Mellancamp, who has clashed with audiences in the past, was interrupted initially as he was telling a story. A video on TikTok shows Mellencamp respond as an unseen audience member at the Stranahan Theater in Toledo yells from the crowd that he should “play some music.”
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The audience booed the heckler. Then Mellencamp addressed the heckler directly and told someone on the concert staff to bring the man to him after the show, Mlive reports.
“What do you think I’ve been doing, you (expletive)?” he’s seen saying in the TikTok video. “Here’s the thing, man. You don’t know me. You don’t (expletive) know me. Hey Joe, find this guy and let me see him after the show.”
Mellencamp returned to telling his story, but another heckler shouts at him to play the “Authority Song,” a hit from his 1983 album “Uh-Huh.”
“Guys, I can stop this show right now and just go home,” Mellencamp responds. “Tell you what I’m going to do. Since you’ve been so wonderful, I’m going to cut about 10 songs out of the show. Here we go.
With that, Mellencamp began to sing his hit “Jack & Diane” before stopping abruptly.
“Know what? Show’s over,” Mellencamp is heard saying on the TikTok video just before walking off stage.
