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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation Well.

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Speaker 2: Counting Crows have enchanted listeners worldwide for three decades with

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Speaker 2: their sweet, soulful, and intricate take on timeless rock and roll.

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Speaker 2: They exploded onto the music scene in nineteen ninety three.

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Speaker 2: The band has sold more than twenty million records worldwide.

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Speaker 2: WHOA and We're thrilled Our next guess is one of

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Speaker 2: the founding members of frontman for Counting Crows, Adam Duritz.

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Speaker 1: Hello, well, hello, here is twenty million and enchanting as.

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Speaker 2: Ever as enchanting as ever. You know, we actually just

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Speaker 2: played accidentally in love. I didn't realize that you were

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Speaker 2: nominated for an Academy Award for that song. You got

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Speaker 2: a Golden Globe nomination for that song, a Grammy Award

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Speaker 2: nomination for that song. Did you write the song for

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Speaker 2: the film or you had the song in your back

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Speaker 2: pocket ready to go?

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Speaker 1: What wrote it for the film? I like to think

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Speaker 1: of it as losing an Academy Award, losing e Grammy,

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Speaker 1: and losing a.

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Speaker 2: Golden Glow nominated four That's how we prefer to say.

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Speaker 3: And so did they come to you and say, right,

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Speaker 3: we want this? We got this? Ogre I want you

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Speaker 3: to make a nice song about it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they came and this they talked about the movie,

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Speaker 1: and they showed me almost the entire movie, and they

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Speaker 1: showed me storyboards for the rest, and then they gave

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Speaker 1: me a I asked them for like a little DVD

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Speaker 1: of the scenes, and then I went and worked on it.

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Speaker 1: And I was really excited about that because that kind

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Speaker 1: of stuff is you know, it's timeless.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but it still stands up and it's like mister Jones.

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Speaker 4: In the career of my radio career, we've used that

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Speaker 4: for many primise for me being a Giones.

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Speaker 1: Music for promos. For me, that works for both them.

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Speaker 3: Some feeling I left out right. I feel like I

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Speaker 3: could you do something for a man kill, something you

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Speaker 3: could put in there.

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Speaker 4: But when that came out in nineteen ninety three, I

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Speaker 4: remember exactly where I was and that song was so exciting.

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Speaker 4: The first time I heard it, I just what, this

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Speaker 4: is going to be a massive hit.

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Speaker 3: And then here we are all these years later. It's

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Speaker 3: like thirty years.

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Speaker 1: It's almost like we planned it out.

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Speaker 3: It's nuts.

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Speaker 1: Can I ask a question, why is my mic so

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Speaker 1: little and skinny compared to your mind?

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Speaker 2: We have industrial strength. MIC's for our egos. Mine is

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Speaker 2: wood paneled, and Jonesy's chrome.

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Speaker 4: What happened was these these are the Ari twenties microphones,

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Speaker 4: and a lot of drummers put them in the bass

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Speaker 4: drum in the old days. But there are a great

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Speaker 4: radio mic And when we got these, they said, you

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Speaker 4: want a golden microphone and I said, no, no, that's

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Speaker 4: that's so old, that's very trump Yeah, I said, what

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Speaker 4: about a chrome one like a motorcycle?

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Speaker 2: And then they asked, jokingly, how about a wood paneled

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Speaker 2: one like the Brady car from the Brady Bunk and

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Speaker 2: they I said it as a joke, and they made it.

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Speaker 2: Some people say it looks like a bit of a

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Speaker 2: number two.

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Speaker 1: But I have never thought of that. Being with everything

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Speaker 1: you've been seeing in me this morning.

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Adam, but you're the first person that's ever

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Speaker 4: come into this studio to notice that.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, it's hard to miss and you're very well.

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Speaker 4: This microphone you've got is dreadful, and I apologize and

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Speaker 4: recording I've said to the technicians here, I've been here

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Speaker 4: for some time now.

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Speaker 3: I said, you know, we're going to do something about

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Speaker 3: this microphone. And I said you will get around to it,

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Speaker 3: so you know that could happen.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, magical.

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Speaker 3: I came in today, I fixed it.

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Speaker 1: I'd be excited if for future generations I helped make

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Speaker 1: the change that that you know, I do it for

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Speaker 1: the kids, and I'll put your name on it and

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Speaker 1: be amazing.

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Speaker 3: We'll call it the Durids.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, with a little like a plaque. Yeah, like it's

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Speaker 1: a very small plaque.

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Speaker 3: What color would your microphone be?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 3: If I got crying the man who's got wood?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know, I got admit it. I would

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Speaker 1: like to come up with a really funny response to

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Speaker 1: this one, but I'm stumped on that.

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Speaker 3: Give it some thought. We'll get back to you, studs.

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Speaker 1: Studs, Oh, it's excited like red locks?

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Speaker 3: What about the drug?

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Speaker 1: Because you dreadlocks?

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Speaker 3: Because Adam had that, They went.

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Speaker 1: I got the reference.

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Speaker 3: Did you find and I only know this, I never

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Speaker 3: had drenk.

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Speaker 4: Just in case you've forgotten, I never had dreadlocks, but

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Speaker 4: I had a big mullet and I found sometimes your

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Speaker 4: head just got heavy.

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Speaker 3: Did do you feel that your head used to get

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Speaker 3: heavy with the dreadlocks?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? The real thing was though that I don't think

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Speaker 1: i'd I hadn't been able to just like wash my

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Speaker 1: hair in a long time. That way, when I when

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Speaker 1: I shave my head for about a year, I would

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Speaker 1: pass by. I'd be at friends houses or in my house.

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Speaker 1: I passed by anything with a faucet, really, and I

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Speaker 1: would like look around, and then I would go in

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Speaker 1: the room, close the door, and stick my head into

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Speaker 1: the sink and then just grab the handtown and dry

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Speaker 1: it off. It was so refreshing, and I was so

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Speaker 1: not used to being able to do it. For about

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Speaker 1: a year, I just constantly washed my head.

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Speaker 2: One unusual ritual. Your friends must have thought.

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Speaker 1: Anybody knew. No, I kept it very secretive, and well.

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Speaker 2: I hope you don't want to wash too much because

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Speaker 2: I know you're going to blues Fest and this famous

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Speaker 2: for kind of mud and hippies in a great way,

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Speaker 2: Bluesfest is amazing, but it does seem to be that

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Speaker 2: time of year where it palls with rain. So have

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Speaker 2: you got your glosses, You've got your gum boots, are

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Speaker 2: ready to go?

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Speaker 1: I got them all. We've played it three or four

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Speaker 1: times rain every time. I don't think so, no, I

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Speaker 1: don't you know what I don't. Let's be honest about this.

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Speaker 1: I had no idea and.

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Speaker 2: Also with the dreadlocks, you wouldn't have felt the rain

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Speaker 2: on your head.

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Speaker 1: No, it's like an umbrella at times. Especially there was

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Speaker 1: periods where I had it sort of up. It looked

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Speaker 1: like an umbrella, an apple.

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Speaker 3: I'd luck to open it indoors. I know Adam well

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Speaker 3: and with that, it's so great to meet you and

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Speaker 3: have you in the studio.

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Speaker 4: The but a Miracle Tour kicks off this month, so

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Speaker 4: you're off to New Zealand, but then you're going to

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Speaker 4: come back. Get your tickets at livenation dot com dot au.

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Speaker 3: Adam Durance, thank you so much for being on our show.

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Speaker 1: Thank you