Band Director, Percussion Instructor, and Drumset Performer Bernard Long, Jr. stops by to talk about band directing in Illinois and Missouri, working at Lindenwood University (MO) and starting band programs in urban high schools (02:55), his extensive job responsibilities at Normandy High School (MO) (18:25), his work with the PAS Diversity Alliance, the importance of HBCU drumlines, and the physical challenges of show-style drumming (30:00), growing up just outside of St. Louis and making connections to folks at an early age (42:30), going to Northern Illinois University of undergrad (51:45), going to Michigan State University for grad school (01:06:40), teaching at Stillman College (AL) for a year (01:15:30), and settles in for the Random Ass Questions, including segments on equity, the Drumline movies, Magic Johnson, horseback riding, and the genius of Stevie Wonder (01:24:00).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2022 film Everything Everywhere All At Once (01:50:30).

Links:

Article on Bernard Long, Jr.

Bernard Long, Jr.’s Linked In account

Bernard Long Elementary School

Skyview Drive-In (Belleville, IL)

Stillman College (AL) Marching Band

Bryan Carter

Moolah Shriners

Normandy High School playing at the 2015 Liberty Bowl

Northern Illinois University Jazz Camp

Rodney Whitaker

Ron Carter

Annie Malone Parade

Duane Foster

Johnny Lee Lane

Patrice Rushen

Ndugu Chancler

Gregory Beyer

Robert Chappell

Liam Teague

Hotel Majestic in St. Louis

The Clayton Brothers

Cyrus Chestnut

Billy Higgins

Wynton Marsalis

Powell Symphony Hall

Charles Haynes

Roscoe Crawford

Keyon Harrold

Kimberly Thompson

Rodrigo Villanueva

Orlando Cotto

Cliff Alexis

Marvin Sparks, Jr. on the podcast

Jameal Williams

Poncho Williams

Terreon Gully

Matt Henry on the podcast

Ron Modell

Teddy Hall, Jr. on the podcast

Glenn Miller Orchestra

Drumline trailer

Drumline 2 trailer

Atomic Habits - James Clear

Steph Curry highlights

Magic Johnson highlights

Randy Gelispie

Kehinde Wiley

Amy Sherald

Songs in the Key of Life documentary

“Sir Duke” - Stevie Wonder

“Superstition” - Stevie Wonder

“Higher Ground” - Stevie Wonder

“Signed Sealed Delivered” - Stevie Wonder

“You Haven’t Done Nothing” - Stevie Wonder

Raves:

Everything Everywhere All At Once trailer

Orchestral Timpanist, Percussionist, and Percussion Professor Laura Noah stops by to talk about her busy schedule of performing and teaching all over Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida (03:10), following her creative pursuits during the first part of COVID (19:50), her work with the PAS Diversity Alliance (25:25), growing up in Centreville (AL), growing up in the Funeral Home business, Drum Corps, the Aspen Music Festival, and getting connected to Peabody (29:50), going to the University of Alabama for undergrad, and explaining the differences between Goodman school vs. the Duff school (46:25), going to Peabody (MD) for her Master’s, studying with Jonathan Haas, and living in Baltimore (56:30), and settles in for the Random Ass Questions, with sections on auditions, Marie Kondo, Dave Ramsey, Stargate SG1, and Mahler 2 (01:13:30).

Finishing with a Rave on Pete’s recent trip back to Wake Forest University for an Orchestra Reunion Concert (01:40:00).

Links:

Laura Noah’s website

Laura Noah’s University of Mobile page

Laura Noah’s University of West Florida page

Laura Noah’s Innovative Percussion page

Sean Noah’s McGill-Toolen page

Symphony No. 104 (“London”) - Franz Josef Haydn

“Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage” - Ludwig van Beethoven

PAS Diversity Alliance

My Girl trailer

The Planets - Gustav Holst

Suite from The Firebird - Igor Stravinsky

Symphony No. 5, 4th movement - Dmitri Shostakovich

Phantom Regiment 1996

Robert Van Sice

Jonathan Haas

Santa Clara Vanguard

Southwind Drum Corps

Grand Canyon Suite - Ferde Grofé

Blue Shades - Frank Ticheli

String Quartet No. 4 : “Allegro Pizzicato” - Bela Bartok

Ryan Saul

Larry Mathis

Saul Goodman

Cloyd Duff

Tom Brady’s Michigan highlights

Tom Stubbs

Doug Howard

Gerald Welker

Ji Hye Jung

Snatch trailer

Green Lantern trailer

The Total Money Makeover - Dave Ramsey

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up - Marie Kondo

“Roll Tide” Commercial

Tate Modern

Stargate SG1 TV Series

Symphony No. 2: Finale - Gustav Mahler

The Ukranian National Anthem

Raves:

