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  Stewart Copeland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Copeland is known for a blend of precise, energetic, and creative rock drumming along with a reggae-influenced style (back beat with bass drum, instead of snare drum).
Copeland wrote the original score for the Babylon 5 television pilot, "The Gathering." (When the show became a weekly series, Copeland was not available, so Christopher Franke of Tangerine Dream was hired.) When a writer's edition of the pilot was released, the original Stewart Copeland score had been replaced with one by Franke.
Stewart Copeland is also currently appearing as a judge on the BBC show Just the Two of Us where eight celebrities are paired up with eight professional singers to perform duets together.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stewart_Copeland   (766 words)

  
 Stewart Copeland Drummer For The Police
After rising to international stardom with the Police, Stewart Copeland largely rejected his pop music past to pursue a career as a composer, authoring a prolific series of film scores, operas, and ballets.
Born July 16, 1952 in Alexandria, Egypt, Copeland — the son of a CIA agent — spent his formative years in the Middle East but attended college in California before settling in England in 1975 and playing drums with the progressive rock unit Curved Air.
Copeland's other work includes a stint with the pop-fusion trio Animal Logic as well as authoring the San Francisco Ballet's King Lear, the Cleveland Opera's Holy Blood and Crescent Moon, and Ballet Oklahoma's Prey.
www.angelfire.com /mac/keepitlive/drummers/Copeland/copeland.htm   (179 words)

  
 Sting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
His father, Miles Copeland Jr, was not only a former trumpeter in the Glenn Miller orchestra but one of the founding field officers of the CIA, America's often infamous intelligent service, and later a freelance political adviser to the sheikhs and oil barons of the Middle East.
This meant that Stewart spent his childhood in Cairo (President Nasser was a regular dinner guest) and then, for nine years, in a Beirut for which his news reporter's cliche "trouble-torn"was nearly as apt then as it is now.
One of Stewart's earliest memories is of a Lebanese civil war: "I was just a toddler, but I remember explosions in the night, sandbags and tanks in the street, gangs fighting and gunfire.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Hills/3125/stewart.htm   (373 words)

  
 Stewart Copeland - The Rhythmatist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Copeland's second solo record is the soundtrack to an African safari video.
Copeland takes a truly arrogant premise (a documentary film and soundtrack of a white rock drummer traveling around Africa "in search of his rhythmic roots'), but somehow manages to turn it into a surprisingly warm, inspired record.
Copeland can't sing to save his life, but his deadpan monologue on "Serengetti Long Walk' ("The jungle is full of animals the size of donkeys, eating and being eaten; it's a barnyard sound') is funny enough to make up for it.
www.xs4all.nl /~fsgroen/Albums-C/StewartCopelandTheRhythmatist.htm   (404 words)

  
 Stewart Copeland
Stewart revealed that in the studio when putting down backing tracks he used a drum box but this was never used on the final product.
Stewart denied that he used any overdubbing on his tricky closed hi-hat patterns on his album, although he had in the past, causing problems for those drummers who have tried to copy Police arrangements.
Stewart has his drums very tightly tuned and despairs of the tendency of most rock drummers to tune their toms very low.
www.infinitedensity.net /music/copeland   (6222 words)

  
 MacDevCenter.com -- The Copeland Operating System Rocks Mac OS X Con
In a video that preceded the keynote, Stewart Copeland explained that his ideas arise from a background where his "father was a jazz musician before he got into the CIA, and he kept his trumpet and saw himself as a jazz musician.
Copeland said, "A lot of my smartest and coolest ideas that I'm most proud of are the ones that are the solution to a problem." By making several passes through the movie, he can take advantage of the ideas that arise during later scenes so that early cues can become informed by later cues.
Copeland said that he is gifted with drums and is pretty good with guitars but that he never got the gift for piano.
www.macdevcenter.com /pub/a/mac/osx2004/copeland.html   (2044 words)

  
 IT Conversations: Stewart Copeland - The Think Different Drummer
Copeland has of late also probed The Police catalog with what he has dubbed "derangements." "They are Police tracks lobotomized to concoct new recordings," he explains.
Copeland thus became one of the first rockers to move into film composing.
Copeland also performs worldwide in the format called orchestrali, for which he travels on tour and to festivals where a 20-piece orchestra plays his arrangements of original opera, ballet, etc. Additionally, he has delved into interactive media by scoring the PlayStation series Spyro The Dragon.
www.itconversations.com /shows/detail342.html   (1117 words)

