Outside Lands: Counting Crows’ Adam Duritz drinks “tongue on belly” with chef Susan Feniger

You may know Adam Duritz as the fluffy-haired founding member of Counting Crows, but the vocalist is also a wine man. And before he took the stage to play music at Outside Lands on Friday, he jumped on the Gastro Lands stage with Los Angeles Mexican cuisine maven Susan Feniger to make carne asada tacos and pair them with Napa’s Elyse Zinfandel.

Along with Elyse winemaker Russell Baven, they also dropped a ton of sexual innuendos.

Feniger dressed Duritz in a “dirty” pink apron — no hair net — and got to work marinating the skirt steak with a blended mix of jalapenos, cilantro, cumin seed, lime, garlic and guava puree. “I like to tie one on with you,” Feniger said to Duritz in her signature deadpan tone. She was referring, of course, to the apron.

Then this: “Anyone want a ridiculously hot chile? Just don’t eat it. Rub it all over yourself or something,” Duritz said.

Unfortunately, a gentleman in the audience accepted the dare and took a big bite of what author, chef and Border Grill creator Feniger called a “Carolina reaper.” They eventually brought the poor chap on stage and nursed his tongue back to health with water and Elyse’s just-pressed zinfandel juice.

Then things took a boozy-soaked turn. “Fresh zinfandel juice should taste like the first time you rub your tongue against a new lover’s belly,” Bevan said.

Meanwhile, Gastro Magic audience members waited their turn for Feniger’s tasty skirt steak cradled in fresh tortillas and finished with cheese and guacamole.

About his chardonnay, Bevan said this: “We make chardonnay for people who like to be intimate with other people. Great wine should be a little sexual. And this one is like your lover’s pale, fabulous bum that you want to bite.”