STEWART COPELAND

by **tigress** on 21 Mar 2006 17:59

I was about 7 years old when Don't Stand So Close To Me came out on the radio and I always liked it. Then, 2 years later when Every Breath You Take came on the radio I was hooked! I got the '86 reunion album for my 13th birthday and I listened to their hit singles on it obsessively until I bought all their albums and expanded my knowledge of Police music. I lost touch with them in high school because I hung out with friends who were into metal. Then, in college (from 1992-1997) I went through a phase where I would only listen to Christian contemporary music for about 5 years. After that I got back into regular music again and I guess it was in 2001 or 2002 when I bought all the redigitized Police albums on CD and really got back into them again. It was like a homecoming or something! Great fun!

by Al on 21 Mar 2006 20:16

No,it really looks like you've been banned.

by **Guest** on 21 Mar 2006 20:18

I don't see why, as I'm a reformed character!

by Al on 21 Mar 2006 20:19

Sorry,it seems I was wrong.

by **Guest** on 21 Mar 2006 20:20

That's OK

by **Mrs. Gradenko** on 22 Mar 2006 04:27

Sorry,it seems I was wrong.

Nope! Thanks Gio!

Thinking back. I thought I discovered The Police from reading that Sting was in it. But that's not how it happened! (in a way it was though) I was on Napster (Sorry!, I bought them later!) or something like that, and downloaded Don't Stand So Close To Me, because the song was just in my mind, maybe I heard it on tv or something, I don't know. And then downloaded allot of their other music, and love it too. Then when I read about them, I found out! :shock:

Sting's was in that band! That wasan't all that long after I started listening to Sting...so I hadn't yet known.

by **Guest** on 22 Mar 2006 11:35

YOU REALL NEED TO GROW UP MRS GRADENKO!

by **Lyndsay** on 22 Mar 2006 21:52

I heard the music first, and I've always kind of dissected music, by picking out all the different instruments, and i loved all of their sounds. Then I saw them, probably on TOTP's or similar, and thought that Stewart just seemed to stick out, he was a character, he interested me, whereas some drummers tend to just be in the background, plodding along. Thought I'd check out some Curved Air, and that was it really.

Website · by **jedsoon** on 23 Mar 2006 07:24

- Discovered the Police when Synchronicity topped the charts in '83-'84 when I was in eighth grade.
- Saw a one paragraph blurb in the tv guide grapevine column in the summer of '85 that announced Stewart was going to compose the score to the Equalizer tv series which sounded cool.
- Started watching the Equalizer after it premiered and got hooked thanks to Stewart's great scores, which got me reading every interview with Stewart I could and realized that he was even cooler than I originally thought and have followed his career ever since.

ditto what conroy said. every last word.

i had been aware of the police prior to synchronicity, but i just never was particularly drawn to them 'til they made their final grand statement. i thought every little thing she does is magic was pretty cool, but i seem to remember actively disliking one of the videos (ghost-era).

the police were the first band i became a serious fan of. prior to that, it was pretty much pop-40 stuff. i still can do a decent casey kasem...

stew got me into equalizer, but i probably would have liked the show without his involvement. i was really into anything military-themed at the time, at it was near enough the ballpark.

by **Samburu** on 25 Mar 2006 03:42

I went to school with a guy named Randy Carmichael who looked just like Stewart, which is why the Zenyatta Mondatta album stood out to me.

One morning as a freshman in high school, I missed the school bus. As I headed home, I noticed a car waiting on my neighbor, who was a senior at the time.

I approached the car, which was owned by a guy who had graduated a few years before, but had maintained a friendship with my neighbor. I startled the driver, who was rolling a joint at the time.

Soon, my neighbor got in the car. The driver lit the joint and slipped in a cassette of "Ghost in the Machine." Although I declined the "enhancement," I was blown away by the drumming.

I got "Zenyatta Mondatta" and "Ghost in the Machine" that year for Christmas and rode my bike to Kmart that spring for "Synchronicity."

Things haven't been the same since.

The Police videos - especially from "Ghost in the Machine" - were always my favorite. The primary colors of "Synchronicity" proved to me that I had found something truly special.

Listen to side 2 of "Regatta de Blanc" sometime late at night after the "enhancement" of your choosing. It still makes me feel 14 and "enhancement"-free.

Thanks Stewart

by **Grapefruit** on 02 Apr 2006 21:15

I always knew Stewart's name from Peter Gabriel's So album when I was a kid. Red Rain has always been one of my favourite songs - the opening hi-hat gives me chills, and since Stewart was credited individually for it, I knew his name, if nothing else.

I remember hearing the Police while I was growing up - my dad was a fan, and the video for Message In A Bottle is one of my earliest memories - but I got into them properly when I was thirteen and just on a whim decided to watch the Greatest Hits video one night.

This was around about the time the box set came out, so there happened to be a lot of material floating around to support my new obsession. :wink:

When the "teenage obsessive" period wore off and I realised I did actually like the music, not just the rather delicious people making it, I started collecting all the stuff my dad didn't have, onto the solo stuff, and that's how I wound up here...

by **Kim** on 04 Apr 2006 22:24

I had a spiritual revelation when I was 13. I heard about one bar from Every Breath You Take in May of 1983 and I haven't looked back since.

by **ChrisD** on 06 Apr 2006 13:18

I liked his drumming style and I also liked The Police.tThus,I discovered this site and etc,etc.

by **Popcorn Blizzard** on 08 Apr 2006 03:29

I remember hearing Police songs on the radio in the late 70s/early 80s. I didn't know the group by name, and it was only through talking with friends that I later learned the group that did "Roxanne" was the same one behind "Every Little Thing," "Message" and all those breezy Zenyatta Mondatta songs.

When we got cable and MTV in 1983, I was finally able to see what all these popular rock acts actually looked like. With groups like Foreigner or Journey, I found myself thinking, "They're just a bunch of scruffy-looking hippies." But the Police were photogenic and modern-looking. Sting looked dangerously intense. I remember hearing a radio ad for a Police concert, and the word "ostentatious" was used to describe them.

By now the Police had released Syncronicity which spawned hit after hit. This is when I actually started buying their albums and thumbing through these fan books. I remember one (Police Confidential?) had this shot of the audience at a Police concert, and these girls were holding up a sign that said, F*** Me, Stewart. As a nerdy young high school student, I remember thinking wistfully, "If only I could be Stewart Copeland."

by **Planet** on 08 Jun 2006 19:03

I just remember my older siblings listening to their music....I'm sure my brothers went to a show or two. I just always remember them. When did i discover Mr. Copeland as an individual artist? I guess a few years ago, When i was a big Phishhead, I went to hear Oysterhead because i knew Trey's sound, and of course remembered Stewart. After that show, i rented a few police DVD's behind the scene stuff. I saw how energetic Stewart Copeland was. Plus i liked the fact that he liked to shoot everything with his camera. I am a camera woman myself. I really can't wait for this new film of all his footage comes to DVD. I tried looking on Netflix the other day. Nothing yet.

STEWART COPELAND

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