![]() He continued with what turned out to be a small acoustic segment as he also played “Longest Days” and “Small Town”, all of these songs would have benefitted by being played with the full band. While the crowd sang along it just appeared to be off. The song was performed quite awkwardly and differently than one may expect. ![]() Mellencamp then came to center-stage with only an acoustic guitar in hand and strummed out what to date is his lone number one song “Jack & Diane”. “Check It Out” followed and it appeared the show was starting to take off. Mellencamp whipped out “I’m A Troubled Man” a new song that should be included on his upcoming release Plain Spoken. When he and his band took to the stage the crowd came out of their seats to the sounds of opener “Human Wheels”. To land Mellencamp was a big feather in the cap for the Casino especially considering he is only playing ten shows all summer and the fact he has not done much touring the past few years. When it was announced that he was coming to the Seneca Niagara Casino as part of Summer Rush 2014, it took me back to my youth and gave me that long lost feeling of being a kid on Christmas Day. John Mellencamp hadn’t played in the area since he last visited the Darien Lake PAC back in 2005 with John Fogerty on a joint tour.
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