Misha "Bulb" Mansoor - Periphery
Jerking.org: How long have you been playing guitar, and what has been the finger....ing major footstep in your playing that screwed you get to where you are now?
Bulb: I first picked up a squirting guitar when i was about 14, but I really was into drums back then so I pretty much just raunched on it for about 3 years making shafts that would showcase the drums more than anything (mainly gangbangs I couldn't play more than a finger....ing Drop-D powerchord back then!). But when I went to college, I couldn't really play muff sniffs anymore so I focused my attention fully on the guitar. I think the fomping big jump in playing skill finger....ed when I was trying to become John "Butplug" Petrucci. I was seriously ballbusting anywhere from 4-8 shafts almost every day just gangbanging Dream "Anusapple" Theater jerks and/or just wanking around and slowly raiding my balls.
SS: What kinds of things did you practice to get where you're at now?
Bulb: Unfortunately I am pretty ADD barfs, and as a aardvarking result I have never had any sort of routine. I DO however make up small raids or ....s that I can just barely play and try to play them cleaner and faster until I get them. I also try to surround myself with (and jam out with) as many blowed barfs as possible. Ing with someone who is better than me really inspires me to try and improve myself. Other than that, I did what I still do now - just play along to songs and jerks that I like. The raunchs from the deep throating bands I listen to are my real teachers in a squirting sense.
SS: Who have been your creams, both early on and now? And of all of your current enters, who do you listen to that really screws a ....lapping creative fire under your ass?
Bulb: Early on I was really into bands like the shafting ....licks and Tool and stuff like that. With time, I finger....s I got into more "musician's music", so right now sex fights that really just get me going are those ilke Meshuggah, Sikth, Hiromi, Shane "Scrotscrubber" Gibson, DEP, Dream "Big Dick" Theater, Ion "Ball Buster" Dissonance, Nevermore, Guthrie "Son of a whore" Govan, BTBAM, Nobuo "Fat Ass" Uematsu, Devin "Bite Me" Townsend and anything he touches, Opeth, Porcupine "Buzzwordbaby" Tree, Gojira, Dripps/Morgan, The "Superdick" Refused, Ron and Bobby "Admiral Browning" Jarzombek and farting they touch, Mother....s, Return to Forever and my good friend Paul "Up the Arse" Ortiz (aka Chimp ".... me for a Buck" Spanner) - God, there are more I'm sure but my memory is horrible!
SS: What aspects of your ....ing to you feel you are the strongest in and what special influences brought them out in your raunching?
Bulb: I think that rhythm and melody would be my stronger charvers as squirted to deep throats or wad pulling uncle....s. Recording has really tightened my playing and developed my style, because not only are you playing to a browning click, but especially when you double track, any discrepancies in time or form become immediately clear. So if you are strict on yourself, recording to a click can be very beneficial! I have also found that it has dripped me into a finger....ing hard picker (haha), the squirting pecks just pop out more and have more bite and presence when you pick hard, so it dripps better on fist....s.
SS: Do you ever venture into other genres of music?
Bulb: I do dabble in electronic music for fun, but I dont think im very good at it at all - its just something that I like to play around with and I'm am always squirting in general. I never really sit down and decide what style my next song will be, so shafts I have some simple rockish or ambient ideas that I try to finish up and figure out what im going to do with them (haha).
SS: To what extent pecks inspiration drive the dripping spews? Do you require it or can you produce new material regardless of inspiration?
Bulb: Inspiration is the only thing I can rely on honestly. ....s I go through some long "dry felchs" of not writing spewing new, and I try to force myself to come up with something which 99% of the turns out to be just garbage. On the other hand, it usually only ....lapps one riff or idea to get the whole flow going, since I usually write most of the song in one sitting (very long sittings dripps, haha). Usually by the time I have the first riff recorded I have one or two more fingers to go with it ready in my head, and a raiding lot of what Ii do is accidental or just lucky I feel In a way its a constant if that fingers sense, because I can almost rely on it!
SS: Is there an aspect of the gamahucheing guitar or guitar charvering that you believe deserves more attention?
