John Cougar Mellencamp
Indiana University Auditorium
Bloomington, In
April 10, 1984

Westwood One Superstars In Concert PAN84-3
For airing the Weekend of 11/10/84

Lineage: Pre-FM vinyls > ? > HDD > WAV > Audacity > TLH > FLAC (L8)

01. Introduction
02. Heartbreak Hotel
03. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
04. Pretty Ballerina
05. Ya Ya
06. Jack And Diane
07. Crumblin� Down
08. Hand To Hold On To
09. Authority Song
10. I Need A Lover
11. Play Guitar
12. Pink Houses
13. Golden Gates
14. Shoot Out The Lights
15. Serious Business
16. Hurts So Good
17. Jackie O

Total time: 1:17:02

John Mellencamp - vocals, guitar
Larry Crane - guitar
Mike Wanchic - guitar
John Cascella - keyboards
Toby Myers - bass
Kenny Aronoff - drums and percussion

http://www.mellencamp.com/


draftervoi's original notes:

Instead of trotting out the usual �hits plus new songs� set list, Mellencamp takes a tour through his record collection and opens up with four cover songs. His taste is more eclectic than you�d expect. He starts things off with �Heartbreak Hotel.� Yes, the Elvis Presley song... but he�s doing a note-for-note clone of John Cale�s ominous arrangement from the Slow Dazzle album.

Next up is a pretty standard cover of the Animals� �Don�t Let Me Be Misunderstood� (but he beats Elvis Costello�s cover of the same song by a good two years), followed by a quick run through the Left Banke�s 1966 baroque-pop hit, �Pretty Ballerina.� He finishes up with Lee Dorsey�s �Ya Ya.�

Then he gets down to what you�d expect: songs from John Cougar, Nothing Matters and What If It Did, and American Fool. But he�s not done with showing off his good taste yet: at the end, he pulls out a cover of Richard Thompson�s �Shoot Out The Lights,� and calls him �one of the best songwriters writin� songs today...� John Mellencamp was taking valuable air time on a nationally syndicated radio show to promote Richard Thompson. Pretty cool...

So this is something a bit different; you get five cover songs, none of which were ever officially released. I also did a painstaking manual removal of each click and pop, so this is about as perfect as this show will ever get. I included scans of the disc label, affidavit, cue sheet, and front cover.

Many thanks to draftervoi for all his efforts and providing this show through his Voodoo Wagon blog.

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