1. Michael Aaron Einziger was born on June 21,1976 and is an American musician, songwriter and producer.
24 Facts About Mike Einziger
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Mike Einziger is best known for being co-founder and guitarist of the rock band Incubus, and has co-written, produced and collaborated with a wide array of artists including Pharrell Williams, Hans Zimmer, Skrillex, Tyler the Creator, Avicii, Damian Marley, Jason Schwartzman and Steve Martin among many others.
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Incubus has sold over 23 Million albums worldwide, and in 2013, Mike Einziger co-wrote the hit song "Wake Me Up", alongside Avicii and Aloe Blacc.
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Mike Einziger co-founded Incubus with Calabasas High School classmates Brandon Boyd, Jose Pasillas II, and Alex Katunich in 1991.
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Outside of his work with Incubus, Mike Einziger founded his own project Time Lapse Consortium in 2003.
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Mike Einziger has sporadically continued to compose background music for films.
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In 2003 Mike Einziger contributed to Ziggy Marley's debut solo album Dragonfly alongside fellow Incubus member Chris Kilmore as well as Flea and John Frusciante of Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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Mike Einziger expanded into the realm of video games when he and his bandmates worked on the soundtrack of the popular game Halo 2, writing a 26-minute song that featured Flea on trumpet.
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In 2006 Mike Einziger produced the debut album "Red Rover" by Agent Sparks; a collaboration with younger brothers Benjamin Mike Einziger and Paul Fried.
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In 2007, Mike Einziger produced Nighttiming, the debut album of long-time friend and former Phantom Planet drummer and actor Jason Schwartzman's Coconut Records project.
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Mike Einziger has a profound interest in the physical sciences.
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On June 17,2008, Mike Einziger took a personal tour of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland with British physicist Dr Brian Cox.
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In 2009, Mike Einziger orchestrated and recorded the additional strings for the Thirty Seconds to Mars third album This Is War.
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Mike Einziger helped premiere the song live at Ultra 15 along with bandmates Jose Pasillas, Ben Kenney and country music legend Mac Davis.
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Mike Einziger has cited his early guitar influences as Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, John Frusciante, Steve Vai, Paul Fried and Frank Zappa.
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Mike Einziger was heavily influenced by the music of Black Sabbath and Metallica.
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Mike Einziger said that some of the music he was most proud of was the music he had worked on with Avicii.
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Early on, Mike Einziger played Ibanez guitars, and sometime around the making of Enjoy Incubus he switched to Paul Reed Smith.
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Mike Einziger has stated this was necessary since developing and having surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome.
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Mike Einziger is a multi-instrumentalist and, in addition to guitar, has played piano, Mellotron, pipa, analog synthesizers, Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer, and many other instruments on his recordings with Incubus as well as his other projects.
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Mike Einziger has played a Jerry Jones Guitars Master Sitar on "Nowhere Fast" from Make Yourself, and a pipa on "Aqueous Transmission".
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Mike Einziger plays electric piano on songs like "Here In My Room", and has played piano on live versions of "Drive".
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Mike Einziger has a 1930s Gibson with a smaller body and used an older Martin acoustic when recording "Defiance".
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Mike Einziger stopped using PRS guitars after some issues arose with an employee of Paul Reed Smith.