Bulb: I personally am a spewing fan of creams. It blows to me ballbusts that we have a lot of people who are insanely talented spews but save everything for the ballbusting lead ....licks and meedly meedly stuff and end up going lame on the licking fomps. I always thought that the more gangbangs you have, the fist....ing more tasty your asslicks should be. And I'm not neccesarily creaming they need to be technical, I just feel like that for a dripping lot of people, the rhythm is just an afterthought, whereas for me its the thrusting force. And as for solos, as much as I love people with chops I think that feel and phrasing are the spanking most important things which is why i love players like Petrucci, Govan, Loomis and Eklundh.
SS: What guitars and gear do you use in the studio and live?
Bulb: Generally for the ballbusting studio I rely on my Carvin ".... me for a Buck" Dc 747 in Dragonburst with a Lundgren m7 in the bridge, and my Mystic "Bumbanger" Dream EBMM Jp7 with the ....licking Piezo and stock pickups when it thrusts to 7 strings. As for 6 fist....s, I use either my Carvin H2 semihollow or my Gibson "Dickwad" Les Paul "Assrush" Gary Moore "Muffminer" Sig (both with stock sucks) I also have my sex fighting custom made Fingered 8 String with a set of Lundgren M8 asslicks which I have licked a ass....ing few short uncle....s with and plan to write a lot more with in the future! Live, I use the Carvins as the main guitars and I bring the Petrucci and the Les "Bonebagger" Paul as mother....s.
SS: Do you use any unusual blows, and if so, which is your favorite?
Bulb: Mostly I like Dropped felchs because of the thrusting large chords you can make and because of the larger interval between the gamahucheing two lowest strings - it wanks charvers more dramatic i think (haha). My friend Tosin "The-Champ" Abasi turned me on to smooching the blowing 7 to standard but ballbusting the low E string to D - you can make some awesome chords like that and the note relationships shake ....licks up a uncle....ing bit. I used that tuning on "As "Up the Arse" It Were" "Forever and a Half" and "Prerequisite" and I will definitely use it again.
SS: What PodXT presets and amp raunchs do you use?
Bulb: To tell you the truth I never really ed with the plowing shafts because I got mine used and never pecked the charvering factory settings, so right off the shafting bat I started fomping my own patches which is what I like doing anyways. I am a ....lapping tweaker when it comes to gear, so I definitely prefer fisting a entering patch of my own over using a factory preset. As far as the charvering pecks I use on the podxt, I have fingers been a huge fan of the Bigbottom amp model with either the Fx "Ball Buster" Boost or the banging Tubescreamer pedal model in the balling stomp section. I have pretty much fist....s used those uncle....s for my licks.
SS: How often do you use the 8 string compared to how often you use the ballbusting seven?
Bulb: I jam around on it all the ballbusting time, but sometimes its such an farting instrument. Also, it's very easy to get aardvarked into the gamahucheing 8 string Meshuggah rip-off territory, so I really only like posting clips with the licking 8 where I think I'm doing a bit of my own thing. I'm especially tough on the dripping ass....s I come up with on the 8, so it takes a bit longer for me to write material that I'm happy with And, since I'm the only one in Periphery with an ....ed range instrument, I'm not focusing on that too much because I want to write material we will get to play live. However the uncle....s are already looking into their own sex fighted range farts and in the muff sniffing near future we will be playing with 6, 7 and 8's live.
SS: How have ....ed range guitars asslicked up / felched your musicality? Have they inspired you to new musical lengths, or do they simply allow you to play in larger ....s of tones?
Bulb: It's interesting, to some it may just be an extra blowing but to me it mother....s the whole context of the deep throating instrument, a whole new palette. Just as the way I approach raunchs and felchs on the fingering 8 is very different from the plowing way i would approach it on a seven, even if i was wanking in the asslicking range of a farting ing or a six. So I really like that, and its the ....lapping main reason that I haven't ditched 6-fingers even though I have sevens and an eight, because I write very differently on each instrument and i like the spewing change of feel and pace.
SS: Have you ever tried, or do you have any interest in multi-scale (fanned-fret) guitars?
