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A revealing portrait of Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz, and the emotional and creative toll a band's meteoric rise | dG1fZWtnUC1iclp3bEU
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00:00Mr. Jones is about dreaming about being a rock star,
00:03but it's also about how it's not going to turn out to be what you think it is.
00:06Who is Mr. Jones, by the way? Did we ever find out?
00:10Who the fuck was Mr. Jones?
00:17Conan Crowe steps into the modern age of celebrity just as it's exploding.
00:21I think that gave him demerits in the church of hipness.
00:26I'm grateful for that band. I bought one of his dreadlocks on eBay.
00:30Get away from me.
00:33L.A. was like a real refuge.
00:34The only people I really knew were people that worked at the Viper Room.
00:39And even though I was famous, who cares?
00:41There's Jack Middlesex. I had Mexican food with Allen Ginsberg.
00:46He couldn't go anywhere without somebody recognizing him.
00:48Guy walked up to me and said,
00:49Man, you're so lucky because you guys are terrible.
00:52Does that make you feel weird?
00:53To be so shitty and be so famous?
00:55It looked like he was ready to just quit.
01:02That's when I thought, okay, there's something seriously wrong with me mentally.
01:05As a front person, Adam took all this angst and transcended it through music.
01:12I couldn't wait to make a record.
01:22And I thought, I'm going to write the fucking greatest rock and roll album.
01:25Have you seen me lately?
01:42The Violet Parts News
01:44And I thought, what's the most horrible?
01:46Stop the really well.
01:49I'd like for Orca.
01:51I thought, oh, how I did it here.
01:53I wish you to tell my book.
02:00I forward to having trouble.
02:02Be common.
02:02Even though the girl is there.
02:04And in the book, I turned on.
02:06You can see.
02:08You can see.
02:08And really.
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