Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 383 - Blair Helsing Pete's Percussion Podcast - Pete Zambito
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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).
Blair Helsing Links:
Blair Helsing’s LinkedIn page
Echo Beach Jazz Band
Previous podcast guests mentioned:
Elizabeth DeLamater in 2019
Heather Sloan in 2021
Dave Gerhart in 2018
Other Links:
PAS Diversity Alliance
Hurtado Brothers
M’Boom - Max Roach et. al.
Max Roach
Art Blakey
Hit Like A Girl
Winterland Ballroom
James Helsing
Calypso - Harry Belafonte
Charlie Watts
Ringo Starr
Drummers Collective
Dave Casini
Anthony J. Cirone
Béla Fleck
Edgar Meyer
Zakir Hussain
Stewart Copeland
Gary Burton
Steven Schick
Eugene Novotney
Baby Driver trailer
The Wrecking Crew trailer
Standing in the Shadows of Motown trailer
Muscle Shoals trailer
Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me trailer
Hal Blaine
J.R. Robinson
Last Night in Soho 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
Jaleo by José Andrés
Reckless Records
Pizza in North Beach
Tartine Bakery
Cozy Cole
Earl Palmer
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
Rick Beato interviews Sting
Aimee Nolte on Beatles Bridges
Raves:
The Sparks Brothers trailer
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).
Blair Helsing Links:
Blair Helsing’s LinkedIn page
Echo Beach Jazz Band
Previous podcast guests mentioned:
Elizabeth DeLamater in 2019
Heather Sloan in 2021
Dave Gerhart in 2018
Other Links:
PAS Diversity Alliance
Hurtado Brothers
M’Boom - Max Roach et. al.
Max Roach
Art Blakey
Hit Like A Girl
Winterland Ballroom
James Helsing
Calypso - Harry Belafonte
Charlie Watts
Ringo Starr
Drummers Collective
Dave Casini
Anthony J. Cirone
Béla Fleck
Edgar Meyer
Zakir Hussain
Stewart Copeland
Gary Burton
Steven Schick
Eugene Novotney
Baby Driver trailer
The Wrecking Crew trailer
Standing in the Shadows of Motown trailer
Muscle Shoals trailer
Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me trailer
Hal Blaine
J.R. Robinson
Last Night in Soho 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
Jaleo by José Andrés
Reckless Records
Pizza in North Beach
Tartine Bakery
Cozy Cole
Earl Palmer
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
Rick Beato interviews Sting
Aimee Nolte on Beatles Bridges
Raves:
The Sparks Brothers trailer