The Great Copeland Drum Sound

[drummike]

I agree about the photos on the Zenyatta album cover and inner sleeve...some very good shots there of a young band that is really starting to have an impact. I also like the shots of the Van Zalinge bass and Stewart's mahogany stain Superstars. ZM was the first Police album to really capture my attention. To me, they finally had the whole package with both a look and a sound that was super intelligent and beyond anything else that any other band was presenting in 1980. Seeing them in concert on the Ghost tour blew my mind and I didn't listen to any other music for weeks afterward.

[Spec A!]

I agree about the photos on the Zenyatta album cover and inner sleeve...some very good shots there of a young band that is really starting to have an impact. I also like the shots of the Van Zalinge bass and Stewart's mahogany stain Superstars. ZM was the first Police album to really capture my attention. To me, they finally had the whole package with both a look and a sound that was super intelligent and beyond anything else that any other band was presenting in 1980. Seeing them in concert on the Ghost tour blew my mind and I didn't listen to any other music for weeks afterward.

I love you guys, simply for the fact that you all were as crazy as me, and stared longingly at the same damn photos on the back of the same damn album. There's SO MUCH about that album that represents certain life changing moments for me. Zenyatta is fucking magic.

[BongoBoy]

What is kinda sad is that with even CD's disappearing, cover art is a lost vibe.

I can't even begin to tell the hours I spent with full size LP covers, Zenyatta, Elton Johns Goodbye Yellow Brick road, Deep Purple Machine Head etc.

It was always pictures of the band recording I dug.

I have to go listen to Zenyatta now, such good times, such a great album, it's crisp n clean and right to the point.

Bless the boys.
BB.

[luna_virgo]

I used to stare at the photo's on the back of the Zenyatta LP for hours.

Me too, but I'm sure for a very different reason than you did.

A little off-topic for this thread, but not being a musician, the album art was actually what got me started listening to The Police as a pre-teen. Looking at the pics on the Zenyatta album and thinking "these guys look good!", and then really getting into the MUSIC and getting blown away by it.

[zilboy]

I STILL stare at the photos inside the CD sleeve! I always loved how they mixed pics of the boys at play and at work.

I drooled over those Tamas! And just what the heck is that little white thing dangling from Stewart's splash stand?

[drummike]

I don't know what that thing is...it sort of looks like something you'd put in your birdcage (a cuttlebone?) I know there's a similar picture of Stew's kit in the studio and it had been decorated for his birthday, so maybe it's leftover decoration? Regarding ZM, I know it's been said that the album was thrown together quickly, etc., but to me, it's excellent and even the "filler" like Behind My Camel and Another Way of Stopping are very good and add a lot of mystery and excitement to the album listening experience. Heck, even the songs that didn't make the album but were b/sides on singles were pretty good.

[Spirit of 2oo2]

Best drum sound EVER !
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