 | WHAT'S NEW - NEW TOUR DATE ADDED
- NEW EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS POSTED
- SPOTLIGHT AND COMMENTARY ON THE “MR JONES” VIDEO
- NEW ASKCROWS QUESTIONS ANSWERED
- HIMALAYANS CD RE-RELEASED ON T-RECS WEBSITE
- HOUSTON SHOW NOW LIVE
NEW TOUR DATE ADDED
 Summer Festival Season is upon as and we’ve got another exciting tour date to announce! Come join Counting Crows as they shut down the Beale Street Festival in on May 6th! They’ll be joining great artists such as Steely Dan, Barenaked Ladies and Guster during the three day festival in Memphis Tennessee. Tickets are currently on sale through all ticketmaster locations Be sure to get your tickets early, since the festival sells out quickly!
And don’t forget Counting Crows other festival dates:
May 4th 2007 at Jazzfest in New Orleans, Louisiana. BUY TICKETS
June 21st, 2007 at Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Telluride, Colorado. BUY TICKETS
NEW EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS POSTED
 Head over to the Exclusives section and check out some great new behind the scenes photos from the tour this past summer. You want to see what exactly is lying around the bus? Or what happens before the show? Here is your chance to peek into what happens on the other side of the stage.
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SPOTLIGHT AND COMMENTARY ON THE “MR JONES” VIDEO
Think you know the entire story about the Mr Jones video? Find out from Charles Gillingham, Counting Crows piano and accordion player, what the original video concept was.
“With Mr. Jones, the most important thing I wanted the video to communicate was the tragedy and charm of wanting to be famous when it's clearly out of your reach -- the naive courage of having a dream that survives despite all evidence to the contrary. The director pitched to us something that seemed like it would work: there would be some strippers working at a club and a band rehearsing in a living room, all wishing they were famous, but clearly with a long way to go. I pictured something like cover of Tom Wait's Small Change -- beautiful losers shut out from success by some obvious flaw that they couldn't see. It felt edgy and ironic and compassionate. I liked it.
It was shot in two days, one day for us and one day for the strippers When we got the first cut back, the strippers turned out to be just hollywood starlet hot body eyecandy dancing and shaking their cans. When Adam sings "I wish I was beautiful" (the most tragic line in the song) the screen was filled with someone's ass in a miniskirt swinging to the beat, accenting the syllables, left-right, BEAU-ti-iFUL. It horrified me -- to tell you the truth, I nearly cried. Cheesecake had no place in my vision of the band. I hated the sexy hair-band videos that were popular back then and I was disgusted at the thought that were making one. In those days I felt very religious about being an artist and that music was about commitment and emotion and honesty. But Adam himself went in and sat with the editor and the director and they cut out nearly everything until all that was left was the band playing and a couple of images, which is okay I suppose but is hardly what it could have ! been. The good news is that millions of people were captivated by that video, maybe because it was just the band playing.”
NEW ASKCROWS QUESTIONS ANSWERED
Have you checked out our Ask Counting Crows Asks section lately? We’re updating them often, with several new questions this week answered by Adam Duritz. Here’s just one of the questions that was recently answered:
andyp1629 Asks:: ever consider producing cd's of each show of a tour? It would be great as a fan.Phil Lesh did that last summer. Co called instantlive did it i think
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HIMALAYANS CD RE-RELEASED ON T-RECS WEBSITE
Check out the T-Recs Dino-Store to pre-order your copy of the recently remastered and re-released Himalayans CD, “She Likes The Weather”. The Himalayans, features a pre-Counting Crows era Adam Duritz, Dave Janusko, Dan Jewett, Marty Jones (the Famed “Mr Jones”) and Chris Roldan. The CD, which features the original version of “Round Here, will be released on April 12th, and T-Recs Dino-Store is the only place on the internet you can buy it!
Don’t know the story behind “The Himalayans”? Check out here to visit the Dino-Store.
HOUSTON SHOW NOW LIVE
In case you missed it last week, we are streaming a live SOUNDBOARD show from this summers tour with Goo Goo Dolls. We're not sure if it's because Houston is one of many places Adam called home as a child or if there was just something in the air that night, but this show was an absolute tour highlight. For those of you who aren’t in the fanclub, aren’t sure if you want to join the fanclub, or just plain like things for free, you can listen to “Colorblind” and an epic “Murder of One” for free. And remember, the whole show will be streamed in its entirety starting Monday!
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