Attention everyone: I have a new favorite sentence on Wikipedia.
On April 23, 1994, “Mr. Jones” passed R. Kelly’s “Bump n’ Grind”, taking the number-one position (which it surrendered, the following week, to Prince’s “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World”). (Via)
That is everything. But why was I on the Wikipedia page for one of the two Counting Crows songs you like (if you hate the band) or your least favorite Counting Crows song (if you love the band)? Because, yesterday, frontman Adam Duritz’s Dreads appeared on HuffPo Live, where he discussed the identity of the titular Mr. Jones.
For the crowd that think they’re too good to listen to the man who made relations with Jennifer Aniston AND Courtney Cox talk about a two-decade song that I once transcribed on a school binder, Duritz said:
In a 2013 interview, Duritz explained that the song is named for his friend Marty Jones, but that is about Duritz himself. “I wrote a song about me, I just happened to be out with him that night,” Duritz said. The inspiration for the song came as Duritz and Jones were drunk at a bar after watching Jones’ father perform, when they saw Kenney Dale Johnson, longtime drummer for the musician Chris Isaak, sitting with three women. “It just seemed like, you know, we couldn’t even manage to talk to girls, but if we’d — you know, we were just thinking if we were rock stars, it’d be easier,” Duritz said. “I went home and wrote the song.” (Via)
Duritz would later sleep with Emmy Rossum.
(Via)
