Stewart Copeland on Drum Talk TV!

[@HankFinkle11]

Copeland is a master drummer, a true craftsman. I love the way he plays and the unique sounds from his drumset.

[@spagzs]

i got the chance to meet stewart copeland in buffalo a few months ago while he was performing with the buffalo philharmonic orchestra and he was really cool....he hung out with my brother and I and had a smoke with us and answered all our questions....it was amazing

[@JoelDTerry]

I've always wondered if Stewart was as cool and nice (and animated/hyper) in person as he seems in interviews. What an experience--I'm envious!

[@spagzs]

Joel D. Terry he looks really tall from what you see on tv but he's not. He was very animated when he played with orchestra

[@SuperNick090]

spagzs He seems really down to earth and loves talking about music.

[@845callaway]

spagzs How cool!! Yeah, guys like Stewart, they are so original and honest, what you see is what you get...they could pretend to be someone else for about 3 minutes, then the real deal would show through!

[@mightyV444]

That was fun to watch, thank you both! 😀👍 He never actually played Rude hi-hats, though, only Crash/Ride and Ride/Crash cymbals, together with 14" Formula 602 hi-hats 🙂

[@rhythmfield]

Stewart Copeland is a lifelong student and really, a scholar - and we all benefit when he sits and chats. Sidenote, show of hands: how many people in the audience will attempt to try Stewart’s callus removal method…

[@tinfoilhatter]

jazz-hands're-smooth-hands?

[@gmd1417]

Stewart's take on the development of American music and the American backbeat is spot on. American music is a blend of European and African influences. Both are equally important in that development...

[@ia5662]

what a completely cool dude, total legend!

[@peterheinen6110]

This was great. I liked the rhythmatist bit, videos that were extremely hard to find before youtube. Still listen to these amazing rhythms and the unpredictability of his drums. I like to drum a second take after the studio recording is a wrap

[@drew-shourd]

Dan Dan the Man strikes again! Awesome interview with two of my favorite drummers!!!

[@Tombacuse1]

True Living Legend.

[@DrewDrums]

Awesome.

[@morissettedrums]

I love it!!! messed up Reggae. Haha. Super!

[@jamsamok]

well I just stumbled on this video...and my stewart story is that back in the 80s I went to the show in Miami ,synchronicity tour and after the show ended we were leaving the field of the orange bowl we were about 50' from the stage so we had to wait for the crowd to move out and as I was leaving I happened to turn around to look at the stage and saw a rodie with a fist full of drum sticks so I went back up to the stage to get one and he had just two left and he was charging $$$ for them he wanted $20 for the pair and I only had ten dollars left and he sold me just one and I still have it to this day.

[@tkimaginestudio]

So true what Copeland says about Jazz.

[@ia5662]

yeah A LOT of "jazz" musicians are wannabe cork sniffers, I can't stand it...

[@skylark183]

Legend!!!

[@scoopaway1925]

Never been a fan of Copeland's style, but he is obviously extremely talented.

[@jamesbond4633]

Ha ...very funny!!! I love the explanation of the easiest music to play to the hardest. You would think Blues would be easy. Bad blues is easy ...but to play real authentic Blues and not bore the audience and really engage them ...that takes something special. You need to touch something real inside yourself. A life lived ..and a life understood ...at least some of the ironies of it. When you hear Howlin Wolf sing Spoonful or Smoke Stack Lightning you understand immediately the emotional impact of that. It hits you right in the gut. Intellectual analysis is frivolous. I am glad Stewart articulated that and understands it. Message in A Bottle and some of the other Police songs have that emotional impact. For Blues after Howling Wolf ..I think the early Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green, Danny Kirwan and Jeremy Spencer got it. Probably too real ....they all seemed to get to close to the flame and paid the price. Watching a biography on Howlin Wolf...he did very well. He educated himself ...paid his band properly .....a life well lived. Even til the end they said ...when he sang ...he left it all there. Gives shivers down my spine listening to him sing. Robert Plant said if he could go back to a moment in time ..would be in 1969 at the Whiskey A Go Go for one nite to see Howlin Wolf again. Sam Philips of Sun Studios back in the day said he wished he could have had more time with Howlin Wolf ...just to record him in the right way. I'd like to see Stewart Copeland and Stanley Clarke get together with a great Blues singer and guitarist to see what would come of it!!!! John Mayer perhaps? Possibilities .to explore.

[@DrewDrums]

Wow! I subbed!

[@guyinpajamapants6892]

So many kids have no idea who he is!! Insane!

[@mecdrum7]

Put out all takes for drummers

[@ericmalone3213]

I'd like to hear what Mr Copeland has to say about the work of Duke Ellington--it is "wrong jazz", "finger-wiggling" etc?