  
 Stewart Copeland's Online Discovery Channel Interview
STEWART: Well, I'm not only in the back row but I have to have a very large gap between me and the orchestra because they have their sensitive hearing and they all wear ear plugs because my instrument just happens to be very, very, very loud.
STEWART: It varies a great deal from musician to musician because some of the musicians are grumpy old ladies, some grumpy old men, some are hot young enthusiasts and orchestras are really like a city.
STEWART: In fact, I must say, because this is important, that all you young rock fans, uhm, I am here to tell you that every single rock musician, particularly the drummers, have varying degrees of hearing loss that is directly attributable to rock music, particularly earphones.
stingetc.com /stew2.shtml   (6593 words)

  
 USATODAY.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Stewart Copeland: The two times we've played together since our official breakup were for a charity, Amnesty International, and at Sting's wedding, because we were drunk.
Stewart Copeland: Rudiments are good to start with, but then you need to move on to the reward, which is playing along with records, either with earphones or speakers mounted close to your head.
Stewart Copeland: Fortunately, I don't have to play for John, because he was the drummer and is suffering from tinnitus.
www.usatoday.com /community/chat/2002-10-10-copeland.htm   (1394 words)

  
 Stewart Copeland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This meant that Stewart spent his childhood in Cairo (President Nasser was a regular dinner guest) and then, for nine years, in a Beirut for which the news reporter's cliche "trouble-torn" was nearly as apt then as it is now.
Then Ian returned a bemedalled hero from a voluntary tour of duty in Vietnam, went to work for Miles and found that he was a natural telephone sweettalker, born to be an agent.
So when, in 1972, Stewart came over from Berkeley on vacation, he was soon embroiled as on-the-road 'artistic director' for Cat Iron, Miles's hottest hopes (blighted as it turned out, but featuring a young drummer called Kim Turner, who was later co-manager to The Police).
www.bcpl.net /~mmugmon/police/copeland.html   (630 words)

  
 CNN - WorldBeat Interviews - Copeland finding happy 'balance' in life after Police - March 9, 1999
Since then, Copeland has done it all, composing for the opera, ballet, and symphony, crossing back over into rock, experimenting with music from other cultures, and composing for film and television.
Copeland's orchestral work complements his talents as a film composer, which he began with the score to "Rumble Fish" in 1983.
Copeland said he would like to see the Police ride again, perhaps for charity, but notes, "I'm the one member of the group who is the biggest fan of the group."
www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Music/9903/09/stewart.copeland   (642 words)

  
 Stewart Copeland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Stewart Copeland was the founding member and drummer of the Police.
The Police were the biggest band of the late seventies and early eighties and Stewart Copeland's work with Andy Summers and Sting inspires new artists and bands to this day.
Copeland, founder and drummer of the legendary band, recorded his impressions of the life of a rock and roller from his unique perspective: behind the drums.
www.stewartcopeland.co.uk   (507 words)

  
 Stewart Copeland Leaves (And Sues) The Doors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Stewart Copeland is out of The Doors, just months after being announced as their new drummer and it is already getting nasty.
Copeland is now suing Doors members Ray Manzerek and Robbie Krieger giving them their second legal problem with a drummer.
However in December, Copeland was injured in a bicycle accident injuring his wrist and delaying the start of the comeback tour.
www.undercover.com.au /news/2003/20030312_doors.html   (404 words)

  
 Film Info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Copeland should be commended not only for having the foresight to film everything but also for his terrific job at assembling it into a one-of-a-kind documentary.
Stewart Copeland received the Hollywood Film Festival's first Outstanding Music in Film Visionary Award and was a 2003 inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Copeland, the drummer and cofounder of The Police, has been responsible for some of the film world's most innovative and groundbreaking scores.
festival.sundance.org /filmguide/popup.aspx?film=8304   (304 words)

  
 Stewart Copeland's Rocktropolis online transcript
Stewart: I'm afraid I was the most annoying Police-man. Andy produced the live album.
Stewart: The Police was liberating, but band life in general was restricting.
Stewart: Then my horse did a somersault and I broke a shoulderblade and I had to do the drums on a sequencer.
www.stingetc.com /stewrt.shtml   (3114 words)

  
 Stewart Copeland's AOL Transcript
In January of 1994 Stewart headlined the national tour, Stewart Copeland and the Rhythmatists, which was based on Stewart's experience in Africa and loosely based on the album and video of the same name.
Stewart, who also performed during the three performances in October 1994, based Prey on themes of the animal kingdom.
In March of 1995, a collection of Stewart's compositions were performed and recorded in Albany with the Albany Symphony Orchestra under the direction of David Alan Miller as well as with Miller's smaller, avant-garde ensemble, the Dogs of Desire.
stingetc.com /stewchat.shtml   (1931 words)

