John Mellencamp
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Podcast Appearances
Let's do a rounding hit of Small Town.
I was born, you know, and everybody would stand up and sing.
I was playing to 20,000 people and everybody was drunk.
And I was just kind of the cheerleader, you know, the human cheerleader.
Yeah, giving them the opportunity.
I'm here to be a musician.
This is not being a musician.
This is being a fucking clown.
I don't want to be a clown.
So I started playing in theaters, which pissed everybody off.
I said, and, you know, when you come to one of my shows, and this has been for the last 20 years I've been doing this, you come to one of my shows in a theater that says, please recognize.