Stewart Copeland: Writing the "Spirits in the Material World" Drum Part

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  • @leafyleafyleaf
    @leafyleafyleaf 4 місяці тому +79

    Stewart has kept his child-like enthusiasm. And that’s a compliment. He refused to get ground down to a pulp.

    • @MMulcair
      @MMulcair 3 місяці тому +1

      He reminds me of Rick's interview with Nuno Bettencourt.
      They're both still like 16 year olds who remain permanently in the "How lucky am I to be playing music?" phase.

  • @ultraviolet9863
    @ultraviolet9863 4 місяці тому +111

    i could listen to stewart copeland memories of those golden years all day long.

  • @clayjones2370
    @clayjones2370 4 місяці тому +93

    Stewart Copeland is one of my favorite humans. He's also an excellent drummer. This song always drives me crazy - the verse always sounds like you have the beat figured out. Then the chorus opens up and you realize you've been fooled. Awesome composition!

    • @peterhopqk
      @peterhopqk 4 місяці тому +2

      Omg i had exact the same thing when I heard this song for a while. The bass drum is not on the first beat until the chorus comes.

    • @davidcahan
      @davidcahan 4 місяці тому +3

      You can see why they were notorious for in-fighting. He clearly has an opinion and has no trouble expressing it

    • @Nicksmix97
      @Nicksmix97 4 місяці тому +1

      agreed! he’s one of the most real “rock stars”
      very nice, very funny with just a smidge of ego haha

    • @tdward23
      @tdward23 2 місяці тому +1

      I'm not entirely sure that he's a human. I am entirely sure that he is unique. His talent should be shared and celebrated.

  • @markbataitis4851
    @markbataitis4851 4 місяці тому +35

    Not only is Stewart one of the greatest ever at drumming but also, one of the most intelligent musicians you'll ever listen to.

  • @MarceloFernandes-on8rf
    @MarceloFernandes-on8rf 4 місяці тому +12

    Why on Earth there's no Stewart Copeland TV yet? The world needs it!

    • @ItaiGattIL
      @ItaiGattIL Місяць тому +2

      Holy s**t that's right😂

  • @terryIKE69
    @terryIKE69 4 місяці тому +17

    Rick gets the best musicians AND storytellers, rolled in one. Could listen to Copeland all day. Have loved the Police since I was a pre-teen & their records are second to none. Top Shelf interview

  • @johnathanwetherill456
    @johnathanwetherill456 4 місяці тому +20

    One of the best drummers to ever play in a band . Complete independence as if every limb was playing to a different song .

  • @ikkenhisatsu7170
    @ikkenhisatsu7170 4 місяці тому +14

    "Spirits" is such a weird song to play. I can do it, but it's like the man said - it's all on a knife's edge. Every time I've played it, I felt like I'm walking a tightrope going to fall apart any second. GREAT tune! Copeland is so good and he has that rare knack of knowing just what works with the song.

  • @tashi_kitty
    @tashi_kitty 4 місяці тому +21

    Another great interview, Rick! Stewart Copeland is such an entertaining guy and a phenomenal drummer. Thanks and keep doing what you’re doing!❤️

    • @johncook30284
      @johncook30284 4 місяці тому

      Rick to Stewart Copeland, I do not do interviews. I have conversations

  • @treystone1993
    @treystone1993 4 місяці тому +13

    Watch the full interview, great insights from Copeland. He's obviously brilliant but still so humble and down to Earth🌎.

  • @Stretchwiz
    @Stretchwiz 4 місяці тому +12

    Drumeo and this today, it's amazing!

    • @Vampier
      @Vampier 4 місяці тому

      I was about to write the same

  • @JohnGriffith-w2w
    @JohnGriffith-w2w 4 місяці тому +22

    Rick Beato is so disarming and easy going that the people being interviewed seem to let their guard down and they give the feeling that they have known Mr.B for a rather long time and they are like old friends! Good work Mr. Beato!

  • @seanys
    @seanys 4 місяці тому +2

    What a wonderful communicator, Stewart is, and an even better drummer.

  • @AlexVanHalen_tribute
    @AlexVanHalen_tribute 4 місяці тому +12

    Another Legend!! Excellent stuff Rick🪖🥁✌

  • @Joe-mz6dc
    @Joe-mz6dc 4 місяці тому +5

    The drums in that song are superhuman.

