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.
Vocalist Adam Duritz and guitarist David Bryson formed the band as an acoustic duo, before Matt Malley, Charlie Gillingham and Steve Bowman joined on bass guitar, keyboards and drums, respectively. They released their debut album, August and Everything After, in September 1993, and their debut single, “Mr. Jones,” became a breakout hit.
A year later, the band received two Grammy Award nominations, and in 1996, they released their second album, Recovering the Satellites.
Over the years, the band has undergone several shakeups, with Duritz, Bryson and Gillingham the only original members to remain. Bowman was replaced by Ben Mize in 1994, and Jim Bogios took over from Mize himself in 2003. Malley left in 2005 to be replaced by Millard Powers, while Dan Vickrey joined as a second guitarist in 1994, and session player David Immerglück agreed to become a permanent member in 1999.
From the 2010s onwards, some of the band’s members started working on individual projects, such as Duritz’s play Black Sun. They began making music together less, with an 11-year gap between their 2014 album Somewhere Under Wonderland and their 2025 album Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets.
Now, an HBO Max documentary, Counting Crows: Have You Seen Me Lately?, is looking back on their legacy.
So where are the Counting Crows now? Here’s everything to know about the members’ lives in the over 30 years since the group formed.
Adam Duritz
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Duritz formed Counting Crows with guitarist Bryson in 1991, and he’s remained the band’s lead vocalist and main composer ever since.
Alongside his work with the band, he’s collaborated with artists including Dashboard Confessional, Ryan Adams and The Wallflowers and contributed songs to the soundtrack of the 2001 musical comedy Josie and the Pussycats.
In 1997, he co-founded the record label E Pluribus Unum and launched Tyrannosaurus Records a decade later, and in 2018, he co-founded the Underwater Sunshine Music Festival.
In his personal life, Duritz has dated actresses including Jennifer Aniston and Emmy Rossum. He has been in a relationship with filmmaker Zoe Mintz since 2017, after the two met on Tinder.
“I’m as happy as I can imagine being,” he told The Independent in May 2025. “I am actively concerned with someone else all the time, and that’s a really good feeling.”
Dan Vickrey
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Vickrey has been Counting Crows’ lead guitarist since 1994. In 2011, while the Crows went on hiatus, he founded Tender Mercies alongside another member of the band to produce and release their titular debut album.
While Vickrey continues to perform with the band, he also has interests in playing and collecting vintage guitars and amplifiers. He told Recording in 2012, “My Fender Esquire 1954 is amazing! It’s very flexible and the pickups help give a more ‘twangy’ rockin’ sound to a song. Also, my Epiphone Casino is great for reducing microphone feedback.”
The guitarist continues to live in San Francisco, per his Facebook, but not much else is known about his personal life.
David Bryson
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Before joining Counting Crows, Bryson was a member of the bands Mr. Dog and The Clique, and produced recordings by Duritz and his band at the time, The Himalayans. He owned Dancing Dog Studios from the mid-1980s, and operated it alongside his Counting Crows duties until it closed in 1997.
Bryson was a founding member of Counting Crows, and switched to rhythm guitar from lead in 1994 after Vickrey joined.
He keeps quite a low profile outside of his work with the band, but with them, he has received two Grammy Award nominations, won an MTV Video Music Award and received an Academy Award nomination for the band’s song “Accidentally in Love”, which was featured in Shrek 2.
Charlie Gillingham
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Gillingham studied philosophy and artificial intelligence and had a career as a software engineer before becoming involved in the music industry, per Rolling Stone.
He has been part of Counting Crows since 1991, primarily on keyboards but also providing backing vocals, accordion and clarinet. He has also occasionally played bass guitar during live shows.
Gillingham has been a member of other bands as well as Counting Crows, and played keyboards on Train’s eponymous debut album in 1998.
David Immerglück
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In 1985, Immerglück recorded his first single with the band Mod-L Society, which also featured Duritz. He started working with Counting Crows as a session musician in 1993 but declined to join full-time as he was working with other popular bands at the time.
By 1999, he had played on every album as a sideman, and ultimately accepted their offer to become a full member playing guitar, bass and mandolin.
“My history with the band is very bizarre,” Immerglück told Bullz Eye in 2004. “I was there very early on; I recorded the first record with them. Then I left and played with John Hiatt for about four and a half years. I came back in 1998 and have been pretty solidly around since.”
While involved with Counting Crows, he also formed another band, Glider, with drummer Bogios, and has worked with artists including Hootie & the Blowfish, Jonathan Segel, The Walkabouts and Paul Collins.
While living in San Francisco, he joined the improv collective Mushroom.
Jim Bogios
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Bogios joined Counting Crows on the drums in 2003, replacing Mize. He’d previously played the drums for Sheryl Crow, and through his work with Crow, he was able to perform and record with artists including Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and Prince.
“I would never have considered leaving Sheryl unless it was for an opportunity to be a band member,” he told Modern Drummer in 2008. “That was never going to happen with Sheryl, even though her gig featured me and it was as close to being a part of a band as you could ask — in that type of situation.”
He added, “It was my second family. So it was a big decision to leave. When I told Sheryl, she totally understood.”
Bogios has also worked with the likes of The Chicks, Ben Folds and Amy Grant, and is part of Tender Mercies alongside Vickrey.
Matt Malley
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Malley was in Mr. Dog with Bryson before joining Counting Crows, and in the latter band, he played bass. However, joining the band wasn’t a decision he made lightly.
He was 27 years old and had aspirations to move to Oklahoma and become an air traffic controller, he told Pop Passion blog in 2025. But when Counting Crows was about to sign to a major label, he had to choose what career path he wanted to pursue.
“I was at a crossroads because the band was about to sign to a major label and it’s a big commitment,” he said. “It means I’ll have to put off being an air traffic controller and then I’ll be too old to get hired.”
However, he said he was ultimately “so glad” with the choice he made.
Malley left Counting Crows in 2005, and three years later, he released a solo album, The Goddess Within. Since then, he has focused on his passion for yoga and moved to Southern California with his wife, Sesh, with whom he shares three sons: Tansen, Kabir and Kahlil.
Millard Powers
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Powers has been Counting Crows’ bassist since 2005, when he replaced Malley. Before joining, he was part of bands including Majosha and The Semantics and released a solo album. In 2005, he also appeared in 10 episodes of the TV show Three Wishes with Amy Grant.
In his personal life, Powers is married to Jennifer Quigley, an artist.
Ben Mize
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Mize took over from Bowman on drums in 1994 and left partway through the band’s Hard Candy tour in 2002 to spend more time with his family and pursue his own musical interests.
“That’s kind of where I’m at right now,” Duritz told Vox at the time. “Happy for him that he’s going to be doing what he wants to do, but I miss him already.”
Mize released a solo project, Nantahala, the following year, but has largely remained out of the public eye in the years since.
Steve Bowman
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Counting Crows’ original drummer, Bowman left the band in 1994. He remained in the music industry, playing with Third Eye Blind and John Wesley Harding and joining the band Luce.
Bowman has since worked as a session musician, released a book about drumming and written articles for music magazines. He moved to Nashville with his family in 2007 and has a private teaching studio, Murfreesboro Music Lab, near the city. He also has a podcast, Letters to an Aspiring Musician.
