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STRAIGHT FROM THE INCUBUS PRESSCON
Incubus songs in the Philippines are pretty much an integral part in the development of amateur bands. … and then they eventually graduate to something from S.C.I.E.N.C.E. – nebula, , Um, do you think it’s possible for this nation to have Incubus songs as such an integral part to the foundation of the music industry?
Mike Einziger: That’s a scary question…and not one really for us to answer. That’s more for you guys to figure out, We just make the stuff, then we you know, … fly around and play it really really through
DJ Chris Kilmore: Yes, definitely. I think that whatever music…when you’re just starting out, it’s important to take advantages from your favorite music, but at all times, remember that it’s your instrument and it’s coming out of you and be very individualistic with it as well, you need to look it out and…to, to learn the instrument, but you should remember that it’s your instrument, you could do whatever you want with it. You don’t have to… Mike: Yeah and as long as you’re inspired by it, it doesn’t matter what it is, though, I guess that’s a good thing.
What were you guys like when you were seventeen?
Brandon: The three of us (mike and jose) were in a band. We, ah…our sense of hygiene has improved Mike: I have more facial hair now that I did then Brandon Boyd: I don’t ?: longer hair Brandon: um, and I think that we all thought that we were right about everything. And still we… DJ Kilmore: I thought I knew, but as it turns out I’m wrong Brandon Boyd: Um…wow. You know. Mike: That’s about it. Everything else is pretty much either the same.’ Ben: Yeah, we still don’t have real jobs, so…
In the making of the Crow left of the Murder, is your creativity that is fueled by your anger also inspired by groups like Fugazi and The Drive In or are you just inspired by your sentiments?
? : I would say more inspired by our own sentiments. Mike Einziger: I think we inspire each other. Um, we had to do a lot of different elements that went into influencing the making of this record but most of which I think were each other and um, the experience that we had traveling and touring Brandon Boyd: I agree that um, to that, I didn’t necessarily feel outwardly angry in making this record. I felt inspired and a lot of times when um, in general , you channel emotions like anger or frustration, love and whatever those things are, um, and, …and so, that’s where we get a lot of our music from, you know…I think… do a really good job of channeling that this emotion’s part of the anger or the other one’s, you know, the ones you’ve mentioned… we….
What’s your own personal favorite Incubus songs?
Mike Einziger: That’s a little hard question for us to answer. They’re all, like, our babies. Yeah, they’re like children. Brandon Boyd: I dig favorites Mike Einziger: Yeah…what are your favorite ones…You’re on the spot! Jose (or Ben?): I’d say a couple of songs that I really enjoyed playing these past few of shows would be, uh, Crow Left of the Murder and Sick Sad Little World. Brandon Boyd: Yeah, I agree. Those are my favorites right now too. I think it probably changes.
Your music from album to album has changed drastically from fungus to science to a crow… How prominent will the old songs, particularly the old songs from fungus or science will be in your set come tomorrow night?
Brandon Boyd: We, um, actually are planning kinda a little bit of everything, you know? There’s not much at all from Fungusamongus because that record is um, part of it is actually demos that we did when we were teenagers and largely it was… (tape gets cut…)
Working on the new album
It was a really good time for all of us. Well, we were…it was a very transitional time in our band…we had, you know, a new band member…music for the first time that was inspiring. There was also a wealth of things going on … you know, everyday…everything was inspiring. There was a shortage of things to write about, you know, everyday, we felt..
(I can’t understand this part…!!!)
Ben, in particular, how do feel about shifting bands, coz on the surface, The Roots and Incubus don’t seem to have much common ground in terms of you know, when you listen to the music…sound of Incubus, you can’t make that connection. How do you make that adjustment?
Ben Kenney: Well, I mean, it, well, there’s so much that goes on behind it, and there’s so much more than … and one thing that The Roots and Incubus have in common is that we just kind of have a single minded goal when we kind of go through that thing which makes it easier on a personal level to you know…in trying to achieve something. Musically, it’s like The Roots are a group of guys at the top of their game, you know. And Incubus is also at the top of their game so it’s a challenge either way. And stylistically, it’s kind of a drastic difference, but overall, I mean, I don’t really…I love to play, whenever I could play, any kind of music. I listen to a handful of the Fugazi music…and (???) as well, so for me to come and play along with something else is kind of natural to me as (???) The Roots and play hiphop. So it all kind of translated more than it seems more on the surface, y’know, that’s how I feel about it. I mean these guys were jerks when I got in. Mike Einziger: It was actually pretty seamless for us to, uh, work deliberately after adjusting to, and to, um, work with Ben K. He has a really, really broad understanding of music in general, not just, y’know, rock music, punk music, and hip hop or anything. He was just very…more of a (???) musician, probably any of us are so. He also had a long history of playing rock music as well, wo, um, it was really natural for us to make music with him.
Tell us something about the make-yourself foundation. How involved are you in it?
Brandon Boyd: We are actively involved in the Make Yourself Foundation. See, the original idea was just to basically we, I mean, we’ve been doing this, um, some work with charity before hand, some sort of on a more sporadic basis, um, ah… When an idea or a cause was presented to us, we would participate in any ways that we are able to, and we just basically started figuring that, uh, our efforts would be a lot more concise, consolidated if we just started our own foundation. It would be a lot more on our terms too. And we could choose very specific charities that work with us on a weekly or a monthly or regular basis. We choose charities that we want to highlight and we want to help fund, some of which are consummerate music conservatories which is, free (???) into music schools and we started it in Los Angeles. There’s also the um, Turtle Foundation which is…wait, what’s the main highlight of? It’s a campus. Basically it’s a camp for terminally ill children um to go to with their families and they have full medical facilities on the campsites. So it’s just …that there are people out there doing in the world and in serve (???) a lot of young people would know they were there….to help to…so we just wanted to basically make, like a resource center that we could go to. And we just found it really cool to, um, do charities and foundations. So basically we’d be going for this goal by the end of this year, we are going to raise…by the end of this year, we are going to raise a million dollars and donate all of that money to some of these charities, so we’re, uh, well on our way.
To Ben and DJ Kilmore: Knowing that the band…well, it’s actually, it’s not classified as any conventional type of rock genre. You guys are mainly influenced by hip-hop, Ben Kenny, a member of The Roots, and DJChris Kilmore, you know what I mean, hip-hop. Does this mean that 2 guys representing hip-hop would alleviate the Incubus being a rock band to a sorta hip-hop rock band?
DJ Chris Kilmore: Uh, no. I think my influence in fact, is the attitude, from hip-hop, as was known in the late eighties. It was something that was sorta, um, messed up into our sampling, and looking for a different sound, and taking out other people’s music, and so that, you messin it all up and making new music out of it. It wasn’t so much being cool, or wearing cool clothes, about that, it wasn’t…marketed yet, y’know. It was definitely not what it is today. There’s cool things about it today, but there’s also…y’know, it’s been very disappointing. I think that…the question is, the music is sorta like…uh…y;know, jazz revolution. It was just people doing their own thing, trying to do something new with it. And To me that’s what hip hop is. Y’know, and that attitude could be in any kind of music. and that’s the attitude I think that we all dig, it’s the attitude that we all share. So.. yo’know, hip hop to me, I got a different attitude. I really don’t like the course of the way hip-hop is going today. But, um,
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