  • @ZartNealan
    @ZartNealan 2 місяці тому

    Stewart Copeland - brilliant! So interesting and engaging to hear. His programme on the BBC was great, wish he did more

  • @winstonllamas5163
    @winstonllamas5163 4 місяці тому +1

    The theme to "The Equalizer" is incredible. The show itself was tremendous (Edward Woodward was phenomenal); the music he composed for that show stands the test of time.

  • @Beckola44
    @Beckola44 4 місяці тому +1

    I really enjoyed this interview with Stewart Copeland. Thank you for the video Rick.

  • @markedis5902
    @markedis5902 4 місяці тому +3

    The Casio VL tone was fantastic

  • @joeb6245
    @joeb6245 4 місяці тому +1

    Brilliant interview Rick

  • @Serai3
    @Serai3 4 місяці тому +3

    I f**king love Klark Kent. Those were some great songs. "Away From Home" still makes me laugh because it sounds exactly like my brother when he moved into his first place.

  • @brokl26
    @brokl26 4 місяці тому +1

    I just watched Copeland on Drumeo. I love it all.

  • @billyidol2115
    @billyidol2115 4 місяці тому +5

    I could literally listen to all of the early police over and over again. The way they have remastered and brought out the high-definition, it just makes Stuart and his sound just so much more killer way back when Neil Peart is on his way out the door with rush, I was pleading with the people in that van to go talk to Stewart copeland. I can't imagine the music that Rush would have been making when they finally did that last tour and then a couple years later Neil Peart dies. They could have had a great run well into their 70s. Instead they just quit and they're trying to make beer and stuff now I guess

  • @MPHHarzy
    @MPHHarzy 4 місяці тому +2

    Up and down with Stewart
    Love Copeland & The Police

  • @robertashmen9321
    @robertashmen9321 4 місяці тому

    Absolutely an amazing track for every reason Stewart mentions. I've fought with feeling this groove since it was released as a drummer. Absolutely brilliant! And now I know how it was born!!!!!

    • @bluefish4999
      @bluefish4999 4 місяці тому

      Yeah and that bass line is something else in the verse, simple, but not easy, Spirits is my favorite Police song, I remember when that album first came out I was 10, man take me back to the 80s!

    • @robertashmen9321
      @robertashmen9321 4 місяці тому

      @@bluefish4999 I was a little older, but only a few years. 👍

  • @robertashmen9321
    @robertashmen9321 4 місяці тому +1

    I love you, Rick! And Stewart, too!!!

  • @ivansindicic5960
    @ivansindicic5960 4 місяці тому

    Nice ambient for guests , i like the change . 👍🏻

  • @kenthonea5533
    @kenthonea5533 3 місяці тому

    One of my favorite songs

  • @suomi35
    @suomi35 2 місяці тому

    Love that rack sound check story with the "slider" 🤣

  • @sharonpaulsen5884
    @sharonpaulsen5884 4 місяці тому

    Cool clip! Now I have to go listen to vintage Police again! ❤

  • @artguti1551
    @artguti1551 4 місяці тому +2

    One, Two, Rap-bam-bot-tal-am... Love it!

  • @terrykathforever
    @terrykathforever 3 місяці тому

    Like always a great interview 👍

  • @matthewwallace1374
    @matthewwallace1374 4 місяці тому +1

    the gig in Germany was that Stuart, Sting, and Andy played on an Eberhard Schroner album...

  • @viperphoenix...
    @viperphoenix... 4 місяці тому +1

    Stewart was smacking those drums hard

  • @peterhadfield9840
    @peterhadfield9840 4 місяці тому

    Love listening to Stewart!

  • @macsnafu
    @macsnafu 4 місяці тому

    I had a Casio MT-68 early on, and you bet I explored everything it could do and used what I found interesting about it, I especially relied on the drum beats, since I wasn't a drummer, but you could come up with interesting stuff with the arppegio feature. Later I had a Casio CTK-650, and it had some great sounds on it.

  • @brucecall1595
    @brucecall1595 4 місяці тому +19

    There has to be an invisible sun.

