John Mellencamp
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
No, he was really a handsome, really good bass player.
Really, really, really, really good.
But he just, you know, Dave and we were 20 years old, 22 years old.
You know, what the fuck did we know about anything?
Never really had a big break.
Well, something must have happened.
It was a very slow climb.
Yeah, I got a record deal.
And, of course, being me at that age, at 22, I went out to California and I met with a guy named Mike Maitland who hated my new record but said I had great possibilities.
And I told him, I just stood up and I said, motherfucker, you're an old man.
What do you know about rock music?
And of course I got dropped immediately.
I was on MCA and I got dropped immediately.
But there were a couple of people at MCA who believed in what I was doing.
And so they helped me along.