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Spin Doctors Confidential: “I Was High 24/7!”

Spin Doctors frontman Chris Barron looks back on writing 'Jimmy Olsen's Blues' and 'Two Princes' and much more in our new interview.

'” But Barron ultimately doesn’t envy Phish’s brand of touring success: “You dream about, like, ‘I would love to be playing 13 nights at Madison Square Garden,’ but what other thing would that come with?… I live in a two-bedroom apartment in New York City. Barron admits he can’t stand to hear Pearl Jam to this day — their mutual Nineties label, Epic, blatantly favored them over Spin Doctors before their debut album started selling. Check out eight years’ worth of episodes in the archive, including in-depth interviews with Mariah Carey, Bruce Springsteen, SZA, Questlove, Halsey, Neil Young, Snoop Dogg, Brandi Carlile, Phoebe Bridgers, Rick Ross, Alicia Keys, the National, Ice Cube, Taylor Hawkins, Willow, Keith Richards, Robert Plant, Dua Lipa, Killer Mike, Julian Casablancas, Sheryl Crow, Johnny Marr, Scott Weiland, Kirk Hammett, Liam Gallagher, Alice Cooper, Fleetwood Mac, Elvis Costello, John Legend, Donald Fagen, Charlie Puth, Phil Collins, Justin Townes Earle, Stephen Malkmus, Sebastian Bach, Tom Petty, Eddie Van Halen, Kelly Clarkson, Pete Townshend, Bob Seger, the Zombies, and Gary Clark Jr. And look for dozens of episodes featuring genre-spanning discussions, debates, and explainers with Rolling Stone’ s critics and reporters.

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