• Adrian’s first drumming experience was in a ninth grade talent show.
• Adrian loves golf and would be a professional golfer if he wasn’t in the band. He has been swinging for over 21 years.
• Adrian’s parents were hippies.
• Adrian was once arrested in the street for public nudity.
• When Adrian started wearing black lipstick and makeup back in the TK days, it was because Nina used to be a goth.
• No Doubt was not Adrian’s first band - he first played in a band called The Naked Postmen, and later right before he joined ND, Echostar.
• Adrian has been credited with writing only one ND song to date, Move On. Instead, he feels that he just shows up when needed and gives the songs a little something extra. Gwen says that songs are like children and Adrian is their uncle, she says he invites them over and he gives them a beer, basically spoils them.
• Adrian had a cat called Sammy.
• Adrian got the idea for his devil horn hairstyle from an extra on the Just A Girl video shoot. The kid got mad and wrote Adrian an angry letter, telling him that he was just a “big fake”. Adrian wrote back telling the kid he was an asshole.
• ”We’re definately signed with Interscope, but as far as I’m concerned, I do as many records as a feel like doing.”
• The first album he ever bought was ‘Road To Ruin’ by The Ramones.
• He had to battle it out with another drummer to enter the band, in the end he won because he lied about how long he had been playing.
• Adrian claims to be a ‘professional socializer’.
• Adrian has four siblings - Damien, Jeff, Alex, and Aaron.
• He worked at the Steak House before joining the band.
• His house has seven bedrooms and seven bathrooms.
• His drum kit is down in the wine cellar in his house so he can play as long and as loud as he wants without bothering anyone.
• Adrian collects old arcade games and has a signed Kiss pinball machine.
• Back in 2000 he ran his own golf magazine called ‘Schwing!’
• ”She’s smarter than I am, I don’t know why she goes out with me.” (on Nina)
• ”I love every Police record ever made”
• Adrian used to have a crush on Gwen. He once got the courage to ask her out, while driving down to her work. He heard that her and Tony broke up, but they got back together before Adrian could do anything.