Wake Forest University’s Orchestra Homepage

University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) Percussion Professor John R. Beck stops by to talk about UNCSA, behavioral health drumming and symphonies (02:30), his teaching position and how it’s evolved over the years (12:25), gigging in orchestras (28:15), taking sabbatical replacement jobs at colleges for many years (37:00), growing up in Rochester, NY, his musician parents, “half-ironmans”, and learning from Ruth and Bill Cahn (51:00), doing his undergrad at Oberlin (OH) with Michael Rosen (01:03:40), studying at Eastman (NY) with his father, John H. Beck, for a year, then working for the Marine Band, along with discussions of rarely played literature and “long hair wigs” (01:10:00), freelancing outside of Marine Band, playing with the Jack Daniels Band, and recovering from personal tragedy (01:30:45), and settles in for the Random Ass Questions (01:39:25).

Finishing with a Rave on Martin Duberman’s 1989 biography of Paul Robeson (01:50:40).

Links:

John R. Beck’s website

John R. Beck’s UNCSA page

Winston-Salem Symphony

Greensboro Symphony

PAS Health & Wellness

Bowman Gray Health Center

Peripheral Neuropathy

Midland-Odessa Symphony & Chorale

U.S. Marine Band

Massie Johnson

Christopher Deane

Gary Werdesheim

Wake Forest’s world music ensembles

Michael Rosen

Doug Walter

Ben Toth

Dean Gronemeier

John H. Beck

Eastman Community Music School

Gordon Stout

Ruth Cahn

Bill Cahn

Niel DePonte

Patsy Dash

Ironman 70.3 North Carolina

Howard Hanson

Pleiades - Iannis Xenakis

“Pieces of Wood” - Steve Reich

“Variations on Japanese Children’s Songs” - Keiko Abe

1983 Beirut Barracks Bombings

Michael Burritt

Steve Gadd

Christopher Lamb

“Meditation Preludes” - William Duckworth

“Sonata for Timpani” - John H. Beck

“Ever-Livin’ Rhythm” - Neil B. Rolnick

Concerto for Marimba and Strings - Emmanuel Sejourne

“March” - Elliot Carter

“Mirage” - Yasuo Sueyoshi

“Torse III” - Akira Miyoshi

“White Knuckle Stroll” - Casey Cangelosi

“Furioso and Valse” - Earl Hatch

“Etude in C Major” - Clair Musser

“Nola” - Felix Arndt

Scott Ney

Bill Moersch on the podcast

Las Vegas Musicians Strike

“Yellow After the Rain” - Mitchell Peters

A Few Good Men trailer

Rocky Horror Picture Show trailer

Encyclopedia of Percussion - John H. Beck

The Inner Game of Tennis - Timothy Gallwey

Chihuly Garden and Glass

Raves:

Paul Robeson - Martin Duberman

Northeastern State University (OK) Percussion and Music Education professor James Lindroth stops by to talk about his job at NSU, gigging in OK, and negotiating tactics for jobs (04:00), his PASIC 2021 presentation on Health and Wellness for percussionists and his physician wife and her influence on his research (19:15) growing up outside Boston, being a first generation college student, being taught by working musicians, and his undergrad years at Berklee (MA) and UMass-Lowell (28:15), going to infantry school out of undergrad then heading back to UMass-Lowell for the master’s (48:30), teaching high school band and orchestra and playing and recording as a bar band (57:00), getting his Ph.D. at the University of South Florida, the personal challenges of getting that degree, and music arranging (01:09:30), and the Random Ass Questions, with comments on the Marching Arts, the “Lindroth Hockey Podcast”, John Williams, James Bond books and movies, and his father’s artwork (01:19:45).

Finishing with a Rave on the 1979 film The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh (01:49:00).

Links:

James Lindroth’s NSUOK page

James Lindroth’s PASIC page

Salem Witch Trails

Broken Arrow (OK) bands

Neil Grover

Fred Buda

Dean Anderson

Vic Firth

Nancy Zeltsman

Jeff Fischer

John Williams

Polyrhythms - Peter Magadini

JFK - opening credits

Gordon Stout

Ivan Trevino on the podcast

Mark Ford

“Freeze Frame” - J. Geils Band

“Voices Carry” - Til Tuesday

“Surrender” - Cheap Trick

Oklahoma!

