By Brian Linder, Penn Live | A month later and John Mellencamp still isn’t having it, folks. If you go to his show, you are not the show. Let the man perform, and if you don’t … well, that happened last month in Toledo and what happened after went viral.
Video shared to TikTok shows Mellencamp telling the crowd a story about his grandmother when someone shouts, “Play some music.”
The crowd groaned and seemed to disagree with the heckler, but that didn’t seem to matter too much to Mellencamp. He paused for a moment and then he let it out.
“What do you think I’ve been doing you (expletive),” the singer responded.
He then waived his finger in the air.
“Here’s the thing man, you don’t know me,” he said. “You don’t (expletive) know me.”
He then instructed his people to “find this guy and let me see him after the show.”
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“I do expect etiquette inside of the theater, the same way you would at a Broadway show,” he told the Post. “My shows are not really concerts anymore. They’re performances, and there’s a difference between a performance and a concert. Look, I’m not for everyone anymore. I’m just not. And if you want to come and scream and yell and get drunk, don’t come to my show.”
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Photo: John Mellencamp | From his Facebook page | Photo by Jim Pietryga
Legendary Rock Singer John Mellencamp Speaks Out After Getting Heckled on Stage, Ending Concert
