Even in interviews, John makes you realize how creative, articulate, talented, innovative, and honest he is. He is the musical spokesperson for the average Joe and everyone else.
I turn to musicians & comedians for truth, knowledge, decency and freedom of thought. I don’t know where else to turn in this day & age. Thank god for Mellencamp & his like, they mean more than they’ll ever know to many, many people.
Never seen this side of John. I'm 45 and I could relate to his anxiety Was cool how Howard eased off the mask , he's really good at that. Not that John is something he's not, but we all put up some kind of facade, or protection Howard is good at pealing back the layers to see the real person , that even the one being interviewed is surprised, and leaving them Actually feeling a weight lifted off Takes a lot of work to keep up with your ego I find it liberating to show my vulnerable side Rock on Mellencamp 🎸
I've been to six of John's concert's since 1982. I've totally enjoyed everyone of them keep on rockin' John. I've gotten knocked up to your music as well. Love your work, please never retire.
I can totally understand what John is saying, I’m a long time sufferer of Panic Attacks, I don’t think you ever get over them but if you’ve got a good Doc, although it’s always there but you learn over time how to live with them. I can also understand when he says he likes his own company and time that is yours alone. I tell you I could be madly in love with someone but I’ve still got to have time and space, I don’t have to go out or do anything special but you do have to have faith that if it’s gonna happen it will if you don’t you probably shouldn’t worry too much. I think possibly people put too much pressure on themselves to be everything you think you should be too someone else and you will probably find out too late you should just be yourself, warts and all. Let them have space and give yourself space. I think there would be a lot less break ups and Divorce if people not try to be what they are. I’m a person who has many acquaintances but only a handful of people I’m really close to, the other thing I won’t do is get involved in idle gossip , I know a lot of women who take delight in gossip they live for it and it’s always at someone else’s expense. I run a million miles from that. 🎼❤️🇦🇺❤️🇺🇸🕺🏻💃🎸☘️
Avoid caffiene and nicotene. Exercise to the point of exhaustion. Sweat outside in the sun. When muscles and bodies don't move.....mood get's out of balance. Anxiety is controlleable......but you got to move muscles and sweat.
@@jimbeam7160 Oh you think, then you’ve never had it, if you had you wouldn’t put your self medicating message up. Not everything is as cut and dried as that. It just shows the ignorance of people who’ve never suffered Anxiety Attacks or depression, because you can’t see it, you don’t think it’s real but the last thing you want to be doing in the throw’s of an attack is exercising,not drinking Coffee and Lord forbid, Smoking. Anxiety or Panic Attacks are not nice you are just there shaking and sweating and wondering what the hell is wrong with you, so you go to Doctor after Doctor who perform dozens of tests, which all come back normal and you get told there’s nothing wrong with you. Year’s ago when I had my first Panic Attack there wasn’t much known about them but because there was nothing physically wrong with you the Doctor’s thought it was in your head . You were making a big deal about nothing but you would come out with Script’s for nerve tablet’s and antidepressants, which help but that little bugger still jumped up and bit you on the arse just when you were thinking you might be alright. Thankfully today it is a recognised illness and there are much better treatments for it and your not losing your mind you are just one of the many millions, who may only suffer one or two attacks in your lifetime but for people like myself , John and Bruce, and the millions of other’s that live with this for many year’s, we know there will be times when it bites us, but we also know their are treatments out there that actually work. So you can take your Sweat and no Coffee or Nicotine and shove it were the Sun don’t shine, because you have no clue.
@@donellefeltham Anxiety is a mood disorder or imbalance. You have to move and sweat. Every neurotic I met wasn't exercising, sweating, and didn't have a sun tan. Your skin produces Vit D3 and Vit C. It's diet and sweating.
@@jimbeam7160 I hate to burst your bubble Jim, I do exercise and I do have a suntan, what did you think I lock myself up. I’ve been dealing with this Anxiety and Depression for more years than I want to count but that does not mean I have locked myself away. Simply because as horrible as I felt some days, I still had to work and do the same every day things that most people do. I could ramble on about the Science of it all because I’ve studied in, as it has been my practice to arm myself with knowledge but I don’t care what you say there are people out there who don’t know what the hell’s hit them when they begin to have Anxiety Attacks they can be be so very debilitating people are frightened to leave their homes. By the way it is it’s a Chemical Imbalance not a Mood Disorder and as I said before there are those who don’t believe it because they can’t see it and that’s the long and the short of it.
