Counting Crows: Who Was Mr. Jones About?

[@anonymousadult]

Not a fan of the band… But a fan of this channel… Always interesting stories 🤩

[@nwerd7584]

same, he could tell me stories about any band I actively hate, although Im only indifferent to counting crows despite everyone knowing this song because of radio.

[@stuartjonez102]

That obv. means you’re a fan really 🤔 😎

[@WinterInTheForest]

It's the singer. That weepy voice combined with such glaring douchery. Just, no.

[@Peasant_in_a_tree]

Im a death metal/heavy metal guy, and i think mr. Jones is a fuckin' jam.

[@anonymousadult]

@@Peasant_in_a_tree I’m more of a pistols and Ramones fan… he looked like a monkey jumping up and down while trying to keep his jacket on and then tries to keep his jacket off, complete with cringy fringe! Don’t tell me that’s not funny!!! 😂😜😉

[@CupofCloud]

August And Everything After is a gorgeous album, 5 stars, and i’m not even huge into counting crows like that

[@dream_in_digital]

100% agree.

[@jaywalshmusicandsong1736]

Absolutely, love it. Too bad they resent their biggest hit and don't play it anymore.

[@ChorusArtists]

You should all check out Recovering The Satellites, it's also an amazing record. Angels of the Silences is incendiary.

[@genghis_connie]

Agreed. Also a front-runner in 90’s bands’ usage of singing “yeah” on an album.

[@the_original_Bilb_Ono]

I have it on cassette and it sits half way into my deck in my truck. When nothing is on the radio I push it in. I've listened to that album so much that I know the order of the songs before they start. It's such a good album. Every song is good.

[@NottyGurlStyle]

Every time I listen to Mr. Jones..I always remember when I first heard it when I was in San Francisco..up late with my sister watching music videos… I turn 18 out there and I was just getting into listening to rock music… I instantly fell in love with the song. Still love it to this I day. I LOVE August and Everything After…I love EVERY single track on that album. Ages later I still enjoy it.❤❤❤❤

[@brucestellar7630]

Man I’ve been dying for a video about Counting Crows such an amazing band that is really under appreciated for the quality of songs and albums they have.

[@mmmtsp]

August And Everything After is a flawless album.

[@mphillips4324]

Great band, great song! Their follow up album, Recovering The Satellites, is one of the best albums of all time.

[@derekcox6531]

I really enjoyed counting crows back in the 90s and I still have a few of their songs on rotation in my play list. I think they have made good music over the years.👍

[@chicharito229]

Absolutely love Counting Crows, Adam Duritz is such a great songwriter......and I noticed a few years back his twin is Adam Richman.

[@BrutusMayhem567]

That album is so awesome. I just moved to the Bay area right after that album dropped. That was a very special and exciting time in my life and that album and third eye blinds first album was the soundtrack to it. Awesome times.

[@necroniic1909]

my parents loved counting crows so i heard their stuffall the time as a little kid. i remember back then i thought 'Mr Jones' was noticeably goofy and weird, i also thought the narrator was just kind of in love with mr jones.

[@theriffwriter2194]

Although I'm mostly into old heavy stuff August is one of my favorite chill, mellow albums and it still gets plenty of rotations in my house.

[@jules-yi8rn]

Loved the Crows back in the day - August and Everything After was my goto for road trips. Mr Jones was so catchy, but Murder of One is still my favorite.

[@joeymorvant161]

"The Rain King" is mine.

[@TarotLadyLissa]

August and everything after is a beautiful album!

[@thefuturist8864]

They had a run of three great albums, though Recovering the Satellites was the standout. This Desert Life had big shoes to fill and did a decent enough job, but Satellites was their masterpiece, pushing radio-friendly rock as far as it could go and showing that Duritz is one of the finest lyrical storytellers of his generation.

[@backwatersandbackroads]

Total agree

[@doug_howe]

Absolutely every song on this album is a hit. Normally there are always a few songs that are considered skip-able on any given album... not this one.

[@dsxa918]

I didn't buy it til like 2011 or something, I heard a song for the first time in a bar, I think it was track 6 or 7, if it was a single it wasn't as big in Canada as Mr Jones, but I realised I loved it and bought the album for fun

[@dsxa918]

I'm watching the video, it was Rain King

[@lisamh9037]

​@@dsxa918what a fantastic song. Among a lp worth of fantastic songs.

