Stewart Copeland
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Gallery of Groove
Photos from the 2021 Modern Drummer Festival For the second year in a row, the global pandemic chased the Modern Drummer Festival to an online venue. But we were unbowed. Presented by the MD team and produced by Thom Mozloom’s…
Stewart Copeland
Excerpted from the October 1982 issue How did the Police come about? I was on tour with Curved Air. We had a night off and a local journalist took me around to see his favorite local group, which was a…
What Was Your First Favorite Drum Record?
Vivid by Living Colour. Will Calhoun plays masterfully and with tons of power. It was perfect: playable but loaded with nuance.Scott Sparks Manu Katché on Peter Gabriel’s Secret World Live. I was around five, and it just blew my mind.…
The 50 Greatest Drummers of All Time
Whose playing endures through the decades? Whose music do we reach for when we want new ideas? When we want to practice? When we want to laugh? Who inspires and delights us most? TO READ THE FULL STORY: SUBSCRIBE TO…
Stewart Copeland
Many would agree that Stewart Copeland is one of the most innovative drummers to come along in the past few years.
Rich Redmond on Stewart Copeland
Synchronicity. By 1983 it may no longer have described the interpersonal relationships between the members of the Police, but it’s the perfect term to illustrate Stewart Copeland’s masterful rhythmic blend inside the tunes on the group’s final album. TO READ…
PRODUCT CLOSE-UP - Paiste
Swiss cymbal maker Paiste does a commendable job of balancing its catalog of creative, specialty products with more general offerings for all types of drummers. This month we have a small collection of cymbals to review, two of which were…
Great ’80s Drum Performances, Part 1
The era known as the ’80s, roughly the period between the dawn of punk and rap in the late ’70s and the rise of indie rock and hair metal in the middle of the next decade, was a time of…
March 2011 - Volume 35 • Number 3
Keith Carlock, Tony “Thunder” Smith, Jaki Liebzeit, Bill Kreutzmann, Stewart Copeland, Elaine Bradley, Paul Hawley, Patrick Carney, Bill Bruford, Jason Bittner, Tony Royster Jr., Sam Fogarino TO READ THE FULL STORY: SUBSCRIBE TO ACCESS LOG IN
August 2006 - Volume 30 • Number 8
Stewart Copeland, Jason Bittner, Steve Jordan, Zach Hill, Chris Pennie, Duduka Da Fonseca, Steve Di Stanislao, Damon Che, Rick Allen, Raymond Weber, Brain Viglione, Ric Menck, Spencer Seim, Matt Sorum, Torry Castellano, Bill Stewart TO READ THE FULL STORY: SUBSCRIBE…
August 2003 - Volume 27 • Number 8
Keith Carlock, Steve White, Mike Marsh, Abe Cunningham, Stephen Perkins, Jaimoe Marc Quiñones, Butch Trucks, Terry Bozzio, Pat Mastelotto, Babatunde Olatunji, Spüg, Stewart Copeland, Gregg Bissonette TO READ THE FULL STORY: SUBSCRIBE TO ACCESS LOG IN
April 2003 - Volume 27 • Number 4
Brad Wilk, Al Foster, Ged Lynch, Mike Wengren, Chad Smith, Stewart Copeland, Terri Lyne Carrington, Nick Tosco, Mike Clark, Rick Woolstenhulme, Jerry Leoni, Viola Smith, Armand Zildjian, Abe Laboriel Jr., Jeff Hamilton, Chad Wackerman TO READ THE FULL STORY: SUBSCRIBE…
December 1996 - Volume 20 • Number 12
Eric Kretz, Mike Palmer, Philip “Fish” Fisher, Matt Cameron, Will Goldsmith, Stewart Copeland, Bill Stewart, Sticks McDonald, Scott Amendola, Ricky Lawson, Kalani, Victor DeLorenzo, Mike Mainieri, Tommy Aldridge, Lonnie Wilson TO READ THE FULL STORY: SUBSCRIBE TO ACCESS LOG IN
June 1996 - Volume 20 • Number 6
In this Issue: Eddie Bayers, Jerry Kroon, Kenny Malone, Owen Hale, Paul Leim, Lonnie Wilson, Tommy Wells, Milton Sledge, Dave Beyer, Ricky Fataar, Taylor Hawkins, Max Roach, Robin Goodridge, Sidney “Big Sid” Catlett, Dennis Chambers, Stewart Copeland, Jim Donovan, Jim…