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Here are some Kilmore Interviews that I thought everyone should have the privilege of reading. I've only got a short lil one from Revolver magazine, but more will be added over time. Keep your pants on. ;)
DJ Kilmore of Incubus
What makes you different?
"I mix all the advanced scratching and beat-juggling technical skills with musical knowledge. I play different instruments and read music, which allows me to join in the writing."
Describe your trademark style.
"I try and stay on the turntablist side, but I love weird, crazy sounds. I create all these noises and press 'em up on vinyl to see how I can fit them into our music."
What are your origins?
"I saw Jazzy Jeff when I was 14 and was so impressed I wanted turntables. I was playing clubs in Pennsylvania, but when I moved to L.A. I got into the battle scene hard. I was also in funk/jazz/trip-hop bands like Four or Five Dopes, Disenfranchised, and Beats and Blunts."
What gear do you use?
"I use three Technics 1210 turntables, two Rane TTM 54i mixers, Sony MD700 headphones, and a theremin [an instrument that allows the player to make unusual tones by moving their hands in relation to two metal antennas.-Revolver Ed.]. I use a wah-wah, delay, and octave bass pedal on the theremin."
Who are your influences?
"Producer-wise, Pete Rock, DJ Premier, Roni Size, and Talvin Singh. As far as DJ's, Cash Money and Jazzy Jeff in the beginning, and when I got into the battle scene, Mix Master Mike, QBert, Skratch Piklz, and Cut Chemist and Nu-Mark from Jurassic 5 just blew my mind."
What's your philosophy?
"DJ because you love it. For me it relieves stress. I even set up my turntables in my hotel room--I can't get away from them."
Incubus Interview-CHRIS KILMORE From Sex N Rock N Roll.com
Where did you attend high school?
I went to Northern York County High School, in Pennsylvania.
When did you graduate?
1991
What were you like back then?
Class President, Student Council President, captain of the soccer team, football, you name it. I was, like, the man in high school.
What was the first instrument you picked up?
The trumpet, probably in the first grade. I played it for almost ten years. I'm really good at it.
Were you self-taught or trained?
I was in band, and then self-taught. After I picked up the fundamentals, I started teaching myself.
When did you start taking yourself seriously as a rock musician?
I don't even take myself serious as a rock musician. I do what I do, and that's just what I do as a hobby. I'm at the point where I'm still having fun with it. It hit me maybe two or three months ago. I actually felt like, "Wow, I'm actually here, and I'm starting to get respect."
Was that during Ozzfest?
Yeah, when we were out with 311, right before the Oscars. But still I don't feel like I'm a rock musician.
Incubus played the Family Values Tour. What are your family values?
My family values are a wife that you don't cheat on, and kids that you're loyal to and do for, and that's about it. If I can achieve that, that's all I want.
If we were to go on tour with you, on your bus, from city to city, what could we expect?
Well, there's two different worlds on our bus: The front lounge and the back lounge. I'm a back-lounge person. We smoke a lot of weed, we speak conscious thoughts, we play a lot of video games, and we listen to music 24/7. The front lounge, more straight-edge, watch a lot of movies and go to bed when they get tired. They don't stay up and party that much. But if you're in the back lounge, you drink, you smoke weed, you build on a conscious level after the boundaries are broken down.
Who's the bad boy of the group, the saint, the lover, the prankster?
The prankster is Jose. The bad boy? It used to be Dirk, but I think roles are changing now.
OK, who's the bad boy now?
I think I'm turning into the bad boy. I'm turning into the lover. The saint...that's probably Brandon, but Jose's in close second.
When you're not touring, what's life like?
Chill. I don't do nothing. A normal person who has a 9-to-5 job, he has two days off. There's 52 weeks in a year, so that's 104 days off, not including vacation time.
You broke this down.
Yeah. We have about two months off out of the entire year. Not altogether, just random. That's 60 days, so when I'm at home, it's chill. I don't do shit. Even if you work a 9-to-5 job, you still have more time off than I do. Know what I mean?
What's the funniest thing that ever happened to you on the road?
It was the funniest thing I might have ever seen in my life, and I can't go into detail about it. You got to ask Brandon.
