{"id":670,"date":"2010-11-01T23:04:38","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T06:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/?p=670"},"modified":"2010-11-01T23:04:38","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T06:04:38","slug":"day-156-cracker-counting-crows-janes-addiction-and-shostakovich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/archives\/670","title":{"rendered":"Day 156 … Cracker, Counting Crows, Jane’s Addiction and Shostakovich."},"content":{"rendered":"

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So my 90s streak continued with a few other things thrown in. Counting Crows\u2019 first album, the first Jane\u2019s Addiction album, Cracker\u2019s \u2018Kerosene Hat\u2019 and some Shostakovich all came off the shelves this week and most of it has been ripped.<\/p>\n

\u2018Kerosene Hat\u2019 is another one of those end of high-school discs that sticks in my mind. I think I got the promo for it probably right around graduation, and played it quite a bit over the summer. Though I don\u2019t associate it directly with me and Tamiko getting back together, that was a good summer and those good feelings were mapped onto that and a few other discs. Which is funny because \u2018Low\u2019, \u2018Take Me Down To The Infirmary\u2019, and a GREAT cover of the Grateful Dead\u2019s \u2018Loser\u2019 aren\u2019t exactly chipper tunes (though I do remember clicking through over 60 tracks to get to \u2018Euro-Trash Girl\u2019 so that I could play it loudly as I drove down I-80 … and that song is just damn fun). Regardless of the mood in the songs though, I still remember how good the summer of \u201893 felt as we were getting back together, and this was one of those discs that was in my car.<\/p>\n

\u2018August and Everything After\u2019 was one of the discs that, about a year later, was in Tamiko\u2019s apartment after I first moved down to Berkeley. It took a little time for Counting Crows to take off, but once they did they were certainly a band that was noticed around Berkeley. When I put the music on last night, Tamiko immediately started to bop to it, and like me I imagine there is the feeling of us starting our lives together in the Bay Area in the back of her head as well. At the same time, the guitarist from The Counting Crows also gave me (and my old Tower friend Jordan) an early lesson in the inequities of the rock and roll lifestyle.<\/p>\n

I think it was between Christmas and New Years in 1994 when a guy came into Tower with a stack of $100 gift certificates (3 or 4?), and Jordan noticed when he was cashing them in that they were from Adam Duritz. Then Jordan noticed that the guy cashing them in was David Bryson (I think?), the guitarist for the band. It was funny – because we had a Counting Crows poster on the wall behind the guy. It was one of the biggest selling albums that year, and here he was cashing gift certificates from the lead singer! We were jazzed to meet him, but somehow the conversation got around to why he had these gift certificates. I remember him telling us that since Adam was the songwriter (and therefore got writing credit) that he was the one that made all the money. And while the rest of the band did ok, they were basically employees. They liked the gig (he wasn\u2019t complaining), but he certainly didn\u2019t have $400 of his own to go out and spend on music. So Adam had given them gift certificates to Tower that year as presents.<\/p>\n

I think both Jordan and I were floored by this… this guy was on a record that had sold millions, yet he wasn\u2019t a millionaire. Maybe with the next record, but that initial contract didn\u2019t have him sitting pretty yet. While I wasn\u2019t entertaining ideas really of rock and roll stardom anymore at this point (I was going to make millions as a composer of new music!!!), it still struck me just how messed up the music industry was (and of course I remember remembering this night a few years later when I saw a little clearer what my role in that messed up situation was).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So my 90s streak continued with a few other things thrown in. Counting Crows\u2019 first album, the first Jane\u2019s Addiction album, Cracker\u2019s \u2018Kerosene Hat\u2019 and some Shostakovich all came off the shelves this week and most of it has been ripped. \u2018Kerosene Hat\u2019 is another one of those end of high-school discs that sticks in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classical","category-rock-pop","category-tamiko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"https:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}