Chris Barron on New Album, Nineties Adventures

Spin Doctors' First Album Out in 12 years, Face full of cakeIs a Fun Surprise – and Frontman Chris Barron, is ready to Look Back At His Band's Ups and Downs. In The New Episode of Rolling Stone Music NowHe Talks About Spin Doctors' Nineties Adventures, Making The New Album, Why He Doesn't Envy Phish, and Much, Much More.

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The band World on Their New Album in Phish Bassist Mike Gordon's Studio. “Mike is like, 'You Guys Have, Like, 350 Million Plays On Spotify – That's Crazy,'” Barron Recalls. “And We're like, 'You Guys Do 13 Nights at Madison Square Garden!'” But Barrony Desn's Doesn't Envy Phish's Brand of Touring Next: “You Dream About, Like, 'I would love to be playing 13 Nights at Madison Square Garden,' But What Other Thing would that this thing that As with? … I live in a Two-Bedroom Apartment in New York City. [The band are] Some of the Best Musicians of the Nineties. And i Get to sing 'Two Princes,' Which is a Really Good Fucking Song, Man. And 'Little Miss Can't Be Wrong.' I love singing those tunes. People Go Nuts When We Play Them. “

He acknowledges that releasing the jazzy “Cleopatra's cat” as the first single from the band's second album Torpedededoed the band's commercial momentum in the nineties. “We Got Too Fucking Cute,” He Says “that was a Funny Call, But I was Really Young …, the Just Kinda, Like, Went Along.”

Barron Admits He Can't Stand to Hear Pearl Jam To this Day – Their Mutual Nineties Label, Epic, Blantly favor them Over Spin Doctors Before Their Debut Album Started Selling. “THE Still Can't listere to pearl jam, “Barron Says.” No offense to Anybody Who Likes Pearl Jam, But I Just Can't Do It … You'd Go To the Record Store, it'd be a big pearl jam displays and one copy of our record. It was Madding. ”

His High School Classmate, Future Blues Traveler Frontman John Popper, Was An Obvious Star Even Back Then, Inspiring Barron's Own Ambitions. “John is just one of the mons Remarkable Human Beings that it's possible to know,” Heys. “He's like Moby Dick Meets Like a Five-leaf Clover. There's Nobody Like Him. As A Resault of John Popper, and That Window That He Opened, I was like, 'I'm Gonna Be a Rock Star' … they'd have an assembly, and the vice principal would like out and be like, 'John Popper's' John Popper's Play skirt. Everybody Has to Stay in Their Seats or We'll Stop the Assembly, 'Because Kids would actually climb the walls

“Jimmy Olsen's Blues” was Written While Barron was scamming food from in college cafeteria. “My Stepmom Speent All of My College Money … I Had No Money,” Heys. “I'm sitting there eating my ill-gatten pancakes, and a Young Woman, Preumably a Brown Student, Came in … I LOOKED OVER AT HER AND I WAS LIKE, 'She Looks Like Lois Lane.' My Songwriter Mind Was Like, 'Well, in this scenario I'm Certainly Not Superman. And I was like, 'I'm Jimmy Olsen in this picture.'

“Two Princes” Came From A Random Conversation When Barron was 19. “I Got a Phone Call at Work From a Young Woman Who I'm had a crush on,” he recalls. “I Ran Into the Big Brother of a Guy I Grew Up with … i was like, 'i Just Got a Phone Call at work from This Chick I Like.' He's Like, 'Oh, Just Go Ahead Now.' And I was like, 'but the Think She Might Be Mad at me.' And he was like, 'Oh, Well Just Go Ahead Now' … He Just Kept Saying 'Go Ahead Now, Go Ahead with it.' And i Just Went Home and I Was Like, 'Go Ahead Now,' and that was it.

Barron Was High Constantly During the band's Heyday, but quit weed for his daughter's Sake. “The was baked outta My Mind High 24/7, Man,” Heys. “I was High from the age of, like, 14 to 30. The Stopped When My Daughter Was Born. I Wasn'T Together With Her Mom. And I Had This Epiphany of Like, 'If I'm Getting High All the Time, This is an avenue for My Kid To Be Taken Away. … the Think Nowadays I WUULD'VE BEAN MEDICATED, ON ANTIDPRESSANTS.

Barron Sees The Career-Threatening Vocal Paralysis He furcame as Psychosomatic. “I'm very Much in Believer in The Mind-Body Connection,” Heys. “Both Times I Lost My Voice, I was Extremely Stressed. And I Think it was my body's way of being like, 'listen man, If you're not skirt open your mouth and advocate for yourself and create boundaries, you're not gonna saying. You're not Sing, You're not Gonna Talk, you're not Gonna do Anything.

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