“I have been certain since I was a child that I was going to be an artist,”  Brandon Boyd explained. “I didn’t have aspirations of being a doctor or a lawyer or a professional athlete, other than I thought for a hot second, when I was a teenager, that I wanted to be a professional surfer.” Sadly, a career in surfing was not in the cards. “I realized very quickly that I wasn’t good enough,” Boyd laughed. His fall back, art, saw him explore and enjoy its many forms. He said writing, rehearsing, recording and performing music soon became his clear favorites. Brandon Boyd and two similarly obsessed and talented friends, Mike Einziger and Jose Pasillas, started the high school band Incubus that has evolved into the multi platinum selling and Grammy Award nominated group called Incubus. Former Roots bassist Ben Kenney and DJ Chris Kilmore round out the group’s current lineup. For Brandon Boyd and Incumbus, creativity is addictive. “It almost acts like a drug that is good for you,” he said. Meanwhile, the resulting buzz the self inducing, self sustaining, creative thrill that is art makes it the number one drug of choice on the Incubus tour. Coincidentally enough, the bands’ tour buses are set to roll into the docks at the Hard Rock Hotel today as Incumbus the group gets ready to visit The Joint tonight.