We already got the details. Brandon already gave it up.
Well, he probably gave you the censored version.
No, we got the picture.
Trust me, it goes deeper than that.
[In Brandon's interview, he spilled the beans, and to relieve your curiosity, this is what he said:
"The whole band was wrestling. I think it is a sexual frustration thing...all these men wrestling in the back, and it is all sweaty and stuff. So, I figured I would take it to the Greco-Roman level and get naked and jump back there, just as a joke. But then they all decided to take this opportunity to try and rape me with a plastic light saber. I am still debating whether or not I should press charges, because I do think that qualifies as rape in most states."]
If you could perform anywhere in the world, with any band, where would it be and with whom?
I think maybe on top of the Himalayas, at the very, very peak. With Sade. Yeah.
Is being a rock musician everything you thought it would be?
No. I'm still waiting for my whole life to get fucked up and to go down the drain.
It hasn't happened yet?
No. That's the life of a rock musician is too much drugs, too much sex, too much rock 'n' roll, and you fall. It happens to every great rock 'n' roll artist, and it hasn't happened to me, and I'm not going to let it happen to me.
CHRIS KILMORE
DJ Kilmore claims he's your "average Joe." Yeah, sure. How many average Joes do you know with 500 original sounds in their back pocket, a "triangular formation" for perfect harmony with the universe, and a recipe for Huevos Sao Salmon?
Birth Place:
Pittsburg, PA
Height:
5'9", 5'10"
Musically, what are your passions?
To take the weirdest, craziest sounds and make them sound like music.
What kinds of records are you scratching?
I made a record of all my own sounds. Just weird voices through microphones, crazy guitars through crazy effects, dropping pots and pansâ€â€Âyou know, just crazy stuff, recorded onto DAT, pressed up on record. There's maybe 500 or so sounds to use, to choose from, for Make Yourself.
What turns you on about being a rock musician?
The Playboy Mansion.
What turns you off?
People coming up to me and acting like I'm a superstar, not a normal person, 'cause that's what I am. I DJ as a hobby, and I just happen to be good at it, but I'm still a normal person. You can talk to me like I'm your average Joe.
What was your best concert experience?
There's been a handful of shows where I just sort of find the niche, and everything I do is perfect, like I don't need my headphone to cue up my records; I can just drop the needle right where it needs to be, and it's almost like I'm at one with the universe, and everything is operating perfectly. I have the energy with the fans, plus the energy of my band, and the energy of myself all combining in a triangular formation. There's nothing better than that.
What's your most memorable experience on the road?
The backstage shenanigans.
Favorite lyric from a song?
"Bass, how low can you go?" Public Enemy. It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back is the dopest album ever made, and that [line] starts it off on a high note, and it doesn't end 'til the album's over.
What kind of woman turns you on?
One who's confident with herself and with me. And one who's shy but not shy to try new things. She's just the right amount of shyness, but not totally shy.
Whose music do you listen to when you're with someone special?
Oh that's easy: Sade or Maxwell.
Describe a perfect date.
Taking a girl out to dinner or a movie. Maybe even to a dive bar. Something chill, where we can actually talk, and we're not just sitting there and holding hands, or something like that. And then maybe her coming back to my place, listening to Sade or Maxwell, and blazing a little bit. Whatever happens from there happens. If nothing happens, it's still cool. It's a perfect date.
If a woman _______, it really turns me off. Fill in the blank.
I'm pretty open-minded, so I give everybody the benefit of the doubt. But if a woman doesn't listen to me, and she asks me questions over and over again, and isn't there mentally with me, then that totally turns me off.
Favorite pick-up line:
"What's your sign?"
If you required mouth-to-mouth, who's mouth would you want to breathe life back into you?
Oh, Brooke [Berry, Miss May 2000], by far. Oh, my. She's too fine.
If food were the way to a woman's heart, what would you cook up in the kitchen?
That'd be easy. I'd cook Huevos Sao Salmon. That's scrambled eggs with smoked salmon on top, some rice, black beans, and plantains.
If a song could sum you up as a man, what would it be?
I"ll go back to Public Enemy: "Rebel Without A Pause."
What's something you've always wanted to do?
Two girls.
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