Everything about Adam Duritz totally explained
Adam Fredric Duritz (born
August 1,
1964 in
Baltimore, Maryland) is an
American musician and
record producer. He is the lead singer and founding member of the rock band
Counting Crows. His lyrics have been described as "morose" and "tortured"and as "wordy introspection" and his vocals "expressive." He has also suffered from
depression and "a
dissociative disorder, which makes the world seem like it's not real," which contribute to the duration between albums and the inspiration of many of his song lyrics.
History
Early history
Adam Duritz was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Early on he moved to
Boston, then
El Paso, Texas, and
Berkeley, California. Duritz has lived in
San Francisco,
Los Angeles,
Houston,
Amsterdam and, most recently,
New York City. As a student, he attended
Head-Royce School, the
Taft School, the
University of California, Berkeley and the
University of California, Davis, but dropped out before earning a degree.
Musical history
Before forming Counting Crows, he was lead singer for
San Francisco Bay Area bands,
Mod-L Society and
The Himalayans. He was also involved in another San Francisco-based band,
Sordid Humor.
He has collaborated with
The Wallflowers (led by
Bob Dylan's son
Jakob Dylan) on the album
Bringing Down the Horse; with
Ryan Adams on
Gold and the song "Butterfly in Reverse" from
Hard Candy; with
Peter Stuart on
Propeller and
Daisy; with
Live on
V; and with
Dashboard Confessional on the track "So Long, So Long" from
Dusk and Summer.
Duritz also contributed songs to the
Josie and the Pussycats soundtrack that were performed by the film's fictional title band.
Relationship with fans
Since coming to fame with Counting Crows, Duritz has maintained an unusually open relationship with his fans. This has taken various forms including a diary on AOL, and later a blog on the band’s official website. He also reads and responds to posts on the band’s messageboard, and recently started a feature called AskCrowsAsk where fans can email questions for band members to respond to. This relationship hasn't always been smooth; Duritz has clashed with some fans, chastising those involved in
flame wars by quipping on his blog, "Some of you're [...] incredibly unpleasant people."
Record labels
Duritz has made two attempts to get involved in the music industry as a record label owner: in 1997, Duritz co-founded
E Pluribus Unum, an independent label. Before the label was purchased by
Interscope Records in 2000, Duritz signed
Joe 90,
Gigolo Aunts, and
Neilson Hubbard – all of whom he took on the road to open for Counting Crows.
In November 2006, Adam Duritz began production on
Chicago pop-punk band
Blacktop Mourning's debut record under the name "The Devil and Bunny Show" alongside
Counting Crows guitarist
David Immerglück. He later announced, on
January 15 2007, that he was launching boutique record label
Tyrannosaurus Records. His debut artists include
Notar and
Blacktop Mourning. The label also re-released the sole album by Duritz's former band
The Himalayans.
Film
In addition to his musical pursuits, Duritz was executive producer for the films
The Locusts (1997) and
Burn (1998). He had a cameo in the 2007 mockumentary film
Farce of the PenguinsFurther Information
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