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True Confession #1: I have to admit to pretty high expectations for the Dylan/Petty "True Confessions” hootenanny from the very start. Hey, I’m the guy who still has a 4x4 silk-screened banner of Bawb hanging on his bedroom wall after, lo, all these years.
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GRUMPY MOFO: THE CONCEPT
BOB DYLAN/TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS Pine Knob, Clarkston, Ml July 1,1986_
Kevin Knapp
True Confession #1: I have to admit to pretty high expectations for the Dylan/Petty "True Confessions” hootenanny from the very start. Hey, I’m the guy who still has a 4x4 silk-screened banner of Bawb hanging on his bedroom wall after, lo, all these years. Toss in with this hero worship the breathy reports leaking in from hither and yon that this was the show of the summer tour season...and, shucks, why should I doubt them? It seemed indeed a juicy combination: Legendary Bob, with a brand new itch in his saddle, along with second-wave populist hero Tom Petty and backed by a crack (not the drug) supporting unit in the well-rehearsed and rocking Heartbreakers. Preliminary tour reports from the New Zealand/Australia/Japan gigs had confirmed the high value of this alliance.