4.8 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2016
⏱️ 7 minutes
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In this bonus mini-episode, Joe asks Stewart Copeland listener questions. He talks about group therapy with The Police, his recording approach, Klark Kent, and a famous phrase scrawled on his drum heads.
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0:00.0 | This is a bonus episode featuring Stuart Copeland. |
0:02.9 | To hear Stewart's full-length interview, subscribe to the trap set on iTunes. |
0:08.4 | This one comes from John Worcester, who's a great drummer. |
0:12.3 | How long were the fuck off you cunt heads on your kit? |
0:15.7 | I'm not sure. I think it was just after Zenata, and I can tell by the jacket I was wearing, there's a guy in Germany who's a cop in Dortmund, Germany, whose life is identifying photos and dating photographs. |
0:29.4 | And the one where I'm sitting on the drum, and you can see it, and by the way, translated into Japanese script underneath. And the last word of those four the Japanese |
0:41.9 | pictographed for that noun is like a weird joke but it was not what most people |
0:50.3 | think of it was it was just a moment sitting there I just been signing autographs |
0:54.0 | on an album and you know in the sound check I still had the Sharpie in my hand |
0:59.5 | and it's a sound check and that liverish sound check and it was addressed to myself I promise it was |
1:05.6 | addressed to me as a bit of self provocation but it's gone down in history as being directed at the bass player. |
1:12.3 | Do you have love for the bass player in your heart? Yeah. Love and admiration. And we both |
1:17.3 | recognize that during the course of the reunion tour, we kind of realized who each other is. And we, |
1:22.5 | you know, there was, at a point, we, um, we had band therapy. did yeah it was fantastic and it worked and we got |
1:33.4 | you know basically the therapist plural put us into a situation an environment of a conversational |
1:39.7 | environment where we said stuff and uh oh my god what we heard from each other blew both of our minds |
1:47.2 | there's he describing we well you know oh you know i'll tell you but the things that he was thinking |
1:53.6 | and i think how could you possibly think that i didn't write roxan i didn't write message in a bottle |
1:58.8 | i didn't write every breath you take i didn't write are you kidding that you have an insecurity about X, Y, and Z? |
2:03.5 | It's that whole thing you were talking about before, |
2:05.7 | about constructing this argument in your own mind. |
2:08.5 | Yeah. |
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