Great interview. John, why don't you ever release any concert DVD's? Have you got full concert footage that you plan to release after you stop touring? Would love to watch a professional recording of your earlier tours (actually it would be incredible if you released a collection of all your tours). Your last few albums have been incredible. Loved "No Better Than This" and "Life, Death, Love, and Freedom".
@@tulllguy He's been married 3 times + his divorces have always been because he likes women a little too much when he's on the road. I heard this in other interviews, read it in articles, etc
32:18 What an intuitive understanding of something I read about in a book called The Fourth Turning. The Unraveling (3rd Turning) that Neil Howe says began around the time Reagan was re-elected (1984).
the thing that annoys me about Howard is he is constantly projecting his own neuroses on to whoever he's interviewing... I think John said it well .. he's always had confidence.. he was just young and inexperienced.. that's not the same as young neurotic and lacking confidence...which is what howard hopes he can commiserate on..he uses this schtick over and over..he just cut john.off for the 20th time..so we didn't get to hear John talk about why it's a different kind of love at 62..instead we heard Howard decide that it's because John paints alone that his relationships fail. Howard needs to learn to shut up
Love John mellencamp attitude.... especially about getting a mate ... if I get the age where he is at I would just be a loner an just go out to eat with someone ever now an then .....
John's voice is alright on this interview but one year later in 2015 he did concert with Willie and he was unintelligible. His voice was so bad and he looked bad too. I was wondering if he's really sick with emphysema or something.
John, First, just let me say, I think we are going to need a second go-round of your songs that provide such a meaningful "social commentary". Especially the songs that show that we are all a lot more similar than we sometimes like to believe, regardless of how different we sometimes see ourselves from others. I doubt you'll see this, but if by some miracle you do, I hope you'll check out the following. www.youdontknowwhatyoudontknow.ca
John is clearly a natural talent, yet I find his social insights so limited at times. The record companies should have just made a deal with Google? Really? Outside of the fact that Google did not become popular until well after Napster lost its fight...the problem for the record companies was that music was being traded freely and without profit via peer to peer file transfer software (i.e. Napster). That misconception on his part is little more than an admission that you missed the fact that a technological revolution began sometime in the 90's. Kind of like when he dismissed the grunge movement for not being cerebral enough. Sing, John...don't talk. Sing.
jean poo-tin -idk much about that, but I hate his liberal view on things especially when alot of times (80s mostly)he would actually be on the conservative side of an issue, but called it liberal! I generally love everything about him except his political views- like everyone else in hollywood should do,,he needs to stick to entertaining us & keep politics out of it IMO
I agree... I have always loved his music but he has never been the sharpest knife in the drawer... Which is fine. The problem is that most celebrities truly think they are so full of wisdom and they really never are.
You cannot follow his social insights because they are not spelled out for you , as you have a limited perspective and insight . Your lack of humility cuts you off from the sacred and profound.
Come and see me John.. Help me get to where u don't care if you get to or not haha.. I'm 50 miles from ya. I've got some talent if I can be happy.. haha. Stress is a bitch
Must be hard to be a partner to someone who is so in denial about what cigarette smoking can do to your health...hope he never finds out... but odds are not in his favor...
Not in denial. If that is what kills him he is OK with that,not changing it. Doesn't drink,do drugs or even smoke pot and has really bad anxiety. I've been on tour with him he is who is and does not pretend to be anything for anybody. He is so talented such great song writer I hope he lives for a very long time. If you listened to some other interviews he addresses this.....just got love him,his music and not judge.
Life is all about judging others and basing your values on doing or not doing the destructive behavior of others...I do accept we all have life lessons to learn on our own
John you need to go to a Roman Catholic Church and present yourself to Jesus in the Holy Eucharist. Just do it. Love you. God bless you and your family.
screw the Roman Catholicism you don't want to have him go there that's a Colt that's by tradition that's a known Colt they do not follow the Bible word for word and what Christ actually says that that's the reason why Martin Luther did what he did for the 500 reformation and the 95 Theses you need to get out of that cult and get the truth get Jesus Christ and become born again you must be born again Christian get away from that colt phone with the Bible says directly or authority comes from God's wordstay away from that evil cult of Roman Catholicism that'll get you the hell you have no cluethe Bible says You must be a born-again Christian you follow him in a personal relationship with him
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Even in interviews, John makes you realize how creative, articulate, talented, innovative, and honest he is. He is the musical spokesperson for the average Joe and everyone else.