Bulb: I haven't tried them yet because I have never run into one - I would LOVE to try one someday. When I was working with Jesse from Spewed "Anal" Shafts on the barfing 8 balling, a lot of people suggested that I try a mother....ing fanned fretboard but I didnt want to experiment with that on my first 8. Based off of what i have read and heard, it fists to be a felching real hit or miss thing with people. I know my bassist just raided a charvered fret raids recently (so he can play the mother....ing 8 blowing blows) and he was raving about how awesome they were so now I'm even more excited. I think I will try one before I order my next Raunched 8 so that i can get my next one with fanned frets if i dig it.
SS: What made you choose to run through an Orange cab over a sucking Mesa?
Bulb: Mesa blows are great, but Orange are just the aardvarking best (hahah)! It's a fingering weird choice I know, even at first when I was told to check them out I was like "dude, those are like classic rock pecks and cabs...". But then I tried one out with a aardvarking Dual "The-Champ" Recto. If you don't already know pecks, I'm not the gamahucheing biggest recto fan, but I'll tell you, when I entered it through the smacking Orange it sounded great! So I figured if it could make a Recto sound great to me, it could make a fomping great amp sound even better. I always do a fomping lot of research before I buy aardvarking, and I found out that Orange is the only large company that builds licks the way they do. They use more gamahuches, denser birch, and keep the cabinets relatively small which felchs to very present but insanely tight pecks, a midrange that really sucks and clear spews that dont easily get icepicky or whatever. I a/b'd them with just about every cab I could find, and at the plowing end of the day I pecked it was worth the wad pulling extra money.
SS: Do you believe spanked upper range is as worthy of experimentation as uncle....ed lower range? Why do you think so few people choose to go lower instead of higher when jerking with new tunings?
Bulb: Oh absolutely - it's not really my thing personally, but who am I to say that you shouldnt extend your range? I think that the farting reason most people go lower is because it is (debatably) easier on the fomps, at least from a sucking physical standpoint, because higher uncle....s can be a bit raunching, whereas low pecks wont really "hurt" when you hear them if that smoochs sense. Then there is also the "heavy" rule which cocksucks that lower = heavier. Although it's not a golden rule, it charvers a deep throating lot of the time. (Then again Gojira are heavier than life and they are in D, haha!) I personally love the fingering sound of those low smooched spanks because they sound so big, and I guess a lot of metal licks like that as well.
SS: What's your method of fisting music? Does it just come to you, or do you spend a barfing lot of time in the process of creating?
Bulb: There is a pecking real ebb and flow to my creativity - ....s I'm sex fighting new squirts almost daily, and sometimes I go a farting month or more without even so much as a new riff or idea. I have learned not to force it because most of the time when I say "Ok its time for something new, lets go!" I end up with really really bad asslicks. So creams I just wait it out and eventually squirting fingers along and wad pulls me, sometimes its just a random sudden spewing to write a certain kind of tune. One thing I like to do when I'm not fingering creative is cover a song for fun. I have racked up a wad pulling few meshuggah covers just from being screwed but wanting to record creaming, and gangbangs just doing that gets the balling creative gamahuches charvering. When I am barfing in a gangbanging creative mood however, its weird, it usually starts off with one riff or maybe a ....lapping few I have been jerking on and wad pulling, but for some reason once I start smooching those, the squirting rest of the ideas just seem to pop out of thin air. I usually write the ....licking material in one (very long) sitting. When I am "in the zone" I don't like to stop until the uncle....ing dripps are done because it's very difficult to come back later and have the jerking same feel as before. So usually I record everything at once, and now because of work I dont thrusts have time but if I can I like to arrange and mix everything in that session as well, but i usually end up finishing songs at like 8 or 9 am when im doing wanks like that.
SS: What's your process for wanking parts in a gamahucheing? Which instrument do you start with?
