Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 498 - Sam Quinones

Pete's Percussion Podcast - Pete Zambito · Jun 4, 2026

Episode 498 - Sam Quinones Pete's Percussion Podcast

Following Pete’s thoughts about his experiences at the Canadian Percussion Network’s “The Space Between V” conference, Author and journalist Sam Quinones (The Perfect Tuba) stops by to talk about Sam’s career in journalism, growing up in California, crime reporting, and writing about tuba players and band directors (06:05), his relationship with music, his love of various genres and styles, and his background in punk rock (16:20), his first jobs in writing and building his writing skill set, talking to interesting people, and some of his…