June 13, 2025 • 16 mins
Brandon Boyd of Incubus joins the show for a deep, reflective, and honest conversation ahead of the band’s June 25th stop at Bridgestone Arena. We dig into the legacy of Morning View, what it was like creating that iconic album in an oceanfront house, and how the songs take on new life performing them decades later. Brandon also opens up about overcoming creative blocks, the role of AI in music today, and shares one underrated Incubus deep cut he wishes fans talked about more. Plus, we get a glimpse into what’s next for the band in 2025.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tswent O five to nine in the Rock Nashville's Classic
(00:02):
Rockets Battle in the Morning, and all this week we've
been giving away tickets to see Incubus. They're gonna be
a Bridge don Arena coming up here on June twenty fifth. Tickets,
by the way, steal still available ticketmaster dot com, where
you could just you know, keep listening to one oh
five nine the Rock because you could win your way.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
To the show.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Coming up here at eight ten and joining us on
the show today is a guy that you're going to
be hearing seeing those songs from the band that we
just talked about.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Brandon Boyd from Incubus joins the show. Brandon, how are
you doing sir?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yeah, I'm good. How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Man?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I am doing good and I I'm not gonna lie.
I UH super stoked for this show that's coming to
Nashville because uh as a part of my teenage years
and I'm sure you get this a lot.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
You were a part of my teenage years.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Incubis was, and UH, it's an honor and a privilege
to have you on the show, and an honor and
a privilege to be talking to you right now.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
And the honor is mine thank you so much for
saying so man.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Man, I got to talk about it, because this is
a really cool tour because what you're doing is you're
playing Morning View from start to finish, and let's just,
you know, dive into it.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Because Morning View wasn't just an album.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
It was a spiritual shift for so many fans, including myself. Now,
when you go back and you look at creating this
album in that ocean front house, can you take us
to a specific moment during the process, maybe lyrically, emotionally
or sonically, where you knew this record was going to
change everything for the band.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I wish I had that kind of confidence.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
I didn't know at all. I didn't know what it
was going to do. I don't think any of us
were really in that head space. Well, I can only
speak for myself. I was more in that house in
the moment, and it was exciting to be there. We
had some wind at our back with the success of
(01:52):
the album that came before it.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
It's called Make Yourself, and so we had that sense
of momentum.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
We were in this really cool kind of like it
was definitely it's this big, beautiful house in Malibu overlooking
the ocean, but the house was sort of like it
was like a crumbling mansion, and we were we pulled
mattresses into the different bedrooms, and we lugged all of
our gear into the living room, and so it was
(02:20):
big and beautiful but also kind of like crappy and
awesome at the same time.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
And there was just wires everywhere there was.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
It looked like it was like we were building like
a like a time machine or something, and maybe we were.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I don't that's what albums can be, if they were.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I did like to answer your question, though, I didn't
know what it was going to do, if it was
going to do anything, But we were having a wonderful time,
and I'm really proud of what came out of it.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
So yeah, and especially for all of us fans, very
proud of what came from that album, because I mean,
you're performing that album, you're doing the tour around that
album in its entirety, and you know, performing that and
it's entirely brings fans into a very specific moment in
the evolution of Incubus. Right when you revisit those songs live,
(03:11):
do they take on maybe a new meaning for you now,
either emotionally or creatively that wasn't present when you first recorded.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Them most certainly.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Yeah, you know, when we're writing and recording these songs, we,
like I said, we didn't know if anyone would even
hear them, let alone be singing them at the top
of their lungs with us in Arenas twenty four years later.
You know, So when we're having this experience with playing
(03:43):
the album from front to back, there's a bunch of
the same memories and emotions are are coming forward for
me singing them, but then there's this sort of new
reflection with the audiences, kind of like like howling, I'm
back at us. That is totally unanticipated and kind of
(04:05):
the coolest thing in the world. It's like one of
the most wild experiences. It's hard to describe, but we're
incredibly appreciative of it.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
And I see where you're coming from about the whole,
you know, not being able to describe it because as
a fan, from a fans perspective of like sitting there
in the concert and you're just singing along with you guys,
And I know, for me, there's not very many concerts
that I will go to where I take on a
whole different level.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
But when I've seen you guys in concert.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I close my eyes and this might sound cliche, but
I'm gonna fangirl because we can do this.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Here because I'm talking to you.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
But I close my eyes and it's like I'm taking
to a different place and I just close my eyes.
