John Mellencamp

I haven't even rehearsed with these guys, not even rehearsed with them.

But it was the same shit, you know, because we were just a cover band and I was just a barroom singer.

So, you know, if you want to see taking care of business, I'm your guy, you know, and take care of business.

You know, who can't do that?

So I show up.

Dave has recruited two sophomores in high school.

who couldn't play their instruments at all.

The drummer was like, boom, boom, crack, asshole.

Boom, boom, crack, that's all you gotta do.

And he was the whole fucking time.

And so the show was about half over, I just said,

I looked at Dave and I go, you're the lead singer.

And I just left because it was just too embarrassing.

And then I got, I went to New York and I was afraid.

Joe, I was afraid.

I mean, I'm from a fucking town of 18,000 people.

And I'd been to Chicago once, never been on an airplane.

And so I flew to New York because I came into some money.

That's another funny story.

I came into some money and I went there and I was afraid to come out of my hotel room for the first two days.