Going Off the Score with Stewart Copeland and Jon Kimura Parker
April 2, 2015 | Posted in CLASSICAL, JAZZ, LIVE MUSIC | By sockii
An impressive ensemble of talented, diverse musicians recently completed a 5-date tour of college concert halls across the United States. Led by legendary drummer and composer Stewart Copeland and award-winning pianist Jon Kimura Parker, the band led listeners “Off the Score” with an energetic, challenging and varied collection of music that ranged from Igor Stravinsky to Paul Schoenfield, from re-interpreted Police songs to newly-commissioned classical work.
Before They Were The Police: Stewart Copeland, Sting and Andy Summers
September 22, 2014 | Posted in CLASSIC ROCK, PROGRESSIVE ROCK | By sockii
Before The Police became one of the top pop-rock acts of the early 1980s, each member of the band had already been involved in the music industry for a considerable amount of time. Bassist/singer Sting, drummer Stewart Copeland and guitarist Andy Summers were all talented musicians, yet their…
Book Review: Chris Campion’s Walking on the Moon: The Untold Story of the Police and the Rise of New Wave Rock
August 24, 2014 | Posted in CLASSIC ROCK, NON-FICTION | By sockii
Chris Campion’s Walking on the Moon: The Untold Story of the Police and the Rise of New Wave Rock is, quite easily, the most negatively-toned rock “biography” – and I use that term very lightly in this case – I can recall ever reading. While there is some interesting information contained within the book’s 300 pages, each of those pages is so thoroughly laced with…
Book Review: Secret Police Man By Henry Padovani
August 22, 2014 | Posted in NON-FICTION, ROCK | By sockii
Those interested in the punk and new wave music scene of London in the late 70s and early 80s should find an interesting perspective in “Secret Police Man”, the autobiography of The Police’s first guitarist, Henry Padovani…
The Last Ship: The 2013 Album and Upcoming Musical by Sting
April 28, 2014 | Posted in FOLK, MUSICAL THEATER | By sockii
English musician Sting has always been one to explore different sounds and styles, from punk rock and reggae with The Police to Renaissance lute music with his 2006 release Songs from the Labyrinth. In September 2013, Sting released his first full album of new music in ten years: The Last Ship…
Building a Niche Interest Wiki
April 23, 2014 | Posted in FANDOM | By sockii
We are all surely familiar with Wikipedia today – the user-edited online encyclopedia that we often turn to for facts, trivia, and all kinds of information we may search for. But Wikipedia is far from the only “wiki” online today…
Fiction Plane: A Great Modern Rock Band
April 17, 2014 | Posted in ROCK | By sockii
Fiction Plane may be one of the best modern rock bands you likely have never heard of. (But if you have heard of them before, good for you!) If their lead singer and bass player looks – and sounds –
Circa Zero’s “Circus Hero”: Is this what new Classic Rock sounds like?
April 7, 2014 | Posted in ROCK | By sockii
I had Circa Zero’s debut album Circus Hero pinned as one of my most-anticipated music releases for 2014. As a lifelong fan of The Police, how could I not be excited by this band…
Album Review: Sting’s The Last Ship
October 3, 2013 | Posted in CLASSIC ROCK, FOLK, MUSICAL THEATER | By sockii
“The Last Ship” by Sting. Available now at Amazon.com.
No one is perhaps more surprised than I am over how much I enjoy Sting’s new album, The Last Ship.
Because the truth is, no matter how much of a fan of The Police I am (and I’m a really, really big Police fan!) I’ve never been particularly keen on Sting’s solo work in comparison—at least not since his first solo album in 1985, The Dream of the Blue Turtles…
10 Great Stewart Copeland Drum Tracks
October 5, 2010 | Posted in ROCK | By sockii
Modern drummers quite frequently cite rock legend Stewart Copeland as one of their influences. His innovative, personality-filled approach to drumming was a large part of what made The Police one of the most successful bands of the late 1970s/early 1980s…