I hear you performing and I'm like, I listened to
it on the album, I'm listening to it live. It's
just a whole different experience.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I'm doing the same thing for the most part.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
I am closing my eyes and tapping into some type
of source material, but then hearing the response. And then
I opened my eyes and I see the response, and
it almost becomes almost like a like a quasi church
in a way. It's really interesting. But in this church,
(05:18):
it's like everybody is. It's it's just communal. We're all
there together doing the same thing, the shared purpose, shared emotions.
It's beautiful and not really excited to come and do
the show in Nashville.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
It's definitely gonna be a fun one for sure. Of course.
Bridge Stone Arena coming up here June twenty fifth.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Still tickets available ticketmaster dot com or you keep listening
here to one O five nine. The rock because it's
coming up here at eight ten. We're gonna give away
the last pair of tickets this week that.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
We have for us. Now, one thing that I have
seen in a.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Lot of past interviews, and you've talked about this, that
you've mentioned creativity comes in waves.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Was there ever a time maybe.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
In the band's career when you maybe had to force inspiration?
And if so, how did you push through without, you know,
compromising authenticity.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I can't speak for everybody in the band.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
I can only speak for myself and my own experience
in the band. But no, And it's probably why there
are gaps in between our albums. It's not for a
lack of creativity, but because I think all of us
collectively honor the experience of creativity and that it comes
(06:31):
in waves, and that it's not something that you can
just be like, be.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Creative now and go.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
You know, some people have that and that's great for them.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I've my experience.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
With with creativity and also being in in now a career,
in a in a career of creative expression, is that
the more I honor it as its own thing, like
oh it's here, Oh wow, beautiful, let's play, let's make
things let's do things, and then when it's not there,
being like, okay, you're not here right now, I'm gonna
(07:05):
go take a bike ride, I'm going to go for
a surf or something, do something else, and you're not
kind of like expecting it to perform for you. It
creates a healthier relationship to it. And so when it's here, amazing,
we're celebrating, we're making things, we're making things together, all
of us. When it's not, you don't take it personally,
and it seems to engender a longer, probably more functional
(07:31):
relationship to creativity.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, no, that makes absolute sense.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I mean again, like you said, you notice that you're
not forcing an album, so there could be you know,
gaps in between those albums because you don't want to
just force something. And then people are like, well, that's
not the ink youbis I was listening to on the
last album.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
But the interesting thing, and perhaps the ironic thing, is
that when we come back with a new album, it
usually sounds pretty vastly different than the one that came
before it. And that's because we don't force the creativity.
We allow it to sort of morph and change and
go where it wants to go and we're sort of
chasing it as opposed to, I don't know something else.
(08:14):
It likes to move, It likes to morph and do
different things and so and that's what keeps it fun
and interesting, is just like knowing that, yeah, I don't
want to write the same song twice to try something else,
And so sometimes that can be challenging for a listener.
But then occasionally listener will find themselves surprised that they
(08:37):
are enjoying something that they didn't expect to.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, for sure, And you know you talk about, you know,
something that people didn't expect.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I want to go back to Coachella when you guys
showed up with Z.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
What was that like?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I mean I remember watching it the next day and
just everybody sharing that video and talking about the performance,
which also brought you know, a new audience to Incubus.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Walk me through the moment.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
You stepped out there with Zed on that stage and
you just look out there with Coachella, right.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
You know, I've been to Coachella a handful of times
just as a as a concert goer, and I sort
of thought, you know, because the Coachella landscape has changed
so dramatically, over the years, it used to be more
of kind of like an alternative band type of experience
has become, you know, much more sort of like the
(09:34):
center of pop culture, at least on the West Coast,
and so I let go of the idea that we
might one day play it. And then Zed is an
old friend of the band, and he just approached us
literally days before the performance and was like, I want
you guys to come on stage with me and play
some Incubus songs. And to me, my first thought was like,
(09:58):
how's that going to work? You know, And he sent
us this truncated medley of three of our songs, I
Wish You were here, Drive, and Pardon Me, and all
of a sudden it was like, Okay, I can see
how this is working. And then we went and did
one day of rehearsal with him. He's like, I'm going
to play the drums with you, and I didn't realize
(10:21):
that he was as good of a drummer as he is. Right,
it was he and Jose playing drums. So we had
this like almost like grateful dead moment, you know, two
drummers with our songs. And it was fun, man, it
was exciting. It was the first time we had Pyro,
it was like there's like fire and explosions in front
of us. And then to top it all off, nobody
(10:43):
threw anything or booed, which is fantastic. That's how you
know it's a success. If nobody throws anything or booze.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
It, you right for sure.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
And of course, you know, with that being a viral
moment from Coachella, I think the great thing about that
is you had a new audience that didn't know Incubus
became fans of Incubis after that performance.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
That new crowd.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Hopefully, well we're gonna we're gonna make sure that they
become new fans of Incubis after that.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
For sure, we're gonna campaign on it.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Of course, we're hanging out with Brandon Boyd Incubus at
Bridgetone Arena June twenty fifth. Tickets still available ticketmaster dot com.
