{"id":20755,"date":"2019-12-02T13:54:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T21:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=20755"},"modified":"2022-08-19T13:23:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T20:23:19","slug":"gregg-bissonette-interview-drumeo-gab-podcast-143","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/gregg-bissonette-interview-drumeo-gab-podcast-143\/","title":{"rendered":"Gregg Bissonette: The Happiest I\u2019ve Ever Been"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/12172523\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87A93A\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" oallowfullscreen=\"\" msallowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5><em>\u201cWell, I don\u2019t wanna sound like that guy but I am the happiest I\u2019ve ever been in my life!\u201d<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>Gregg Bissonette has enjoyed an amazing career in music. The Detroit native has had the pleasure of playing with such artists as David Lee Roth, Ringo Starr, Maynard Ferguson, Carlos Santana, Don Henley, his brother Matt, and many others. As you can probably tell based on those names alone, Gregg is incredibly versatile musically. Beyond that though, Gregg is also known for being down to earth, professional, comical, and friendly. All of these attributes have certainly helped him in sustaining his life in music.<\/p>\n<p>Gregg proudly endorses Dixon Drums, Sabian Cymbals, Vic Firth drumsticks, Remo Drumheads, DW Drum pedals, Samson Audio, LP Percussion, Audix Mics, Gregg Bissonette signature stick bag by Kaces, XL Specialty road cases, Beato drum bags, and LT lug locks.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>In this episode:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>You&#8217;ll hear about&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gregg\u2019s experience recording lessons at Drumeo<\/li>\n<li>Some advice he received from his parents at a young age<\/li>\n<li>Why we need to love and accept everybody<\/li>\n<li>Gregg\u2019s experiences with being a dad<\/li>\n<li>Gregg and Matt\u2019s first band together &#8211; Today\u2019s People &#8211; and how beneficial and enjoyable it has been for them to perform music together over the years<\/li>\n<li>Gregg&#8217;s state of happiness and the importance of being positive<\/li>\n<li>Who is Skippy Skuffleton?<\/li>\n<li>How Gregg got into voiceover work<\/li>\n<li>Priceless advice for working drummers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Why you should listen:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Gregg\u2019s name has come up before in DrumeoGab interviews and it always seems to come back to the same overall message. Besides the fact that Gregg is a great guy, it boils down to his great experiential advice that he provides to the pros. When he speaks, you listen. With that being said, we have an hour of that here. It\u2019s great fundamental wisdom that you can\u2019t go wrong with.<\/p>\n<p>From the importance of being positive, grateful, professional, able, down to earth, helpful and versatile, it&#8217;s all here. There is a particularly strong message in there where he talks about other people who can try to rob you of your happiness and why we should just stay in our lane and keep working on being the best version of ourselves.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Learn To Drum In ANY Style with Gregg Bissonette\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yfabTGZjCEQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow Gregg:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/greggdrums\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/greggbissonette\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/greggbissonette.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow Drumeo Gab:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/drumeogab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/drumeogabpodcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gregg Bissonette is known for his work with David Lee Roth, Ringo Starr and more. Here&#8217;s his advice for drummers and how to be happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":20760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1570,4019,4039,1175],"tags":[986,1608,990,1609],"class_list":["post-20755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drumeo-gab","category-drummers","category-interviews","category-podcasts","tag-drum-podcast","tag-drumeo-gab-podcast","tag-drumming-podcast","tag-seamus-evely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20755"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20785,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20755\/revisions\/20785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}