    • @RRPerez
      @RRPerez 3 місяці тому +2

      It gives its heat to everyone.

  • @CallousCoder
    @CallousCoder 3 місяці тому

    As a kid born in 73, I always found the POLICE sounding “very unusual” in a pleasant sense. Luckily my neighbour’s kids were older so 6/7 year old me got mix tapes they’d make for me with Bowie and POLICE. Those were two rather unusual sounds that I loved.

  • @BobRoss-gr9px
    @BobRoss-gr9px Місяць тому +1

    LOL! "The combination of them being impatient and me being lazy means we do very few takes." That's priceless!

  • @eng912
    @eng912 4 місяці тому +9

    Live on Drumeo, now Rick's channel...🎉 what a day! ❤thank you Mr Copeland

    • @barryledgister4496
      @barryledgister4496 4 місяці тому +3

      I saw that Drumeo thing in the Steve Hoffman Music Forum, who often discuss Rick...have to start a thread on this interview...

  • @barnabyaprobert5159
    @barnabyaprobert5159 4 місяці тому

    I wish that my memory was as good as Stewart's!

  • @ianrickey208
    @ianrickey208 4 місяці тому

    Rick, love your content, your Beato book, your passion, your insights, all the music theory, support for largely unknown artists, most of the interviews, the rooms of your studio (I'm still trying to ID all the guitar amps...), and almost everything else. I don't get why interview snippets are selected for Beato 2 when they fit oh-so-naturally in Beato 1. Lil' help?

  • @PeterSokol-bl5vz
    @PeterSokol-bl5vz 4 місяці тому

    I still have my Casio VL-1….got it for Christmas in 79 when they came out…used it live in my band running through a Memory Man…a Boss Chorus and Tremelo pedal….it was a huge sound…loved them and use it to this day run through a guitar synthesizer..and still compose on it.

  • @danielmelo7146
    @danielmelo7146 4 місяці тому +2

    Nice!

  • @rareform6747
    @rareform6747 4 місяці тому

    Seen this months ago .. was good

  • @corycanavan5794
    @corycanavan5794 4 місяці тому +5

    Just watched Stewart on Drumeo he’s awesome as he’s so plain and straight no mucking about and I recall the full interview here .
    Very informative always entertaining

  • @huggeebear
    @huggeebear 4 місяці тому +1

    Stewart and Adam Savage sit down to have a conversation...I'd watch the f** outta that!

  • @umyes5246
    @umyes5246 3 місяці тому

    Energy ⚡ 🥁

  • @davidsmith433
    @davidsmith433 4 місяці тому

    Looks like Rick got to visit the Sacred Grove, how cool is that?

  • @ikkehierrro
    @ikkehierrro 4 місяці тому

    Tory Slusher is a fav finger drummer and guitarist. Up to date and all.

  • @cjustintoekes2285
    @cjustintoekes2285 4 місяці тому +1

    When are you interviewing Alex Lifeson?

  • @DiegoRooks
    @DiegoRooks 4 місяці тому +1

    Stuart is awesome

  • @poplifemedia
    @poplifemedia 4 місяці тому

    Just subscribed to this channel as well!

  • @Oldmanrufus46
    @Oldmanrufus46 4 місяці тому

    Stewart and Sean Kinney would be my ideal drummer blunt rotation

  • @stevealexander7772
    @stevealexander7772 4 місяці тому

    Sting and Stewart both interviewed on a guitarist's channel. Where is Andy???

  • @jamwayofaiken-augustarockb7643
    @jamwayofaiken-augustarockb7643 3 місяці тому

    My favorite Police tune!

  • @stewartstafford
    @stewartstafford 4 місяці тому

    I have nothing but respect for Stewart Copeland, probably because he has the correct spelling of Stewart in his name as I do (I refuse to recognise Stuarts, we've tolerated these people enough and I'm sick of baristas in Starbucks automatically assuming my name is spelled Stu and not Stew).

  • @TJ-id6ee
    @TJ-id6ee 4 місяці тому +1

    Haha I love this guy. ❤

  • @michaelmcdonald3275
    @michaelmcdonald3275 4 місяці тому +1

    Joe Jackson said he used a little casio to come up with songs.... like it was a portable band...

