European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Music by Lett Tayt this tour is to dil Ferrn i thin the Onei he s done Over the past 20 years. Dylan and Tom Petty and the Are in energetic Force. Bob Dylan s concert is the ticket of the summer by Larry Mcshane associated press Bob , Whoso live shows Volt the a isl 25 years have been acoustic Elk Eric and always Ecle Clie shrugs off his current worldwide Lour with Tom potty and the hear Breakers wondering what nil the fuss is shout. People forget it but since 1974 i be never stopped working. I be been out on hours where there has t been any publicity. So for to i m not gelling caught up in the excitement of a big tour Dylan told rolling Stone Magazine in a recent interview. I be played big Tours and i be played Small Tours. I mean what s the big Deal about this anew two songs into the show on the first of three nights Al Madison Square Garden you know. Dylan and the heart Breakers tar into a souped up version of positively fourth Street bringing Down the House an animated Dylan appears to feed off the Energy As the band locks Inlo the song. The True confessions tour dubbed the summer s holiest ticket by Many Marks Dylan s first National tour since 1978 and follows Dylan Petty shows in Australia new zealand and Japan. Virtually every Tickel on the . Tour has been sold about 1 million people will see the show by its completion. And by latching on to Petty & co., i he reclusive Dylan has continued his siring of unpredictable live perform Junces. I mean Dylan s just a Guy like anybody else except he s a Guy a who has something to my Petty old rolling Stone. And he has a personally that makes it his own. There s not Many people thai can walk Inlo a room of 20,000, stare at them and get their attention. Thai s nol an easy Dylan s had plenty of practice. Some of the ribbing minn., native s earliest live shows were in Geruc s Folk City the recently closed Greenwich Village club where he appeared with just guitar and Harmonica on nights when the stage was open to anyone he subsequently poured in 1965-6fintroducing his new material with a new band the Hawks who later achieved no oriely As the band. Dylan s infamous electric period kicked off with a blistering version of i at the 1 Jas Newport Folk festival where he was booed and condemned by Folk purists. They must to pretty Rich logo someplace and boo Dylan said at the time. I mean i could t afford it if i was in sheif Robbie Robertson guitarist with the band recalled in this Way we set up we played they booed and threw things at us. Then we went to the next town played they booed threw things and we left .ig.iin. I remember thinking this is a strange Way to make a Buck " Dylan and the band were far More successful with their 1974 tour the Singer songwriter s first National Lour. The sold out concerts produced the Fine live up before the flood. For he nation s Bicentennial Dylan mounted the poliing Thunder revue a Lour with an Ever changing cast of characters ranging from Joan Baez to Roger Mcquinn on any Given night. A 1973 Lour featured an 11 piece band with Horn Scalion supporting Dylan bul his next live shows found him with j new band Maie Jesus. A born again Dylan outraged fans and critics with performances from his much maligned Christian records slow train coming and saved. Oddly enough Dylan who had defined a generation Wilh his music through the l 6nsearned his first grammy award with the she train album in the gospel music category. The Dylan Felly pairing which first occurred last fall for the farm Aid concert was not All that surprising although the length of the Lour and resulting publicity have been Odd for Dylan. Felly s last studio album Siut Librn accents was inspired in pan by conversations he had Wilh Robertson who produced some of the record. Petty had also worked in the past Wilh Mcquinn whose version of Dylan s or. Tambourine Man Wilh the Byrds was a huge 60s hit. For Petty s ban males the connection was much More direct. Keyboardist Benmon Tench had already played Wilh Dylan on his shot of love album while Tench guitarist Mike Campbell and bassist Howie Epstein played on Empire burlesque his most recent record Campbell heading the three guitar setup with Dylan and Petty particularly stands out live stealing the spotlight from his better known band mates with his expressive playing. Since the get together Dylan and Felly have co written several songs releasing the single band of the hand a winding gospel Flavoured number which was the title cd for the unsuccessful film s soundtrack. Dylan has also just released a new album know Iii out loaded with the Hoa Breakers playing on the Dylan Pelly collaboration Coj my mind Jde up. This has been a Good Lime for us in general Petty said. I think we feel pretty god to be 20 stripes m Jugus 7, 19b6
