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Ed...2 drummers that I idol are Danny Seraphine from
Chicago and Neil Peart from Rush...and I LOVE  the
late Jeff Porcaro...these drummers had a style of
their own....Stewart Copeland is another one of my
favorites, they have a God given gift of taking a
simple beat and making it highly complex sounding...I
saw Danny Seraphine many times.
Jade
--- liberatusvirus <liberatusvirus@...> wrote:
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "moosetication" 
> <moosetication@y...> wrote:
> > > ... Stewart Copeland...
> > 
> > Often criminally overlooked, in my view. I
> remember seeing him 
> with 
> > his missus, Sonja Kristina, in Curved Air
> (Liverpool University, 
> > 1970-something). Damn good polo player too.
> > 
> 
> Stewart,
> 
> I saw him in Boston before and during the height of
> the Police's 
> popularity. He is a case study in magnificent
> personal style. It is 
> so difficult to play like him, even if you
> understand what he does 
> and how his kit is arrayed. Only someone as talented
> as Vinnie 
> Colaiuta can take a bit of Copeland and make it seem
> effortless and 
> natural, as he did when he played with Sting. Even
> the venerable 
> Peter Erskine, as a member of Weather Report, had
> complimentary 
> things to say about Copeland, even doing a
> "Copelandist" turn on a 
> one of WR's compositions. Anyway, I consider it a
> privilege to have 
> heard Copeland play in the Police's early days, when
> the band had to 
> extend its songs because it didn't have much
> material. His power and 
> invention within the confines of the Police rhythmic
> structure was 
> staggering. What he could do with a basic beat! He
> insists that his 
> most revered value is simplicity, but his undeniable
> complexity is 
> in the details, like the devil's. In the early days,
> the Police 
> interacted like an improvisational jazz combo, only
> louder.
> 
> Just for the halibut, to see what people think,
> despite their widely 
> differing approaches, Copeland and Ringo are similar
> in the almost 
> mystifying uniqueness of their styles. Can anyone
> think of other 
> drummers who seem to defy duplication in touch and
> intuition, 
> regardless of how well you seem to know them, or how
> simple their 
> groove is?
> 
> Ed
> 
> 


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