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On the phone with Brandon Boyd.
(From Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Byline: Robby Mananquil, Contributor
TWENTY minutes on the phone with Brandon Boyd of Incubus? I thought Tim Yap, Veng Taningco of Jag Jeans, and Roslyn Reyes of Sony Philippines, were just pulling my leg.
Could I just jam with him for 20 precious minutes? Obviously not, so I started thinking up questions. Should I probe the poetry of his music? Should I ask how he creates love songs like a love-struck bard? Should I plumb the angst with which he shrieks out political protests? Should I check on what it takes to produce such tension with guitar theatrics?
No, please, fellow Incubus fans around me pleaded-could I just ask him other things? Such as? They ended up texting me their questions.
All Incubus fans know how Brandon Boyd, Mike Einzinger, Jose Padillas, Chris Kilmore (that's Dj Kilmore) and Dirk Lance (who has since been replaced by Ben Kenney of The Roots) began as high schoolers in the San Fernando Valley outpost of Calabasas grouping together.
Incubus soared to smashing success in 2001 when their sing-along, "Drive" topped the Modern Rock charts and landed in the Top 40. It is remarkable how they have evolved-and they are constantly evolving-from funk metal to nu metal, though they…
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