Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1656 - Adam Duritz
Uploaded: 2021-05-21T00:00:00.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1656 - Adam Duritz' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-05-21. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1656 - Adam Duritz' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-05-21. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1656 - Adam Duritz

The Joe Rogan experience
Hello, hello Joe, how you doing? I'm pretty good. It's good to see it's nice to
meet you man
It's nice to be I've been a fan of your work for a long fucking time
And it's always weird when you meet someone that you listen to their music or
you've seen their stuff and you're like
Oh, you're just a normal human being. There you are a little whacked out, but
yeah
but it's you know, like 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, 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. I go when that
dude's dancing
I go I want to like figure out how to get there shit. 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
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
And that lasted about a year and a half maybe two years
something out 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
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
Yeah, you know, especially because in a band because
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?
Pants does this look my this song make my ass look big?
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 says 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 be
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
thought it I thought it meant chubby
I assume I guess I don't know just sounded bad so pretty compared to a fishmonger's
cat
The fact that fishmonger is involved at all as a word when they're talking
about a 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 to listen to this band got to listen to 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 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?
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
And 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 timberland 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 in sync was the guy at the water cooler
Right. You know and so like I would get in these fights with them like you guys
don't know shit 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 get in all these fights with them. That's funny. Yeah,
it's funny how white people are unwilling to try
Certain kinds of music because it has this I it has this like
Feeling to it like that's not that's if you like that
You can't be smart. You you can't be cool. Like this is yeah, this is shit
music. You can't like this
Well, you know that it you know it came out of like
It did seem at the time like the thing ruining music was the boy bands
You know what I mean? It just seemed like right there was one after another
back then it's kind of never stopped
Um and you know, I don't know how good some of them were maybe they were I don't
know
I mean, I look back a little more fondly on the Backstreet Boys now maybe at
the time
I couldn't abide any of that, but I mean I get it
I guess, you know, but I don't think I was who they thought I was or and why
should you be you know, I mean like
We're all really individuals and we're certainly not going to just fit into the
the peg that people would like
Why would that why would they knew who the hell I am because I don't know them,
you know, right?
And then there's always like whatever the publicists have put out and whatever
Image they're trying to promote for you guys like whatever and then people take
it in
They put you in a box. They got you in their head. You're you're that guy. What's
the guy's name from stained Aaron?
Louis yeah, so now he's like
Don't tread on me country western. I'm always carrying a gun
Like he used to be this like used to think of him as like this sort of alt-rock
guy
Right yeah, yeah, and then he's made this like hardcore shift does like god
guns and country type dude
Well, yeah, and who else the other guy that I
friend of my
Kate Quigley knows him
Darius Rucker
Thank you. Yeah Darius from Hootie. Oh, yeah
Been a country star for a long time now bigger probably than even when he was
with yeah
Yeah, which is weird because it's a different world that you don't connect to
usually don't cross that border
that can be a real restricted closed society, you know, but
He's had a lot of success over there. He's huge, right? Yeah, I think I don't
know
I think he's gigantic. I don't know what goes on in that country scene
I like a lot of new country
Yeah, I mean I we I come from like a country music background and that a lot of
the guys in my band, you know
But it doesn't really mesh much much with what is country music now
I don't really think well, there's a lot of different kinds of country now
There's like some really good artists that are doing like Sturgill Simpson type
dudes that are doing he's a really good writer
Yeah, they're doing country music, but they're they're doing great music that
has
Just this sort of country flavor to it and his shit isn't even always country
like he
His last album threw everybody on their head. They're like what the this is
like some crazy arena rock shit
Like what is this like I haven't heard that record the new one's wild emir my
guitar player loves Sturgill Simpson. He's