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Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 383 - Blair Helsing

 
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Percussionist, Band Leader, and Podcaster Blair Helsing stops by to talk about his life and a percussionist, band leader and percussion enthusiast (02:30), his work with the PAS Diversity Alliance and his career in Information Technology (17:25), growing up in Chicago and California (26:40), moving to the Bay Area in college, playing in bands regularly, PAS, Digital Audio Workstations, and San Francisco during the 1990s and 2000s (32:20), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions, including sections on maintaining good posture while playing drumset, Edgar Wright movies, John Cage, Hal Blaine, Ringo Starr, the final Sex Pistols show, and Rick Beato’s YouTube page (54:15).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2021 documentary The Sparks Brothers (01:23:45).

Blair Helsing Links:

Blair Helsing’s LinkedIn page

Echo Beach Jazz Band

Previous podcast guests mentioned:

Elizabeth DeLamater in 2019

Heather Sloan in 2021

Dave Gerhart in 2018

Other Links:

PAS Diversity Alliance

Hurtado Brothers

M’Boom - Max Roach et. al.

Max Roach

Art Blakey

Hit Like A Girl

Winterland Ballroom

James Helsing

Calypso - Harry Belafonte

Charlie Watts

Ringo Starr

Drummers Collective

Dave Casini

Anthony J. Cirone

Béla Fleck

Edgar Meyer

Zakir Hussain

Stewart Copeland

Gary Burton

Steven Schick

Eugene Novotney

Baby Driver trailer

The Wrecking Crew trailer

Standing in the Shadows of Motown trailer

Muscle Shoals trailer

Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me trailer

Hal Blaine

J.R. Robinson

Last Night in Soho trailer

The Drummer’s Path - Sule Greg Wilson

Where the Heart Beats - Kay Larson

“Wonderful Tonight” - Eric Clapton

“Go Where You Wanna Go” - The Mama’s and The Papa’s

“Dedicated to the One I Love” - The Mama’s and The Papa’s

Jaleo by José Andrés

Reckless Records

Pizza in North Beach

Tartine Bakery

Cozy Cole

Earl Palmer

The Sex Pistols’ Final U.S. Tour

The Sex Pistols’ Final Concert - Winterland

Darkness on the Edge of Town - Bruce Springsteen

Rick Beato interviews Keith Jarrett

Rick Beato interviews Pat Metheny

Rick Beato interviews Sting

Aimee Nolte on Beatles Bridges

Raves:

The Sparks Brothers trailer

  continue reading

102 episodes

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Percussionist, Band Leader, and Podcaster Blair Helsing stops by to talk about his life and a percussionist, band leader and percussion enthusiast (02:30), his work with the PAS Diversity Alliance and his career in Information Technology (17:25), growing up in Chicago and California (26:40), moving to the Bay Area in college, playing in bands regularly, PAS, Digital Audio Workstations, and San Francisco during the 1990s and 2000s (32:20), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions, including sections on maintaining good posture while playing drumset, Edgar Wright movies, John Cage, Hal Blaine, Ringo Starr, the final Sex Pistols show, and Rick Beato’s YouTube page (54:15).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2021 documentary The Sparks Brothers (01:23:45).

Blair Helsing Links:

Blair Helsing’s LinkedIn page

Echo Beach Jazz Band

Previous podcast guests mentioned:

Elizabeth DeLamater in 2019

Heather Sloan in 2021

Dave Gerhart in 2018

Other Links:

PAS Diversity Alliance

Hurtado Brothers

M’Boom - Max Roach et. al.

Max Roach

Art Blakey

Hit Like A Girl

Winterland Ballroom

James Helsing

Calypso - Harry Belafonte

Charlie Watts

Ringo Starr

Drummers Collective

Dave Casini

Anthony J. Cirone

Béla Fleck

Edgar Meyer

Zakir Hussain

Stewart Copeland

Gary Burton

Steven Schick

Eugene Novotney

Baby Driver trailer

The Wrecking Crew trailer

Standing in the Shadows of Motown trailer

Muscle Shoals trailer

Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me trailer

Hal Blaine

J.R. Robinson

Last Night in Soho trailer

The Drummer’s Path - Sule Greg Wilson

Where the Heart Beats - Kay Larson

“Wonderful Tonight” - Eric Clapton

“Go Where You Wanna Go” - The Mama’s and The Papa’s

“Dedicated to the One I Love” - The Mama’s and The Papa’s

Jaleo by José Andrés

Reckless Records

Pizza in North Beach

Tartine Bakery

Cozy Cole

Earl Palmer

The Sex Pistols’ Final U.S. Tour

The Sex Pistols’ Final Concert - Winterland

Darkness on the Edge of Town - Bruce Springsteen

Rick Beato interviews Keith Jarrett

Rick Beato interviews Pat Metheny

Rick Beato interviews Sting

Aimee Nolte on Beatles Bridges

Raves:

The Sparks Brothers trailer

  continue reading

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