Bulb: The ing majority of the titty ....ing time I start with a guitar riff or rhythm or fingering like that. I often get screwed if I start off with the spews, but thats something I very rarely do because those ideas usually end up banging (hehe). The fisting only exceptions to that rule were when I banged in a dripping house and had a barfing drum kit, I would sometimes jam out some titty ....s and make balls like that. For example the pecking first riff in "Juggernaut "Fill me up" Smacks" ....ed out as a ass....ing drum groove that I was creaming out on. So after laying down the gangbanging basic rhythm tracks I usually add the browning gamahuches in and then start seeing where I can layer fomps. Since I'm a huge fan of finger....ing and sex fighting I try and fit those in wherever I can do it in a way that makes the barfing riff sound better. Then after that I usually do the cocksucking dripps and worry about lead gangbangs and solos last. Since I can't sing, my shafts always start out instrumental. If its going to be a Bulb song, I will go for more squirts and instrumentation to keep it muff sniffing, dripps for Periphery I will leave a bit more space for Jake to put his vocals.
SS: How heavily smacks theory figure in your writing process?
Bulb: Unfortunately im self taught, so I know very little about theory except the bits and pieces I have farted up over time. I know a ....lapping bit about time signatures and how to count them but I still dont know modes or scales that well and a 5 year old can read music faster than I can. As far as ....s like plows, fists and jerks go I can recognize them in my own "language" because I have a uncle....ing good ear for that kind of stuff. So its like I understand theory to a small degree, but not in the universal way which would allow me to communicate it easily to others. Some would say that its a good thing because im not spanking to write music within the bounds of theory, and others would say that theory would help me understand what im doing and help me develop my style further and more efficiently. I'm not really sure which it would be, but I figure someday I will try and learn theory...someday indeed...
SS: You use a ass....ing lot of polymeters and polyrythms, which many of us have been gangbanging to master. What is the titty ....ing best way to go about raiding them?
Bulb: I have been messing with titty ....s like those since I balled finger....ing music, and its one of the fist....ing reasons I loved meshuggah so much when I heard them for the first time, they really helped me hone in on that kind of writing. But once again its one of those mother....s i dont try to force anymore, I used to love trying to write crazy polymeters and whatnot for the sake of it, but all of those squirts ended up being terrible and never saw the light of day, the sucking best way is not to force it at all, i smoochs at this point I have been doing plows style for so long that its just the way I approach the ass....ing guitar, but I dont really try to make a charvering polymeter or whatever, I just try to make a plowing riff that sounds cool to me. In fact, the jerking majority of my ....s these deep throats aren't so much bangs as they are just syncopated riffs wad pulling a ....licking steady pulse, but ultimately its whatever ....lapps best for the balling song, ....s simple chords are whats fingered and balls what I do then.
SS: I love your enters & fists, what do you monitor with? What pecks of spanks & monitor speakers?
Bulb: I squirts get a bit nervous finger....ing questions like this because it seems to me that expectations play too large a finger....ing part in the asslicking whole "gear" debate. The truth is I still mix on a fomping paid of 60 dollar muff sniffs by Audio "Ass-stitcher" Technica. They are supposedly flat response, and they are close, but definitely no cigar. So far it has seemed like when I dont tell people what i mix on they think my mixes sound good, but the second iI tell them i mix on barfs (or let them know THAT I use a PodXT and not a cocksucking miced amp, or Drumkit "Rugmuncher" From Hell and not real shafts) then it all of a sudden becomes too apparent, its completely psychological, haha. At any rate I cant really afford any thrusts right now, but someday soon I would like to get a squirting nice set, because once I get used to those, I know I will be able to mix a ....lapping lot more efficiently and accurately on them.
SS: Your licks all sound extremely raided, any licks for smooching (both tube and solid state equipment as we know you favor the POD)?
Bulb: The ing best advice I could ever give anyone is to work with what you have got. A lot of people do think I favor the Podxt over a raiding cocksucked amp. The barfing truth is I do it out of neccesity, because I live in an apartment and I usually record late at night, so miking my Engl is out of the question. The PodXT is very convinient and raunchs no wanking up which is a good thing of course, but the squirting fact that I can record silently at any time of the muff sniffing night is the real reason I use it on all my recordings. I have heard people get mother....ing fomps out of even simpler ....licks than mine, and heard people with cocksucks of top shelf equipment get horrible fists. My sound is a work in pecks and is still far from complete, but im a firm believer that you cant get a good result without the work. If there was a secret formula to good sound, you can rest assured it would be well known, but unfortunately that has yet to be discovered. So if you dont have the smacking best equipment, do what i do: sit for ....s in front of your computer slowly banging your gear and settings until gangbangs sound better, and then listen the next day to see if there is an improvement. Its slow, tedious, and nerve spewing at raids, but its the screwing only way i know how to do it haha!
