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which is create these worlds for people to climb into — albums. And people can get lost in them and really, that experience moves people. They like it. We've had some singles, but it's more accidental than anything else." Clearly, people do like it. Coming up on three decades together shows the Crows are certainly doing something right. Duritz reminisces on Counting Crows' first year of touring when the Rolling Stones invited the new band to open for them. The first gig of that tour, at the RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C., was on Duritz's 30th birthday. He remembers thinking, "How do you make a band that lasts 30 years? That seems impossible to have a band be alive as long as I am." "And now here I am, and it's been almost 30 years, and we're still here and we've got a song that's No. 1, and that's pretty crazy," he says of "Elevator Boots" landing at No. 1 on Billboard's Adult Alternative Airplay chart. One might wonder if Counting Crows, as a band that found massive breakout fame in the early 1990s, is benefiting from the wave of nostalgia for the era that seems to be taking over pop culture. But Duritz isn't interested in any of that. "I enjoy social media; I've always thought it was a great thing. It enables people to connect directly to their audience instead of through intermediaries. … But the downside of it is it's this great cultural thing where we all want to get together and agree," he poses. "We all want to look at a meme and go, 'Yep, me too.' It's this great homogeneity of things. "I just kind of find the whole thing — all the mass cultural discussions where we nod and smile about something that we all know is funny now — I'm just bored by it. I don't care which nostalgia it is, I'm not nostalgic for something along with everybody else. I don't want to do anything with everybody else. "There were bands I loved during the '90s; I bet they're not the ones [the masses are] nostalgic for. The same thing was true in the '90s. I have my own tastes. I want to be excited about stuff — I want to enjoy music and the arts and movies and s***. I just kind of don't want to be in any club with everybody else," he says adamantly, before adding with a smile: "Except if it's our club. I would really love that. That's the only one." CULINARY DREAM TEAM CHEF Matt Cooper CHEF Heather Artripe CHEF Corey McCain CHEF Sam Diaz Noble Graze For ticket purchases visit: www.appleseedsnwa.org/events ROGERS 6 WHAT'S UP! SEPTEMBER 12-18, 2021 Adam Duritz (Courtesy Photo/Mark Seliger) Crows Continued From Page 5 The Sept. 18 Rogers tour stop for Counting Crows was originally supposed to be a Houston date, but there wasn't an outdoor venue that could accommodate the Crows, Duritz reveals. So the show was moved outdoors, to the AMP. "MAYBE THAT'S AN EXCUSE — if you want to come to a concert, it could be a real excuse to do something safe for yourself. I know it's a political stand for a lot of people but it's harmless to get a vaccine and better safe than sorry, and I'd like to see people try and do it." -- ADAM DURITZ Counting Crows