[@chezchezchezchez]

What day was this interview recorded? Says "Published on Jan 17, 2017" so .... Could have sworn I watched this before. Not sure why you would think your watchers would want/need to know that date of the interview?

[@peterhopqk]

This was once uploaded somewhere in 2014 on vimeo.

[@chezchezchezchez]

peterhopqk Great, next time please tell us when the original interview was posted/recorded.

[@DrumTalkTV]

Will keep that in mind. Often we say so in the video itself, sometimes the human element kicks in and we forget. Hopefully, either way you find our interviews of value. check out www.drumtlktv.com where we publish all our interviews first and see more fun, inspiring drumming videos from over 100 countries around the world at facebook.com/DrumTalkTV/videos. -Dan

[@Freddy-Da-Freeloadah]

@6:51 I remember reading an interview with Copeland in Modern Drummer about "Zenyatta Mondatta"... The recording was supposed to be simultaneous... Sting singing in the bathroom, the drums in one studio, and guitar in another... All wired together... But now Stewart is saying something different... Whatever...

[@guyinpajamapants6892]

Hmm.? As we get older facts get confused! Lol! I’ve heard other artists do the same. Either they embellished the facts in the beginning or conflated two separate times later. Fun to hear nevertheless.

[@paulwilk69]

They laid down the backing track together even if in different rooms , then the drum tracks were either kept from take 123 . After that the guitars and bass can be overdubbed with vocals . Hope this helps

[@tinfoilhatter]

i used to generally see the blues as merely for-sad-sacks, but guys like jimi hendrix, stevie ray vaughan, robert cray, robin trower, and several others, none greater than frank marino, for instance, have gradually and powerf'ly showed how it's perhaps the finest-art-form, or one virtually inexhaustible form of that...

[@riccardopanedda6222]

Master enjoy

[@marioortega7218]

I like the format and I love Stewart Copeland, but, the audio on this is horrible!

[@ryantheiron4191]

Ledge!

[@JimmySlacksack]

jazz boys getting triggered in the comments..

[@mattandersonmusic]

I like how he thinks of himself as a skinny white Englishman 😅 that's what gigging up and down the UK with two Brits does to you 😆

[@guyinpajamapants6892]

Strange how no one ever mentions Native Americans for influence on American Music! I think Stewart could’ve saved on airfare if he looked closer to home back in 1985! Lol!

[@pleximanic]

Strange that Stewart is confusing entertainment with art! I hate the word Jazz but I love to improvise with rhythm harmony and melody!

[@purplehouse26]

COPELAND : MASTER OF DISASTER : )

[@tiluriso]

Love his playing, but Jazz is an obvious chip on his shoulder - 'Jazz is the easiest...the easiest to bull shit...' No, it's not, Rock, Punk way easier...you can only fool the tone deaf with 'bad jazz'. The fact that he's says 'Whiplash' is his favorite recent movie speaks volumes about his attitude towards it, he likely encountered snobs and Jazz-purists early in life - my guess is his own father Miles Copeland (who was both a Spy and an amateur Jazz trumpeter), disdained Rock.

[@eliotmccann2589]

I think he's a little more tounge-in-cheek than anything...

[@tiluriso]

@@eliotmccann2589 You think? I'm not so sure. Because he's very serious about his playing and his music, in the sense that he's really invested in it. And i also fell like 'tongue-in-cheek-ness' is a bit like sarcasm , which can also be seen as hostility disguised as humor. kinda like joking, but also a bit serious? Somewhat fictional but w/ an underlying strata of truth? 'For fun but also for real? Plus Stewart is a guy who not only welcomes conflict, he often thrives in it, so I also perceive that even though that he's aware that he himself is not only an influence on some Jazz players, but also a bit like a Jazzer himself - since he improvises - at the end of the day I also see him a bit annoyed at the connection. As if he resented it. He seems to go to great lengths to put down Jazz in general, so I don't think he truly enjoys Jazz. but in any event, I love his playing. The Police is one of my all time favorite Rock bands, along w/ The Beatles, Led Zeppelin and Steely Dan.

[@tiluriso]

Stewart disregards that the fact that Blues is one of the basic elements of Jazz, he also wrong about a lot of his 'points' : one doesn't need to play a lot of notes - Remember Miles Davis? 'on jazz anything goes', 'there's nothing specific'...WRONG WRONG WRONG!!!!!

[@CTBroadfoot]

tiluriso I agree with Stewart. Blues and jazz are very different in feel, rhythm, chords and approach to playing.

[@drummer78]

CTBroadfoot Jazz came out of the blues. Listen to Charlie Parker, Art Blakey...jazz that is soaked in its blues roots.