John Mellencamp
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So they played me all the fucking time.
Just because nobody else had videos yet.
And I remember sitting with, I can't remember the guy, some English guy.
And I said, what is this MTV thing?
He goes, I don't know.
The record company told me.
I can't remember the guy's name.
He was really a good songwriter.
But you don't hear of him much anymore.
Anyway, I had a conversation.
Neither one of us knew what was going on.
And John and I got along great.
I was the first promotion that MTV did.
And we gave away a pink house.
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