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Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and The Grateful Dead – Mega-rare restored five-LP monster vinyl set with extras “Joint Ventures” Rubber Bowl, Akron Ohio 1986-07-02 AUD (Happy Thanksgiving Dime!)
Well well well, that’s a mouthful…
What you are getting on the vinyl set is believed to be the entire performances of Dylan and Petty, plus most of the Grateful Dead set. The first four tracks of the Dead’s performance are missing, but not to worry they have been included from one of the Internet Archive sources so you may have the entire show.
The title of this box set has two meanings. The first of course is that all three bands are performing together at times in various combinations. You get Dylan with Petty’s band, Dylan with the Dead, and the Dead performing Dylan without him, and also without Jerry. The second meaning refers to the fact that recording this show was a coopertative effort, that there is more than one taper in wildly different places in the audience. The recording is clear but of inconsistent quality, ranging from very good to excellent.
Now on to the performances themselves. Perhaps the best of them is Tom Petty. He sounds cool, relaxed, and is having a great time. Dylan as some of you may remember was going through somewhat of a personal identity crisis at the time. As a result, the man sounds like a speeding bullet freight train. He is over-the-top energetic with a slightly hoarse voice. I loved the show he gave on this night, but you can feel the demon forces pushing.
Now, on to the Grateful Dead. The beginning and middle are fine, then we get to “Desolation Row”. Jerry (for reasons probably health-related) walks off the stage and Weir carries on without him. It’s a unique performance, and quite good. But the group’s energy begins to suffer and the “Box Of Rain” encore is a bit painful to listen to. I’ve seen reviews of their set on this night, with some calling it their worst show ever. I can’t agree at all with that based upon just a clinker of an encore, it sure was fun getting to that point.
Setlist as played (corrected from album, but please supply additional corrections if needed)
Bob Dylan and the Hearbreakers
Shake A Hand
Positively 4th Street
Clean Cut Kid
I’ll Remember You
Trust Yourself
Lucky Old Sun
Masters Of War
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Straight Into Darkness
Rock Me
The Wait
Breakdown
Bob Dylan Solo
To Ramona
One Too Many Mornings
It Ain’t Me Babe
Bob Dylan and the Heartbreakers
I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know
Band Of The Hand
When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky
Lonesome Town
Ballad Of A Thin Man
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Even The Losers
Spike
Don’t Do Me Like That
Refugee
Bob Dylan and the Heartbreakers
Rainy Day Women #12 & #35
Seeing The Real You At Last
Across The Borderline
I And I
Like A Rolling Stone
In The Garden
Blowin’ In The Wind
Red Cadillac and a Black Moustache
Bob Dylan and The Grateful Dead
Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door
The Grateful Dead
Alabama Getaway (NOT ON VINYL, IN EXTRAS FOLDER)
Greatest Story Ever Told (NOT ON VINYL, IN EXTRAS FOLDER)
They Love Each Other (NOT ON VINYL, IN EXTRAS FOLDER)
The Grateful Dead with Bob Dylan
Little Red Rooster (NOT ON VINYL, IN EXTRAS FOLDER)
Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright (order switched with following on LP)
It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue (Dylan and Garcia split vocals)(order switched with previous on LP)
The Grateful Dead
Candyman
Me And My Uncle
Mexicali Blues
Don’t Ease Me In
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Playing In The Band (mostly without Garcia)
Desolation Row (without Garcia)
Drums
Space
Truckin’
Black Peter
Sugar Magnolia
E: Box Of Rain
Notes: As indicated, this is the setlist for the night. “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” was put at the end of side six and “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright” was put at the beginning of side seven, but the order is switched for LP space purposes.
And there you have it.
The source for the extras is AUD->DAT->CDr->SHN->TLH->FLAC and is SHNID 12934 (sbeok). It’s been converted from SHN to FLAC.There were no sector boundary errors to begin with.
Lineage: Various AUD recorders ->? ->LP set -> Sound Forge-> click and crackle removal->FLAC via TLH, level 6, sectors aligned and verified, FLAC integrity checked.
Enjoy!
