John Mellencamp

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.

Because New York in the early 70s,

broke and there were prostitutes and pimps and everything everywhere you know and homeless people which reminds me you guys got a lot of homeless guys here there's a few it's not as bad as la

Everybody here must love—I'm not putting Austin down.

I played here about three years ago.

But everybody must love graffiti here.

And that's the thing about graffiti.

I don't mind if you want to destroy somebody else's property, but at least do something original because it all looks the same.