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).
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Previous podcast guests mentioned:
Other Links:
Standing in the Shadows of Motown trailer
Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me 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
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
Aimee Nolte on Beatles Bridges
Raves: