Finally! A live version that's not "fake live" :)

@kingsworthlionsblood

3 жыл бұрын

They totally goofed on Dick Clark when they were on his show! Pre-recorded lip-sync deal, so why have a laugh at their expense! LOL😝

@anthonymichaelhalloates2902

2 ай бұрын

Does it matter? All are insipid putrid rubbish.

This is a great song

Great stuff. Wish they played more of the intro though.

Great song ❤ love it

Wow, this is unbelievable! Talk about energy and electricity!

@drippinglass

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah! That was damn good! 😎👍

Had this album and wore it out when I was 18. Still sounds great.

One of my very favorite Mellencamp songs and they nailed it. This is probably the best live version I've seen.

Great song and ass kick live version. The front end of it is one of the great intros in all of rock.

@davidcarlucci7296

5 ай бұрын

agreed! one of my favorite intros

@toddc8523

3 ай бұрын

No one will ever have a better intro. two and a half minutes of rock that you just want to keep listening to

@davidcarlucci7296

3 ай бұрын

@@toddc8523 i agree with 100 percent on that

He kicks ass live!

YES THE REAL John Cougar Mellencamp Concert.

This was epic. Truly live, no synching involved. Awesome how John jumped up on guitarists shoulders, and I give the git player props for not missing a note! Yeah, they prolly had to edit it to shorten it but at least it was live!

Best live version I’ve found of this song. Thanks.

Love the guitar work on this. The feel and vibe of this song is another level and equals anything any other 2 guitar band ever did. i.e. Thin Lizzy, Molly Hatchett, Styx, etc..

Man if these Rockers just wouldn't get civilized!!! Cougars first songs were the best !!! Love Small Paradise too!!!

I recorded this great-sounding, unidentified song off the air the week it was released. The next day I had tickets to see Long John Baldry and popped the cassette I'd recorded the night before into the car deck on the way to the show. “Check out this new tune I recorded-any idea who it is?” “Nope, never heard it before.” When we got to the venue we learned that the opening act was some fella we’d never heard of named John Cougar. He opened with the unidentified song we’d listened to on our way to the concert. *This* one. We enjoyed John’s set even more than that of “Don’t Lay None Of That Boojie-Woojie On The King Of-A Rock & Roll” Long John Baldry (not that we minded seeing his). Mellencamp’s setup and performance was remarkably like this one, except that maybe the band was tighter and more polished (as far as I can remember). Bought John’s great first album right then and there (and no others of his since, I might add). The only thing that is really on a par with “I Need A Lover” is “R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A.” Good as Mellencamp is, you can pretty much have the rest.

@Hundert1

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting, it's one of the greatest rock tunes ever created in my opinion. Yep, there's a few groups like this that only have one truly awesome tune. Unlike my favorite Led Zeppelin 🎶🥁

@carolr6810

Жыл бұрын

👍

@carolr6810

Жыл бұрын

Paper In Fire, is also a great song.

@jimrauh3584

9 ай бұрын

"Good as Mellencamp is, you can pretty much have the rest." Interesting take and pretty much a limited view of JM. "Uh Huh" and "Scarecrow" are absolutely stellar albums with JM at the peak of his songwriting powers. "Scarecrow" is an all-time great album, the passion, the hooks, the messages conveyed. JM's first album only hinted of what he would create later on.

WOW

Awesome!

❤❤❤ one of his best songs

Yup. This is one of my very favorite JC-Mellencamp songs. But theres too many to count ❤❤❤

@janeypaul3172

11 ай бұрын

Ditto

CLASSIC......smile

This is f'cking awesome

Hr was so smooth and cool! I can just envision and Johnny Depp neong best friends hanging out...being rebels! 😊😊😊😊

This band was tight!

Love him!

This is wayyy better than the studio version

Even back then his band was top notch.

⚡⚡⚡⚡

His early band was fire!

Wow it's weird seeing Kenny A with hair and no sunglasses. Also that's the most drums I've ever seen him with

fuckin banger

This is also one of my favorite John "Cougar" Mellancamp songs. My favorite Mellancamp song however is, "Ain't Even Done With The Night" from "Nothing Matters What if it Did". The whole album was good in fact. I gravitate to his early stuff highly over his later material. He's said in interviews that his song writing improved over time and typically that's true. But I didn't like most of his later material at all.

Cougar always rocks. I didn't know he could jump that high tho!

Back when he was just John Cougar

September 1980 Cleveland, KINKS, & Cougar & The Zone. 20 Seconds after Cougar landed on stage, I was hooked. For 45 minutes, They lit up the Coliseum. I hated his set to be done. Kinks came out and did "AH" show. No way would I want to have followed John that night. I wasn't impressed by the Kinks show, as I was The Zone and Cougar. John was all over the stage and directly worked the audience, like no one else.

He was Johnny Cougar back then.

Name that tune

Awesome performance but bloody annoying that the sound is out of sync. FYI you need to set it to (+)200ms (0.200s) in VLC to get it right... so much better!

My dad used to play that tape all the time in his 1981 Chevy Monte Carlo ss when I was between ages of 8-10 years old. Is there any wonder why I still refuse to "settle" down and get a ball & chain? No happy wife/happy life nonsense for me. Ballers ball, geldings get a stall. To paraphrase another famous song, I've got 99 problems...but you know what ain't One, Son! You betcha!

@carolr6810

Жыл бұрын

I like your comment.

Almost looks like Spider. Which...would make sense as Benetar covered it next.

Kenny Aronoff on drums?

@jamesmilardo5694

Жыл бұрын

Yep..that's him..

@KB-th9jm

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesmilardo5694 thanks! Great drummer

@jamesmilardo5694

Жыл бұрын

@@KB-th9jm 👍

Elevator Slayer

Damn! His drummer used to have hair!

Night and day compared to that cluster f--k on american bandstand...

No Don Kushner either ? Easter Bunny....Jerrod??? Relative? Bueller

Aussie live bands are far superior to the yanks. Many more years hitting the tough pub scene around OZ. The yanks were more about studio production rather than sweating it out on a live stage.

@Hundert1

2 жыл бұрын

British rock rules 👑🎶🥁

@viking90706

Жыл бұрын

Look up Dark Angel, then get back to me.

The poor man’s Bruce Springsteen. Think about that...

@jrada9862

3 жыл бұрын

No. I have never enjoyed Springsteen's music. But love Mellencamp.

@allanleidholm4450

3 жыл бұрын

The better version of Springsteen. Think about that...

@jrawk4140

2 жыл бұрын

@@allanleidholm4450 and more hits!

@jrawk4140

2 жыл бұрын

Springsteen is featured on Mellencamp's new songs now, bet it hurts, don't it? You betcha...

@KB-th9jm

2 жыл бұрын

Glad I’m poor then - can’t stand Springsteen’s music

Funny, I’ve known and played with so many who are better singers, writers, and performers than Cougar. Yet he gave up his glam rock imagine, traded it in for America and spoon fed it to our simple minded. He’s like the Keanu Reeves of R&R.

I love this guy What a red ass he is. (baseball term For somebody who's always pissed off) From 83-1,990 was my favorite