  
 Stewart Copeland Interview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Stewart Copeland: Well, I'm impressed by what enthusiastic session players we were.
Stewart admitted that getting two number one hit albums in a row posed the problem that if they didn't get another instant smash next time they would be considered to be on the way down.
Stewart explained that they had a month in the Wisseloord Studios in Hilversum to record the album.
www.effingham.net /bishop/CopelandInterview.htm   (12119 words)

  
 Copeland Closes Doors Suit - Jun 04, 2003 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Jun 4, 2003, 2:30 PM PT Stewart Copeland has shut the door on his legal dispute with the 21st Century Doors.
Copeland initially joined the band for what was supposed to be a one-off New Year's Eve show last year in Vegas.
Original drummer John Densmore, the guy Copeland was tapped to replace, is also suing Manzarek and Krieger for breach of contract, peeved that the pair was touring under the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band's moniker.
www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,11921,00.html?newsrellink   (711 words)

  
 Stewart Copeland - DRUMMERWORLD OFFICIAL DISCUSSION FORUM
Stewart Copeland has done a whole heap of stuff though, he's an amazingly talented guy.
Comprised of the unlikely trio of Trey Anastasio, Les Claypool, and Stewart Copeland (of Phish, Primus, and Police fame, respectively), the supergroup Oysterhead first came together for an intended one-off gig at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in May 2000.
Copeland from now until the end of time, his playing opened up a whole new avenue for me in the respect of playing and listening to music of a more progressive leaning.
www.drummerworld.com /forums/showthread.php?t=1061   (2193 words)

  
 Italy Calls To Stewart Copeland
Copeland says he came to "Dead Like Me" because series creator Bryan Fuller was a fan of his work.
Copeland says that after almost a decade of writing with the Police, he loved making the transition to film and TV music during the 1980s because the parameters of writing for a particular mood and scene are both challenging and liberating.
Copeland also says he is hoping to regroup with his Oysterhead bandmates Les Claypool (Primus) and Trey Anastasio (Phish) to work on new material later this year.
billboard.com /bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000566597   (604 words)

  
 Filmtracks: Simpatico (Stewart Copeland)
Simpatico: (Stewart Copeland) Working on a number of eclectic scoring projects since branching out from the rock band The Police back in the 1980s, Stewart Copeland's scores are very consistent in their low-budget, acoustical appeal.
It's an excellent use of the electronics --especially for the plot of this film-- because it is representative of both the wind and the distant cries of a police siren.
The end of the album is filled with songs; the first song, though continuing the mood, is difficult to enjoy because of the sloppy vocals, and the second song seems to upbeat for the album to handle.
www.filmtracks.com /titles/simpatico.html   (580 words)

  
 'boards - Stewart Copeland: Groove Addicts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Copeland first expanded beyond the rock arena in 1983 by scoring the music to Francis Coppola's "Rumble Fish." "I never thought about scoring music until I got a call from Coppola who suggested I give it a try," says Copeland, explaining his move away from the stratosphere of pop stardom to that of scoring movies.
Copeland then expanded his compositional skills further by pioneering the use of odd, diverse sounds in various movies throughout the '80s and '90s.
Copeland plans to flirt with popdom once again as he prepares to tour with Oyster Head.
www.boardsmag.com /articles/magazine/20011001/copeland.html?print=yes   (547 words)

  
 The Police News: liveDaily Interview: Stewart Copeland of Oysterhead >> liveDaily   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Copeland left the rock world and focused his attention on orchestral maneuvers, scoring ballet ("King Lear"), television ("The Equalizer") and film ("Leopard Son," "Gridlock," "Rumblefish").
With Phish and Primus on hiatus, and with Copeland clearing space in his film-scoring calendar, Oysterhead's current tour has got many jam-band aficionado tongues wagging--yet many of the group's own fans may not be aware of the drummer's classical and (begrudgingly) jazz proclivities.
Stewart Copeland: It was not our intention to be a band.
www.livedaily.com /interviews/liveDaily_Interview_Stewart_Copeland_of_Oysterhead-3870.html?t=6   (1322 words)

  
 Hostboard.com, Your Message Board Partner:: Stewart Copeland with INCUBUS
And the picture of me with Stewart on my website come from the moment when I met him, it was a pure dreams who become true.
Stewart Copeland is the reason I started playing the Drums and was my absolute hero for many years when I was a young man. I used to go and watch him play Polo in a village in England near where I lived as a kid.
We can see the marketing genius of Miles Copeland (Stewart's bro') who is really for something in The Police's success, with the talent of the musicians of course...
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Here's the story: apparently (1) Copeland hadn't gotten that far when he had to deliver the movie to Sundance, and (2) he figured most of the story...
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