Sorry to disappoint you (again), but I am the guy who wrote and played this bass line. The Himalayans were together for about a year as a 4 piece band with me on bass. Our rehearsal studio got broken into and my bass and all my gear was stolen. We asked Marty to join up after that.
Woah!! Dude!!! You have no idea!!! This bass line made me switch to the bass from rhythm guitar in my old band. This version is sooo incredibly bad ass!! Rocknroll to you brotha!!! I actually did a slower version of this bass line in one my first songs I ever wrote called Never Say Goodnight by Always not Forever. 🙌🏼
@BlackOhioSky - Hey, I played bass on this track - I also wrote the bassline / music to this song under the black Ohio sky in Kent a couple of years before moving to California and joining the Himalayans - Dave Janusko
It's such an honor to reply to a post by the guy that co-wrote this favorite song of mine. I bought the Himalayans CD for this and like the instrumentation and feel of the song a lot more than the one I grew up with, but Durlitz definitely benefited from later production with CC, even if it did lose a lot of it's excitement. Thanks for your contribution to music.
I bought this CD online years ago. I love it. I just wish CC would cover this version live. just for old times sake and Adam should invite Mary Jones to play along as well.
Chris Brown Actually in an interview with Adam. he was asked who Mr. Jones was. He said Mary Jones the bass player of another band he was in. Adam was then asked why he wrote a song about his bass player. Adam said he didnt. He said I wrote a song about Myself. Mary just happened to be along. lol Adams music is mostly all personal. Except for their latest Cd. most of that music was more like written out stories about other characters. such as the two young men in the Scarecrow Video and the Palisades Park Video. Eddie and Andy were made up by Adam. Palisades Park was inspired by the adds for it in comic books. Adam is one of the greatest lyric writers of our times.
Anyone else hear Staind's Mudshovel behind this? (Yes I know that Mudshovel came much later and I'm not suggesting the Himalayan's stole it. I'm suggesting Staind may have borrowed from them on the song that launched them.)
@seaangelrainqueen This song was written by guitarist Dan Jewett. I jammed with him for 3 months, playing bass. Dan was replaced before the Counting Crows debut album with the new version on it.
I mean that this version is better than crows' version althought Crows is my 3rd most favourite band (now maybe 2nd - The frames) but this version is completly perfect
You're mistaken sir. This song is not an "earlier interpretation". This is the original. Period. The reason the quality is low and the song is unbalanced is partly because of the fact that this song was probably live. But think about it. The bass is high because it's Marty Jones playing. He's the fucking man.
