Snake pit on Sunset

They must have lost so much money doing the theme nights. but they were so incredible. One night it would be this media thing and they had these tv screens set up all over. One night they turned the entire place into the inside of an airplane. One night they covered the walls with foil. They just approached their club so lovingly.

After touring in 94 I came back to Berkeley the first week in JAN 95. I was having a really tough time: I was too famous that week. It just seemed like everywhere I went for about 6 strait days somebody came up to me and said something terrible - just something fucking nasty. And it was really all knew to me then, so I was having a little trouble dealing with it.

I was at home, in Berkeley one night, and I got a phone call from Sal. Sal said, "what's wrong" and I told him. There were these kids camping out in front of my house. And he said "well Listen, hold on for a second" he put me on hold and he came back on the line and said "listen, there's a flight reservation for you at 7 O clock and I got a room at the Bel Age Hotel for oyou..and were having this party tonight that Johnny wanted me to invite you to anyways, so why don't you just come down"? So I was like "fuck it". I grabbed some shit and got on a plane to LA, went to the party and never lived in Berkeley again.

Coyle:Adam was embraced by the viper contingent. The vipers always had a soft spot in their hearts for glitterati.

I remember one year on Halloween I was in the audience wearing bunny ears and I got drunkenly enticed up on-stage with Morty and the Impostors to do some covers. I was up there with Morty singing "maggy May" and a bunch of other songs in fucking bunny ears.

Coyle: The first time I met Adam Duritz in 95 I watched a girl walk up to him and say "why do you rip off van morrision" And I thought, "what a fucking lame job this is" So he went behind the bar and he poured drinks.

I did make great tips, but there was no issue really. It was just, like, these are my friends; there always around. I got hassled once, and Morty took care of it, and in the 4 years since then, I've never had a problem there. that's one of the reasons I moved down here. With everybody else running around, who cares about me?

Coyle: What the fuck else is Duritz gonna do?..Hes got like 8 million. What's he gonna do?..be a brick layer?..You know he hangs out in a place where there's pussy and there gonna throw it at him cause he's a famous rock star. There's nothing wrong with that, that's the gig.

In the first half of 95 I didn't really do much. And then I started writing and that summer we started rehearsals to Recovering the satellites. I left the studio one night really late and went to the house of my friends Tracy and Samantha. I was in a really weird mood and I banged on the door and woke them up and we talked for a few hours. And then I went home and wrote A long december, Got up in the morning, went to visit my friend in the hospital, went to the studio to play it for the guys before dinner, taught it too them after dinner and recorded it that night. There were no overdubs except after having a couple of drinks in the kitchen, I went back and sang all of the background vocals in about 10 minutes. I grabbed a cassette, jumped in my car-cause it was 2:30 in the morning at this point-and drove to the viper room. They were closing up but shannon )the club manager), Big ed (the security Guard), and sal were still there. My Karmann Ghia was parked on Larrabee right there in front of the side door, And I played them " a long december" They were the first people to ever hear that.

Tracy falco: we always said that we should have a sign in book at the house those 2 years, because at one time or another I think every actor in hollywood traveled to our house.

Their House was the "hillside manor" in the song. It was this little house on the hillside and we joked about it being a mono

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