John Mellencamp
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And we had the studio blocked out,
But we wouldn't show up.
We had other things to do.
There was a place called Scaramouche that had the prettiest girls you ever saw in your life.
So it was like we did not have time to go to the studio because we had been up till daybreak at Scaramouche.
So I was spending a lot of fucking money by now.
And it was like, maybe at the time, a half a million dollars.
And I had three songs done.
And I'd had a couple hits.
I had I Need a Lover, Ain't Even Done With the Nine.
And This Time, I Think, and so those songs were like, got into the top 20.
Anyway, the record company came down and said, Mellencamp, what the fuck?
You know, you're spending all this money, and if you don't get on with it, we're going to drop you from the label.
And I went, you can't drop me from the fucking label.
Well, we want to come down and hear what you've done.
I said, well, come on down.