Stewart Copeland the Remarkable 40-Year Trip from the Police to Gizmodrome
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Hear Session Studio Select in action Session Studio Select is covered by Pearl’s exclusive played by Lester Estelle of Kelly Clarkson Lifetime Warranty CONTENTS Volume 42 • Number 6 CONTENTS Cover and Contents photos by Alex Solca ON THE COVER 22 UP & COMING: JIMMY MACBRIDE 26 STEWART by Ilya Stemkovsky COPELAND 24 DRUM WISDOM: JIM MOLA Forty years ago the passion and presence by Keith Carne he displayed with the Police locked the drum world on his every move. Since SPECIAL THEME ISSUE: 1978 then, he’s tackled world music projects, MD travels back forty years with six orchestral works, Hollywood soundtracks, of the biggest rock drummers of the day. and much more. Now he’s returned to good-’ol rocking out. 38 RUSS KUNKEL by Ken Micallef by Jeff Potter 40 FOREIGNER’S DENNIS ELLIOTT by Robin Tolleson 42 PETER CRISS OF KISS by Billy Amendola 44 RICK MAROTTA by Billy Amendola 46 HEART’S MICHAEL DEROSIER by Patrick Berkery 48 BILL BRUFORD by Adam Budofsky 53 WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT…BASS DRUM HEADS by Michael Dawson LESSONS DEPARTMENTS 58 OFF THE RECORD 8 AN EDITOR’S OVERVIEW Blake Richardson on Between the Buried and Me’s Automata, Part 1 A Year in Transition by Michael Dawson Digging Into the Veteran Technical-Metal Group’s Latest Off ering by Willie Rose 10 READERS’ PLATFORM 62 PLAY IT NOW What’s Your Favorite 1970s Jazz or Must-Know Grooves Disco, a Drumming Staple of the 1970s by Jim Riley Fusion Drumming Album? 64 ROCK ’N’ JAZZ CLINIC 12 OUT NOW Five-Note Phrasing Part 2: Adding More Tension and Release by Marc Dicciani Dafnis Prieto on the Dafnis Prieto Big Band’s Back to the Sunset 68 JAZZ DRUMMER’S WORKSHOP Up-Tempo Studies Part 3: Comping with Quarters and 8th Notes by Steve Fidyk 13 ON TOUR Diego Arcaute with Juana Molina 70 ROCK PERSPECTIVES Introduction to Polyrhythms How to Play Odd Groupings, Part 1 by Aaron Edgar 80 CRITIQUE Miles Davis and John Coltrane, Mike Mangini 72 CONCEPTS with Into the Great Divide, Legend of the Do I Need a Fallback Plan? Part 1: Assessing Your Path by Russ Miller Seagullmen with Danny Carey, and more 84 BACKBEATS EQUIPMENT 2017 Sydney Vintage and Custom Drum Expo, plus Ben Riley, Pat Torpey, and Z’EV remembered 14 PRODUCT CLOSE-UP Turkish Cymbals Lale Kardeş 20 GEARING UP 88 KIT OF THE MONTH signature series Dashboard Confessional’s Bubinga Behemoth Van Kleef Ageless Collection Ben Homola 4.5x14 snare Keith McMillen Instruments BopPad 74 NEW AND NOTABLE Techra XCarb drumsticks WIN! A prize package featuring a Ddrum Dios drumkit, Zildjian cymbals, Evans heads, and Promark sticks worth more than $4,900! Page 61 ANAN EDITOR’S EDITOR’S OVERVIEW OVERVIEW Founder A Year in Transition Ronald Spagnardi 1943–2003 Publisher/CEO Isabel Spagnardi Senior Vice President Lori Spagnardi here have been numerous landmark Tevents in music history that have Vice President Kevin W. Kearns made certain years seem more signifi cant John Leiby Associate Publisher Tracy A. Kearns than others, such as the death of Johann Advertising Director Bob Berenson Sebastian Bach in 1750, which signifi ed the Advertising Assistant LaShanda Gibson end of the Baroque period, or the dawn of the jazz era following the release of the Senior Art Director Scott G. Bienstock fi rst Original Dixieland Jazz Band album Contributing Designer Richard Leeds in 1917. And who can overlook British Editorial Director Adam J. Budofsky pop/rock’s global takeover following the Beatles’ 1964 debut appearance on Managing Editor Michael Dawson American television? Associate Editor Willie Rose But what about the stretches of time Editor at Large Billy Amendola that passed between those rare, singular Business and Content Development Miguel Monroy events? As an experiment, we decided to take a more macro look at one of those transitional periods, 1978, The MD Pro Panel: Chris Adler, Gregg Bissonette, Jason Bittner, Will Calhoun, and quickly realized that a ton of things went down that year. The Terri Lyne Carrington, Matt Chamberlain, Jeff Davis, Peter Erskine, Bob Gatzen, Daniel Glass, Benny Greb, Matt Halpern, Horacio Hernandez, Gerald Heyward, pioneering punk band the Sex Pistols played its fi nal show, disco Taku Hirano, Susie Ibarra, Jim Keltner, Pat Mastelotto, Allison Miller, Rod Morgenstein, music took over the mainstream following the release of Saturday Chris Pennie, Stephen Perkins, Dafnis Prieto, Rich Redmond, Brian Reitzell, Jim Riley, Antonio Sanchez, Gil Sharone, Chad Smith, Steve Smith, Todd Sucherman, Billy Ward, Night Fever, Van Halen blew minds for the fi rst time with its new Kenny Washington, Paul Wertico brand of power rock, legendary drummer Keith Moon died from a drug overdose just twenty days after the Who released Who Are You, MODERN DRUMMER ADVISORY BOARD: SUBSCRIPTIONS: U.S. $29.95, Canada and this month’s cover artist, Stewart Copeland, helped usher in a Kenny Aronoff, Eddie Bayers, Bill Bruford, $33.95, other international $44.95 per Harry Cangany, Dennis DeLucia, Les year. For two- and three-year subscription new wave of alternative rock on the Police’s debut album, Outlandos DeMerle, Peter Erskine, Bob Gatzen, prices go to www.moderndrummer.com. d’Amour. You can read more about Copeland’s early years and Danny Gottlieb, Jim Keltner, Paul Leim, Single copies $5.99. Peter Magadini, George Marsh, Rod what he’s been up to lately, and we catch up with several other top Morgenstein, Andy Newmark, Neil Peart, SUBSCRIPTION CORRESPONDENCE: drummers who had a particularly fruitful output in 1978 to get an Steve Smith, Billy Ward, Dave Weckl, Modern Drummer, PO Box 274, Oregon, insider’s perspective on the music scene from forty years ago. Paul Wertico. IL 61061-9920. Change of address: Allow at least six weeks for a change. Also included is the fi rst installment of a revamp of our popular CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Please provide both old and new online series “What You Need to Know About….” This month we Patrick Berkery, Stephen Bidwell, address. 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