No Booze sales allowed at MELLENcamp show

I love his music for the most part but he is just an insufferable human being. He truly hates life & his own fans. It’s really strange.

I’d never go to a Mellencamp show, but I’d have to imagine that anyone who does would surely need to be well liquored-up to tolerate his performance.

Mellencamp has good songs but he's a giant douche.

He's 2nd to Roger Waters as being the biggest a-hole in rock music.

Although I think Ginger Baker had them both beat.

Just saw an article where he was telling a story at a concert. Someone yelled at him to shut up and play, After some engagement, he started a song, stopped, and stormed off stage.

He’s always been an a-hole, but when he was younger it was more organic. Now he goes out of his way to be even more of a prick and I find it to be phony. The show where he stormed out was legitimately real, but I’d read reviews of his other shows. In every single one at the same point in the show, without exception, he would get pissed at the audience for yelling and lecture them that they weren’t in a bar. Then later, he would chastise them about getting the verses to Jack and Diane wrong. Every single time. As if the same mistake would be made in every show.

Then in interviews, he’s over the top with contrarian schtick to anything that’s asked or discussed. Like others in this thread, I like a ton of his music and that’s in spite of my politics being 180 degrees different than his, but he’s a hard person to like.

Suckin on chilli dogs

Maybe he's a recovering alcoholic?

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Video of him fighting with the audience

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I'll say this, both sides (the concertgoer and Mellencamp) were assholes, but geeze John. Not a good look at all. I never knew this about him