I know that everybody sends lots of messages to you every second. But this is a special one. I’m a big fan of you, and I just want to thank you guys to make October 14th, the amazing night that I never forget. I was at the “CITIBANK HALL” to see your first show here at São Paulo, Brazil. I could ever imagine something like that show. You guys really ROCKS. It was amazing!!! I wish I could be with you at stage. Brandon Your voice is wonderful!!! The lyrics fly through your mouth… Mike The faster finger of the world … you’re the best guitar player ever… Jose You’re shinny guy at the drums…the heart of the band…you really do a wonderful performance at the stage… Chris You put something special into every single music, that makes thousands of fans adore Incubus. It’s like magic! Ben As everyone in this band, you’re amazing…you’re a wonderful bass player…and you really do the difference!
In resume …you’re all AWESOME!
Brandon, in the end of the dvd “Live at the Red Rocks” show, you said *Thanks for being with us* Now is my turn… *Incubus …thanks for playing for us!*
I know that everybody sends lots of messages to you every second. But this is a special one. I’m a big fan of you, and I just want to thank you guys to make October 14th, the amazing night that I never forget. I was at the “CITIBANK HALL” to see your first show here at São Paulo, Brazil. I could ever imagine something like that show. You guys really ROCKS. It was amazing!!! I wish I could be with you at stage. Brandon Your voice is wonderful!!! The lyrics fly through your mouth… Mike The faster finger of the world … you’re the best guitar player ever… Jose You’re shinny guy at the drums…the heart of the band…you really do a wonderful performance at the stage… Chris You put something special into every single music, that makes thousands of fans adore Incubus. It’s like magic! Ben As everyone in this band, you’re amazing…you’re a wonderful bass player…and you really do the difference!
In resume …you’re all AWESOME!
Brandon, in the end of the dvd “Live at the Red Rocks” show, you said *Thanks for being with us* Now is my turn… *Incubus …thanks for playing for us!*
Hey, thank You for the great show in Finland! It was beautiful. And thanks for the interview for Voice Tv, i'll send You the link to it when it comes out. Hope you enjoyed the lingonberry licorice :) Peace! -Tea
JOY MARIE IF YOU DESPISE BRANDON BOYD SO MUCH WHY DO YOU CONTINUALLY STALK EVERYONE OF HIS SITES? ALSO WHY DID YOU MAKE A PROFILE JUST LIKE HIPPIE GIRL OR WHATEVER? YOU SHOULD SEE A PSYCHIATRIST.
"I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal", "not everyone here is that fucked up and cold", "I dig my toes into the sand, the ocean looks like a thousand diamonds strewn across a blue blanket". Sounds peaceful and full of love to me. xoxoxoxo to Incubus
Wow Joymarie- you really have no fucking clue do you? You speak of self-absorbtion yet you post a bunch of close-ups of yourself on your page!! IRONIC!!!
since when is about 5 pictures alot?and they are close up because i took them myself and mustered up a smile for my uber friends.yeah i am like so self absorbed. i should be ashamed for adding pictures to my own page and never smile at anyone.i really have n't a clue.i feel so ashamed right now.i was so wrong.what,with you being so very gorgeously & healthy looking yourself ,my god,what was i thinking????!
Joymarie have you ever even listened to incubus they are so incourging and peaceful there songs are not out of anger. There music is nothing close to what you are saying so my advice to you is to shut your mouth until you now what you are talking about and quit making yourself look like a fucking bitch.
Wenn Sie zuruck einen Recorder speilen,spielt er ruckseitige Worter fur Sie.hippiekind69:" Saugen ein fettes cock.No Wunder Brandon war gehen solch ein ******* Dick.".
When you grow up in Calabassas, California and school isn’t doing it for you and you’re burned out on surfing and skating and you’re bored, you start a band. At least that’s what Brandon Boyd, Jose Pasillas and Mike Einziger did. They called themselves Incubus, (a demon who lies on sleeping people and has sex with sleeping women) and they grew up to be one of the most successful alt-rock/metal bands of the last 15 years.
They were still legends in their minds back in the early 1990s, however, when, as the story goes, Mike Einziger, the guitarist in the band, found $100.00 on the ground. Being from Southern California, they already knew that the only way to play on the Sunset Strip was to pay the promoter, either in cash or by delivering paid ticket holders.
They did both, handing the promoter, who had to know the men in Incubus were really boys, and promoting the shows to the Calabassas fans, who willingly made the drive into town. Everyone, the promoter, the band and the fans, were happy with the result. Despite their age, they became a fixture on the Strip, started building their reputation as a promising live act, releasing self-released EP, Fungus Amongus, and, in 1995, adding a DJ, Gavin Koppell, who as a turntablist added a new dynamic to the band’s sound.
By 1996, Incubus’ live shows had made them a hot property. Ultimately they signed to Immortal/Epic, repackaged and remixed Fungus Amongus as Enjoy Incubus in January 1997, and recorded the weirdly experimental S.C.I.E.N.C.E. The radio could care less, but on the strength of their live tours with everyone from 311, Korn and System of a Down to Ozzfest and the Warped Tour, the album sold a respectable 100,000 copies.
Around that time, the band replaced Koppell with Chris Kilmore, who first appears with them on the third record, 1999’s Make Yourself, which got a last minute assist, reportedly in the mixing process, from mega-producer Scott Litt. An acoustic version of the first single, “Pardon Me,” on radio interviews built enough of a buzz to prompt a video and an EP When Incubus Attacks (Vol. 1). Propelled by subsequent singles, “Stellar’ and “Drive,” the album crept its way to platinum. By this point, Incubus had been writing and performing for eight years, but to most people, they were just the latest overnight success story.
By the next album, Morning View, they didn’t have to work so hard for sales, selling 266,000 copies in the first week and entering the charts at number two. But there was personal turmoil in the band, and bassist Alex Katunich, who had been with the band ever since the high school days, left the band, to be replaced by Ben Kenney.
Incubus also had unfinished business with the record company. Citing a California law that prevents companies from engaging in contracts that are longer than seven years, Incubus sued, claiming that they had not been receiving a fair share of the income that they had generated. The record company counter-sued but later gave the band a multi-million dollar contract for three albums with the option to extend to a fourth.
The band celebrated by putting out a song, “Megalomaniac,” with an unmistakable message to George Bush. Because it is political subtext, MTV banned the video from daytime viewing, inadvertently making it a cause celebre and priming the public for the next album, A Crow Left of the Murder..., which, like its predecessor, went to number two the first week, selling 332,000 copies its first week.
As the Crow flies, it took them another two years and a few tours later to come up with their sixth record, 2006’s Light Grenades. Although it was their first to go to number one, it sold only 165,000 to do so, making it one of their weakest starts in years.
Still, as lead singer Brandon Boyd told his fans on the band’s website, “I think I can speak for my band when I say that we are interested in movement, experimentation and freedom. Being in this band has allowed us the freedom to move in and around other artistic endeavors. Like meandering streams we each wandered off over the past two years; only to be drawn unconsciously back to the ocean where all streams converge. And thus composed IGrenades. What I am getting at (sort of) is that art has rescued us in many ways. Through circumstance, chance, good fortune, a teeny, weeny bit of talent, and an ardor for expressivity, Incubus has survived long enough to garnish a perspective onto itself.”
And now, after touring on for almost a year, this perspective has taught them one thing. As people with a certain position and control over their careers and lives, it’s now time for Incubus to take some time off and wait for the muse to strike again.
