Three questions with Stewart Copeland - blog Q&As

[DirtyMartini]

A couple of months ago, the Friday Project (the UK publisher of Strange Things Happen) offered bloggers the opportunity to pose three questions to SC for their blogs. Looks like many answers have arrived in inboxes this morning because a couple of sets have started to appear online.

It's actually pretty neat to see the different themes that each blogger hits on:

* RockABye Dad talks family: http://rockabyedad.com/post/230938802/s ... ngs-happen

* The Paradiddler talks drumming: http://theparadiddler.com/2009/11/02/st ... radiddler/

* WordWebbing (via me) talks writing: http://wordwebbing.com/http:/wordwebbin ... didnt-cut/

* Bringing Up Charlie talks various stuff: http://www.bringingupcharlie.co.uk/2009 ... ction.html

* Private Secret Diary talks various stuff while seemingly drunk: http://www.privatesecretdiary.com/2009/ ... he-police/

I'll let you know when I see more: I know there should be at least two or three more cuz I pimped the opportunity to those bloggers myself. I also posed three questions (-ish -- I cheated a little) as a guest blogger for a writing site; I'm hoping we can get the answers posted on Wednesday.

(BTW, if you read copied-and-pasted content of them here at SC.net (the convenience of which I fully understand), please do still click on the bloggers' sites so they can track their statistics. They're not publications or making any money really, so the biggest reward they get is in knowing that they've been read.)


(Edited to add more links.)

[dufmanno]

Just read both of them-interesting questions, even better answers.

[policefan]

Welcome to this site dufmanno!


TP: What do you find more enjoyable: composing, or playing live? And why?

SC: Composing is way more enjoyable but performing live is way more exiting.

That's what I would have asked

[dufmanno]

Thanks for the welcome. I have been lurking on this site for years reading quietly. Then I shed tears of self loathing when I missed the reunion tour so I decided it was time to join up and register right. There is some seriously entertaining content here.
As far as the blog questions go, kudos to the bloggers for coming up with that stuff. I would have been unable to focus and ended up on some wild tangent, ending in my disqualification.

[DirtyMartini]

Welcome, Dufmanno!

And my apologies: I should have been more specific. The blogger questions were handled via email through the publisher, so you'd have had plenty of time to go on wild tangents, then edit it out before submitting.

The responses were definitely typed by the Maestro himself though. You can tell by the commas. (It's like you're allergic, Stewart.)

[luddite lady]

[quote="DirtyMartini"]
The responses were definitely typed by the Maestro himself though. You can tell by the commas. (It's like you're allergic, Stewart.)[/quote]

OK. So it's not just me. Thanks DM for validating my punctuation rant in the STH thread and for making me feel a little less alone in my nerdacity.

Welcome aboard Dufmanno!

[oneworld]

Very nice read, great answers. Like the one about composing and playing live. Thanks, DM!
Welcome, dufmanno!

[zilboy]

I especially liked paradiddler's questions. I've always suspected that Stewart used a lot of thumb to get power with trad. grip. I've been playing that way for years. It's really easy - just lift the stick up high with your wrist, get the fingers out of the way, then slam 'er down with the thumb! Of course, this technique is not without cost - I have a lump of tissue just below the first joint of my left index finger. This is not present on my right hand. It doesn't really bother me though, unless I've been playing full-out for several hours - then it's a bit tender for a day or so afterward.

But of course, like Stewart, I play traditional grip because when I started out, there was no choice - "You WILL play this way OR ELSE!"

[DirtyMartini]

[quote="zilboy"]Of course, this technique is not without cost - I have a lump of tissue just below the first joint of my left index finger.[/quote]

From squashing that part of your finger, zilboy?



Another set of three questions (no discernible theme this time):

http://www.bringingupcharlie.co.uk/2009 ... ction.html

Asks the "more Police?" question, but leads into it nicely.


ETA: I'd laugh if all the blog Q&As put together worked to make a whole, cohesive interview.

[zilboy]

Of course, this technique is not without cost - I have a lump of tissue just below the first joint of my left index finger.

From squashing that part of your finger, zilboy?



Another set of three questions (no discernible theme this time):

http://www.bringingupcharlie.co.uk/2009 ... ction.html

Asks the "more Police?" question, but leads into it nicely.


ETA: I'd laugh if all the blog Q&As put together worked to make a whole, cohesive interview.

Yes, it's from squashing that part of my finger.

[Shangeris]

I found very interesting that Sc likes Joey Jordison's playing. I personally don't like the music genre, neither the songs he plays (Jordison, not Stewart!)

[DirtyMartini]

Another set of blogger questions with SC (which may have been posted somewhere already: it's been sitting on my desktop for days):

http://www.privatesecretdiary.com/2009/ ... he-police/

I love this one. Sounds a bit drunk. Puts together a fantasy band, Stewart calls himself "a natural born fuck up," and puts together a fantasy triathlon. Brief, but funny.

As for the ellipses: you know, knowing is half the battle . . .

[luddite lady]

Thanks for the latest Q&A, DM. That was good fun. I'm now adding tiddley-widdley to my drumming vocabulary list. But, of course, the best part was when Stewart started talking about punctuation. I mean, how can a girl not get all hot and bothered once a man speaks of ellipses?

[policefan]

I’m just a natural born fuck up.

I don't think so Mr. StewartCopelandLegendaryDrummerforThePolice.