Bob Dylan with Tom Petty - 26-06-1986- Minneapolis, MN (soundboard) | so many roads

 Bob Dylan with Tom Petty - 1986-06-26 - Minneapolis, MN (SBD)

A SPEEDYMAN SPECIAL

Bob Dylan 

with Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers 

1986-06-26

Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome

Minneapolis, MN

Soundboard Recording

Bob Dylan with Tom Petty

01. Tuning

02. So Long Good Luck And Goodbye

03. Positively 4th Street

04. Clean-Cut Kid

05. I'll Remember You

06. Shot Of Love

07. We Had It All

08. Masters Of War

Tom Petty

09. Straight Into Darkness

10. Even The Losers

11. The Waiting

12. Breakdown

Bob Dylan with Tom Petty

13. To Ramona

14. One Too Many Mornings

15. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

16. I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know

17. Just Like A Woman

18. When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky

19. Lonesome Town

20. Ballad Of A Thin Man

Tom Petty

21. So You Want To Be A Rock 'n' Roll Star

22. Spike

23. Bye Bye Johnny

24. Refugee

Bob Dylan with Tom Petty

25. Rainy Day Women No. 12 & 35

26. Seeing The Real You At Last

27. Across The Borderline

28. I And I

29. Like A Rolling Stone

30. In The Garden

Encore (Bob Dylan with Tom Petty):

31. Encore Break

32. Blowin' In The Wind

33. Let The Good Times Roll

34. Knockin' On Heaven's Door

Speedy says: I saw Tom Petty live once, in April 1983 at the Brendan Byrne (later the Continental Airlines, and finally, the Izod) Arena. Nick Lowe was the lead-in band, making for quite a new wave night of music. I've seen Bob Dylan on 3 occasions - with the Grateful Dead serving as his back up band for a set in 1987 (after the Dead played 2 sets of their own!), as a headliner in 1989, and as the lead in band for the Dead in 1995, their last tour before Jerry Garcia passed away.

What I haven't seen is Dylan and Petty on stage together, but that's just what happened in Minneapolis on June 26, 1986, 4 decades ago this very day, as captured in this soundboard recording. Believe it or not, the 1986 Dylan/Petty tour was an outgrowth of two major concert events – Live Aid and Farm Aid. At the end of his set at Live Aid, Dylan said "I hope that some of the money…maybe they can just take a little bit of it, maybe…one or two million, maybe…and use it, say, to pay the mortgages on some of the farms and, the farmers here, owe to the banks…". While that comment angered Live Aid organizer Bob Geldorf, it did help spark the effort to organize Farm Aid. The first Farm Aid show was held just 2 months after Live Aid, on September 22, 1985. Both Dylan and Petty played at that show and struck up a mutual friendship. That led to Dylan inviting Petty and the Heartbreakers to serve as his backup band for his 1986/1987 True Confessions tour. The Dylan/Petty collaboration would later continue in the Traveling Wilburys.