"The Methuselah of Righteous Cool"

@Lefty wrote:

And, the commentary about this summer’s tour begins…two very recent posts on theneverendingpool.com:

F***ing John Mellencamp. Yuck. The ballpark tour with Willie before wasn’t exactly a great experience either.

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Mellencamp will get things rocking. He’s a regular heartland boy and a tremendous showman. Good choice, Bob! Great use of accordion on Cherry Bomb, too!

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First, couldn’t find any live footage of “Cherry Bomb.” but did find the vid. John has been credited with incorporating traditional folk instruments into a pop rock sound, and it started in 1987 with “Lonesome Jubilee” and “Cherry Bomb” was on that record. In the video, John used an interracial couple intimately dancing, and as a result, received threatening letters from the KKK. On a sidenote, I have seen the 8 room farmhouse John sings about, his parents still live in it (not that I’m a stalker or anything – his former art teacher wrote up a driving tour guide of John’s town 😆 )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGoQNXWgopg

HaHa! It’s somewhat amusing, believe it or not, when John is criticized lol. He has said several times in interviews he knows it’s not easy being a JM fan. He’s right on spot many times. I only take offense, I suppose, when criticism is thrown to the fan’s direction 😳

I was googling Mellencamp, Dylan, and Nelson and was lead to the neverending forum and was giggling over the comments posted.

http://www.theneverendingpool.com/component/option,com_fireboard/Itemid,22/func,view/id,55513/catid,8/

I particularly loved the comment about “I doubt Bob will even leave his trailer to introduce himself.” and the one about Kenny Aronoff on drums. Kenny hasn’t been with the band since 1996, however, if you’re not a JM fan I can see that being a misnomer and unknown.

The one I was really giggling about, though, was this comment, because I am a fan of dry sarcasm, and this certainly seemed to be on spot, if I were reading “tone.”

“i doubt if bob will even leave his trailer to introduce himself.”

The reason for the giggles is that John and Bob have, indeed, worked together so no need to introduce himself. John directed the video for “Politcal World” from “Oh Mercy”. If you look close enough to Bob’s ” band members” in the video, the “band member” seated in the background playing is Mike Wanchic, original Mellencamp band member and JM’s right hand man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e4a-QpfhD8

I’m not sure about the following story but I found it quite interesting and amusing if it is, indeed, true. I found this in a Springsteen forum after Joan Baez let the cat out of the bag about the tour. Just imagine, if true, Dylan sitting on a corner in Bloomington, IN waiting to be picked up (probably wouldn’t have been an issue if cell phones were main stream at the time, eh?)…

http://www.backstreets.com/btx/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=139760

“Dylan and Mellencamp go way back and are friends. Dylan came to Bloomington, IN in the late 80’s or early 90’s to have Mellencamp direct his video for “Political World.” There was a funny story in the paper at the time that Dylan got into town and called Mellencamp from a Pizza Hut in Bloomington to have John pick him up. Only problem was he didn’t tell him which one so Mellencamp is driving between the four or five Pizza Hut’s in town looking for Dylan before finally locating him sitting on the curb in front of the restaurant. I know Dylan has gone to Mellencamp’s house for dinners, etc. prior to playing in Bloomington. Plus, Mellencamp doesn’t go to many shows at all but he’s almost always there for Dylan. They seem to get along very well and John has always clearly idolized Dylan.

I just wonder how that tour would work. Mellencamp hasn’t really opened for anyone that I can recall since the early 80’s. Dylan has done some co-headlining or opening act tours where he has played first. I would think Mellencamp would feel weird about having Dylan play before him but I can’t see Mellencamp opening a show for someone either. Plus, John is probably still a more popular live act than Bob in most places. Doesn’t really matter to me who plays first but that’s often a big hangup for artists.”

Thanks for those unconfirmed dates. I’m holding out hope they don’t kick off tour July 4 as that’s family time for me (and that show is within driving distance), I love going to opening night, and more than likely will have to miss that gig because I doubt DH will want to go to that and I can’t leave family home during a holiday.

Thanks for the giggles today.

Mr. Dylan is on the cover of the Rolling Stone (May 14 issue). He has appeared 16 times on the cover, according to a blurb on the inside.

@Lefty wrote:

The question, CB, is: Is that a good thing? 😕

It is in my book… 😀