We were called ’Neves’, which is Seven spelled backwards, because there were 7 of us in the band. Some friends of mine were starting a band, they already had a singer, 2 drummers, and 3 guitar players, what they needed was a bass player, so I bought a bass, and joined the band. I played drums and percussion, in school and in small garage bands (playing stuff like Styx and Journey), through 10th grade, when my interest started leaning towards heavy metal and more guitar-oriented music. I started playing drums and learning to read music in the 4th grade. My Father was a jazz trumpet player, and both of my older brothers are musicians, so my interest in music started at an early age. You are a New Orleans born bass player, what were your influences to become bassist? Of course I did not meet them until 1986. Yes, They moved to New Orleans from Rio De Janiero when they were in Elementary school, i’m not sure exactly what year. They moved from Rio De Janiero to New Orleans a couple of years earlier, do they? I reluctantly agreed, and we broke the news to Brian. Brian’s voice was great, but not quite what we were looking for with the new material that was being written. Shortly after that transition, Francis and Moyses asked me if I would be interested in doing vocals. We played a mixture of covers and originals for several months, including some studio work, before making the transition to all originals. When we jammed Flight of Icarus by Iron Maiden, the room came alive, and we all knew that we had something. We decided on some covers that we all knew so that we could break the ice. We were in a small room at the Howard’s apartment.
It was Francis, Moyses, and a singer named Brian Jeffrey. I had been looking to do originals instead of covers anyway, so we set up a tryout/jam session. They approached me after one of the shows that my band had played, and said that they were looking for a new bass player, and were interested in me. The New Orleans metal scene was fairly small, so I had seen their band, and knew of them(though I can not recall their name at the time). I was playing in a metal cover band called Fallen Angel when I met the Howard Brothers.
On February 1986, the Howard brothers Moyses and Francis formed Incubus and they put you on vocals, how did it happen exactly? Were you their first choice or did they audition other bassplayers too?
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