Love your music John I hz
He is criminally under appreciated as a recording artist.
That is so Right On
bullshit, he is a big star
No he's not
Well, he is in the R&R HOF so not that underappreciated.
No he's not. Stop over using that word too
I turn to musicians & comedians for truth, knowledge, decency and freedom of thought. I don’t know where else to turn in this day & age. Thank god for Mellencamp & his like, they mean more than they’ll ever know to many, many people.
Never seen this side of John.
I'm 45 and I could relate to his anxiety
Was cool how Howard eased off the mask , he's really good at that.
Not that John is something he's not, but we all put up some kind of facade, or protection
Howard is good at pealing back the layers to see the real person , that even the one being interviewed is surprised, and leaving them Actually feeling a weight lifted off
Takes a lot of work to keep up with your ego
I find it liberating to show my vulnerable side
Rock on Mellencamp 🎸
Him and Springsteen my two favorite singer song writers. Both totally different both badass.
Me too! #poets
I've been to six of John's concert's since 1982. I've totally enjoyed everyone of them keep on rockin' John. I've gotten knocked up to your music as well. Love your work, please never retire.
John. couger mellencamp still rocks at 63
Magnificent interview. Mellencamp's comments on anxiety and being in his Zen are in the pocket for my world.
Hello Anne how are you doing!!
As much different as I am from Mellencamp, being from Indiana I deeply understand him and like the fact he writes about small town everyday life.
Would ❤️ to see him in concert - poetry in motion
I did, not too many yrs ago and it was great ..I grew up with his songs on the radio allot ..I went at the last minute
So true! I m a john mellencamp fan in Australia 🇦🇺👍and the first song i ever heatd him do " i need a lover" , still one of my favourites to this day!
Anxiety and panic disorder has ruined every love relationship I ever had. I definitely can relate to that part of the interview.
Same here
I really enjoyed that, I just lay on the floor and listened
Love that song!!!
He's cute. John has a great speaking voice too. Love his voice. 💖
I enjoyed the interview 👍❤I see him every time he's T.O or Hamilton Ont Canada!
Does he come to Toronto often?
He's my favourite but I've only seen him once in 1994 for his
"DANCE NAKED" tour.
Hello Lisa how are you doing!!
John's Music is unique and as a former dj one of the best recording artists IMO and my favorite to listen to.
Fabulous Interview
"Do you still want to marry me?" That was classic!!!!!
He"s Super Special 🥰👍❤️
I love every minute of this.
YES
He is amazingly talented!
A legend!
YES
Thanks for posting this.
I was on vacation when this aired and am glad to listen to it now.
Human Wheels, Eden is Burning, Your Life is Now = most underrated songs EVER
And sweet evening breeze
John is 100% one of the realest deals out there. A legitimate icon.
I can totally understand what John is saying, I’m a long time sufferer of Panic Attacks, I don’t think you ever get over them but if you’ve got a good Doc, although it’s always there but you learn over time how to live with them. I can also understand when he says he likes his own company and time that is yours alone. I tell you I could be madly in love with someone but I’ve still got to have time and space, I don’t have to go out or do anything special but you do have to have faith that if it’s gonna happen it will if you don’t you probably shouldn’t worry too much. I think possibly people put too much pressure on themselves to be everything you think you should be too someone else and you will probably find out too late you should just be yourself, warts and all. Let them have space and give yourself space. I think there would be a lot less break ups and Divorce if people not try to be what they are. I’m a person who has many acquaintances but only a handful of people I’m really close to, the other thing I won’t do is get involved in idle gossip , I know a lot of women who take delight in gossip they live for it and it’s always at someone else’s expense. I run a million miles from that. 🎼❤️🇦🇺❤️🇺🇸🕺🏻💃🎸☘️
Avoid caffiene and nicotene. Exercise to the point of exhaustion. Sweat outside in the sun. When muscles and bodies don't move.....mood get's out of balance. Anxiety is controlleable......but you got to move muscles and sweat.
