Our friend Suzi Katayama, who has in the past worked string arrangements with the likes of Bjork, Madonna and even Yours Truly for an acoustic performance in L.A., lent her classical finesse to this story. One late evening we began conjuring and experimenting with this track and it quickly brought to mind the image and analogy of floating freely down a river hence the content of the song. A 'Ko-kyu' is what was used here and it was donated by a very generous and talented man by the name of Steve Vai.
Keeping this in mind and trying not to get too cynical, it points out the blessing in disguise that is 'Temporaryism' and how it can be a door that swings both ways.Īqueous Transmission - perhaps our most ambitious work to date, was first conceived with an instrument quite alien to Incubus and all of rock music to be precise. Just a Phase - documents how fickle the world can be and how the only certainty that exists is that everything eventually runs it's course. I'm kind of an idiot sometimes and I got divine inspiration from my hand waking up. "Half of my hand was asleep for almost three weeks and I thought I'd destroyed my nerves. "I had taken a sleeping pill on the way over there and I fell asleep on my pinky that was bent weird," Boyd recalls.
The song was written at the final show during the band's last European tour, which was cut short because Boyd was suffering from strep throat. "It has sort of the melding of the drum-and-bass verse into the rock chorus," Boyd says. " Nice to Know You ," is probably the closest link to their last record. Brandon was going through some turmoil in his life, both good and bad, and the image struck a cord, so.he wrote a song about it. There were an old guy's legs and shoes perfectly intact, then right around his knee area, was just a pile of charred ashes. " Pardon Me " Brandon was in a bookstore, browsing through an old Life magazine when he saw a picture of what the article called spontaneous human combustion.
To be a good Christian basically means to give up the reigns of your life and let some unseen force do it for you. Unfortunately the simplest things, such as thinking for myself,creating my own reality and being whatever the hell he wants to be each day of his life, are a sin. " Favorite Things" is Brandon's personal beliefs about religion and how it oppresses the things he enjoys the most. In the song, I fantasized abuot a world without t.v." -Brandon Boyd
#INCUBUS BAND BLACK AND WHITE SKIN#
The way the scab looks in it's worst state is gross and chaotic, and horrible, that's now, but when it breaks away, there's a brand new piece of skin that's stronger than before. In "New Skin" Brandon attributes a scab to the present state of society. But if they take control, they can paint with a different color and make a very vibrant and beautiful picture." For so long, they painted black and white pictures in their life because that's all they could do. The metaphor Brandon Boyd used was humas being like Magic Markers. " Redefine" is about the creation of your own reality and your world. A hugely successful California rock band with hot ass members. An evil spirit believed to descend upon and have sexual intercourse with women as they sleep in the form of a dream.Ģ.