John Mellencamp
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
There was a whole bunch of people playing.
A whole bunch of people.
And the Eagles were on sound checking.
And they were taking forever because Don Henley is a perfectionist.
Everything's got to be just right.
And I was standing with John and June.
And John was getting irritated because we were like 40 minutes.
We'd been standing there ready to sound check for 40 minutes.
So while we were standing there, I was smoking.
And John goes, you're going to have to quit that smoking, John.
It's going to catch up with you someday.
I said, well, you fucking smoke.
And he goes, well, I used to.
But I saw this guy from London, and he
He got me to quit smoking.
I go, maybe I should see that guy.
He goes, okay, yeah, I will.
Anyway, so anyway, we finally get on to soundcheck, and John soundchecked without me because I just sang one song with him.
And then when it came time to soundcheck, I went, you know, John,