Thursday April 22, 2021 “Big Yellow Taxi” Counting Crows (w/Vanessa Carlton)
IIt’s Earth Day 2021 and they are still paving paradise and putting up parking lots.
Counting Crows became an 'overnight sensation' in 1994. Only a year earlier, the band was a group of unknown musicians, filling in for the absent Van Morrison at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony when they were introduced by an enthusiastic Robbie Robertson.
They were fans of the Alex Chilton group Big Star, the band that launched more rock groups then they sold records and Counting Crows once opened for them under the name the Shatners. You know I have a fascination for band names and the inspiration for Counting Crows apparently comes from a phrase that suggests “that is about as pointless as counting crows.’
If you don’t have a clear image of lead singer and primary songwriter Adam Duritz, check out the video then think that he has dated Courtney Cox, Jennifer Aniston, Mary Louise Parker, Samantha Mathis, Emmy Rossum and Christina Applegate. The benefits maybe of being a rock star.
Counting Crows have been nominated for a number of Grammys and have sold more than twenty million albums/CDs.
Stay safe and well...and maybe make that small change that will contribute to making the planet a better place for Earth Day. If we all make small changes it can lead to big results.