![]() ![]() ![]() Pat asked John if he needed on artist to travel along to Chicago but he said I wouldn't like the road life to much! Pa says "if he ever changes his mind I would love to collaborate with him with my art, thank you again John Mellencamp!" Pat was able to meet with John briefly after the show and John signed the Mellencamp painting on the back, it is for sale or, Pat says it belongs in the collection of a Mellencamp fan rather than just another piece of his art around his studio. Pat felt they were really cool and kind of satirical, they seemed somewhat political and social well done. Pat said "the tour manager knew John liked Robert Johnson, who doesn't! Because he recorded one song of the new CD at the Historic Gunther Hotel in San Antonio Texas the same room where Johnson recorded some songs." Pat said it was very nice to see John perform and see his paintings which John had brought along and put on display in the lobby. He soon got a phone call from John's road manager and he told Pat there was a ticket waiting for him for that nights show. Before the show, he gave one of John's crew members a print of Robert Johnson that he had painted and asked him if he would forward it to someone because he had met John and his manager at Sturgis earlier in August 2010. Pat had hoped to connect with John at the show but naturally didn't have an easy time doing that. ![]() 17th 2010 right before he left on a trip to paint in Florida at the the Beaux arts festival at Miami University. Pat next saw John's art in person when he played in Minnesota at the Orpheum theatre in Minneapolis MN on Nov. Pat said it was a very wild day, it was blazing hot and a carnival atmosphere at the Buffalo chip as Bob Dylan and Kid Rock were both playing their that day, Pat and John chatted for a moment with Pat promising to send John the painting if he wanted, John told him to email us with a picture. He asked John if he could paint a picture of him, John agreed and posed with Pat's acoustic guitar, a very out of tune guitar John kidded him. Pat had the opportunity to meet John in 2010 at the Buffalo chip campground in Sturgis South Dakota. IndianapoLIST: Obsessed with Indianapolis? Subscribe to our newsletterĬall IndyStar reporter David Lindquist at 31.About a year ago we here at received and email from an artist named Patrick Ginter. The musical lineup at New York's Beacon Theatre includes Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, Bob Geldof and Eurythmics. 9, Mellencamp will perform as part of the Concert for the Rainforest benefit organized by Sting. "Mellencamp: Three Generations of Art" will be on display through Nov. An exhibition titled “Binding Wires” features Mellencamp’s work alongside mixed-media pieces by late Texan Robert Rauschenberg.Īt Seymour's Southern Indiana Center for the Arts, Mellencamp's paintings are displayed with work by his late mother, Marilyn, and his youngest son, Speck - a recent graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. ![]() Mellencamp’s sculptural assemblages and portraits are on display at New York’s ACA Galleries through Dec. "Scarecrow" (1985) hit 5 million, and "The Lonesome Jubilee" (1987) reached 3 million. The album "American Fool" (1982) sold 5 million copies. in the U.S.A.,” “Rain on the Scarecrow,” “Cherry Bomb,” “Paper in Fire” and “Check It Out” were aired in heavy rotation. His videos for “Hurts So Good,” “Jack & Diane,” “Crumblin’ Down,” “Pink Houses,” “Authority Song,” “Lonely Ol’ Night,” “Small Town,” “R.O.C.K. Initially saddled with a stage name of “Johnny Cougar” he didn’t want, Mellencamp became a fixture of MTV programming during the 1980s. ![]()
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