Bob Dylan with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Memorial Drive
Adelaide, Australia
1986-02-15
Master tape, never circulated previously to 2023
Lineage
possibly a D6 Sony recorder walkman purchased in Japan in 1985 with an unknown Sony mic > Master tape transfer from Sony HF 90 tape.
master tape transfer
Marantz SD 415 DECK > Mac pro 5.1 > Adobe audition 5.5 > minor multi band compression to add bottom end, the sound was rather thin, > acon digital declick to remove/lower applause/shouts, > parametric and FFT filters to remove occasional mic bumps and rustles > Left channel volume increased by 3+3b Flac transfer > XACT (LEVEL 8)
Taped by M, transferred & edit by godzgolfball
Dont sell or distribute for trade in Mp3 format. Buy the artists offical products to support them.
PA mix improves gradually over the first few songs, by 15 minutes in its much cleaner and better separation.
- Justine – 35 seconds missing from start
(somewhat muddy mix that improves as the song progresses) vocal and instrumentation has been improved as the backup singers were barely audible on original. - Positively 4th Street
- Clean-Cut Kid
- I’ll Remember You
- Trust Yourself
- That Lucky Old Sun
- Masters Of War
- Straight Into Darkness
- American Girl
- A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall (tape flip during applause)
- introduction
- Girl From The North Country
- It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
- introduction
- I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know
- Just Like A Woman
- I’m Moving On
- Lenny Bruce
- When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky
- Lonesome Town
- introduction
- Ballad Of A Thin Man (short dropout due to tape flip)
- So You Wanna Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star
- Refugee
- Rainy Day Women No. 12 & 35
- Seeing The Real You At Last
- Across The Borderline
- I And I
- Like A Rolling Stone
- introduction
- In The Garden
- Blowin’ In The Wind
- Rock ‘Em Dead
- Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door
Bob Dylan (vocals, guitar & harmonica)
Tom Petty (vocals & guitar)
Mike Campbell (guitar)
Benmont Tench (keyboards)
Howie Epstein (bass)
Stan Lynch (drums)
The Queens Of Rhythm:
Carolyn Dennis
Queen Esther Marrow
Madelyn Quebec
Louise Bethune (backing vocals)
Backgound
I recently met a fellow Deadhead in Adelaide and it turned out that at one time, from around 85 to 91, he’d been a taper, he wasn’t that prolific, but he had recorded Dylan and Petty at Adelaide in 1986, from what I have heard, this is the best recording of this show (the SBD boot True Confessions for Carol, is not the Adelaide show as some have on their trade lists)
it really helped that he was really close to the stage as Memorial Drive is an acoustic nightmare if you are up the back of the arena. Whilst not a sonic wonder, the vocals are distortion free and instruments are pretty clear.
The audience makes a bit of noise during the acoustic set, but no one chats constantly which is a blessing. There were many whistles in between songs and these have been lowered or removed. There was almost constant clapping towards the end on some popular songs, I’ve done what i can to lower/remove this without damaging the music.
Overall it took about three days of work to get it to this state.
Stealth tape about 5 metres from the stage (see photos). About 40 seconds from stage announcement to where the taper hits record is missing, I tried to patch from an inferior version but the music was too indistinct on that for me to match it up so the join was not audible.
Live Petty 