Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 434 - Eric Hollenbeck (Part 2)

Colorado State University Percussion Professor Eric Hollenbeck returns to talk about playing sports in high school and more about percussion sound concepts (01:30) his college undergrad and graduate career and studying with Michael Burritt and Tom Siwe (18:40), a discussion of his first teaching job at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (37:20), and settles in for the Random Ass Questions, including discussions of BBQ, “Starship Troopers”, great fiction and nonfiction books, the “Bob” story, and Andy Akiho (45:50).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2024 film I’m Still Here (01:09:55).

Eric Hollenbeck links:

Part 1 with Eric Hollenbeck

Eric Hollenbeck’s CSU page

Eric Hollenbeck’s Pearl Drums page

Previous Podcast Guests mentioned:

Andrew Lynge in 2025

Cort McClaren in 2022

Other Links:

Tom Freer

Michael Burritt

Susan Powell

Amanda Percussion Group

Method of Movement for Marimba - Leigh Howard Stevens

Four-Mallet Marimba Playing - Nancy Zeltsman

Thomas Siwe

William Duckworth

Steve Reich

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Keiko Abe

Four Episodes - Gordon Stout

Sean Womack

Keith Lloyd

“Velocities” - Joseph Schwantner

“Merlin” - Andrew Thomas

“Variations on Lost Love” - David Maslanka

American Beauty trailer

Crash trailer

Starship Troopers trailer

Watership Down - Richard Adams

The Stranger in the Woods - Michael Finkel

The Journals of Lewis and Clark

Doug’s Fish Fry

Hofmann Hot Dogs

Pillar VII - Andy Akiho

Raves:

I’m Still Here trailer