![]() Why? Let me put it this way.one week before seeing Mellencamp, I went to see Eric Church.there is a huge difference in the feeling I got between the two shows. ![]() With that being said, it will be the last time I spend mo eh to see him. At 68 it’s impressive that he is still touring. I have loved John Mellencamp since I was a teenager and still love his music. Lee Hagwood from Charlotte, North Carolina It would be nice if others actually appreciated the work of art that this show is. (If you’re messing up jack and Diane you deserve to have the writer correct you) His band is just as talented as he is. Also, yes he will chastise the crowd IF THEY GET THE SONG WRONG. As for politics? He mentions how thoughts and prayers don’t do anything to help, sorry if that upsets you boomers. The stage was amazing the background of his set is from a streetcar named desire(it’s relevant!), the crowd was absolutely obnoxious and spoke over him a lot when he was telling stories. Also, mellencamp voices over clips inbetween before showing the old movie clips to bring perspective (once again listening would clarify for a lot of people complaining). The twangy guitar intro to his best tune, “The Authority Song”, kept them there.Everyone complaining about the beginning of the concert when the clips from old TCM are relevant to his songs, for example play guitar, small town, etc are definitely inspired by these movies and if you just took a second to listen, it makes sense. Mellencamp hopped on guitarist Larry Crane’s shoulders for the rocking “Rumbleseat”, and his first big hit, “Hurt so Good”, had ’em dancing in the aisles. (Cougar was a major attraction at last year’s Farm Aid benefit concert.) He pulled a male fan from the front row up to sing along on one of this early songs, “Hand to Hold on To”, and brought a roar when he gave the lucky guy the mike and let him sing a verse alone. “Rain on the Scarecrow” came next, along with a short spiel on the plight of the American farmer. As usual at Coliseum shows, most of them stayed up. “You sure know how to make a fellow feel at home,” he declared, then asked the people standing on their seats up front to sit down so that others could see. “Jack and Diane” came next, followed by a couple of tunes from his latest album Scarecrow. There weren’t even any stage monitors up front to divide Mellencamp from his fans, and the communication between the two was evident from the word go. The concert kicked off with a short acoustic intro, then the curtains around a glossy white stage were pulled, and the band ran out to the familiar chords of “Small Town”. On the contrary he seemed like a very nice fellow, all smiles as he shook hands with various rock reporters and music-industry types.Īt any rate, the show he put on later that night made him look pretty huge to the 14 thousand-odd fans in attendance. He calls himself Little Bastard on his album productions credits, and after meeting John Cougar Mellencamp backstage before last week’s Coliseum show, I half understood why. Pretty sure nobody else has previously bothered to retype it from the April 25, 1986, issue of the Georgia Straight, so you could say that it's the review's cyberspace debut today! Here's my review, which I retyped from the April 25, 1986, issue of the Georgia Straight. This was smack-dab between his John Cougar and John Mellencamp periods. Thirty years ago today-on April 16, 1986, if you can believe that-John Cougar Mellencamp played the Pacific Coliseum.
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