You know, you look around and there's a lot of
talks about AI technology and whatnot. And in a world
where AI is starting to write songs and resurrect voices
of dead artists, what is your honest take on that?
(11:38):
Because I mean, I sometimes I'll scroll through it. I'm
like Frank Sinatras out here doing gin and juice.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
This is interesting is it?
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Is it a terrifying threat to originality or is it
just maybe a new tool in the creative arsenal For this.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
I'm still on the fence about it, to be honest,
I've seen all of the movies.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I watched Terminator enough times. My first thought is like,
what are we doing? Yep, did't you guys see the movie?
They've made this, literally like countless times? What are we doing?
Speaker 4 (12:09):
It starts innocently enough, like oh, look, Frank Sinatra's doing
gen and juice, and then all of a sudden, Skynet
becomes sentient and we're all screwed.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Right right. But I'm old.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Enough to know that you shouldn't get histrionic about something
until there's something to worry about.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
But yeah, I mean, in my heart of hearts, I would.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
If AI is here to stay, which it probably is,
I would much rather it work on like clean universal
energy sources, or maybe like healthcare for everybody.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
A little bit more productive.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
But I saw some country Western songs that it wrote recently.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Through I don't know which AI.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
If it was Chat, GPT or GROC, I'm not sure
what it was, but they were actually really good, and
it was it was kind of unnerving, to be honest,
because I for so long, you know, there's been this
sort of specter of AI and like it's coming for
everybody's jobs, and the thought for me was it's not
(13:14):
coming for music. And then it's like the first thing
that it's coming for is music.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
So we'll see.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I don't know, it'll it'll definitely be an interesting thing
for sure.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I know that we don't have much much time left,
is that we're gonna wrap it up here shortly. You
know one thing that and I was scrolling through and
you look on your guys's YouTube channel, Drive might be
one of the most recognizable alt rock songs ever. But
I'm curious, is there maybe a deep cut in the
Incubus catalog that you personally wish more people paid attention to.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Oh, it's an interesting question.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
You know, we've written a lot of songs, and we've
written like one hundred and fifty songs this point and
so where it's amazing that Drive has broken through and
as recognizable to so many people. And I wouldn't change that.
(14:11):
It would be cool if some of the other tracks
got a little bit more Your time, God where would
I even begin would I would say, if people wanted
to do more of a deep dive and apply this
thought experiment for themselves, I would jump into our record
(14:32):
called a Kroll after the Murder, which came out after
a Morning Dude. There are a lot of deep cuts
on that record which I think are really really clever
and really interesting.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
So yeah, I'll leave it at that. Go check that
record out.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Go check that record out, and make sure you also
go check out Incubus when they come to Bridge don
Arita coming up here a couple weeks from now. It's
gonna be June twenty fifth. Ticketmaster dot com. You can
still buy tickets. You can also win your tickets. Coming
up here later this morning at eight ten. Question, we'll
wrap things up. You know, we're halfway through twenty twenty five.
What does the rest of the year look like for
(15:06):
Incubus other than this tour that you're getting on.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
We are.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
We're sitting on a finished new album as produced by
Brendan O'Brien, and we're just going to be planning its release.
We're trying to be smart and patient and calculating about
the way that we put this new record out It's
a very different world now in any number of ways.
(15:37):
But you know, the Internet has changed the way that
everybody does everything and hears everything and sees everything. So
we want to make sure that we give this new
record as good of a chance as it can get
to get to as many ears and eyes as possible.
