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Hours before their first show, the band was forced to come up with a band name. After rejecting Dirks’ “Chunk O’ Funk” and Brandon’s’ “Spiral Staircase”, Mike turned to a nearby thesaurus. The first word he came to was Incubus, which means “nightmare” in Latin. At 17 years old each, the band all thought the name sounded cool, so it stuck.
