This Guitar Meets Science video chronicles the meteoric rise and spectacular fall of the Spin Doctors, the early-90s jam-rock band behind the multi-platinum album Pocket Full of Kryptonite and massive hits “Two Princes” and “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong.” It details their funky New York club origins, Epic Records’ shocking incompetence (including promo photos showing six people for a four-piece band), relentless van-touring grind, and the lucky MTV-fueled breakout. The story peaks with guitarist Eric Schenkman’s infamous mid-concert walkout in Berkeley—putting down his guitar and leaving the band onstage mid-show—which accelerated the band’s collapse amid burnout, poor label support, plummeting sales, and later personal tragedies like Chris Barron losing his voice. The narrator frames it as a classic tale of rock success undone by ego, bad decisions, and industry realities.