But the new records called Something in the Water, and
it'll be coming out in the near term.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
That's what we like to hear, is Incubist fans new
music on the way, be looking out for that. Of course,
make sure you're following Incubus on all social media platforms. Brandon,
let me tell you it's again an honor and a
privilege to sit here and talk with you on the
show today. Looking forward to that show coming up here
in Nashville on June twenty fifth, and we'll see you there.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Man.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yeah, thank you so much. Have a great day.
Tswent O five to nine in the Rock Nashville's Classic
(00:02):
Rockets Battle in the Morning, and all this week we've
been giving away tickets to see Incubus. They're gonna be
a Bridge don Arena coming up here on June twenty fifth. Tickets,
by the way, steal still available ticketmaster dot com, where
you could just you know, keep listening to one oh
five nine the Rock because you could win your way.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
To the show.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Coming up here at eight ten and joining us on
the show today is a guy that you're going to
be hearing seeing those songs from the band that we
just talked about.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Brandon Boyd from Incubus joins the show. Brandon, how are
you doing sir?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yeah, I'm good. How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Man?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I am doing good and I I'm not gonna lie.
I UH super stoked for this show that's coming to
Nashville because uh as a part of my teenage years
and I'm sure you get this a lot.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
You were a part of my teenage years.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Incubis was, and UH, it's an honor and a privilege
to have you on the show, and an honor and
a privilege to be talking to you right now.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
And the honor is mine thank you so much for
saying so man.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Man, I got to talk about it, because this is
a really cool tour because what you're doing is you're
playing Morning View from start to finish, and let's just,
you know, dive into it.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Because Morning View wasn't just an album.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
It was a spiritual shift for so many fans, including myself. Now,
when you go back and you look at creating this
album in that ocean front house, can you take us
to a specific moment during the process, maybe lyrically, emotionally
or sonically, where you knew this record was going to
change everything for the band.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I wish I had that kind of confidence.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
I didn't know at all. I didn't know what it
was going to do. I don't think any of us
were really in that head space. Well, I can only
speak for myself. I was more in that house in
the moment, and it was exciting to be there. We
had some wind at our back with the success of
(01:52):
the album that came before it.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
It's called Make Yourself, and so we had that sense
of momentum.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
We were in this really cool kind of like it
was definitely it's this big, beautiful house in Malibu overlooking
the ocean, but the house was sort of like it
was like a crumbling mansion, and we were we pulled
mattresses into the different bedrooms, and we lugged all of
our gear into the living room, and so it was
(02:20):
big and beautiful but also kind of like crappy and
awesome at the same time.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
And there was just wires everywhere there was.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
It looked like it was like we were building like
a like a time machine or something, and maybe we were.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I don't that's what albums can be, if they were.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I did like to answer your question, though, I didn't
know what it was going to do, if it was
going to do anything, But we were having a wonderful time,
and I'm really proud of what came out of it.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
So yeah, and especially for all of us fans, very
proud of what came from that album, because I mean,
you're performing that album, you're doing the tour around that
album in its entirety, and you know, performing that and
it's entirely brings fans into a very specific moment in
the evolution of Incubus. Right when you revisit those songs live,
(03:11):
do they take on maybe a new meaning for you now,
either emotionally or creatively that wasn't present when you first recorded.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Them most certainly.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Yeah, you know, when we're writing and recording these songs, we,
like I said, we didn't know if anyone would even
hear them, let alone be singing them at the top
of their lungs with us in Arenas twenty four years later.
You know, So when we're having this experience with playing
(03:43):
the album from front to back, there's a bunch of
the same memories and emotions are are coming forward for
me singing them, but then there's this sort of new
reflection with the audiences, kind of like like howling, I'm
back at us. That is totally unanticipated and kind of
(04:05):
the coolest thing in the world. It's like one of
the most wild experiences. It's hard to describe, but we're
incredibly appreciative of it.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
And I see where you're coming from about the whole,
you know, not being able to describe it because as
a fan, from a fans perspective of like sitting there
in the concert and you're just singing along with you guys,
And I know, for me, there's not very many concerts
that I will go to where I take on a
whole different level.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
But when I've seen you guys in concert.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I close my eyes and this might sound cliche, but
I'm gonna fangirl because we can do this.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Here because I'm talking to you.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
But I close my eyes and it's like I'm taking
to a different place and I just close my eyes.
