A note from Adam Duritz:

“So this was the thinking: people like to make their own videos nowadays. All you have to do is look at YouTube and you know it’s true. Sure, there are all the big expensive videos the bands make themselves, the ones MTV and VH1 play, but there are way way way more that people just make by themselves. There are millions of talented people out there and lots of them have cameras and computers so they make videos.

And that’s when it occurred to me…What was the one thing all those people making their own videos and setting them to our songs had no access to?

Footage. It was so simple. Pure raw footage of the band. That’s what all those people needed to really make cool videos. All they needed was footage…and we had a ton of it.

So welcome to the NEW Counting Crows Download Page. You can still come here and download the mp3’s of ‘1492′ and ‘When I Dream of Michelangelo’ but now you’re going to get something extra. Beginning today, you’re going to get raw footage of the band recording and playing the songs live. So you can do whatever you want with it. Make a video by just editing together the stuff we give you. Make up your own plot, act it out your self or with your friends and then insert the band footage into just like we do when we make OUR videos. Or just check it out and see what Immy looked like on a single take of a song. It’s up to you. It’s yours now.

When you’re done, whether you make it with your cell phone or with a professional camera, share it with us and everyone by uploading it to the Counting Crows Video YouTube Channel here:

Counting Crows MYOVideo
Counting Crows YouTube Channel
ACCOUNT NAME: countingcrowsmyov
PASSWORD: satsun1492

We’re going to try and give you different stuff every week or two for a while or until we run out of things we’re actually ‘allowed’ to give you but it all starts right here with 4 different feeds of studio footage from ‘1492.’

Here’s what you get:

1) Me
2) Immy tearing his guitar to shreds
3) Immy (he was pretty annoyingly everywhere on this song) pummeling his bass into pulp
4) Jim beating the living crap out of his drum kit.

So have fun. Enjoy. Make us something cool and then give it to us so we can show it to EVERYONE.

And stay tuned for the announcement in the next few weeks of what you’re getting next…because we GOT more so you’re going to GET more.”

-Adam Duritz, Counting Crows

(Read Adam’s full MYOVideo blog post)

MUSIC from Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings:

“You Can’t Count on Me” single

Download “1492″ MP3

Download “When I Dream of Michelangelo” MP3

‘SATURDAY NIGHTS & SUNDAY MORNINGS’ will be in stores March 25, 2008

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With over 20 million albums sold worldwide, eight Top 5 singles, and three records that have broken the Top 5 on the Billboard 200, Counting Crows are set to release an expanded deluxe version of their seminal album, ‘August and Everything After’ in the UK on January 28th, 2008 (Universal/Geffen).

‘August and Everything After’, the Counting Crows first album released in 1994, showcased the band as a chart-topping powerhouse. Once MTV aired the video to their top 5 track “Mr. Jones,” the album jumped 40 spots on the Billboard Top 200 in one week.

In addition to the original songs on ‘August and Everything After’, the deluxe version will include previously unreleased demos plus the entire final show from the August Tour in 1994 from Elysee Montmartre in Paris, France. Also included are liner notes written by lead singer/songwriter, Adam Duritz.

Still going strong today, most recently, their single “Accidentally In Love” from the Shrek 2 soundtrack earned them an Oscar™, Grammy, and Golden Globe nomination, and reached the #1 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Following up the deluxe version of ‘August and Everything After’, the Counting Crows will release their long awaited new album ‘Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings’ within weeks. The record is the Crows’ first studio album in almost 5 years, since the release of ‘Hard Candy’ in 2002.

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On March 25, 2008, Counting Crows will release their fifth studio album (and their first in five years), ‘Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings’, on Geffen/Interscope.

‘Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings’ is just your average brilliant, unsparing rock & roll song cycle about the high life and the low life, about sin and whatever the hell follows. This is an album with two distinct yet deeply related halves:

‘Saturday Nights’ – the album’s angry, electric, dissolute opening salvo – was produced by Gil Norton (The Pixies, Foo Fighters). The more acoustic and folk-influenced ‘Sunday Mornings’ was produced by Brian Deck whose past credits include Modest Mouse and Iron & Wine.

Free Counting Crows downloads:

“1492″ MP3
“When I Dream Of Michelangelo” MP3
from ‘Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings’

For Adam Duritz, ‘Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings’ is “about dissolution and disintegration. It’s about when Saturday night happens and you lose all sense of yourself. And it’s about when you wake up Sunday morning and look back at the wreck you’ve made of your life and you think, ‘How can I possibly fix this? How can I ever climb out of this hole?’ And then you start to try and climb.”

Duritz says of the inspiration for the title, “When I finally realized what this record was about and that it was actually going to be two different records that fit together as one, the title popped into my head immediately. It’s a title that’s been used before in slightly different forms more than once, but none of them were the inspiration for my title. That came from a late night stop at a truck stop somewhere in Georgia while we were touring August and Everything After.

“One day I grabbed this bizarre looking double-cassette by Ralph Stanley called Saturday Night & Sunday Morning. After that, you had to fight me to get it out of the stereo. It’s just an unreal record about sin and redemption with inspired song choices and unearthly performances from Stanley himself and a sea of guests.

“These days, everybody wants to tell you how different every genre of music is and how one kind is good and another isn’t. But on Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, country and bluegrass find a way to effortless prove that it’s all really just music. Our album may not have much redemption in the end but we got all the sin I could live with and at least an attempt to try for something better.”

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