Name: "Mr. Jones" Backlash Made Adam Duritz Self Conscious
Uploaded: 2021-05-21T17:14:55.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video '"Mr. Jones" Backlash Made Adam Duritz Self Conscious' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-05-21. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video '"Mr. Jones" Backlash Made Adam Duritz Self Conscious' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-05-21. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan experience I remember watching mr. Jones on
MTV and I
Love that fucking video man, and I loved that you dancing in that was it like a
living room or something like that
Yeah, yeah, I'm like I want to be that free like you seem so loose you were so
in the moment
I remember thinking that I was remember talking to a friend of mine that let
that night after a
Show I was at a bar. I was like you ever see that mr. Jones video like when
that dude's dancing
I go I want to like figure out how to get there should I want to be that free
You know, it's a weird thing. I used to I'm gonna take this off for now. Okay.
I used to be
for me, you know life is
Often very awkward and uncomfortable but not on stage, you know like on stage
I always felt like well. This is one place on everything. I do is fine, right?
So when I started, you know making videos at first
it was just like I
This is apps. This is easy because all I got to do is do the stuff
I'm gonna I'm gonna do you know and and there's nothing wrong I can do I can
just be as free as I want and
That lasted about a year and a half maybe two years
something about like
getting really famous out of nowhere and then
You know all the kind of backlash that comes with it. I noticed a couple years
later. I was a lot more
Self-conscious. I'm still on stage. I never think about anything when I'm
playing it. Nothing bothers me
But in front of cameras, I got really self-conscious in front of cameras after
Sometime in the middle of our second record. I just noticed that I started to
suck on not suck on video
But definitely not like that. Mr. Jones video you became aware that so many
people were watching and criticizing you or like what was it?
I think it was that you know because at first I just uh
Well didn't care and I just thought that there's nowhere in the world. I'm more
comfortable than here. So I'm fine
and then I think on our second album when we got a lot of backlash and you get
a little too big and everybody you get you annoy the shit out of people being
yeah, you know, especially because in a band because you
You get a really successful song. They're gonna play it on the radio every five
minutes after a while
It's like god who wouldn't get sick of it, you know? Yeah, and then you get
some backlash after that people say some terrible things
And then and then I started thinking about like what do I look like on film
then I got really self-conscious, you know
What's this pants? Does this look my this song make my ass look big?
You know in the I noticed that I got kind of crappy in just in front of cameras
not the rest of the time and not like cameras when I'm on
Stage at a concert like you play a big festival. There's lots of cameras and
doesn't bother me there
It's just kind of sometimes on TV and in filming I got kind of self-conscious
and I had never been that way the press stuff like that kind of stuff
I think so. I mean, I don't really know what caused it exactly I would
The only reason I would say I think you're right about that is that is that it
happened then
You know and that was the first time I'd experienced that because you know
No one said anything bad about you when they don't know you exist for one and
then on our first record
God we couldn't buy a bad review, you know, and but by our second record it was
we weren't even getting it was like
Forget him. He's fucking this chick. So I don't have to forget his music, you
know
And then like he got fat whatever it would write, you know
You start, you know when you nationwide, but a national publication calls you
fat
Shit, I remember getting a review in like in England once and somebody called
me
Ponzi is a fishmonger's cat
Which I suppose fishmonger's cats eat a lot on see like is that like chubby potty?
I thought it I thought it meant chubby. I assume I guess I don't know just
sounded bad
So just being compared to a fishmonger's cat
The fact that fishmonger is involved at all as a word when they're talking
about your concert seems like a bad sign, you know?
Yeah, there's a thing that happens right like when people discover you and they
find out about you and you haven't gotten big yet
Like especially for bands, I think where they they they love the fact that they're
the first to tell their friends
You got a list of this band got a list of this album. This is awesome
But then when you get really big and other people like it and too many people
like it then you're like, oh man
They were good in the beginning
Well, I think I think you're I mean, I think that music unlike almost
everything else
It becomes our personal cool, you know, I mean we literally wear it on our
shirts, right?
You know and and it defines who we are we talk about this genre or that genre
as being our gang almost and when when you're discovering stuff
Yeah, it's really cool
And then when you have to share it with that guy at the water cooler who likes
that fucking worst music
You know that guy who's been coming in for years and he's just listening to
utter shit
Yeah, and now he loves your band, too
And you're like I don't want to share this with captain asshole over there, you
know
And I've never understood that because why can't people with terrible taste
also like great things like great things are great
No matter what like everybody loves the godfather, right? Yeah. Yeah, it's like
whoever says that that movie sucks
Nobody but people who like terrible movies still like the godfather, you know
Well, I think it's less because they now like it as that you're now as opposed
to you were in a club without them
Right and now you're in a club with them
And that just sucks because you didn't have to be in a club with them before
right it's human nature
I mean, I get it. I didn't like it when it landed on me, but uh
Yeah, I mean I get it. Well, and it happened to you pre-social media. Yeah, you
were
You guys were just getting reviewed by experts. You weren't get shit on by the
general public yet
No, I mean, but that was kind of that was a good thing for one, but I was
really into so right
Well, it's for me it had happened when I was kind of already into social media
because
I remember moving down to LA after our first album and and that year while I
was writing the second record
discovering that AOL had these uh
Like message boards. So this is 95 say and I realized that AOL had these forums
and message boards for all the bands
And it suddenly occurred to me. Well, I could just go on there
And talk to people because when I read it they were worried about were we ever
going to make a second record
Were we going to shit? Did we exist anymore? Like what?
All the questions that you wonder about your band between records
And it suddenly occurred to me. Well, I could I have the answers to all those
questions
You know, I could just go on there and it took me a little while to convince
the people on there that I was me
but uh
Understandably of course, but eventually I did and then we sort of started this
kind of community there
Uh, you know way before other social media
But it occurred to me because the rest of the time you you can't get to your
fans except through
Or you couldn't then except through the radio the djs and the press so like you
don't really get to give anybody your own words
They got to be filtered through everybody else, right?
But that AOL thing was a chance to just like well like what twitter and
everything is now, but
It occurred to me back then it was really cool
And when people started then I got into arguments with our own fans. I've
always done that
It's just like what kind of arguments well, you know, like I don't think
I'm who they think I am
Who do you think they think you are um a classic rock guy driving around in a
pickup truck?
Like going to drive-in movie theaters because that's this americana dream
vision of like we all sit around you know
going to drive-ins and
living some
Dream of a springsteen song that springsteen isn't even any part of you know
I would go on there and I'd be like have you guys heard the first justin timberlake
album. It's amazing
It's got like timbaland and the neptunes doing all the songs
And I would try and make this thing to tell them like you should listen to this.
It's brilliant music
And they just they couldn't grasp the justin timberlake thing because in their
mind nsync was the guy at the water cooler
Right, you know, and so like I would get in these captain fights with them
Like you guys don't know about music. You're just like you're in this little
niche rigid, you know
You like us and I think that's very smart and intelligent shows a lot of wisdom
But you're limited and I'm getting all these fights with them
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