I hear you performing and I'm like, I listened to
it on the album, I'm listening to it live. It's
just a whole different experience.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I'm doing the same thing for the most part.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
I am closing my eyes and tapping into some type
of source material, but then hearing the response. And then
I opened my eyes and I see the response, and
it almost becomes almost like a like a quasi church
in a way. It's really interesting. But in this church,
(05:18):
it's like everybody is. It's it's just communal. We're all
there together doing the same thing, the shared purpose, shared emotions.
It's beautiful and not really excited to come and do
the show in Nashville.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
It's definitely gonna be a fun one for sure. Of course.
Bridge Stone Arena coming up here June twenty fifth.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Still tickets available ticketmaster dot com or you keep listening
here to one O five nine. The rock because it's
coming up here at eight ten. We're gonna give away
the last pair of tickets this week that.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
We have for us. Now, one thing that I have
seen in a.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Lot of past interviews, and you've talked about this, that
you've mentioned creativity comes in waves.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Was there ever a time maybe.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
In the band's career when you maybe had to force inspiration?
And if so, how did you push through without, you know,
compromising authenticity.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I can't speak for everybody in the band.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
I can only speak for myself and my own experience
in the band. But no, And it's probably why there
are gaps in between our albums. It's not for a
lack of creativity, but because I think all of us
collectively honor the experience of creativity and that it comes
(06:31):
in waves, and that it's not something that you can
just be like, be.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Creative now and go.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
You know, some people have that and that's great for them.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I've my experience.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
With with creativity and also being in in now a career,
in a in a career of creative expression, is that
the more I honor it as its own thing, like
oh it's here, Oh wow, beautiful, let's play, let's make
things let's do things, and then when it's not there,
being like, okay, you're not here right now, I'm gonna
(07:05):
go take a bike ride, I'm going to go for
a surf or something, do something else, and you're not
kind of like expecting it to perform for you. It
creates a healthier relationship to it. And so when it's here, amazing,
we're celebrating, we're making things, we're making things together, all
of us. When it's not, you don't take it personally,
and it seems to engender a longer, probably more functional
(07:31):
relationship to creativity.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, no, that makes absolute sense.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I mean again, like you said, you notice that you're
not forcing an album, so there could be you know,
gaps in between those albums because you don't want to
just force something. And then people are like, well, that's
not the ink youbis I was listening to on the
last album.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
But the interesting thing, and perhaps the ironic thing, is
that when we come back with a new album, it
usually sounds pretty vastly different than the one that came
before it. And that's because we don't force the creativity.
We allow it to sort of morph and change and
go where it wants to go and we're sort of
chasing it as opposed to, I don't know something else.
(08:14):
It likes to move, It likes to morph and do
different things and so and that's what keeps it fun
and interesting, is just like knowing that, yeah, I don't
want to write the same song twice to try something else,
And so sometimes that can be challenging for a listener.
But then occasionally listener will find themselves surprised that they
(08:37):
are enjoying something that they didn't expect to.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, for sure, And you know you talk about, you know,
something that people didn't expect.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I want to go back to Coachella when you guys
showed up with Z.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
What was that like?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I mean I remember watching it the next day and
just everybody sharing that video and talking about the performance,
which also brought you know, a new audience to Incubus.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Walk me through the moment.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
You stepped out there with Zed on that stage and
you just look out there with Coachella, right.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
You know, I've been to Coachella a handful of times
just as a as a concert goer, and I sort
of thought, you know, because the Coachella landscape has changed
so dramatically, over the years, it used to be more
of kind of like an alternative band type of experience
has become, you know, much more sort of like the
(09:34):
center of pop culture, at least on the West Coast,
and so I let go of the idea that we
might one day play it. And then Zed is an
old friend of the band, and he just approached us
literally days before the performance and was like, I want
you guys to come on stage with me and play
some Incubus songs. And to me, my first thought was like,
(09:58):
how's that going to work? You know, And he sent
us this truncated medley of three of our songs, I
Wish You were here, Drive, and Pardon Me, and all
of a sudden it was like, Okay, I can see
how this is working. And then we went and did
one day of rehearsal with him. He's like, I'm going
to play the drums with you, and I didn't realize
(10:21):
that he was as good of a drummer as he is. Right,
it was he and Jose playing drums. So we had
this like almost like grateful dead moment, you know, two
drummers with our songs. And it was fun, man, it
was exciting. It was the first time we had Pyro,
it was like there's like fire and explosions in front
of us. And then to top it all off, nobody
(10:43):
threw anything or booed, which is fantastic. That's how you
know it's a success. If nobody throws anything or booze.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
It, you right for sure.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
And of course, you know, with that being a viral
moment from Coachella, I think the great thing about that
is you had a new audience that didn't know Incubus
became fans of Incubis after that performance.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
That new crowd.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Hopefully, well we're gonna we're gonna make sure that they
become new fans of Incubis after that.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
For sure, we're gonna campaign on it.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Of course, we're hanging out with Brandon Boyd Incubus at
Bridgetone Arena June twenty fifth. Tickets still available ticketmaster dot com.
