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Thanks For Giving A Damn

Episode 156: A Painting From John Mellencamp

Thanks For Giving A Damn

Otis Gibbs

Society & Culture, Arts, Music, Performing Arts, Personal Journals

5757 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Dean Metcalf talks about the painting John Mellencamp gave to the Bob and Tom Show and the strange story surrounding it.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm getting ready for a very busy month.

0:15.0

I'm playing this weekend in Hayward, Wisconsin at the Park Theater.

0:20.0

I don't get up to Wisconsin very often, so it'd be great to see some of you guys come on out there.

0:25.6

And then I'm going to fly to Sweden, where I'll play shows for about 12 days.

0:31.1

I won't have a single night off that I know of.

0:33.6

I'm really excited about getting back to Sweden.

0:35.5

It's been a little while since I've been there.

0:37.0

Been a couple years. And then I'm heading over to the Netherlands to play a few gigs.

0:42.0

And it'd be great to be back of the Netherlands. I was just there a few months ago, but I'm looking forward to heading back.

0:47.5

Then I head over to England. I'll play a few gigs. And then I'll even head up to Scotland and playing Glasgow. It's been a couple years since I've been there.

0:55.5

But it'll be great to be back on the other side of the pond

0:59.0

and to get to see some of you folks.

1:01.8

Please come up and say hey to me.

1:03.7

You know, if you listen to the show, tell me that.

1:05.8

I love hearing that.

1:07.9

But I'd love to see you out at the gig, and most importantly listening to Thanks for Giving a Dam.

1:43.0

I'm sitting here in my living room in East

1:44.9

Nashville. This is a personal journal. This is a bit of an experiment. I like to say right off

1:51.5

the bat that I haven't the slightest idea of what I'm doing, but decided to do it anyway.

1:56.4

And this show was founded with the idea that there are only two people in art that matter.

2:00.5

There's the

2:00.8

creative individual and the person experiencing it. And everything else is an artificial filter.

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