A DoinkerTape
Disc One
Bob Dylan and the Heartbreakers
1 Shake A Hand
2 Positively 4th Street
3 Clean Cut Kid
4 I’ll Remember You
5 Trust Yourself
6 Lucky Old Sun
7 Masters Of War
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
8 Straight Into Darkness
9 Rock Me
10 The Wait
11 Breakdown
Bob Dylan Solo
12 To Ramona
13 One Too Many Mornings
14 It Ain’t Me Babe
Bob Dylan and the Heartbreakers
15 I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know
16 Band Of The Hand
17 When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky
18 Lonesome Town
19 Ballad Of A Thin Man
Disc Two
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
20 Even The Losers
21 Spike
22 Don’t Do Me Like That
23 Refugee
Bob Dylan and the Heartbreakers
24 Rainy Day Women #12 & #35
25 Seeing The Real You At Last
26 Across The Borderline
27 I And I
28 Like A Rolling Stone
29 In The Garden
30 Blowin’ In The Wind
31 Red Cadillac and a Black Moustache
Bob Dylan and The Grateful Dead
32 Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door
Disc Three
The Grateful Dead
gd86-07-02d1t01.flac Alabama Getaway (NOT ON VINYL, IN EXTRAS FOLDER)
gd86-07-02d1t02.flac Greatest Story Ever Told (NOT ON VINYL, IN EXTRAS FOLDER)
gd86-07-02d1t03.flac They Love Each Other (NOT ON VINYL, IN EXTRAS FOLDER)
The Grateful Dead with Bob Dylan
gd86-07-02d1t04.flac Little Red Rooster (NOT ON VINYL, IN EXTRAS FOLDER)
33 Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright (order switched with following on LP)
34 It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue (Dylan and Garcia split vocals)(order switched with previous on LP)
The Grateful Dead
35 Candyman 7:08
36 Me And My Uncle 2:58
37 Mexicali Blues
38 Don’t Ease Me In
39 China Cat Sunflower
40 I Know You Rider
Disc Four
The Grateful Dead
41 Playing In The Band (mostly without Garcia)
42 Desolation Row (without Garcia)
43 Drums
44 Space
45 Truckin’
46 Black Peter
47 Sugar Magnolia
48 Encore: Box Of Rain
The Columbus Dispatch – July 3, 1986
Review: Dylan turns back time with Petty, the Dead
By John Petric
The Columbus Dispatch – July 3, 1986
AKRON — The Akron Rubber Bowl colorfully exploded back in time
as tens of thousands of tie-dyed rock fans celebrated one of the
most unusual stadium shows of the ’80s.Troubadour of the ’60s, Bob Dylan, who is using Tom Petty and
the Heartbreakers as backup, and psychedelic relics, the Grateful
Dead, have paired themselves for a limited summer tour consisting
of only four outdoor stadium dates.It’s as strange a formula as it looks but it works — to varying
degrees of success. Mixing a legend like Dylan (who is struggling
to sell records these days) and Petty (a certified platinum pop/rock
phenomenon) with the Dead, (figureheads of the remaining
hippie subculture) makes for a very interesting evening, indeed.Dylan, Petty and the Heartbreakers came on at about 5:40 p.m.,
rocking some unknown tune like ringing a bell. I’m not sure what
it was because the sound was very bad in the upper deck where I sat.
I suspect the song might have been a new tune, though the chorus
did sound like Dylan was repeating the words “Purple rain, purple
rain.” I doubt if he was, but who knows? I wasn’t even sure that was
Dylan up there because he was at least 100 yards away.After a half-dozen more unintelligible songs (because of the lousy
sound), I took it upon myself to find new and better seating. So it
was off into Dead-head land that I went: a swirling mass of long hair,
gingham dresses and tie-dyed clothes. And Grateful Dead T-shirts,
headbands, stickers and banners everywhere. It was so tribal, a
regular love-in. I just wanted to hear and see Dylan and Petty,
which I did.It was Dylan, by golly, and the sound was much better on the field,
which is where I ended up. Borrowing binoculars, I scoped out Mr.
Tambourine man himself. He was dressed in black kneehigh motor-
cycle boots, leather pants, a black vest and fingerless leather gloves
(black and black). Harley-Davidson Dylan appeared tan and fit.
His face certainly had to have had some makeup applied.
He sounded great, his nasal voice much stronger and at times
huskier than I’ve ever heard him before.His phrasing on some songs was annoying, as on the classic
Positively 4th St. But Masters of War, I and I and the encore
of Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door were powerful, nothing short
of stunning.One new song in particular was breathtaking and that was
When the Night Comes Falling Down. Dylan’s four female vocalists
pushed the song into a dynamic range that Petty, Dylan and the
Heartbreakers couldn’t have done themselves.Petty played his hits between Dylan’s electric and acoustic and
then electric sets. Refugee, Spike and Don’t Do Me Like That had
the crowd a bit more up than did Dylan’s stuff.
Heavy metal Bob returned, and the troupe slammed into a
surprisingly true-to-the-original version of Rainy Day Women #18
and #35 — you know, the song that goes “everybody must get stoned.”
And get stoned they did, but 40,000 kids high on pot is a much more
mellow crowd than, say Buckeye Lake Music Center’s 20,000 drunken
ZZ Top fans.I saw no fights, little staggering and lots of dancing. One man was
arrested for taking his clothes off.