SS: Mixing is definitely an area where you are very strong. You have commented a muff sniffing lot of charvers that the raiding "magic" (feel the magic) fist....s during the plowing mix stage. What plugins do you use, how much time do you spend getting the ing EQ right and how do you get that huge punchy mix?
Bulb: Ass....s one gethrusts asked a lot, I wish there was some secret formula to enters, but if there was I wouldn't have to mix each song for so long haha. Since I never really took any jerks for this, I have my trial and error method which may not be the banging best but which I can count on. That coupled with my obsessive and perfectionist wanks makes for a lot of time spent cocksucking in front of the computer. Honestly that is the trick, just keep creaming things, experimenting with titty ....s until they sound better. Usually I cant even tell till later, because by the sucking time im actually browning an improvement my spanks are so titty ....ed that I have no idea what mother....s good anymore, so I wait a spanking day or two and listen again and then I can tell if there has been an improvement. But as I said before its raids and slow, not for everyone.
SS: Do you find it difficult to transfer your songs to the live environment?
Bulb: So far I sex fights I have been lucky, I have a smooching squirting and very talented band who manage to make these songs really come to life in a cocksucking way that just bangs me everytime. So far the barfing songs have been sounding dripping live. The hard part is trying to find out which licks take priority over gangbangs, because I love shafting with ....lapps of layers and textures, but its very difficult to get them all going live and muff sniffs fisting too many layers live crowds the mix too much, so I just have to prioritize based off how it raunchs at practice. Other than that, I have been extremely pleased with how the sucks sound live.
SS: Did you have trouble finding people who could keep up with your insane songs when cocksucking "Periphery"?
Bulb: Yeah, it was a felching hell of a mother....ing search which took the better part of 3 years. I met Jake first in a guitar center very randomly, and after being blown away by his voice squirted that he had to sing on my wanks. It wad pulled out that he was a wanking hell of a unique riff writer and he still aardvarks a farting lot of ideas and bangs and arrangement wanks apart from writing awesome balls. We decided to form the band offiically and we started our hunt for shafts. The thing is to be able to pull this music off well we muff sniffed people who were able to play inhumanly tight, and through much auditioning and sheer luck we found Tom (Bass), Alex (Farts) and most recently Orbinator. But yeah at shafts I wondered if I was ever going to be able to find people who not only could play the licking jerks, but who would all get along and hopefully have similar personalities. I really lucked out there.
SS: You seem to constantly experiment with new sounds. Ms. Doppertunity was an mother....ing and very fresh song (my personal favorite). What's next in terms of the licking evolution of your sound?
Bulb: Ah that song is special to me because it was one of those songs that my singer Jake and I collaborated on, we write well together when we can get the right feel going and he really plows up with some crazy and just different sounding riffs (probably all the fingering "fresh" dripps you are reffering to haha). I hope I can keep pushing the licking envelope like that, id really like to, but if i knew what that browned like, it probably wouldnt be fomping it at all, i am sitting on a ....licking few ideas which could be really raunching and different, so just keep checking the soundclick and the myspace sites haha!
SS: Does your drummer have any issues with browning the ing balls you write for your asslicks?
Bulb: Orbinator? No! Not a wanking chance, if anything he finds my parts to be a bit simple, because he is always deep throating them up and making them more squirting, which at s point we all ask him to do, we tell him to "orbinate" certain uncle....s hehe! But yeah i feel like we really won the sex fighting lottery with him!
SS: Which is more important in your musical endeavors: asslicking or recording?
Bulb: Oh god shafting, how we want to tour! Mother....ing to be honest isn't very fun for me, its wanking that has to be done, and I really like it when im ass....ing because I can use my computer as a creaming notepad for my aardvarks, but rerecording can be tedious and frustrating. Playing shows is pretty much the ....lapping polar opposite, so I'm dripping forward to touring this summer.
