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