  • @ProfessorMadruga-w5y
    @ProfessorMadruga-w5y 4 місяці тому

    Olá Rick , seria possível uma explicação sua sobre a grande musica do A-ha theres a never forever thing , grande abraço !!!! Seu trabalho é de mais !!!!

  • @steveperelli3602
    @steveperelli3602 4 місяці тому +1

    I love don’t stand so close to me

  • @lakecomo9721
    @lakecomo9721 Місяць тому

    A true raconteur.

  • @ugocdf7706
    @ugocdf7706 2 місяці тому

    That's just him and I can relate

  • @Bryan-js2is
    @Bryan-js2is 4 місяці тому

    I know Copeland not because of the Police, because of the Spyro the Dragon soundtrack he wrote. I grew up with this music. Listen to ''Town square'' from the Spyro soundtrack, you can really feel his style.

  • @robingunnarsson6412
    @robingunnarsson6412 4 місяці тому

    This guy should have his own reality show.

  • @tendraftsdeep
    @tendraftsdeep 4 місяці тому

    No, I got that keyboard he's talking about. Still works. No AI in that

  • @9876yhfdhhf
    @9876yhfdhhf 3 місяці тому

    All I got is the gift of this song.
    Written in the key of Devo.
    Pass that dip.
    Give the Pabst a sip.
    Step on a snack.
    Take your Hummus back.
    When a problem comes along.
    You'll eat crickets.
    Before the cream is all long gone. You'll eat crickets.
    When everything is going wrong. You'll eat crickets.
    Now cricket!
    In a shake!
    Whip it up!
    Fishing bait!
    Go for it!
    Eat its head!
    Try to digest it!
    It's not so great!
    To cricket!
    Cricket good!
    When the end times come around.
    You must cricket.
    You will never visit town.
    Unless you cricket.
    No one gets a say.
    Until they cricket.
    I say cricket.
    Cricket good.
    I say cricket.
    Cricket good.
    Rinse and repeat.
    Rinse and repeat.

  • @albertdale5101
    @albertdale5101 4 місяці тому

    Spirits is possibly the finest work The Police ever did...on the shoulders of giant works!

  • @deco-edesiojairwittkowski8883
    @deco-edesiojairwittkowski8883 4 місяці тому

    genius.. eternal stewart

  • @colinshaw4592
    @colinshaw4592 4 місяці тому

    I swear I hear that opening fill rhythmically differently than he demonstrated it in this video. Lol
    But who am I to challenge Mr Copeland?
    Maybe I'm hearing the pickup note in the wrong place.
    I dunno.

  • @scottyjoe22
    @scottyjoe22 2 місяці тому

    Apparently, Sting read Lyall Watson.

  • @patrickgilligan6313
    @patrickgilligan6313 3 місяці тому

    Sting is the King of Sing along melodies

  • @uwefechner6982
    @uwefechner6982 4 місяці тому

    Funny guy !!❤

  • @leocomerford
    @leocomerford 4 місяці тому

    IIRC that’s basically how Moroder wrote “I Feel Love”, too.

  • @cjo2012
    @cjo2012 4 місяці тому

    Although his snare shots remind me of Alan White, overall, I have to say he is Neil Peart's heir apparent.

  • @joesmith4443
    @joesmith4443 3 місяці тому +1

    Really easy to flip the beat if you’re not careful playing the offbeats

  • @tonymason6686
    @tonymason6686 4 місяці тому

    This damn song. I can NOT hear it correctly no matter how I try. My mind refuses to think anything except "The keyboard is the downbeat". Everyone once in a while I "get it" in the 3rd verse but it slips away once I pay any attention to the keys.

  • @Kayavod
    @Kayavod 4 місяці тому

    I checked, I'm subsbribed, LOL.

  • @henne2k
    @henne2k 4 місяці тому

    As a fellow drummer: I don’t understand the question… 😅 it’s just off beats. What’s the problem?

  • @jiminycrint
    @jiminycrint 4 місяці тому

    Hilarious description of the sound check….

  • @sapinva
    @sapinva 4 місяці тому

    Yeah, that upbeat thing has always been a bit challenging for me. Police took it to extremes.

