incubus

Beginnings, Fungus Amongus, and Enjoy Incubus (1991–1997)

Vocalist Boyd, drummer Pasillas, and guitarist Einziger began playing together when they were in tenth grade; they were playing all-ages concerts around southern California before they graduated from high school due to the contacts Studio Teacher and Mathematics teacher Joanne Stanulonis had in the entertainment business. Joanne Stanulonis had met guitarist Einzinger while working with Steve Vai's project "Bad 4 Good": the band was seeking another teenage guitarist. Stanulonis not only booked all of Incubus' gigs, was instrumental in them getting signed with Immortal Records, but introduced the boys to Producer Jim Wirt and his wife Kathleen and arranged free recording and studio time at 4th Street Recording. It was there, Fungus Amongus was produced and recorded. In 1995, Gavin Koppell (known by stage name DJ Lyfe) joined them to record Fungus Amongus; the band's first major-label release was the six-track EP Enjoy Incubus in 1997.[1]