[@mattygault3088]

Best ever album round here best song

[@spencergadoury]

My second favourite album of all time next to the Joshua Tree! This video is coming out at a perfect time for me since im seeing them for the first time live in less than a week from now! I’m so excited and this adds to the hype!

[@GuitarNTheCar]

Lucky you! I wanna go

[@spencergadoury]

@@GuitarNTheCar I’ve been waiting so long I can’t wait! I hope you get to see them down the road too!

[@bonbonvegabon]

Love this song and I learned how to play it on guitar as soon as it first came out when I was in grade 8 lol

[@mayer5035]

Well now I see the similarities between them, and will never be able to unsee it! THANKS A LOT! 😅

[@evannakamura637]

Now that you made that Adam Richman comparison, I can't unsee it...

[@maxhammer4067]

I always thought Mr Jones was referencing bob dylans Mr Jones, the song also has the line, I wish I was bob dylan

[@martinjohnson3877]

Thanks for the video. I met Marty Jones in St John, Virgin Islands years ago and always wondered if he was the real Mr Jones. You told the story word for word. He was working in the solar business last I heard.

[@CupofCloud]

Kenney Dale Johnson is the man, Chris Isaak hit the jackpot.

[@KassiusFineArt]

Love Adam Duritz

[@ChorusArtists]

So I saw the Crows on the final night of that ridiculous 18 month tour they did in support of August... It was a make-up date in Toronto at concert club (Warehouse or Guvernment, can't recall). Anyway, Duritz was soooooo burned out at that point, he absolutely didn't wanna be there and everyone could tell. One of only two shows I ever walked out of in over 700 concerts, it was so bad. Adam was butchering his own songs as some kind of protest, and it was hard to watch. Was worried about him for a while after that, but so glad they came through it and are still doing great shows today.

[@dirtybird311]

I always thought he looked like Sideshow Bob from the Simpsons in the early years, but he definitely looks like Adam Richmond now.

[@OH_MY_DOGGG]

Cranberries n Cracker just needs a band called Cream Cheese and we have ourselves a tasty bill.

[@dream_in_digital]

I thought August and Everything After was a great album. Omaha came out when I was living there, that was a bit surreal. It's unfortunate to hear that Adam struggled with fame so early, especially with self-consciousness about his appearance. Imagine finally being recognized for your talent only to have it overshadowed by people critizing your looks.

[@waverlyking6045]

The same thing happened to Christopher Cross. He had a great voice and put out some amazing songs, but once MTV came along and people wanted to see the real face behind those songs… I think you can figure out the rest.

[@dream_in_digital]

​@waverlyking6045 That's so sad. Imagine all the incredible music we would miss if we only paid attention to conventionally beautiful artists.

[@dream_in_digital]

@waverlyking6045 Rick Beato just posted an interview with Christopher Cross today. I'm curious to see if he talks about that part of the music business or not.

[@waverlyking6045]

@@dream_in_digital I’ll have to check that out. Thanks.

[@broccoli919]

30 years ago… I’m getting old

[@scbok1]

Totally agree - every time I watch Man Vs Food ... I would always say to myself, that's his twin!

[@Aff3ct000]

Mr Jones was his enis. Painting all the things gray.

[@DPointInMyLife]

Nobody has ever seen these two guys in the same place in the same time. j/s

[@spaceburger80]

The person you refer to as Dave Bryson is actually Dan Vickrey.

[@samblackcrow]

I wondered why a pic of Adam and Dan was showing when the narration was referring to Bryson and Duritz starting Counting Crows. Very odd.

[@ambertuck89]

This is my favorite song!!

[@joeymorvant161]

Love this band! I'd heard somewhere around the release of this album that not only was "Mr. Jones" not supposed to be a single, but that the band didn't want singles, period. (Imagine that in this day and age, or then!) I'm guessing that the band wanted to gain fans the old-fashioned, word-of-mouth way:"Dude! You've gotta' hear these guys! They're killer!". Any band that doesn't want media help, especially when so many are DYING for such a break.....that's to be respected. To me, at least.

[@allanvanuga9196]

Great video.

[@michael-rc5pv]

Round here is probably the best song on the album

[@backwatersandbackroads]

Recovering the satellites is a great album too

[@jonscott6293]

Perfect Blue Buildings best song on the album.