“Almost Like Being in Love” - Brigadoon

Matthew McCutcheon

Carolina Crown

Genesis

Blue Stars

Ray Bourque

Lindroth Hockey Podcast

Tulsa Oilers

Ian Fleming

Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service - Ian Fleming

Frank Epstein

Tom Gauger

Raves:

The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh trailer

Austin Peay State University (TN) Percussion Professor David Steinquest stops by to talk about his life at Austin Peay and “being the old guy” (02:50), Austin Peay’s place in TN, previous students, and what has and has not changed there (21:00), growing up in Tennessee and Alabama with a musician/academic father, and his early percussion experiences (38:00), going to NE Louisiana University for undergrad (59:05), the University of Michigan for the Master’s (01:07:10), his time in the Army Band at West Point, performing for “dinner formations”, and going to NYC for many musical experiences (01:22:00), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions, including segments on impersonations, Michael Jordan and Tom Brady, Stephen King, and Osvaldo Golijov (01:35:00).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2021 film CODA (02:00:40).

Links:

David Steinquest’s Austin Peay homepage

Overton Alford

Andrea Brown on the podcast

Kevin Bobo on the podcast

Don Sinta

Interlochen Center for the Arts

Chal Ragsdale on the podcast

Aaron Ragsdale on the podcast

Ron Fink

Al Wojtera

“Meditation and Dance” - David Steinquest

Lonnie Wilson

Eddie Bayers

“Love for Sale” - Buddy Rich Big Band

Chet Hedgecoth

Straight System of Modern Drumming - Edward Straight

“Furioso and Valse” - Earl Hatch

“Colour My World” - Chicago

“Pick Up the Pieces” - Average White Band

“Lonely People” - America

“Waltz for Debby” - Bill Evans Trio

“C Jam Blues” - Oscar Peterson Trio

James Pankow

Jack White

Jay Bocook

Concertino for Marimba - Paul Creston

Sonata for Marimba and Piano - Peter Tanner

“Variations on Lost Love” - David Maslanka

Leigh Howard Stevens

“Praeludium and Allegro” - Fritz Kreisler

“Sonata for Flute and Piano” - Robert Muczynski

Gordon Stout

John H. Beck

“Ku-Ka-Ilimoku” - Christopher Rouse

“Ogoun Badagris” - Christopher Rouse

H. Robert Reynolds

Anthony Orlando

Schermerhorn Symphony Hall

John S. Pratt

Bob Mintzer

Appalachian Spring - Aaron Copland/Martha Graham

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra

Peter Erskine

1990s Bulls

Tom Brady

Cold Mountain trailer

Dumb and Dumber trailer

Diana Galbaldon - Outlander

The Green Mile - Stephen King

The Stand - Stephen King

On Writing - Stephen King

La Pasión Según San Marcos - Osvaldo Golijov

Raves:

CODA trailer

Percussive Arts Society (PAS) Executive Director Joshua Simonds returns to talk about pre-pandemic PAS, the PAS Museum, and Rhythm Scene (03:00), running PASIC 2020 remotely, having PASIC 2021 in-person, and the Society’s vaccine mandate (13:15), the move towards Regional Days of Percussion this spring (52:40), the work of the PAS Diversity Alliance (58:50), and a shortened Random Ass Questions segment on Los Angeles sports, 1980s music and other items (01:17:15).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2021 film King Richard (01:32:40).

Links:

Joshua Simonds on the podcast in 2017

PAS Board of Advisors, Executive Board, and Staff

American Alliance of Museums

Marco Minnemann

Evelyn Glennie

Gavin Harrison

London Symphony Orchestra

Cavaliers Drum Corps

David Herbert

Kodo

Bonnie Whiting on the podcast

Lee Hinkle

Chris Hanning

Michael Burritt

PAS Diversity Alliance

Elizabeth DeLamater on the podcast

Heather Sloan on the podcast

Julie Hill on the podcast

NAMM

Ndugu Chancler

Layne Redmond

Elayne Jones

Gonzaga - UCLA 2021 Final Four

L.A. Dodgers win 2020 World Series

L.A. Lakers win 2020 NBA Championship

“Copacabana” - Barry Manilow

Keio Stroud

Amanda Gorman at the 2021 Inauguration

Raves:

King Richard trailer

Orchestral and Chamber Percussionist Marcelina Suchocka stops by to talk about her work with the New World Symphony in Miami, Pathos Trio, Excelsis Quartet, recording Björk, and living in Miami (02:30), growing up in Bialystock, Poland, the immigrant experience of moving to Chicago, and the Percussion Scholarship Group (22:50), attending the Manhattan School of Music (NY) for undergrad (43:00), staying for her master’s at MSM, NYC Art Museums and food, taking the road less traveled, and maintaining mental health (54:45), and stays around for the Random Ass Questions segment (01:10:00).

