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391  MELLENCAMP DISCUSSION / Photos / Re: The Man... on: August 07, 2010, 04:15:39 pm
392  MELLENCAMP DISCUSSION / Photos / Re: The Man... on: August 07, 2010, 04:15:12 pm
393  MELLENCAMP DISCUSSION / Photos / Re: The Man... on: August 07, 2010, 04:14:19 pm
394  MELLENCAMP DISCUSSION / Photos / Re: The Man... on: August 07, 2010, 04:13:45 pm
395  MELLENCAMP DISCUSSION / Photos / Re: The Man... on: August 07, 2010, 04:09:39 pm
396  MELLENCAMP DISCUSSION / Photos / Re: The Man... on: August 07, 2010, 04:03:20 pm
i knew my girl would come through, lol

i'll try to get some more up tonight or tomorrow.

thanks leigh!
397  MELLENCAMP DISCUSSION / Tour Talk / Re: No Better Than This Fall Tour Announcing VERY Soon on: August 07, 2010, 03:59:43 pm
we had fun there didn't we?  not sure i'll be making it out that far this time around tho.
398  MELLENCAMP.COM ANNOUNCEMENTS / Ticket & Tour Questions / Re: No Better Than This - Fall Tour Ticket Question on: August 07, 2010, 11:19:37 am
thanks susie. 
399  MELLENCAMP.COM ANNOUNCEMENTS / Ticket & Tour Questions / Re: No Better Than This - Fall Tour Ticket Question on: August 06, 2010, 10:21:46 pm
Will the Premium Ticket Package also go on sale at the same time as Mellencamp.com early tickets!  Can not wait!!!! Rick Herold

according to the link Tony posted, yes they will:

"At the same time as the Mellencamp.com Pre-Sale a public pre-sale will be happening for the Premium Ticket Packages"
400  MELLENCAMP DISCUSSION / Tour Talk / Re: No Better Than This Fall Tour Announcing VERY Soon on: August 06, 2010, 08:27:23 pm
Ryman, so cool.

The Ryman would definitely be a cool place to go. 
401  MELLENCAMP DISCUSSION / Articles / Rolling Stone Magazine - "No Better Than This" Review on: August 06, 2010, 06:59:21 pm
August 19, 2010

By Will Hermes

John Mellencamp’s 25th album, No Better Than This, continues the thread of
American archaeology that he began on Trouble No More, a self-produced 2003
set of traditional songs and covers. But where Trouble was a first brush
with history Mellencamp trying to make it come to him here he meets that
history on its home ground. A set of old-school originals recorded in
resonant settings (Sun Studio in Memphis; the First African Baptist Church
in Savannah; a hotel room in San Antonio where Robert Johnson cut some
classic sides), No Better shows Mellencamp channeling spirits and stepping
into period styles. They fit him perfectly.

Producer T Bone Burnett rides shotgun, and the duo keep it simple: an old
Ampex reel-to-reel tape recorder, a single vintage ribbon mic, a small group
of empathetic players. They include ex-Tom Waits guitarist Mark Ribot; Jay
Bellerose, whose rhythms shaped Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ Raising
Sand; and stand-up bassist David Roe, who played with Johnny Cash at the end
of his life.

Mellencamp’s songs show a writer still on a hot streak after 2008’s
Burnett-produced Life, Death, Love and Freedom, arguably the
singer- songwriter’s best LP since his Eighties heyday. He shoots for
timeless here: Aside from an allusion to an answering machine on the Woody
Guthrie-style “Thinking About You,” these songs could have all been written
50 years ago or more. “Save Some Time to Dream” is a gentle folk sermon with
a dash of existential doubt. The swinging “Right Behind Me” considers Jesus
and the devil “both inside of me/All the time” with Miriam Sturm’s jazzy
Hot Club fiddle.

Considering the title, Mellencamp has made a remarkably dark record. “No One
Cares About Me” is about a guy out of work, ditched by his wife, mourning a
father, a son and his only friend, over an old-timey hillbilly strut. The
lead character in “A Graceful Fall,” a stumpy waltz, is also penniless,
“sick of life” and pondering the afterlife, “if there is really one.” The
dude in “Each Day of Sorrow” insists he would kill himself “if I weren’t so
afraid.”

But as usual, Mellencamp is at his best when he turns hardscrabble struggle
into damn-the- torpedoes rock & roll. On the title track, a classic Sun
Records “boom-chick-boom” romp, Mellencamp runs through a list of
fantasies, some quite reasonable, before concluding that “it won’t get no
better than this” however relatively fucked-up “this” might be. Welcome to
life in 21st-century America, ladies and gentlemen: Let’s party like it’s
1929.

No Better Than This isn’t a perfectly honed set. But Mellencamp has never
sounded looser or easier on a record. The most indelible moments are
straight-up funny. “Love at First Sight” imagines a relationship from
back-seat grope through marriage, kids and subsequent disasters, before
deciding it might be better to go home alone. And on “Easter Eve,” a man and
his 14-year-old son get hassled in a cafe, slash a motherfucker up, get
thrown in jail, then walk off with the dude’s grateful wife. It’s musical
storytelling for hard times: far-fetched, violent, sexy, played for laughs.
It doesn’t get more timeless, or American, than that.
402  MELLENCAMP.COM ANNOUNCEMENTS / Ticket & Tour Questions / No Better Than This - Fall Tour Ticket Question on: August 06, 2010, 06:57:47 pm
will we know before the presale where the seating is in correlation with the ticket prices?
403  MELLENCAMP DISCUSSION / Photos / Re: The Man... on: August 06, 2010, 04:36:15 pm
Paula's on a roll, just wait till Leigh gets home from work.

somebody's gotta do the important stuff rich, lol

there are TONS of pics on CCB, we'll never get them all transferred.  i'm just picking some of my favs of the moment. 
404  MELLENCAMP DISCUSSION / Photos / Re: The Man... on: August 06, 2010, 04:12:24 pm
405  MELLENCAMP DISCUSSION / Photos / Re: The Man... on: August 06, 2010, 04:11:19 pm
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