Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 203 - Shilo Stroman

Colorado State University Jazz and Drumset Instructor Shilo Stroman stops by to talk about his current jobs (03:20), DCI cancellations and Gig re-openings (11:30), growing up in Colorado, Neil Diamond, Vinnie Colaiuta and golf (23:00), his undergrad path through UNC (Northern Colorado), Ames Community College (CO) and then Colorado State (41:40), teaching until burning out post-undergrad (52:30), working on his master’s with Eric Hollenbeck (01:01:00), and finishes with the Random Ass Questions (01:09:00).

Finishing with a Rave on the Graphic Novel Watchmen (01:31:45).

This week’s podcast sponsor: Black Swamp Percussion’s Sound Solution Project.

Links:

Shilo Stroman’s Homepage

Shilo Stroman’s Yamaha page

Shilo Stroman’s Marching Arts Education videos

Battalion Drum & Bugle Corps

Eric Hollenbeck

Mike Portnoy plays on a Hello Kitty Drumset

“Confirmation” - Manhattan Transfer

“I Write the Songs” - Barry Manilow

“Footloose” - Kenny Loggins

“Jerry Was a Race Car Driver” - Primus

Tim Alexander

Art Blakey

Dave Weckl

“Shilo” - Neil Diamond

Ron Tutt

Vinnie Colaiuta

Neil Peart

Steve Gadd

Weckl, Gadd and Colaiuta

“Give It Away” - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Thom Annum

Colts Drum & Bugle Corps

Blue Knights Winter Guard

Mike Nevin

Jim Casella

John Pratt

“Third Construction” - John Cage

“Threads” - Paul Lansky

“March” - Elliott Carter

“Rotation No. 2” - Eric Sammut

“Konzertstuck for Snare Drum” - Askell Masson

“Alborada del Gracioso” - Maurice Ravel

“One O’Clock Jump” - Count Basie

“Hay Burner” - Sammy Nestico

“Brass Machine” - Maynard Ferguson

“Get It On” - Chase

“Vehicle” - Ides of March

Kind of Blue - Miles Davis

“Smells Like Teen Spirit” - Robert Grasper Experiment

“Cherokee” - Kamasi Washington

Dude, Where’s My Car? trailer

White Christmas trailer

High Fidelity trailer

The Before Trilogy

Boyhood trailer

Little Earthquakes - Tori Amos

Swingers trailer

On The Road - Jack Kerouac

Abstract - The Art of Design

Olafur Eliasson

Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman

Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

Raves:

Watchmen - Moore and Gibbons