[@mmmtsp]

0:09 wait! Are you saying they're not the same guy?

[@PirateRadioPodcasts]

"i wanna be BOB DYLAN."

[@Ssargent888]

Yeh, everybody wanna pass as catsssss

[@Llamafarmer423]

I’m a massive CC fan and my wife and I saw them a few years ago in Australia, they didn’t play Mr Jones and my wife to the very day is pissed hahaha. I always bring it up just to mess with her.

[@sourgir-wh6xd]

😂💭 The two Adams DO look just alike! I can't un-see it now .....🤣🤣🤣🤣...

[@morganmedrano920]

Wait, seriously? His look was sooo cool. That's messed up. We just got out of 80s glam and they want to talk about his style?

[@DiogoD75]

I knew Adam Richmond was the singer of CC!🤪🤣🤣🤣

[@hymedude7378]

Dang I always thought it was about bob Dylans " ballad of a thin man".....lol

[@cgyute67]

I’m actually creeped out about that song in 93 we heard it and I was served with a Elder Jones I am meeting another Used to sing Elder Jones and I found out the guy lived in Eugene. That’s where survive mission that’s why I think it’s creepy.

[@ActualLiteralKyle]

I’ll never forget the first time I heard them called “The Cunting Cows” 😂😂😂 every time I hear their name it’s all I can think of

[@DavidRexGlenn]

Some of the pics of Duritz look like he's got that Phil Spector thing going on

[@aretnap3653]

Mr.Jones Was My Jr.HighSchool Math Teacher, That Got Angry WhenEver We Sang Those Lyrics Back to Him.😜

[@jasonmcalister5282]

I think you should do something with Midnight Oil if ya have i never seen it but i always thought they were a band the was never as big as the should've been! In my opinion anyways!

[@Dethmeister]

1:51 Are you not allowed to say or show the name "Paul Shaffer"?

[@joeymorvant161]

Really!

[@Robbo859]

Those two guys really do look alike.

[@vestaxwax]

Guilty of hating that band back in the day.

[@brandino561]

so what name is blocked over?

[@genghis_connie]

Man vs Food and. man Sleeps With ‘Friends’ Actresses could be brothers. I’m relieved to not be the only one thinking this.

[@GOATLABDISCORDIA]

Little known fact - his dreads were fake. Seriously. Saw it on pop up video back in the day

[@shaneapsey6042]

He also looks like that Duff guy from the cake show

[@MisoraRyuu0921]

Pass me a bottle Mr. Jones.

[@josephsilva626]

I saw Adam on Joe Rogan and thought he looked like Patton Oswalt 🙄🤷

[@joeymorvant161]

Yeah!

[@stevestevens8749]

I think that the Counting Crows singer looks like the singer from The Melvins.

[@lazzy2012]

Honest question: When you say 7 million copies states side, and 10 million world wide, does that include the 7 million sold in America? Or is it 10 million additional sales? Rock on!

[@jamesofcordova]

Maan I used to hate this song so much. I still do but I used to too.

[@Reverend_Taco]

OH MY GOD I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE THAT THOUGHT HE LOOKS LIKE ADAM RICHMAN

[@Ektalon]

Is Adam wearing a wig in those more recent concert photos?

[@HeavyMetal221]

Its me, im mr jones.

[@AdamShaiken]

Yeah !, I do see the resemblance...must be the same person !!!!

[@glen.simpson]

I thought len used psycho-coupling to have adam make this song about my life....geesh, what was I thinking!

[@LivinRob]

The Himalayans version of "round here" is amazing!

[@COU51N.Kyle.]

My dumbass thought it was "misses Jones" lol

[@susanlongb4]

Old skool Billy Paul

[@brandonpage7087]

Never really been a big fan of Counting Crows, but, it's nice finally having this mystery solved. Lmao, now we can put to rest, the ridiculous rumors about Mr. Jones being his penis!!! 😂😂😂😂

[@joeymorvant161]

Fan of this band. Never heard that rumor, though. Strange.

[@reneebergeron3004]

I thought the same thing in the joe Rogan interview.

[@dilfbag]

🤘😎🤘

[@potterpotter8953]

Holy Fuck what a good Idea for a video

[@xlargetophat]

That wasn't David Bryson.

