I was so young and so naive, it was a great lesson. It was funny, I remember playing him the demos I played on and he went: “Are you listening to the guitar player at all?” I went: “Nope.” – “How about the bass player?” – “He’s getting in my way too.” He made a point saying: “You should listen to your band and craft your drum parts around that.” In my head I was trying to impress drummers with this, but he was thinking I should try to sell a few albums. The album that Steve helped on was our second album. The record industry was very different, there were big record deals back then. That was with Hollywood Records which was owned by Disney, so there were all the financial resources in the world. We got a major label record deal when I was 21.
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Was that with ‘Simon Says’? That was your first dive into the professional side of things, right? He came in, listened to what I was doing on the album, took all the silliness out of it and said: “Just do this.” It straightened up the whole album, it really helped! I rented out a rehearsal room and set up two kits for us. He knew Steve and hired him to do some private lessons with me. I was getting ready to record my first major label album and the producer felt that I needed some help with my groove and feel. Yes, for a very short time, he definitely wasn’t one of my private teachers. I was like: “Oh, I gotta go back and play drums, I just wanna play clarinet, it’s so cool!”. That wasn’t a choice, I was really upset. I started playing bass drum in the school band and my parents were really supportive and got me a drum kit. I kept passing out while we worked on our whole notes because of all the blowing, so my teacher moved me to drums – and that was it. For some weird reason when I was five I thought the clarinet was the coolest instrument on the planet. I started in my school music programme playing clarinet. Let’s talk about the time before your website. I caught up with Mike at his Masterclass in London to talk about his early days of drumming, his website and many other things. His website ‘’ has not only made him one of the top educators of our time but also revolutionised drum education forever – and he has big plans to increase his lead even further. The drum community surrounding his online lessons, consisting of drummers from all ages and levels of ability, extends over the whole globe and is growing bigger every day.īut even if you’re not a regular subscriber, every drummer has seen at least a handful of Mike’s video lessons.
Lou’s ability to dream up an idea and execute that vision is second to none and we unpack those skills and more in this episode.Mike Johnston is probably one of the most recognisable names on the drum circuit today. Not only is he a brilliant engineer, he’s also been a successful entrepreneur since 1994 as the founding engineer of (which was sold to ), 2004 as co-founder and CEO of Memory Matrix which sold to Shutterfly, 2008 as the founder and CEO of cloud-storage company and his latest company, JetInsight, which he started in 2015. In 2002 he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35. Lou has been widely recognized for his work and was one of only six inductees in the World Wide Web Hall of Fame announced at the First International Conference on the World-Wide Web in 1994. You don’t necessarily have to know what all of that means, but rest assured, you benefit from those inventions every time you use the internet. He’s also the creator of website cookies, client pull, and push (aka push notifications), animated GIFs and a ton of other technologies including the blink element, and HTTP proxying.
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In 1994, he became a founding engineer of Netscape Communications and programmed the networking code for the first versions of the Netscape web browser.
I met Lou through a mutual friend and he is hands-down one of the most fascinating people I’ve ever met. I figured this particular episode would be a good one to share because not only has Lou demonstrated his ability to execute on great ideas, he’s also a drummer (and the inventor of Groove Scribe which you’ve probably seen at ) Uncut is all about creative entrepreneurship and takin an idea that’s in your head and executing it. In this special edition of the podcast, I share an episode from my new podcast Uncut with Nick Ruffini, where I interview drummer and internet pioneer, Lou Montulli.
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