re: No Booze sales allowed at MELLENcamp show

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.