@@jimbeam7160 Oh you think, then you’ve never had it, if you had you wouldn’t put your self medicating message up. Not everything is as cut and dried as that. It just shows the ignorance of people who’ve never suffered Anxiety Attacks or depression, because you can’t see it, you don’t think it’s real but the last thing you want to be doing in the throw’s of an attack is exercising,not drinking Coffee and Lord forbid, Smoking. Anxiety or Panic Attacks are not nice you are just there shaking and sweating and wondering what the hell is wrong with you, so you go to Doctor after Doctor who perform dozens of tests, which all come back normal and you get told there’s nothing wrong with you. Year’s ago when I had my first Panic Attack there wasn’t much known about them but because there was nothing physically wrong with you the Doctor’s thought it was in your head . You were making a big deal about nothing but you would come out with Script’s for nerve tablet’s and antidepressants, which help but that little bugger still jumped up and bit you on the arse just when you were thinking you might be alright. Thankfully today it is a recognised illness and there are much better treatments for it and your not losing your mind you are just one of the many millions, who may only suffer one or two attacks in your lifetime but for people like myself , John and Bruce, and the millions of other’s that live with this for many year’s, we know there will be times when it bites us, but we also know their are treatments out there that actually work. So you can take your Sweat and no Coffee or Nicotine and shove it were the Sun don’t shine, because you have no clue.
@@donellefeltham Anxiety is a mood disorder or imbalance. You have to move and sweat. Every neurotic I met wasn't exercising, sweating, and didn't have a sun tan. Your skin produces Vit D3 and Vit C. It's diet and sweating.
@@jimbeam7160 I hate to burst your bubble Jim, I do exercise and I do have a suntan, what did you think I lock myself up. I’ve been dealing with this Anxiety and Depression for more years than I want to count but that does not mean I have locked myself away. Simply because as horrible as I felt some days, I still had to work and do the same every day things that most people do. I could ramble on about the Science of it all because I’ve studied in, as it has been my practice to arm myself with knowledge but I don’t care what you say there are people out there who don’t know what the hell’s hit them when they begin to have Anxiety Attacks they can be be so very debilitating people are frightened to leave their homes. By the way it is it’s a Chemical Imbalance not a Mood Disorder and as I said before there are those who don’t believe it because they can’t see it and that’s the long and the short of it.
Hello Donelle how are you doing!!
I guess he has always been my stone cutting brother although he is a farmer which we cannot live without
Great interview.
John, why don't you ever release any concert DVD's?
Have you got full concert footage that you plan to release after you stop touring?
Would love to watch a professional recording of your earlier tours (actually it would be incredible if you released a collection of all your tours). Your last few albums have been incredible. Loved "No Better Than This" and "Life, Death, Love, and Freedom".
Every song written then was great
I would marry a man like John. He has a good head on his shoulders.
he and women don't mix well, he said so in another interview.
@John Mellencamp I know you will honey
@@tulllguy He's been married 3 times + his divorces have always been because he likes women a little too much when he's on the road.
I heard this in other interviews, read it in articles, etc
@@juliettemacdonald6184 and he smokes like a champ.
32:18 What an intuitive understanding of something I read about in a book called The Fourth Turning.
The Unraveling (3rd Turning) that Neil Howe says began around the time Reagan was re-elected (1984).
I love this guy
Howard is the best interviewer, sorry Charlie, get it?
I love you John!
absolutely understand the panic attacks
All around good stuff!!
a+
China girl nothing matters greatest album ever
the thing that annoys me about Howard is he is constantly projecting his own neuroses on to whoever he's interviewing... I think John said it well .. he's always had confidence.. he was just young and inexperienced.. that's not the same as young neurotic and lacking confidence...which is what howard hopes he can commiserate on..he uses this schtick over and over..he just cut john.off for the 20th time..so we didn't get to hear John talk about why it's a different kind of love at 62..instead we heard Howard decide that it's because John paints alone that his relationships fail. Howard needs to learn to shut up
Love John mellencamp attitude.... especially about getting a mate ... if I get the age where he is at I would just be a loner an just go out to eat with someone ever now an then .....
John sounds like a really interesting guy.
Roosevelt served 2.5 terms before dying. He was elected to three terms due to WWII.
