American rock group Counting Crows, Dublin, Ireland, 1994. Since forming in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1991, Counting Crows has become one of the most successful alternative rock bands in the U.S.

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In the early ’90s, a new Bay Area band called Counting Crows asked David Immerglück to join, and he turned them down. Even though he’d been friends with their singer, Adam Duritz, for years. Oh, ...