John Mellencamp
Paramount Arts Centre
Rockford, Illinois
March 27, 2024

Source: DPA 4060 => Tascam DR-2d
Conversion: WAV => Audio Cleaning Lab => FLAC (16-bit)

Location: 6th row floor, left side

Track listing:

CD1 (49:16):
(1) Band entrance (0:43)
(2) John Cockers (4:48)
(3) Paper in Fire (4:32)
(4) Minutes To Memories (4:47)
(5) Small Town (5:08)
(6) Banter (0:26)
(7) Human Wheels (5:22)
(8) Jackie Brown (4:18)
(9) Troubled Land (4:14)
(10) Check It Out (6:00)
(11) Banter (0:20)
(12) The Eyes of Portland (4:14)
(13) Longest Days (4:19)

CD2 (51:07):
(1) Jack and Diane (5:09)
(2) The Real Life intro (2:10)
(3) The Real Life (w/Joanne Woodward) (2:29)
(4) Rain on the Scarecrow (4:55)
(5) Lonely Ol' Night (4:35)
(6) What If I Came Knockin' (5:31)
(7) Crumblin' Down (7:20)
(8) Pink Houses (6:45)
(9) Band intros => Banter (2:34)
(10) Cherry Bomb (5:18)
(11) Hurts So Good (3:55)
(12) Outro (0:20)

There are no fades applied to this recording; if you choose to burn to CD, the above splits are just a suggestion.

Comments: This recording captures John Mellencamp early in his 2024 "Live and In Person" tour in the intimate Paramount Arts Centre roughly 2 hours from Chicago. I believe this tour features basically the same setlist every night, which is fine -- a solid 100-minute runthrough of a cross-section of his career from American Fool (1983?) to the present, with a particular focus on his most commercially successful period of the late 1980s and early 1990s. He appeared to be in good spirits, and in general it was just a solid if not particularly spontaneous performance.

I was happy with the sound quality. Sound in the room was great, and the audience around me was generally respectful. There are some nearby clappers and whistlers, but not enough to detract from the music.

Check out the samples in the comments if in doubt.