"I do it for the love of music," he said. "But I support a lot of people, and they need to make a living."īooker still loves the thrill of being on stage and moving people with his music, even if that's only a few dozen fans dancing at a local bar. “If it was up to me, I wouldn’t go out (on tour)," he said during 60-minute interview. John Mellencamp performing at the Encore Theater in Las Vegas. As it is, he's already skipping rowdy crowds in big outdoor venues in favor of the controlled, intimate setting of theater shows. Mellencamp said he'd prefer to just stay home and record music. But now, Booker and Mellencamp perform for different reasons - and for different audiences. And both are still pursuing the muse that united them as teens. Both are survivors of serious health scares. Now in their early 70s, both are grandfathers. After about 18 months, Mellencamp left the group and the two went their separate ways. Mellencamp, just 14 and still active in track and football in school, was the new addition with a lot of ambition but little experience. (The band also went by Crepe Soul, but a business card Booker still carries that lists him and Mellencamp as vocalists uses the "Crape" spelling.)Īt the time, Booker, a lanky 17-year-old, was the band's established star. The link between Mellencamp and Booker runs all the way back to Southern Indiana in the 1960s, when they were teenagers - one Black, the other white - sharing vocal duties at local dances, fraternities, roller rinks and racetracks as co-lead singers with the popular Seymour-based band called The Crape Soul. It's about two men who started performing together as teenage bandmates and the distinct paths they've chosen to take on lifelong musical journeys. But this isn't a story about the types of music Mellencamp and Booker perform, or even where they were playing that particular night.
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