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Why Heart’s Tour with John Mellencamp was ‘Uncomfortable’

Author Erica Banas // Rock Music Reporter
November 17th 10:18 AM

Heart had John Mellencamp as their opening act on their 1982 tour. While a double bill like that is something that would appeal to fans, it wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows.

The tour was brought up during Ann Wilson’s recent appearance on The Kenny Aronoff Sessions. During that time, Aronoff was Mellencamp’s drummer. The Heart/Mellencamp tour lasted nine months, which Wilson called “particularly painful” and “uncomfortable.” Why? Because Mellencamp’s star was on the rise, while Heart’s popularity was waning.

During that tour, a little diddy called “Jack & Diane” hit number one in the U.S., which helped eclipse Heart as the headliner. Despite saying how much he enjoyed the tour, Aronoff apologized to Wilson for bringing it up. However, Wilson is a pro and said, “If you stay around long enough, you see they’re just eras, and you just kind of roll through them.”

 

The Return of Heart

In other Heart news: The band is performing their first show together since 2019.

This show is taking place on New Year’s Eve at the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle. Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin is on the bill as a special guest. Tickets for the show are on sale now via Ticketmaster.com.

Per Setlist.fm, the last Heart show took place on October 13, 2019. Earlier this month, Nancy Wilson made a surprise appearance at Ann Wilson’s solo show in Santa Rosa, Calif. It was the first time the Heart sisters performed together since the final Heart show.

The surprise appearance from Nancy during Ann’s show was something that excited their fans. In recent years, Ann and Nancy’s relationship appeared a bit fractured in public. Their issues stem from an incident in 2016. Ann’s husband, Dean Wetter, was arrested after he assaulted Nancy’s then 16-year-old twin sons backstage at a Heart show. However, Ann said in an interview with Rock Candy in April 2022 there was no rift. She explained, “Things happen in families, and that was a really good example of something that happened within a family, and we worked it out.”

Part of “working it out” appeared to include Nancy touring under the name Nancy Wilson’s Heart. As previously reported, Nancy Wilson’s Heart came to be after Nancy and Ann Wilson had a touring disagreement.

“Heart had a big offer on the table last year for a bigger tour, but Ann wasn’t interested in going out with my lineup of guys that we were out with before,” said Nancy. “She has a new lineup of guys that she wanted me to join up with, and I sort of [thought] I don’t really know them and don’t have loyalty yet for anybody like that.”

 

5 Opening Act and Headliner Combos That Actually Happened

  • Jimi Hendrix Experience Opening For The Monkees (1967)

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    In 1967, the Jimi Hendrix Experience opened for The Monkees. Frankly, it's still amazing this bill was made official, but it is simply one of the strangest bills ever.  Considering most of the crowd was there to see The Monkees and likely not old enough to appreciate Hendrix, the group exited the tour after only seven shows, because they were booed every…single…night. (Yes, seriously!)

  • The Who Opening For Herman’s Hermits (1967)

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    In a similar vein as the Jimi Hendrix Experience/The Monkees, The Who during their first tour of the United States ended up opening for Herman’s Hermits.  Coincidentally, a young Bruce Springsteen attended a stop on this tour which he fondly remembered at the 2015 MusiCares MAP Fund benefit honoring Pete Townshend.  It was the first rock show The Boss had ever attended, and he said it was a game-changer for him.

  • Bruce Springsteen Opening for Anne Murray (1974)

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    This infamous moment happened in August 1974 at the Schaefer Music Festival in New York City’s Central Park.  While Springsteen’s star was on the rise, Murray was tearing up the singles charts, so it was decided that Murray would headline, and Springsteen would get an opening 80-minute set. Yeah…big mistake. Imagine going on *after* Bruce Springsteen.  We wouldn’t wish that on even our greatest enemies.

  • The Beatles Opening for Brenda Lee (1962)

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    While just a one-off show, Brenda Lee's performance at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany now lives in infamy, because of her opening act:  The Beatles. In an interview with CNN, Lee said after the show, she took a Beatles demo to her label, Decca Records, and tried to score them a record deal.  The label reps told her, “That look will never make it, and that sound will never happen.” Oh…how those label reps were kicking themselves a year later.

  • Lynyrd Skynyrd Opening For Strawberry Alarm Clock (1968)

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    Psychedelic rock and southern rock are definitely two genres we can’t imagine together on a double bill, but on select dates of a Strawberry Alarm Clock tour in 1968, Lynyrd Skynyrd provided support. As history would have it, Ed King, founding member of Strawberry Alarm Clock, would later join Skynyrd in 1972 and play on the band’s first three albums until his departure in 1975.

Erica Banas is a rock/classic rock news blogger who's well-versed in etiquette and extraordinarily nice. #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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