SKF NOTE: I rediscovered my Keith Copeland interview transcript in July 2015. Keith and I spoke over dinner at a Centre Island, NY restaurant. I have forgotten the restaurant name. Neither do I remember how this interview came to pass. But re-reading the transcript for the first time in about 30 years, I am impressed! Keith and I had a good rapport, both asking very good questions and giving very good answers.

My Modern Drummer interview transcripts were often longer than their corresponding published interviews. Each Modern Drummer had only so many pages, plus it is the rare interview that isn’t more readable after editing.

When I began posting segments from Mr. Copeland’s tanscript I could not remember when, if at all, the interview was published. I left MD in October 1983. With my interviews published after that date I’m missing memories of the hands-on work of putting together the MD issue involved. Even as of this writing, neither a Google search nor a search of Modern Drummer‘s web site shows any online reference to Keith’s feature interview.

Here then is Keith Copeland’s May 1984 MD interview. It’s a keeper.

[SKF NOTE: 6/17/17 – Keith Copeland’s full interview is now available on MD‘s Archive Page.]

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