The Counting Crows singer is unrecognizable on TV appearances

Call it a dread head redemption.

Adam Duritz rocks without his locks. He is the lead singer of Counting Crows Make the headlines again After appearing on Australian television, dreadlocks aren’t his trademark anymore — though they are They got rid of them four years ago.

The uproar began after the 58-year-old appeared on Today Extra with the alt-rock group’s guitarist, David Immergluck, to promote his new Butter Miracle Tour, The Daily Mail reported.

“The dread is over, but the boys are back for their first national tour in seven years,” declared co-host Sylvia Jeffries.

Then she and bandmate David Campbell quizzed bandmates about how it felt to be doing a comeback tour after a seven-year hiatus from performing Down Under.

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“Everything is back on the road wonderful,” replied Duritz, who was seen – paradoxically – shaking his beard and mustache but without fear.

Needless to say, viewers were dumbfounded by the singer’s uncharacteristically square-haired face. Indeed, the beauty mark was a 180 degrees for Duritz, who was known for rocking an unruly mane throughout the ’90s, when his band dominated the charts. Forming the Crows in 1991, they signed to Geffen Records, whereupon they broke onto the international scene with the release of the single “Mr. Jones” in 1993.

The unlikely heartthrob has been known to date some of the biggest stars of the ’90s, including Winona Ryder and Courteney Cox.

Perhaps most infamously, the “Hanginaround” singer also enjoyed a brief reunion with Cox’s “Friends” actress Jennifer Aniston in 1995, even though he claims Monday “They never slept together.”

“She was really nice, really fun, really lovely, and those were pretty good requirements for me, and she loved me,” Duritz said while describing his so-called past “friends” in 2021. But she’s a nice girl.”

Duritz rocked the ropey’ doo until 2019 when he decided to free himself from “Lockdown,” pretty much Discontent of many fans. “Oh yeah, I flew to London and shaved my head! Mayhem in the UK already, moms!!!” The rock icon she wrote in an Instagram post along With a selfie of himself with a fresh buzz.

However, the singer had previously admitted His luscious locks were actually extensions, in retrospect We say Billboard He was “tiring” with dread and had been thinking about putting on a new hairstyle for a while now.

“I’m used to it,” he said. “It’s strange because I’ve accomplished so much in my life, and every bit of it has been done with those at the helm.”

Fortunately, unlike the biblical Samson, cutting his hair doesn’t seem to drain his powers. In the aforementioned interview, Duritz and bandmate Immergluck said they boast a large group of fans who attend their concerts, a phenomenon they attribute to the “Shrek effect”.

Duritz recalled how the 2004 song “Accidentally In Love” came about when DreamWorks asked Counting Crows to write a song for the opening scene of Shrek 2.

I went to Amblin [studios] And I sat down with the director and one of the producers and they showed me almost the whole movie, about seven-eighths of the movie, some scenes that were in the storyboards.” “And they told me what they were looking for and they sent me home with a new DVD of that scene and I worked on it and some guys in the band helped .”

The duo, who have been together for 40 years, are hoping to broaden their appeal with the aforementioned Australian tour, which kicks off in Adelaide on March 30. Banshee Season Tourstarting June 13.

And now, their Top 40 has the “mane-Stream” sound to match.