You know, you look around and there's a lot of
talks about AI technology and whatnot. And in a world
where AI is starting to write songs and resurrect voices
of dead artists, what is your honest take on that?
(11:38):
Because I mean, I sometimes I'll scroll through it. I'm
like Frank Sinatras out here doing gin and juice.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
This is interesting is it?
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Is it a terrifying threat to originality or is it
just maybe a new tool in the creative arsenal For this.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
I'm still on the fence about it, to be honest,
I've seen all of the movies.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I watched Terminator enough times. My first thought is like,
what are we doing? Yep, did't you guys see the movie?
They've made this, literally like countless times? What are we doing?
Speaker 4 (12:09):
It starts innocently enough, like oh, look, Frank Sinatra's doing
gen and juice, and then all of a sudden, Skynet
becomes sentient and we're all screwed.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Right right. But I'm old.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Enough to know that you shouldn't get histrionic about something
until there's something to worry about.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
But yeah, I mean, in my heart of hearts, I would.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
If AI is here to stay, which it probably is,
I would much rather it work on like clean universal
energy sources, or maybe like healthcare for everybody.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
A little bit more productive.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
But I saw some country Western songs that it wrote recently.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Through I don't know which AI.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
If it was Chat, GPT or GROC, I'm not sure
what it was, but they were actually really good, and
it was it was kind of unnerving, to be honest,
because I for so long, you know, there's been this
sort of specter of AI and like it's coming for
everybody's jobs, and the thought for me was it's not
(13:14):
coming for music. And then it's like the first thing
that it's coming for is music.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
So we'll see.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I don't know, it'll it'll definitely be an interesting thing
for sure.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I know that we don't have much much time left,
is that we're gonna wrap it up here shortly. You
know one thing that and I was scrolling through and
you look on your guys's YouTube channel, Drive might be
one of the most recognizable alt rock songs ever. But
I'm curious, is there maybe a deep cut in the
Incubus catalog that you personally wish more people paid attention to.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Oh, it's an interesting question.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
You know, we've written a lot of songs, and we've
written like one hundred and fifty songs this point and
so where it's amazing that Drive has broken through and
as recognizable to so many people. And I wouldn't change that.
(14:11):
It would be cool if some of the other tracks
got a little bit more Your time, God where would
I even begin would I would say, if people wanted
to do more of a deep dive and apply this
thought experiment for themselves, I would jump into our record
(14:32):
called a Kroll after the Murder, which came out after
a Morning Dude. There are a lot of deep cuts
on that record which I think are really really clever
and really interesting.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
So yeah, I'll leave it at that. Go check that
record out.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Go check that record out, and make sure you also
go check out Incubus when they come to Bridge don
Arita coming up here a couple weeks from now. It's
gonna be June twenty fifth. Ticketmaster dot com. You can
still buy tickets. You can also win your tickets. Coming
up here later this morning at eight ten. Question, we'll
wrap things up. You know, we're halfway through twenty twenty five.
What does the rest of the year look like for
(15:06):
Incubus other than this tour that you're getting on.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
We are.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
We're sitting on a finished new album as produced by
Brendan O'Brien, and we're just going to be planning its release.
We're trying to be smart and patient and calculating about
the way that we put this new record out It's
a very different world now in any number of ways.
(15:37):
But you know, the Internet has changed the way that
everybody does everything and hears everything and sees everything. So
we want to make sure that we give this new
record as good of a chance as it can get
to get to as many ears and eyes as possible.
But the new records called Something in the Water, and
it'll be coming out in the near term.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
That's what we like to hear, is Incubist fans new
music on the way, be looking out for that. Of course,
make sure you're following Incubus on all social media platforms. Brandon,
let me tell you it's again an honor and a
privilege to sit here and talk with you on the
show today. Looking forward to that show coming up here
in Nashville on June twenty fifth, and we'll see you there.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Man.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yeah, thank you so much. Have a great day.
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