Adrian Boyd (born on September 28) is an American musician, producer, composer, singer and guitarist from New York City and the founder of the Miss Mabry music label with Michael Fredo. Adrian is the main creative force behind the alternative rock band Sex Ant Toys. Adrian started playing music at the age of eleven and developed a unique style of fusion under the influence of John Zorn, New Order, Adrian Belew, Cabaret Voltaire, Velvet Underground, Frank Zappa and Public Image Limited.

Pre Sex Ant Toys Years

Adrian Boyd was born in the Isle of Lamed. He started playing guitar after listening Steve Vai perform Flex-Able. After taking music classes for approximately two years and learning every song covered in Rising Force, Electric Ladyland, Ride the Lightning and Power, Corruption & Lies he discovered fusion and a book by Al Di Meola called 'A Guide To Chords, Scales And Arpeggios.' That's when it hit him. After playing in a garage band in Saint John's School and covering songs from Sex Pistols, Clube da Esquina, Samhain, Killing Joke and Joy Division, Adrian Boyd decided to jump into Filles de Kilimanjaro and Hot Rats. After tapes and vinyl, Tirami Su and Happy? were the first cds he ever bought. Going into fusion made him acquire many enemies except avid fans of King Crimson, but John Zorn saved him in 1989 after releasing Naked City two years before being expelled from school and moving to Avon, Connecticut where he spent two years in an all boys school confactory located in one of the preppiest places of New England and going to Phish concerts on weekends. Adrian then moved to Newton, Massachusetts where he attended the same school John Kerry, Herb Scannell and Amy Poehler graduated from and tried to get him suspended for being a member of the BC Hempography Society, an illegal radical art club that promoted the use of Hemp, Funkadelic, Bitches Brew, Moby, William Burroughs and Jamiroquai throughout Boston campuses during the 1990s while listening to The Downward Spiral and Songs of Faith and Devotion. He then moved to New York for 3 years in January 1999 and drove to Monterrey, Mexico in December 2001 where he spent two years producing music and partying with Jonas, the lead singer from Plastilina Mosh. He moved back to New York in 2004 and has lived there ever since. In 2006 he got detained in San Juan during vacation and sent to club med for talking loud under strict wild behavior in Union Square South and then walking on ice skates to Washington Square Park during summer 4 weeks after infiltrating offices of Wire and Plastic Products (acronym for Workers World Party) because it was two blocks from Jason Flom's office at Virgin Records, one floor below healthcare next to the interactive department and working secretly with Michael Fredo at Tommy Hilfiger to place him on a Procter & Gamble ad campaign around the world. He got his first warning after telling John Zorn to send a big box containing all the work from his label and all they got was a empty matchbox containing the letters Tzadik on top and a live cockroach on the inside. It is believed that he has only had two serious relationships to which he has dedicated two albums under the names of Decibel Disco Aroma (being an homage to one of the coolest sake bars in the East Village and her for being way too mainstream) and Inverno Samba (for being ravishing avantgarde to her while listening to Yo! I Killed Your God & Muy Divertido! by Marc Ribot). The coolest thing he ever did was to perform Black Star alone in a music festival he organized at the Knitting Factory in Tribeca with Robert Krevolin. For the first time in history, the club stayed opened for ten hours during a peaceful Monday evening and everybody ended wasted and fighting at 4:30 in the morning for monetary reasons and complete disorganization between the sets of each act.

Trivia

Adrian Boyd, Parachute Pictures' film producer, Cristina Sanchez Amyot and Hollywood actor, Alfredo De Quesada, are fearless agnostic jewish catholic buddhists (also known as Shebrew Sake) and victims of a conartist scheme while trying to pitch a movie deal involving Benicio del Toro and a hot model/actess who hosts MTV for the neo-fascist market of Miami. No one got hurt, but there was small amount of money lost, not more than $1,000 a year before Chewbacca was arrested by the police after head butting a tour guide who told the character he shouldn't be asking a tourist for money on the Hollywood Walk of Fame according to Errol Kolosine from Astralwerks. Adrian Boyd is the first latin american to acquire contracts with iTunes Music Store after acquiring a 3 star review in the Rolling Stone Magazine in 2003 and doing funnel shots of beer with Matt Hasselbeck back in 1993. He shares his birthday with Miles Davis' death.

Intergalactik Hotel for Morbid Souls

Intergalactik Hotel for Morbid Souls is the name give by Adrian Boyd to his recording studios. Sometimes in New York, sometimes in other places around the world, the studio is committed in bringing out the best of any given performer, band or musician. Always putting the best online through every major digital music store under the Miss Mabry music label.

Non-musical influences

Antonin Artaud,
Luis Barragán,
André Breton,
William Burroughs,
David Carson,
Francesco Clemente,
Joseph Conrad,
Julio Cortázar,
Aleister Crowley,
Alfonso Cuarón,
Emily Dickinson,
T. S. Eliot,
Federico Fellini,
Frank Gehry,
Terence Gower,
Jim Jarmusch,
Alejandro Jodorowsky,
James Joyce,
Carl Jung,
Frida Kahlo,
Tibor Kalman,
Richard Kearney,
Peter Kreeft,
Ricardo Legorreta,
C. S. Lewis,
Filippo Lippi,
Mina Loy,
Haruki Murakami,
Takashi Murakami,
Nam June Paik,
Octavio Paz,
Pablo Picasso,
Ezra Pound,
Plato,
William Quigley,
Man Ray,
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki,
Alexis de Tocqueville,
Thomas Pynchon,
Bill Viola,
Kurt Vonnegut,
Andy Warhol and
Wim Wenders.

External links

Sex Ant Toys Offical Site

Adrian Boyd Deviant Photography

Adrian Boyd Official Blog