He started DJing at 13 and continued through high school and college in Washington D.C. 'At that moment, I was like, 'Man, I want to try to do that.'' 'I saw Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince when I was young and Jazzy Jeff blew my mind,' Kilmore said. What Kilmore did for the past couple years was to work at the keyboards, which he picked up later in life, learn some more music theory and, of course, further the turntable skills and sounds he's been making since he was a pre-teen growing up in Pennsylvania.

Stop, get out.' And we're in the middle of the desert or something, there's no direction. 'We're riding on this really cool tour bus, and somebody just slams the brake on and says, 'OK, you're done. 'It felt like somebody just slammed the brakes on,' Kilmore said. Getting kicked off the road by COVID was a shock to the system for Incubus, whose bread and butter is touring, year after year after year. After all, they spent plenty of time on the road in 2022. And then it starts going around the rest of the guys and before long it whips up into a song.'Īs a result, Kilmore expects the veteran alternative rockers will have new material to work on this year.

It's just a rough idea until it sparks an idea with somebody else.

The process of writing songs for us, that's kind of what it is. So, after soundcheck, we might say, 'Oh, that was a cool idea' and go back and revisit it and then work on it for a couple days. He continued: 'So, over the years, once we get our soundcheck kind of straight on stage, we just start jamming and we always record. We didn't really have much time other than when we stepped off the tour bus to write a record real quick.' 'There was a period of time where all we did was tour, almost 10 years straight. 'A lot of new music ideas that we have actually come from soundchecks when we're on tour,' said turntablist and keyboardist Chris Kilmore in a recent phone interview. Soundchecks are generally just part of a band's daily routine - get to the venue, play a few songs to dial in the sound, then get out until the show hours later.īut that's not the case for Incubus, which is performing at San Antonio's recently renamed Boeing Center at Tech Port on Thursday, Feb. Getting kicked off the road by COVID was a shock to the system for Incubus, whose bread and butter is touring.

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