    "Concert: Jul 20, 1986 - Philadelphia, PA - The Spectrum". Bob Dylan. Retrieved 2011-12-30.
  13. [13]
    "Still On The Road: 1987 Temples in Flames Tour". Bjorner. Retrieved 2011-12-30.
  14. [14]
    "1986 Calendar". Bob Dylan. Archived from the original on 2012-03-07. Retrieved 2011-11-29.
  15. [15]
    "Average setlist for tour: True Confessions". Setlist.fm. Retrieved 2011-12-30.
  16. [16]
    "Average setlist for tour: True Confessions (2nd Leg)". Setlist.fm. Retrieved 2011-12-30.
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