[@horkstowbutcher]

Thank you, I saw that too

[@keithjones1129]

Duh, it's about me😎

[@NameNoListed]

Yeah, they're the same person

[@JP-st9hn]

Still can’t believe that guy got the cream of the 90’s crop when it comes to hot Hollywood chicks…

[@joeymorvant161]

I TOTALLY see your point, trust me. But.......when you're in a famous band...

[@fede2]

Weird about him being mocked for his appearence after appearing on the Rogan podcast. Almost as if Rogan cultivates a certain type of audience...

[@mikejones6791]

Ahem... me!

[@teli.tuketu]

it was 💯 about jesus, x (everything is) calliope

[@gameboi20]

Adam Richmond with a photoshop wig

[@genghis_connie]

Didn’t labels take issue with these guys sounding too much like Van Morrison?

[@joeymorvant161]

Not a bad thing.

[@genghis_connie]

@@joeymorvant161 Not at all, but they were getting passed on by labels because of it. God, the ridiculousness of radio and getting on the playlist.

[@joeymorvant161]

@@genghis_connie Oh, wow. Had no idea.

[@genghis_connie]

@@joeymorvant161 wild, right? It probably played to their favor, after all.

[@joeymorvant161]

@@genghis_connie It IS wild, especially because they sounded so unique, meaning that no other bands of that time\genre were sounding like Van Morrison.

[@mercster]

He looks fine, he's in a rock band, it's not a beauty contest... but some of those shots of his hair are ridiculous. Is he wearing a wig as a joke on "the old days"? Man.

[@angusyoung5398]

I thought this was about Amy Winehouse 😂

[@madhatyr]

No he looks like Scott Stapp and Patton Oswalt had a baby. At least now days anyway.

[@DrunkJester]

I can't believe im curious about this as i really hated this song like really hated it.

[@PassengersMusic777]

Not a fan of the band. Counting Crows on the radio station meant change the channel. It was the beginning of Whiney Rock. Good channel though love the content

[@zeketrick]

👍

[@mgers75]

Of those 7million albums sold, 6 million had to be from those mail order record clubs where youd get 10 for a penny or whatever it was

[@joeymorvant161]

That's cold, and hilarious! I say this as a fan of theirs. THAT'S how funny your comment was!😂

[@daccrowell4776]

Hmmm...yeah, I can see that resemblance. Add the same fake dreads, bit of face-fuzz, and there ya go. Otherwise, I'm not down with Duritz and his band. I had that yawp of his jammed in every orifice when that album came out, and it was no surprise when they turned out to be fueled by payola (as mentioned in several vids). Look into the "1990s Indie Promoter" scandal/legal probe, and you'll find them staring back at you. Sorry to bust your fan bubbles, gang...but they were an Industry Plant, plain and simple. Gotta watch that...

[@joeymorvant161]

Ok. Still a fan, though.

[@GuitarNTheCar]

His appearance?lmao. Apparently the hot famous women he dated didn't care.

[@joeymorvant161]

Love it, lol!😂

[@bangslamwham88]

August and Everything After is the only good album in Counting Crows' discography.

[@joeymorvant161]

Not so.

[@firstlas9647]

I HAAAAAAAAAAAATE this song

[@joeymorvant161]

I feel the opposite.

[@actionjacksondan]

THESE VIDEO CLIPS ARE SOOOOOOOO CHEESY

[@GellyVelly]

I honestly could have sworn it was about his genitals.

[@kkrsnn5632]

That's the band that I changed the channel when their videos came on. Never liked them.

[@joeymorvant161]

Ok....

[@winkstar9265]

Jew's helping other jew's.

[@marioquinoz7199]

Counting crowes suck ass

[@joeymorvant161]

To you.

[@OverTheTop85]

Counting Crows are a great band! I really enjoy their earlier albums! They're in my top 10 growing up years bands! It's probably nostalgia that has them so high in my opinion. But I don't care! Also any band and I mean ANY, Hell Aqua (Barbie Girl) is better than anything Kurt Cobain wrote! He couldn't even play guitar worth a damn!

[@charlesbolton8471]

Kurt played guitar well enough to kill hair metal.

[@joeymorvant161]

Kurt wasn't the best guitarist, but not bad, either. I don't think that musical greatness was really Nirvana's purpose or point.

[@sardonicsisyphus]

this singers claim to fame is that he got dumped by Jennifer Aniston for Brad Pitt...ouch