  • @andronouts
    @andronouts 4 місяці тому

    And damon albarn said that gorillaz song clint Eastwood...get the basic sample from old casio keyboard too....

  • @AlexanderStenerud1975
    @AlexanderStenerud1975 4 місяці тому

    They had the cops writing songs for them?

  • @steveperelli3602
    @steveperelli3602 4 місяці тому +1

    What did I mean by that? OK I’ll explain because I have an adapter for one of them it’s a Casio it has a tuner and it doesn’t work so I need to get one so it works and I have a Yamaha. You don’t have have to worry about it because you don’t have to tune it. what does Kevin Cronan say you can’t tune a fish, but you can tune a piano you know why you don’t have to worry about tuning it because it’s already tuned ha ha ha

  • @splashesin8
    @splashesin8 4 місяці тому

    😊

  • @RogueYogis
    @RogueYogis 10 днів тому +1

    My Hare Krishna friend Prithu told me that he had met Sting. He wanted to preach to him but Sting was in a hurry so Sting says "what's the philosophy in a nutshell?" So Prithu says "We are all eternal spirit souls, some how or another we have fallen into this material world of birth and death. But we don't really belong here and the way to get out, the way to get back home, back to Godhead is to chant Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare. Sting says "So we are spirits in the material world? Prithu says, yea that's it.

  • @joshtaylor4583
    @joshtaylor4583 4 місяці тому +1

    Rolling Stone magazine selected [Purple Rain] as the Number-1 Movie Soundtrack. NOW Rick has to talk about Prince!
    😇😀😃😄

  • @eschaef71
    @eschaef71 4 місяці тому +2

    Our bass player in a band called "1-800" was also a photographer and met Stewart at a show he was shooting...(help me out, early 90's?) and after the show , mentioned he was also in a band. Stewart said, "What's the name of your band?" Our guy said "1-800". Stewart said, "That's good!! Unresolved, but still good."

    • @spanqueluv9er
      @spanqueluv9er 4 місяці тому

      @eschaef71 That never happened.🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤡👎

    • @eschaef71
      @eschaef71 4 місяці тому

      @@spanqueluv9er it sure did.

  • @waskerbasket9601
    @waskerbasket9601 4 місяці тому +1

    His brother probably had access to early AI.

  • @chrisspencer5042
    @chrisspencer5042 4 місяці тому

    He’s hilarious

  • @The_R-n-I_Guy
    @The_R-n-I_Guy 3 місяці тому

    Clark Kent huh? I've gotta hear this

  • @narq5099
    @narq5099 4 місяці тому

    Stewart is exhausting... But always interesting.

  • @jonchilds1637
    @jonchilds1637 4 місяці тому

    I love Stewart but... anyone else seeing Doc Brown??!!

  • @wobblynoggin
    @wobblynoggin 4 місяці тому

    That’s not AI. It was programmed into the Casio.

  • @steveperelli3602
    @steveperelli3602 4 місяці тому +1

    Don’t stand don’t stand so close to me sting The Police Stuart Copeland Andy Summers Gordon Summers they are called the police 👮‍♂️

  • @bjornholzapfel9102
    @bjornholzapfel9102 4 місяці тому

    He doesn't like saying "his" name, right?

  • @3030drummer
    @3030drummer 4 місяці тому +3

    Stewart Copeland’s dad (who was in the CIA) said that no one would believe why The Police were actually created. Klark Kent reveals a bit more of the puzzle.
    “It’s a BIG CLUB, and you ain’t in it.” - George Carlin

    • @mancuniancandidatem
      @mancuniancandidatem 4 місяці тому

      What did Klark Kent say? Are there some lyrics or an interview that spill the beans?
      I know the CIA connection helped when they had their gear impounded in Egypt. I always wondered about that connection of Stewart's dad.

  • @lrcb40
    @lrcb40 4 місяці тому +1

    I can tell, Rick, how much you enjoyed this interview! I suspect it may have needed a few takes, due to you being cracked up!

  • @AnnZeeK
    @AnnZeeK 2 місяці тому

    "The five percent nation of CasioTone..."

  • @SentimentalHogwash
    @SentimentalHogwash 3 місяці тому

    Not only is he an incredible drummer, but he also has no clue what AI is.