![]() It was a big day when the oldest, Brandon, turned 16 and got his driver's license. In 1991, in the 10th grade and still too young to drive, the four friends decided to form a band simply because they loved music, from Primus and Rage Against the Machine to Ella Fitzgerald and Santana to S teve Vai and Iron Maiden. In middle school, they met guitarist Mike Einziger, who spent most of his time playing guitar in his bedroom then, in high school, the trio became friends with bassist Alex Katunich, who was playing in a jazz band. Vocalist and percussionist Brandon Boyd and drummer Jose Pasillas went to elementary school together. Incubus is five musicians from Calabasas, California, a semi-rural bedroom community north of Los Angeles who began playing music together out of natural friendship. While there is experimentation and intellect involved, Incubus, whatever their name may imply, is not a team of scientists, nor spirits searching for new ways to suck the life out of sleeping people, nor a devil-worshipping death-pop band. (Immortal/Epic), resulted in pure, clean energy and a lot of phat, big bangs like the metallic "My Favorite Things," the light-speeding "Nebula," the chanting and heavy grooves of "Redefine," the far-out bedtime story "Magic Medicine," and the '70s-sounding pornographic-in-a-"Love Boat"-way "Antigravity Love Song." The difference in mass of Incubus' first full-length experiment, S.C.I.E.N.C.E. ![]() In the Incubus form of fusion, the nuclei of funk, thrash-rock and hip-hop are joined together, or fused, at temperatures evoking pleasurable sweat, to form a single heavy nucleus called S.C.I.E.N.C.E., ejecting twelve powerful sonic neutrons in the process. They've forgotten about experimentation, fusion and fission, and big bangs and blowing things up. ![]() They see it as dissecting a frog, determining the theory of relativity, or having to share your microscope with the geek who invests in pocket protectors.
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