True Confessions Tour

Tour byBob Dylan
Poster to the concerts in New York, USA
Location	Oceania Asia North America
Start date	February 5, 1986
End date	August 6, 1986
Legs	3
No. of shows	15 inOceania 4 inAsia 41 inNorth America 60 in total
Bob Dylan concert chronology
1984 European Tour (1984) True Confessions Tour (1986) Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead 1987 Tour (1987)

TheTrue Confessions Tour was a concert tour byBob Dylan andTom Petty and the Heartbreakers.^[1][2][3]

A concert video,Hard to Handle, filmed inSydney, Australia on February 24 and 25 was directed byGillian Armstrong. TheHBO Special was released onVirgin Music VHS in 1986^[4] andCBS/Fox Video laserdisc in 1988.^[5]

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 theTemples in Flames Tour.^[13]

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]

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]

• BobLinks – Comprehensive log of concerts and set lists
• Bjorner's Still on the RoadArchived September 9, 2012, at theWayback Machine – Information on recording sessions and performances

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