Siegel was born and raised in
Venice, California. At the age of 13 years he bought a guitar, and went to live with his cousin for a few months. There he met Dan Clements, who was living with his cousin. Dan recorded a tape to give to Adam and started talking about forming a band. The group was called "Chaotic Noise" with Evan Warech on drums and some temporary bassists during 1984, they played a lot of shows around L.A. with different bands of the same scene like
No Mercy,
Suicidal Tendencies,
Beowülf and
Cryptic Slaughter. They became very good friends of all those musicians and adopted each other as early influences. A few months later, Rickey Pallamino took over the four strings and Chaotic Noise recorded their first
Demo. They also became close friends of a graffiti crew,
Kings Stop at Nothing, specially with a boy called
Shaun Ross, Adam and Dan learned to paint with him and included the graffiti in the style of the band. When Pallamino left Chaotic Noise, there was no one better than Shaun to replace him, then they changed their name to
Excel, name that was created by Shaun Ross when he was in
Kings Stop at Nothing. A few weeks later a new drummer joined the group:
Greg Saenz. They recorded 3 more demos between 1985 and 1986 (
Sonic Decapitation,
Personal Onslaught and
Refuse to Quit), editing their first studio album,
Split Image in 1987 (the recording was paid by
Mike Muir and distribution was conducted by
Caroline Records), the second one,
The Joke's on You in 1989, and a tour in
Netherlands the same year with that line-up. In 1990, Siegel left
Excel to join (as lead guitarist) the
Suicidal Tendencies side project,
Infectious Grooves to record their first studio album: ''
The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move...It's the Infectious Grooves. In 1992 he came back to Excel to record their fifth and final demo: Third album demos. The May 22 he appeared in the movie Encino Man'' with the
Infectious Grooves. Then he definitely left
Excel to form his own
power trio (called
My Head) with Greg Saenz on drums, the former
Bad Radio member Dave Silva on bass and himself on guitar and
lead vocals. However, this project was interrupted for Adam's participation in the second studio release by
Infectious Grooves, ''
Sarsippius' Ark, released in February 1993, and again in 1994 for their following album, Groove Family Cyco. On January 16, 1996, Siegel recorded various tracks for the first Mike Muir solo album: Lost My Brain! (Once Again). Then My Head signed a record contract with Capitol Records and released their first and only album Endless Bummer, the song "Humbucker''" became their only single and music video. The sound of this album left the
heavy metal music that Siegel had been playing earlier in
Excel and
Infectious Grooves to approach to styles more similar to
alternative rock and
grunge. The band broke up the January 1, 1998. Later that year, Siegel became the
Eels bassist (this was the first time he played the bass on a group). The song "
Souljacker part I", performed with Siegel was included in the album
Souljacker in 2001 and a live version in the live album
Electro-Shock Blues Show, released in 2002. A few months later he created the band Eagle (who would become "The Blondes" in 2000) with Bill Dusha (ex-Sacred Hearts and Sexy Death Soda) on guitar and vocals, Jimmy James (ex-Coma-Tones and The mansons) on bass, Autumn de Wilde (also graphic designer and art director; her photography and paintings have been used for releases by
Beachwood Sparks,
Beck,
Neal Casal,
Eels,
Lilys, Elliott Smith, and other artists) on keyboards and
back vocals, Byron Maiden (ex-
Possum Dixon and the Liquor Giants) on drums and himself on lead guitar and vocals. They did some shows around L.A. and suffered several line-up changes. In 2000 he returned for fourth and last time to
Infectious Grooves to record their fourth studio album:
Mas Borracho released the August 29. After four years, The Blondes finally released their homonym first studio work with their original formation. In less than a half-year later they released their second official record, titled
Swedish Heat. In 2004 they edited their third and final studio material, called
Summer Strut, breaking up shortly after its tour. He retired as a musician in 2005 and became a producer and engineer in
Glassell Park neighborhood of Los Angeles until 2008. Then he co-founded (as guitarist) Music Go Music, the
dance-rock and
power pop side-project to Meredith/Gala Bell (vocals) and David/Kamer (keyboards and vocals) Metcalf's band
Bodies of Water, in which Siegel had participated in their second studio album "
A Certain Feeling". In addition to these three members, the group is accompanied in concerts by various musicians who play several instruments. They came as long ago talking about writing something together, in May 2008, Siegel joined them to the studio to record their first single, "
Light of Love" and a second one, titled "
Warm in the Shadows " the January 20, 2009. In August 2008, they released an
EP which included three tracks called
Reach Out and he began using the nickname "Torg". The October 6, 2009, they edited their debut studio album:
Expressions, as the two previous singles and the
EP it was released by
Secretly Canadian. ==Discography==