SIU – Carbondale (IL) Percussion Professor Chris Butler talks about the school, the city, rock climbing and Illinois’s budget issues (01:30), growing up outside Atlanta and being in a high school rock band (25:15), getting his undergraduate at Columbus State University (GA) (38:15), his master’s at the University of Illinois (47:50), taking a year break to work at West Music/Percussion Source before doing his doctorate at the University of Kentucky (01:00:30), and spending time with the Random Ass Questions (01:19:45).
Finishing with a Rave on Strong Black Legends (01:40:40).
Links:
“Warehouse” - Dave Matthews Band
“Paranoid Android” - Radiohead
“Happiness is a Warm Gun” - The Beatles
“Helter Skelter” - The Beatles
“Good Times Bad Times” - Led Zeppelin
“Solo No. 1” - Charley Wilcoxin
“The Connecticut Halftime” - Haskell Harr
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry - Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Success is the Only Option - John Calipari
“Khan Variations” - Alejandro Viñao
“Impressions” - Nicolas Martynciow
Cloyd Duff Timpani Master Class
“Rhythm Gradation for Timpani” - Toshi Ichiyanagi
“Dances of Earth and Fire” - Peter Klatzow
“Arabesco Infinito” - Alejandro Viñao
“Phénix” - Francois-Bernard Mache
Stanton Moore New Orleans Groove
Raves: