A Chat With: Misha Mansoor 

Misha is so good at articulating his understanding through himself and his music. Fantastic.

It's funny... Misha has talked about "how" to be a musician in the current world a few times now. The guy actually changed my perspective on what I was doing with my life. I had to assess what was important to my happiness. I stopped wasting my time with other musicians that don't have the drive, fortitude, or vision that I do. A liot of people seem to lose track of what's important: the music! I've got a family, a house, a better job, and a better attitude about everything. I'm working on building my home studio and developing recording skills, so I don't have to be reliant upon anyone for actually accomplishing goals. It's a competitive and saturated industry and I realize the statistics of not being commercial successful, but if all I do is create music that represents what I want to hear; I'm ok with that.💯 Best wishes to u guys...and sorry about the rant...lol Just wanted to let u know that some of us are paying attention to the advice of experienced musicians.

Hearing Misha's thoughts really helps me understand why he gave me the answer to a question I asked him a couple of years ago. I asked him about learning to play a 7 string. How I could go about it. And he simply said, just mess around and have fun.

I first learned about Misha (Bulb) from the Line6 Pod forums. Amazing demos, I still have them downloaded and listen to them every once and awhile.

Hah, it's fun hearing Misha talk about the old days! I was on a bunch of forums, say, fifteen years ago and when Bulb posted some of his Line 6 patches I snagged them as quick as I could! My virtual tone with all my new NDSP stuff is still pretty much the same: Boosted 5150, V30 4x12, SM 57. It's still my favorite. Love the car talk, too! I used to turn wrenches through the late 80s into the mid 00s, but now I'm an English and History teacher. My wife never gets too stressed over another guitar purchase because she knows it's still cheaper than a weekend of racing. And I totally agree about car gear & music gear being a pretty similar thing; it's all about the parts.

Dude you are a good host for a podcast...great questions and stable mood

I was in the studio with Mike Malyan last Monday, and yeah. He’s a beast. Filming 4 feet away with ear defenders on STILL getting a pounding!

I love that Misha did an interview with Kohlekeller Studio last week about the same drum course and they are completely different conversations.

Great interview. Thank you.

My first word was car. My first sentence was look at the car. I feel you and I understand you

This was such a good interview. I can relate to so much that was talked about. You really should have Misha back on and go more in depth with the car stuff, and more.

Awsome just an excellent interview.

As a mechanic I TOTALLY relate!!! I LOVE having music as my hobby!

advancements in music tech affecting real life approaches to instruments is so cool

hahah I used to write drums on Guitar Pro and then import the midi tracks on sonar or cakewalk...I'm that old

I quit guitar in 2001 and got into cars and drag racing until about 2011. I experienced the same burnout (no pun intended) with the quest for better and better times at the track. Picked the guitar back up in 2016.

First Tremonti now Misha!!! Love these artist vids!!!

Nice shirt !! I saw END in Brooklyn recently

Let’s have this go full circle and get Fluff on The Smoking Tire! I know Fluff is a car guy and Farah also likes music too! The TST episodes with Misha are always fun

I can totally relate. I think my 20+ years as a mecanic has lead me to liking music in a different way than others. I would work on cars, build race cars, program the cars computer for max performance. Now it translates to music. I like playing but I much prefer changing my rig every other week. Building a rack setup and wiring it all up, then programming sounds and getting MIDI setup. Having it all in a snake in a loom. It all relates. Great chat.

One way the two worlds of Music and Cars can mix is to really go hard on a CAR AUDIO SYSTEM. If you can afford it, that is. There's nothing like having a clean and powerful system blaring a Djentleman's mix as he drives down a scenic biway.

This was really cool. Those reason drum days are gone, thank god LOL

Hell yeah, Misha!

Cars and guitars! All of my guitars are muscle car themed with wrap graphic scraps from the custom graphic shop I work at!

Misha is the best!

Yes yes yes!!!🔥🔥🔥

Sprayed with fear from day one! -Misha a champ for that one.

Misha is Rizzed out to da max no cap on god on god

I'd be interested in finding out what personality types these guys are. Knowing that has explained why I care about the "why" so much.

Compression alone makes drums come across larger than life

sick shirt

I need to learn how to use my computer lol.

It wasn't crazy to export stuff out of Reason, and into Cubase, etc........ At that time......it was amazing that you could get a computer app to program your drums for you. It was just the process that you needed to do to make music. Compared to today..........yeah totally different.

man misha used Battery to load samples, not reason lol

Wholesome af

Where is P5? haha

Gear, cars, watches etc. Man, I want to hang with you guys!

I think the most inspirational thing about Bulb "Misha" Mansoor is how he formed Periphery around his own self-produced music. I'm tryna do the very same thing. Really wanna hear him go in-depth on what that whole process was like.

Feels like I should know who Misha is..but I don't

Why does Misha look like John petrucci?

Misha = Djesus

misha does interviews? oh yeah he's selling something, who would have guessed