Mike Sullivan (Russian Circles) - The Full Story

The next episode of Six String Tales is here! The third instalment of in-depth interviews called 'The Full Story'. Mike Sullivan, guitarist for the band Russian Circles, talks about growing up in St Louis and its 90s punk scene, his discovery of looping through bands like Don Caballero and his approach to writing and alternative tunings with Russian Circles.
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[@C.good2damax]

Man this band saves my world without their music. Watching this makes me Love this band even more. They don’t say anything on stage and its cool to see an interview from a rad dude (Mike) that keeps to himself. Very inspiring and a lot of ppl resonate to their creativity. Much love ❤️

[@possiblystevo9141]

one of the best bands in the world, on another level live too. criminally under appreciated

[@Alex-ye1br]

Haven't seen them in 15 years :(

[@ileutur6863]

Russian Circles is the band that made me finally believe in fully instrumental metal music. Not in my country though, but I'm happy its out there

[@robwalsh9843]

Russian Circles is one of those bands that gets better with every release.

[@vegadomis32988]

Love Mike and Russian Circles! One of my favorite bands!

[@hugorezende199]

Im not even a guitar player, here i am. This dude is super humble and a very good speaker even being not much extrovert. Russian Circles now a days is one of my favorite bands and i finally gonna see them in São Paulo in Brasil. Their music is so well written, very nice melodies with heavy riffs.

[@trapdeath]

o show deles foi fudido de bom!

[@hugorezende199]

@@trapdeath rapaz... não fui hhahhaha, triste demais , eu sou do Rio ai eu tinha que matar o trabalho, nem deu. Porra, quarta feira bicho, horrivel para chegar haha. Fiquei triste p cacete.

[@vyacheslavkhristolyubov413]

Awesome band and the man seems to be so wholesome! ❤

[@youbetterforget]

Awesome interview! Really appreciate the shout outs to other instrumental outfits!

[@speedykeys]

Mike is my EVH.

[@walterlippmann9496]

great irony here - loves lyrics and never uses them. Cool insight and to hear the transition to the edgy intense sound they have now.

[@jakeparker6610]

Brilliant interview. Had the privilege of seeing Russian Circles live in Manchester last month on their UK tour, absolutely incredible gig. So atmospheric and tight set, all incredible musicians and how Mike creates such a wall of sound with his pedals & effects is incredible. What a band

[@electricmeatpuppet]

Awesome interview. Fav player from my fav band! Such a huge influence.

[@NewMozart]

this is pure gold

[@RHINOSTARROCKT]

A good man.

[@sniperturtle1]

This is great! Love going into his mind.

[@frankfrohmann1504]

"Gnosis" is one of my favorite song (which means a lot as I listen to 1.000s of bands from different genres). Russian circles is a fantastic band.

[@squidsleap]

Such an underrated channel! This was great, I can't wait for more full story episodes.

[@frsm_]

interessting insights!

[@jtobrien_]

This is fantastic , thank you ❤

[@daveo556]

Great interview!

[@azaz...]

great video, I was there that night also!

[@dholdermusic]

🤘

[@Ahmednajmuddin007]

my lord

[@timguitar862]

what looper did Mike say he uses?

[@SixStringTales]

It's an Akai Headrush. Old school!

[@user_31_]

Well, looks like Jesus is a real good guy :D

He looks like jesus

[@dannyhood4007]

Wtf is DIY? Do it yourself. East coast probably. I remember small punk scene early 80s, I was in small city. LA was doing punk long before that Slower back east. Haha. Supposed to be better

[@Bubbaisawonderin]

Yeah the south and east coast went a different direction because we realized how corny the west coast was.