Given that I will always post Big's references to

Bob Dylan

  True Confessions for Carol 

here is a treat whilst still struggling with that 'thin' sound they keep mentioning of the period...this is a VAST improvement on other versions the Swappers vaults have of this bootleg of the period of Bobby and the Australian trip with the Tom Petty band.

I have to share and possibly slander, ruin and paraphrase one of my favourite Dylan stories come from this period. Choosing Petty's band was a stroke of genius and came we believe as a sudden thought and activated via a phone call to Tom....'Hey Tommy Boy, fancy touring Oz?' "Wot, see what it's like down under, your Bobness? When do we leave?" is how it went in my universe (the Swapperverse? ED)

There schedules didn't allow for much of a rehearsal period allegedly and they managed a cursory 6 weeks, deciding the tour set list and running through a few classics and Bobby finally gave them all a straight forward list that they could all cover successfully and comfortably. 

It wasn't until the first gig according to Tom that they realised what they were up against with His Bobness' legendary bloodymindedness or attempts to make things more exciting. Bob is said to have stepped up to the mike on that first concert and told the guys something along the lines of "Like a Rolling Stone in D! 2, 3, 4.........." a number they hadn't rehearsed and in a key that was less than usual. Apparently doing this throughout the tour and changing key at whim. They pulled it off and matched him note for loose note . . .a testament to how professional Tom and his band were . . .I'll try n find the proper Tom Petty version of this story but I LOVE it! Apocryphal maybe but Petty swears it's true . . . .maybe something to do with the song selection which was nothing if not ... er, eclectic. The set list here includes 'Justine' [By Harris and Terry], 'That Lucky Ole Sun' (Gillespie and Smith),

'I forgot more than you’ll ever know' (Cecil Null),  country classic 'I’m Moving On' A Hank Snow song fer Pete's sake! and 'Lonesome Town' (Baker Knight). What's not to enjoy?!

Bob Dylan and Tom Petty Band

This is what Big O say

Thanks to original uploader Roberts who noted: “This is a speed corrected version of the commercial bootleg True Confessions for Carol - and also a close EAC match to speed corrected version of bootleg Lonesome Town LB-838. Has unfortunately a premature cut in Ballad, then straight to Petty’s set. Soundboard and a great listen soundwise, the same “thin” sound which dominates many recordings from this period.”
While the speed correction is welcomed, CaptainAcid made the extra effort of fixing the phase of the tracks; and sharing the tracks at HungerCity. Thanks to CaptainAcid; Claus for the speed correction; Roberts and everyone who shared this on the net.

And Bob's Boots says

It has now been discovered that the initial venue listing of Sydney, Australia February 24, 1986 is indeed correct and that the Lonesome Town and True Confessions For Carol discs DO contain the COMPLETE show and are NOT compiled from various sources.
This set has been previously released as Lonesome Town on the Japanese Watchtower label. However, Rattlesnake has corrected the problems that were evident on that release. The sound is more upfront and dynamic, and the mix (which was at times muddy, with distant vocals on Lonesome Town) is now perfect. To my ears, the tape speed problems are also absent. It’s a full step up in quality from an already fine soundboard to an astounding one. It’s a great performance, with Dylan rocking and rolling throughout. The vocals are powerful and commanding on every song. He’s even quite talkative between numbers!… This is a must have disc, and comes very highly recommended.

All Bob Dylan mentions here in the blog are in tribute to Stephen Blackman Dylanologist and fan par excellence

 " But you'd better hurry up and choose which of those
bills you want before they all disappear” !"

 Update:

Can't find the version I thought of and maybe I dreamed it up but here's another account by Tom of what it's like playing with Bobby in 1986

“Hey, what would you think of doing a tour? I’ve got a tour of Australia [1986] I want to do, and what would you guys think of doing that?” And we’d all been huge Dylan fans, and we were very intrigued by the idea of playing with Bob. So off we went. And that went on for two years. We’d do part of it and then more would get added on, and then more would get added on. We really did the world with Bob Dylan.

If you’re going to play with Bob, it’s a little like playing with a jazz artist. They improvise. And in those days he would improvise. Or maybe he’d do a song jut with Benmont [Tench, Heartbreakers keyboardist] . He’d throw out an obscure song, like an Inkspots song. And none of us knew it, except for Benmont. [Laughs]

He had a lot of material. Some nights we’d do a different show. Every night we’d do something we hadn’t done. It wasn’t like I had never heard anyone say how hard it is to play with Bob because he’s so erratic. But he wasn’t. He was professional. He knew what the show was going to be, and we usually knew what the show was going to be."