Adam Schlesinger embodied the intrigue of New Jersey
Adam Schlesinger attends the 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' Live Event at the Feinstein's/54 Below on Nov. 3, 2016 in New York City.
The Fountains of Wayne co-founder died yesterday from coronavirus complications. Through his 52 years he frequently flourished, just outside the spotlight. When you grow up in New Jersey, you get used to knowing you're striking distance from the center of the world and a punchline at the same time. At any given moment, wherever you are in the Garden State, you're never much more than a two-hour trip from New York City. It can be inspirational and even life-affirming, but also numbingly normal. You've got a story to tell, but outsiders figure Springsteen or Bon Jovi already told it a generation ago, and would rather just hear sometrivia.
Adam Schlesinger, who died yesterday , grew up in one of those suburbs. The singer-songwriter spent his formative years in a college town called Montclair, about a 45-minute train ride from the City. All things considered, it's not so bad. It has nice parks and brunch spots, an annual film festival, and awhere bands like the Front Bottoms and Pinegrove cut their teeth. Stephen Colbert lives there when he's not holed up in the Ed Sullivan Theater.
Schlesinger, the band's bassist and backing vocalist, shared writing credits with Collingwood on virtually every Fountains of Wayne song, so it's often difficult to tell where their voices begin and end. Not on"Hackensack," though."Usually, a rule of thumb is if one of our songs has a New Jersey reference, or is about high school, that’s one of Adam’s," said Collingwood in ahelped me through related doldrums that summer.
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