John Mellencamp

And John and I got along great.

I was the first promotion that MTV did.

And we gave away a pink house.

You know.

And you had to register and do all this stuff.

And there's a funny story that goes with that.

So Sykes and somebody else came to Indiana to find a house in Bloomington that they were gonna buy and then they were gonna do a show and I did an ad where I went

And you can win a house and we're gonna paint the mother pink.

And that's what they did.

Except the house they bought Joe was on a chemical dump.

Oh no.

But I didn't know it and they didn't know it because they were from New York.

And so when I found out, I called them up and I said, guys, we can't give away this house.

It's on a fucking chemical dump.

because RCA was dumping chemicals out in this field that was right next to the house that we bought.

And back then in the early 80s, there wasn't much legislation about where you could dump that kind of stuff.

So they had to buy another house, which they weren't happy about.

So they had to buy two houses.

Couldn't sell the other one, gave it away.

And Sykes to this day, I'll tease him about it, and he'll go, oh, we took that off the books years ago.