Finishing with a Rave on David Mitchell’s 2010 novel The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (01:27:30).

Links:

Marcelina Suchocka’s New World Symphony page

Pathos Trio

Excelsis Percussion Quartet

Evan Chapman on the podcast

Britton-Rene Collins

“Hyperballad” - Björk (percussion cover)

BADBADNOTGOOD on NPR Tiny Desk

Bialystock Puppet Theater

Powerpuff Girls theme song

The Percussion Scholarship Group

Raves:

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - David Mitchell

University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley Percussion Professor Marco Schirippa stops by to talk about teaching at UTRGV and getting the tenure-track job (2:40), growing up in Syracuse, NY, having parents in the stand-up comedy business, having an older brother in music, video games and pro hockey (18:50), going to Ithaca College (NY) for undergrad and getting a degree in theory along the way (38:35), working at Target before getting his master’s and doctorate at Indiana University, along with discussion of “intentional playing” (51:00), teaching at Tennessee Tech as an adjunct, finishing up the doctorate, and job-related stress (01:10:45), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions segment (01:22:00).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2021 film The Worst Person in the World (01:46:15).

Links:

Marco Schirripa’s homepage

Joe W. Moore III on the podcast

Mark Ramirez

Daniel Hunter-Holly

Kevin Bobo on the podcast

John Tafoya

Gordon Stout

Conrad Alexander

Drew Carey

Ray Romano

Bruno Schirripa

Robert Bridge

Pokemon Silver

Rocket League

NHLPA 93

John H. Beck

Colin Hill on the podcast

“Black Sphinx” - Leander Kaiser

“Velocities” - Joseph Schwantner (played by Ji Hye Jung)

Heartland Marimba

“Merlin” - Andrew Thomas

Mike Spiro

Steve Houghton

NOTUS

Andy Harnsberger

Superbad trailer

Jackass Forever trailer

Balls of Fury trailer

Borderlands 2 trailer

Dana Wilson

Final Fantasy 7 Remake trailer

Life is Strange trailer

Raves:

The Worst Person in the World trailer

University of Utah Percussion Professor Mike Sammons returns to talk more about this undergraduate experience at Florida, Utah’s Drumline, and being a band director’s son (02:25), going to the University of Arizona for his master’s and doctorate (28:00), and going through the Random Ass Questions, including rolling on marimba, playing pickup basketball, parenting books, and paying attention to nature (36:10).

FInishing with a Rave on the 2021 film Drive My Car (01:04:10).

Links:

Part 1 with Mike Sammons

Mike Sammons’s Utah page

Mean Girls musical

Ken Broadway

David Waybright

Gary Cook

Norman Weinberg on the podcast

Teaching Percussion - Gary Cook

CrossTalk

Cantata para America Magica - Alberto Ginastera

Lex - Mark Rush

Josh Armstrong on the podcast

Elf: The Musical

Aladdin: The Musical

Babywise

The Gift of Failure - Jessica Lahey

Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nicole Detling

Raves:

Drive My Car trailer

University of Utah Percussion Professor Mike Sammons stops by to ask Pete some questions about the podcast (03:05) before talking about his gig at Utah, performing locally, working at South Alabama, and how he’s built a community (06:50), growing up in Vero Beach, FL, NASA, having parents as band directors, finding ways to teach and connect, and being able to learn (39:15), his beginning percussion years, teaching philosophies, and the Treasure Coast Percussion Camp (56:00) and briefly discusses aspects of his time in undergrad at the University of Florida (01:14:00).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2022 Tour for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, directed by Wynton Marsalis (01:18:05).

Links:

Mike Sammons’s webpage

Mike Sammons’ Utah page

Mean Girls musical

Flight Opera trailer

Danny Taylor

Aladdin musical

Paul Buyer on the podcast

Kingsbury Hall

Pioneer Theater, Utah

Doug Wolf

“Stained Glass” - David Gillingham

“Crown of Thorns” - David Maslanka

Tapspace

C. Alan Publications

Gene Koshinski

Christopher Bradford

Rite of Spring - Igor Stravinsky

Suite from The Firebird - Igor Stravinsky

Four Corners National Monument

Yellowstone National Park

Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park

Taylor Keown

James Sammons

National Conference on Percussion Pedagogy

Billy Gladstone drum pad

N.A.R.D. 13 Essential Rudiments

Treasure Coast Percussion

Ken Broadway

David Waybright

Gary Cook

Norman Weinberg on the podcast

Michael Vercelli

Bernard Woma

Ray Holman

Liam Teague

Raves:

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra 2022 Tour