Deadline prohibited a review of the Grateful Dead. But I’m sure
they put the Rubber Bowl in its own orbit.Youngstown Vindicator — July 3, 1986
Song selection, sound system disappoint Dylan fans at Akron
By Julie Fanslow
Youngstown Vindicator — Thursday, July 3, 1986
AKRON — As the Grateful Dead have testified, “What a long,
strange trip it’s been.” And, chances are, most of the 40,000
or so who attended Wednesday’s concert featuring the Dead,
Bob Dylan and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are still
shaking their heads and wondering what just was said, played
and sung last night.In the ’60s and ’70s, stadium rock concerts were enormously
popular. A music fan need only look to Wednesday’s triple bill
at the Rubber Bowl, probably this summer’s most fiercely hyped
and eagerly awaited show, to understand why concerts on this
scale have fallen from favor.The first and worst problem is an inadequate sound system,
its ineffectiveness magnified by the open-air setting and
Rubber Bowl’s flabby acoustics. It’s always been hard enough
to understand Dylan; it was well nigh impossible Wednesday.
Lyrics were muddled and in-between song patter couldn’t be
heard at all. Petty fared even worse — the only time his voice
carried clearly halfway across the stadium was during “The
Waiting,” the first half of which he did solo, just he and his
electric guitar.Dylan, Petty and the Heartbreakers played two hours and 45
minutes, mostly as a team, although Petty and his band did
two mini-sets of four songs each and Dylan took the stage
along for a few songs, a familiar vagabond figure in a crazy-
quilt jacket, acoustic guitar in hand and harmonica at the ready.
At 45, Dylan seems to be enjoying himself on his first tour in
five years, and the Heartbreakers offer outstanding support,
performing Dylan’s old and new songs as if they’ve been playing
them all along.But the song selection itself was another disappointment.
Admittedly, it must be hard for Dylan to choose a few chosen
songs from a 25-year career. And he covered that career well
chronologically Wednesday, with songs from his early folk hero
days (“It Ain’t Me, Babe” and “Ballad of a Thin Man”), from his
puzzling Born Again Christian era (the underrated “In the Garden”)
and from his most recent work (“When the Night Comes Falling
From The Sky” and “The Real You at Last.”)Most concertgoers, however, probably wanted to hear more
classic Dylan than what was offered. “Rainy Day Women #12
and 35” drew loud applause with its famous “Everybody must
get stoned” refrain, and “Blowing in the Wind,” one of three
encore numbers, was a treat with its country clip and easy
manner. But oh, Bob, how could you end a show without
“Memphis Blues Again”? Without “Subterranean Homesick
Blues,” or “Positively Fourth Street” or “Mr. Tambourine Man”?
The Grateful Dead’s segment of the show was another puzzler.
It took nearly 90 minutes for the Dead to take the stage after
Dylan and Petty finished. But after just two songs, the band
had to stop and make adjustments, and there were similarly
long pauses before nearly every number.The highlight of the Dead’s set was Dylan’s reappearance.
Together, they jammed on Willie Dixon’s “Little Red Rooster,”
with guitarist Bob Weir shouting the bluesy vocal, and on
Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” and “It’s All Over
Now, Baby Blue.” Two songs later, the Dead disappeared
without a word to the crowd, and another half-hour hiatus
had the crowd wondering what had happened. The Dead are
renowned for playing four- and five-hour shows. It’s anyone’s
guess why northeast Ohio fans got the short end of the stick
Wednesday.The Rubber Bowl concert — one of only four nationwide starring
all three acts — had its redeeming factors. The best was the
crowd. It was a great day for people-watching. The parking lots
were jammed with cars bearing license plates from Maryland,
New Jersey, even Arizona — sure signs of Dead Heads, those
rabid Grateful Dead fans who follow the band cross-country.
Most of these free spirits are the closest you’ll come in 1986
to “flower children” of almost 20 years ago, sporting tie-dyed
clothing and gently drawing multicolored pictures on each other
with felt-tipped markers. The Dead encourage free enterprise,
too, and bootleg and authorized T-shirt sellers were everywhere;
a top-selling shirt was right in the holiday spirit with its “Give Me
Liberty or Give Me Dead” message.The weather also cooperated wonderfully. The skies were overcast
throughout Wednesday and right up through showtime, but the sun
broke through the haze just as the concert began.
The Rubber Bowl, and the carnival atmosphere such a large arena
generates, might have been right for the Grateful Dead. But booking
two or three nights at Blossom Music Center would have been a far
better choice for Dylan and Petty, and with far better results for the fans.