Incubus

Incubus finally went platinum with “Make Yourself” as of October 5th, 2000, seeting the pace for them to tour with California legends The Deftones and Ann Arbor, MIchigan’s own Taproot. (I saw this show in Grand Rapids, MI at The Orbit Room — the singer form Taproot jumped off of a 15 foot high balcony and the crowd caught him. He got back onstage and told the crowd that it was the most awesome thing he had done yet; it was sweet.)

Incubus released the third single, “Drive” from “Make Yourself”, which eventually would be a #1 hit. They soon rented a house in Malibu, CA on Pacific Coast Highway (just down the road from Matt Groening and David Geffen, not to mention John Stamos.) to record the follow up album, which would be “Morning View”. I’m assuming they named it that since, if you’ve ever been to Malibu, CA, you’d know that the sunrises and sunsets there are breathtaking. If you get the chance, check it out.

After 6 weeks in Europe, they returned to the states to find out that “Make Yourself” had gone double platinum (2 million copies). August of 2001 brought then to Japan and Australia for the first time.

Sadly, Incubus lost the Best Group Video award to N’Sync for 2001.