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"I don't find it especially in-
alized it was less crowded back
teresting, anyhow. I don't think
there," he says with a laugh.
For a time he wasn't sure anybody, if they had the choice,
there would be another Count- would want to go through that
ing Crows album, Duritz ac- [comparison]. We're not talking
knowledges. But after about six about an artist who can be com-
months — during the summer of pared to anybody, you know?"
Ultimately, Dylan had more
1995 — he started writing songs
\ again. He quickly called his pressing matters to worry about
bandmates in the Bay area. "I — like his band falling apart af-
said, 'Listen, I think it's time to ter that first album. First the
start working. I don't want to Wallflowers lost their record
write a whole album of piano deal. Then the musicians began
to drift off; particularly painful
songs."'
Because of August and Every- was the departure of guitarist
thing After's success, the Crows' Tobi Miller, with whom Dylan
new album, Recovering the Satel- formed the group.
Dylan and keyboardist Rami
lites, came out to lofty expecta-
tions. And it answered them, Jaffee considered changing the
debuting at No. 1 on the Bill- name — "It's not the same
board chart its first week out. group anymore," he notes — but
But Duritz says the pressure the decided to hang on to the
band felt had little to do with moniker, which at least had
some recognition by this point.
chart positions or sales figures.
"The success of the last record They began recruiting new mu-
was accomplished before it was sicians along with some friends
ever released," he explains. and hired guns to play on the
"Where I measure success is in new Bringing Down the Horse
the record itself. I hear people — including an all-star guitar
look back on their records and army that featured Mike Camp-
wonder why they weren't better. bell from Tom Petty's Heart-
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Not me. I have no regrets; I think breakers, Fred Tackett from
August is a beautiful record. I'm Little Feat and Gary Louris of
the Jayhawks.
so proud of it as a first record.
Dylan had a pithier group of
"So the pressure / felt was that
I wanted to make a great record songs, too, which rock harder
again. I want them all to be that than their predecessors from the
good, to have that much passion, first album. The song "6th Av-
that much sort of looseness. enue Heartache," which put the
There's no reason for me to feel Wallflowers on the map last
pressure about whether millions year, was drawn from Dylan's
own experience living in New
of people will buy it or not."
Which doesn't mean Duritz York.
"Every morning when I woke
and his band won't do what they
can to sell the album. The group up, this homeless guy would be
hit the road last November, and, on the steps of the building
despite a knee injury the singer across the street from mine," re-
suffered in New York, he expects members Dylan, who began
the Crows to cruise the road "for- writing songs while in high
ever" — which in rock jargon school. "He lived there, and he'd
wake up every day and play
means a year or more.
"Touring is the one true thing songs on his guitar. I woke up
you can do to promote the al- every day hearing him sing.
"After two months or so, he
bum," Duritz, 32, explains.
"Everything else — the videos, wasn't there anymore. All his
the reviews, the interviews — is, stuff was still there, but he had
to a certain extent, illusion. All disappeared. Pretty soon people
those things have nothing to do started taking his stuff, and he
never came back.
with you, really.
"I related to him in some way.
"The one thing you can do
that's totally honest is to go play He liked doing the same thing I
liked doing, even though we
for people."
Unlike Counting Crows, the came from two drastically dif-
Wallflowers didn't have a mas- ferent worlds. He moved on and
sive success to live up to with I moved on, but in some way I
their second album. The group's felt a connection to him." El
debut made only a modest im-
The Wallflowers will appear
pact, and the bulk of the atten-
Wednesday, March 12, at St.
tion was paid to Dylan's lineage
Andrew's Hall, 431 E. Con-
and not the music.
gross, Detroit. All ages wel-
"When People magazine want-
come. Doors open 8 p.m. $15.
ed to do an interview with me, it
(313) 963-7237. The Count-
had nothing to do with my
ing Crows will appear 7:30
record," says Dylan, 26, who was
Thursday and Friday, March
reportedly the inspiration for his
13 and 14, at the State The-
father's hit "Forever Young."
atre, 2115 Woodward. Call
"They wanted a personality pro-
Ticketmaster, (810) 645-
file, which wasn't going to do me
6666.
any good or the group any good.
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