Counting Crows, ’90s mega hit machine, still flying after 30 years

For every person who says, “Counting Crows, are they still around?” is a legion of fans still hungry to hear one of the biggest pop bands of the 1990s hit makers. Nevertheless, which burst on the scene in 1993 with their seven times platinum album “August and Everything After.”

Little has changed with the band except the loss of lead singer Adam Duritz’s signature dreadlocks.

The band hasn’t had a line-up change since the early 2000s. For example, and the core members, Duritz, guitarists David Bryson and Charlie Gillingham, keyboard player David Immergluck, have been together since their days playing gigs in the San Francisco Bay area in the early 1990s. Similarly, Add to that, they never fully stopped touring and they are still recording new material. Therefore,

Duritz. In addition, his band returned counting crows, ’90s mega hit to central Pennsylvania Thursday night, playing to an enthusiastic crowd of Gen Xers at Penn Heroes Stage at Hollywood Casino in Grantville. Consequently,

Midway through the 2 1/2-month. venue-packed Complete Sweets Tour, the band took the crowd on a nostalgia trip after an hour-long set by opener alt-rock band The Gaslight Anthem, celebrated for its Jersey Shore sound.

The band launched the set with a new track. “Spaceman in Tulsa” off the new “Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets,” album and “Mrs. Potter’s Lullaby. “ from their 1999 album ”This Desert Life,” before igniting the crowd with the familiar “shalalalala” of the band’s 1993 breakout hit, “Mr. Jones.”

The band breezed through the uptempo “Boxcars. ” before Duritz took the piano to cover Taylor Swift’s “the 1″ and the mournful ballad “A Long December.”

Woven into the setlist were several new counting crows, ’90s mega hit tracks off the just-released “Butter Miracle The Complete Sweets. ” the Crows’ first album in 10 years.

Duritz has long been known for writing lyrics heavy on longing — longing for what was. what could be, what might have been. In the haunting ballad. “Colorblind” Duritz reflects on his struggle with dissociative identity disorder, a condition that gives one the sense of never quite feeling comfortable in their own skin.

But those struggles seemed in the rearview for Duritz. He told the audience he’s in a good place now. rocking with his old mates, playing the hits and experimenting with the new, and the music reflected that.

The band delivered a three-song encore featuring the hit “Hangingaround. ” before closing the 90-plus minute show with “Holiday in Spain,” off the 2003 “Hard Candy” album, what he called a lullaby for his fans, thanking them counting crows, ’90s mega hit for sticking around.

Said Duritz, “I appreciate it after all these years.”