Trouble Man = Delia on Dylan's World Gone Wrong '91. Those are 100 year old blues songs
John's voice is alright on this interview but one year later in 2015 he did concert with Willie and he was unintelligible. His voice was so bad and he looked bad too. I was wondering if he's really sick with emphysema or something.
You are full of shit.
+Corey Johnston I know right, I'm still trying to figure out how a toilet can type still LOL
+Mr.Sickboy Maybe.
+Corey Johnston I was talking about the fact that he said his voice was unintelligible. that's not true.
I know I am a HUGE Mellencamp fan. I can hear him just fine!!!
He's wheezing from a 6 pack a day cigarette smoking habit.
Yes his voice has akways been great! He REALLY NEEDS TO QUIT SMOKING!!!
what is therapy??
I can't remember what the words are now lol
only 64 comments wtf
maybe 6 to eight on reps
Howards interviews would be much better if he'd get rid of Robin.
I don't have two hands so I can't clap do that
John,
First, just let me say, I think we are going to need a second go-round of your songs that provide such a meaningful "social commentary". Especially the songs that show that we are all a lot more similar than we sometimes like to believe, regardless of how different we sometimes see ourselves from others.
I doubt you'll see this, but if by some miracle you do, I hope you'll check out the following.
www.youdontknowwhatyoudontknow.ca
John is clearly a natural talent, yet I find his social insights so limited at times. The record companies should have just made a deal with Google? Really? Outside of the fact that Google did not become popular until well after Napster lost its fight...the problem for the record companies was that music was being traded freely and without profit via peer to peer file transfer software (i.e. Napster). That misconception on his part is little more than an admission that you missed the fact that a technological revolution began sometime in the 90's. Kind of like when he dismissed the grunge movement for not being cerebral enough. Sing, John...don't talk. Sing.
jean poo-tin -idk much about that, but I hate his liberal view on things especially when alot of times (80s mostly)he would actually be on the conservative side of an issue, but called it liberal! I generally love everything about him except his political views- like everyone else in hollywood should do,,he needs to stick to entertaining us & keep politics out of it IMO
I agree... I have always loved his music but he has never been the sharpest knife in the drawer... Which is fine. The problem is that most celebrities truly think they are so full of wisdom and they really never are.
You cannot follow his social insights because they are not spelled out for you , as you have a limited perspective and insight . Your lack of humility cuts you off from the sacred and profound.
plink
Come and see me John.. Help me get to where u don't care if you get to or not haha.. I'm 50 miles from ya. I've got some talent if I can be happy.. haha. Stress is a bitch
my name is my keel ray robbers
Must be hard to be a partner to someone who is so in denial about what cigarette smoking can do to your health...hope he never finds out... but odds are not in his favor...
Not in denial. If that is what kills him he is OK with that,not changing it. Doesn't drink,do drugs or even smoke pot and has really bad anxiety. I've been on tour with him he is who is and does not pretend to be anything for anybody. He is so talented such great song writer I hope he lives for a very long time. If you listened to some other interviews he addresses this.....just got love him,his music and not judge.
Life is all about judging others and basing your values on doing or not doing the destructive behavior of others...I do accept we all have life lessons to learn on our own
@@lunworks ciggs/nicotine likely causing the anxiety
John you need to go to a Roman Catholic Church and present yourself to Jesus in the Holy Eucharist. Just do it. Love you. God bless you and your family.
screw the Roman Catholicism you don't want to have him go there that's a Colt that's by tradition that's a known Colt they do not follow the Bible word for word and what Christ actually says that that's the reason why Martin Luther did what he did for the 500 reformation and the 95 Theses you need to get out of that cult and get the truth get Jesus Christ and become born again you must be born again Christian get away from that colt phone with the Bible says directly or authority comes from God's wordstay away from that evil cult of Roman Catholicism that'll get you the hell you have no cluethe Bible says You must be a born-again Christian you follow him in a personal relationship with him
Idolatry is an abomination to GOD
Yes sure go now to a bunch of pedos
@@gn3101 yes it's a colt. John probably digs baby horses. You should also be quiet.
John mellencamp has to be the most boring songwriter on the planet.
You have no understanding of nuance or allegory or any fucking thing except being a mean spirited coward . STFU
@@johntumpane4047 I agreee wuth you totally! If anyone says that
Mellencamp is boring they have something wrong with them!
Suck it up and tough it out and be best you can.
Robin's fake laugh ruins every interview.