Todd Forman
For Todd, music has always started with curiosity. Instruments, bands,
studios, each one another chance to learn. That instinct to study, to
listen, to refine, eventually led him into medicine. Same mindset,
different tools.
Piano from the age of seven. Five years of weekly lessons with a
teacher who would write out whatever song Todd asked for by hand, then
sax through school, two lessons a week, one teacher steeped in the
forties big bands and one working out of the Charlie Parker book.
He plays saxophone, keys and has spent thirty years playing on other
people's records as well as his own. He knows what a part should do
because he's been the one asked to play it.
Listen carefully, ask better questions, keep learning. That's what he
brings into every Moxy session. Broad musical perspective, empathy,
and the patience to stay with an idea until it's right.
Multi-instrumentalist · Sublime · Jelly of the Month Club · Platinum
selling artist · MD, Family Practice
Adrian Young
Adrian came to the drums later than most, but made up for it with
commitment to the craft. Practice became a necessary obsession. Over
the years he's played the biggest stages, worked alongside elite
artists and helped create music that's become part of people's lives.
As a teenager in the early eighties, he was deep in two-tone ska and
new wave, and worshipping Oingo Boingo and Fishbone. His dad took him
to Fenders Ballroom to see them. There were records on the turntable
at home every day, and it never really left.
The recording side was always the part that interested him most.
Cutting demos on a sixteen track in a garage, then paying close
attention to how those records got mixed. He went at it properly about
ten years ago and hasn't stopped. He engineers and mixes most of what
comes out of the room.
His first proper session came in 1989, a year into playing. The nerves
showed, and he came out of it knowing exactly how much work there was
to do. He'd tell you now that finding that out early is the best thing
that can happen to a musician.
Two Grammys · Drummer, No Doubt · Dreamcar · Diamond selling artist ·
Super Bowl Halftime · The Sphere