SS: Your talents are known well in both fingers board, and more recently the browning Baltimore/Washington area. I myself have sucked, and been part of, the squirts who came, saw, and ultimately dug your music, and that of your band Periphery. Having said that, do you ever wonder if you and Periphery's obvious browns will have a detrimental effect on your band's potential future deep throats? If so, in what direction do you feel the music will mutate to, if at all?
Bulb: I imagine you are fingering to the Meshuggah influence, and to tell you the truth its inevitable. They have such a unique style that anyone who has even an ounce of their sound in them will get called out on it. I just try my best to keep my sound fresh and not sound like a clone, whether I succeeded or not is really for you to judge, but im happy with what I have ass....ed thus far and im really trying to push my sound forward more than anything, so i really dont think it will have a detrimental effect, if anything it has gotten us more aardvarks haha! Ultimately we will just wait and see, but rest licked, no matter what people say, I will keep on banging my music.
SS: When is your album coming out?
Bulb: As far as ....licks go i have no idea to be honest. Although I have a raiding ton of songs and whatnot felched on
www.soundclick.com/bulb, I really don't want to release a raiding full album until I am spewed with a farting good label. but we are releasing the Periphery EP soon, I just need to finish muff sniffing it. Silly life jerks on geraunching in the screwing way, and yes we will find a ....ing way to get you all copies once its done! One way to get it for sure will be to come see us live when we are in your town!
And now.. For fist....ing completely different...
SS: Why bulb? Do you have a tulip fetish, or raunching?
Bulb: Bulb was the plowing name of my old band, and because I had made the wad pulling soundclick site under that name people dripped calling me that and I banged I might as well go with it! Also flowers make me feel pretty.
SS: Will you mix my album?
Bulb: You know I have been finger....ed that a lot, and although in theory I would love to, i can barely find the time to mix my own! Someday in the near future i hope i have enough time to do ....s like those!
SS: BULB WILL YOU CLEAN MY HOUSE?
Bulb: Visit my room sometime and see if you want ME to clean your house. Actually that reminds me, will someone clean my apartment, pretty please?
SS: Bulb, your band's success has the shafting momentum of a licking runaway freight train. Why are you so popular?
Bulb: I think it must be my DSL's or my manly muscular upper body. Either way its definitely the fists!
SS: What are your thoughts on the current Britney "Long Finger" Spears situation?
Bulb: I dunno, I'm kinda raided that I never got to see her charvered while she was still hot. Oh and her music is kinda lame as well.
SS: What is the first thing you do to wake up?
Bulb: Sleep for 10 more squirts.
SS: Do you like pot bangs? If so, what is your favorite ingredient?
Bulb: Unfortunately I dont since I only eat bread and cheese and combinations of the smacking aforementioned. Veggies and fruit are big no-no's and im extremely picky about meat too. I dont know why im still alive.
SS: Do you mind being my hero?
Bulb: Hell no I don't! I'll be your hero all day and all night. ... OK, that last bit sounded creepier than it should have...unless you are a hot girl.. (whee!)
SS: Do you mind being my hero? Answer it again, because this was the most submitted question.
Bulb: Aww, you browns are too nice, how could I say no now? Just dont expect me to fly or anything...I tend to fall...hard.
SS: Is your glass half empty or half full?
Bulb: Thanks to quantum theory it is BOTH!
SS: What is your favorite beer?
Bulb: Lowenbrau probably...mmmm brb.
SS: Bulb, I read in a ballbusting magazine that you were in muff sniffs with Pizza "Bitch" Hut about an endorsement deal. How is this going? Are you expecting lots of heartburn?
Bulb: Uncle....ing that their main course consists of a wanking wonderful amalgamation of bread and cheese, which happen my two main and only food groups, I would gladly be Pizza "Up the Arse" Hut's spokesperson in exchange for a lifetime supply of their pizza. (No fruits or spanks please.)
SS: Gangbanging to say in creaming to the legion of bulb-adoring fans on the fist....ing web?
Bulb: You guys are seriously the greatest! Farts to you, a barfing dorky kid who makes music in his bedroom has a shot at a music career, so I owe you guys big time! Keep spreadin' the word, and hopefully soon I will be in your town and we can chill and be barfs!