Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 399 - Kevin von Kampen (Part 2)

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University of Southern Florida (USF) Percussion Professor Kevin von Kampen returns to discuss getting his master’s degree at USF and moving to Florida (02:15), working in middle school and high school, teaching drumlines, and freelancing with many pop artists on their tours, including Weird Al Yankovic (15:30), getting his doctorate at Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, praise for the city of Cincinnati, and his accomplishments there (30:10), and finishes with the Random Ass Questions, including discussions of building diverse repertoire, building a closet of crazy outfits and costumes, his impression of me hosting the podcast, sports fandoms, and his love for performing karaoke (42:45).

Finishing with a Rave on Maria Konnikova’s 2020 nonfiction book The Biggest Bluff (01:27:00).

Kevin von Kampen links:

Kevin von Kampen’s website

Kevin von Kampen’s USF page

Part 1 with Kevin von Kampen from the previous week

Previous podcast guests mentioned:

Allen Otte’s 2024 appearance

Alexandros Fragiskatos’s 2019 appearance

Other links:

Robert McCormick

“Crown of Thorns” - David Maslanka

Stuart Saunders Smith

Nancy Zeltsman

“Five Scenes from the Snow Country” - Hans Werner Henze

“Reflections on the Nature of Water” - Jacob Druckman

Willie Taggart

Skip Holtz

“Smells Like Nirvana” - Weird Al

“Pinball Wizard” - The Who

“To Love Somebody” - Michael Bolton

“O' Pretty Woman” - Roy Orbison (hologram)

Circles - Luciano Berio

James Culley

Rusty Burge

“The Anvil Chorus” - David Lang

Kevin Holzman

Joel Garza

5 Days with Doug podcast

Boston Conservatory Percussion Database

Sam Solomon

Wet Hot American Summer trailer

School of Rock trailer

Hunt for the Wilderpeople trailer

Captain Fantastic trailer

Madame Web trailer

Say Anything trailer

Black Widow/Before It Had a Name trailer

Silence - John Cage

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia - opening song

“What’s Up” - 4 Non Blondes

“Grace Kelly” - Mika

“Take Your Mama” - Scissor Sisters

The Wild Beaver Saloon in Indianapolis

Aaron Butler

“Say It Ain’t So” - Weezer

“Roses” - Outkast

“Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough” - Michael Jackson

Salvador Dalí Museum in Tampa Bay

Modern Notebook podcast

Raves:

The Biggest Bluff - Maria Konnikova