Adam Willard

Willard pertama kali tergabung dengan band rock asal San Diego, California Rocket from the Crypt pada tahun 1990, setelah drummer awal mereka, Sean, pindah dari kota tersebut. Pada sebuah wawancara tahun 2006, Willard bercerita tentang pengalamannya bersama Rocket from the Crypt:
"It was crazy, man. I was just 16, I would drive down to this kind of sketchy, strange rehearsal space in this part of town I'd never been, and there were people living in some of the spaces. It was just "weird", and everybody was older than me. But the sound was rad. It was a lot of soul, a lot of Otis Redding, James Brown–but it was up against a serious punk rock influence, and just regular rock 'n' roll. Every song had four personalities!"
Willard mulai berkontribusi pada album kedua Rocket from the Crypt "" dilanjutkan beberapa album berikutnya seperti "Hot Charity" , "Scream, Dracula, Scream!" , dan "RFTC" , termasuk beragam EP dan singel. Selama kariernya bersama band ini, Willard ikut serta dalam tour di Amerika Serikat dan Eropa. Willard mengingat kembali beberapa tour mereka sangatlah liar, seperti tour menggunakan truk box dan bus bandara. Pada tahun 2000, dia memutuskan untuk meninggalkan grup ini karena perbedaan pendapat dengan anggota lain mengenai arah pergerakan band, dengan menyatakan:
"I was getting disillusioned with the way we were doing business. It was getting harder and harder to survive–those tours where you'd come home with no money, that was getting less cool. [Laughs.] I didn't just want to get some temp job to survive and go on tour anymore. I wanted to play the drums; I wanted to play music and make a living off of it. And I thought I could. And we all could. I wanted some changes and Speedo and I were kind of at odds on that stuff; we disagreed on how we should go about it."
Posisi Willard di Rocket from the Crypt kemudian digantikan oleh Mario Rubalcaba.