John mellencamp unplugged band members3/21/2024 We saw Segar a few months ago and he was very good. Cougar and Segar were bucket lists for us as far as seeing old rockers. We are both 57 and we enjoyed listening to his music during HS and college. My wife and I saw John Cougar in Albuquerque on April 30th, 2019. I grew up in the 80's loving Mellencamp, Springsteen, and Bryan Adams, but this is the last time for JCM! He did a lot of "mike holding" when the audience took over Jack and Diane and Pink Houses. He let a very excited audience do most of the heavy lifting and singing. With his big hits, Mellencamp didn't even sing half of them. Overall, I'd say the audio at the Beacon Theater was horrible, and oftentimes Mellencamp's voice was completely overshadowed by drums, bass, and intstumentation. That didn't happen until the last half hour of the show when John decided to be John. Most fans wanted an old-fashioned rock and roll show with Mellencamp's greatest hits from the 80's and 90's. Audience members were actually groaning every time another movie clip began. That was a complete waste of time and the New York audience was "done with it" after just the first movie clip. Mellencamp did not need to torture the crowd with 30 minutes of old movie clips of his favorite characters or actors. He had me, and lost me right at the very beginning for the rest of the show. It was sad, it was maddening, and I am just plain pissed. God knows we have our issues, but I just felt ashamed to even be living here. Then, he actually shit all over the town I live in, Portland, Oregon. When he started admonishing the crowd for cheering loudly, it was so unnecessary. Finally, he came out and sang songs that I had no idea about. But it was boring and an absolute buzzkill. I totally get where Mellencamp was going and that Brando and Newman were his idols etc etc. The audience was actually booing by about the fourth one. The whole movie opening thing got old real fast. We had an amazing meal, and walked across the street to Keller Auditorium. Oh, the acoustics also sucked.Īs an '80s graduate from high school, I was so excited to revisit my youth with John Cougar Mellencamp songs. Lastly, I'm willing to chalk up his forgetting his own lyrics several times to his age, but I also can't rule out his being liquored up as a contributing factor. That way you'll also miss the other lecture about the audience not knowing about verse and chorus. If you need another, do it during his acoustic "Jack & Diane" and listen to the much better radio version on the way home. If you do go, and need to get a drink, do it right before "Eyes of Portland", unless you like hearing disturbingly judgmental (and likely made up) stories about the homeless and mentally ill. Sure, he sang his big hits, but he's lucky his band carried him, otherwise they'd have been a bust. His storytelling left a lot to be desired and he came across as a sanctimonious d**k. You could feel the excitement leave the venue. Mellencamp's show started out OK, but then after his fourth song he lectured the audience to stop screaming so loudly, "You're not at a bar, " he said.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply.AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |