Kilmore's equipment: Technics 1200 (2)- Rane TTMS4 Battle Mixer. Mike's favorite cereal is Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
Mike believes that aliens exist, but has never seen one. He'd ask him, "How'd you do it? How do you take a musical form that's unheard of and change it to suit your style, and then touch the whole world with it?" Kilmore said that if he could meet one musical idol it would be Bob Marley.
Incubus were one of the first bands to incorporate a DJ. Incubus became more of a commercial success with the release of Make Yourself. Guitarist Mike Einziger is continually inventive, and frontman Brandon Boyd is an old-school, long-haired, hippyish would-be poet-turned-rock god of the Jim Morrison variety, who implicitly acknowledges the influence when he dips into the Doors’ Riders on the Storm.Incubus formed in 1991 in Calabassas, CA. If the more dated songs’ blend of big, sludgy riffs and DJ Kilmore’s hip-hop scratching at least partly explains the nu-metal tag, the Morning View songs in particular suggest that at heart Incubus have always been an expansive Pearl Jam-type rock band with a certain esoteric spirituality.
Sadly, the frogs haven’t made it to Birmingham – perhaps they were delayed at customs – but, after having slightly lost their way in recent years, the band are revisiting those two much-loved albums live. Their breakthrough album, Make Yourself, found the quintet inexplicably tagged as nu-metal its mega-selling follow-up, Morning View, seemed intent to debunk such comparisons by incorporating Chinese instruments, a Japanese orchestra and the sound of recorded frogs. T wenty two years ago, California surf hippies Incubus were hurtling towards multi-platinum status on the back of Drive, an acoustic road-trip anthem which found its way into the US Top 10 and the repertoire of many a bedroom guitarist.
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