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.

When I began posting segments from Mr. Copeland’s transcript 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.

Then by year 2017, Copeland’s interview was available in MD’s archives.

This is Copeland’s handwritten “short biography.” I came across it in a box of drum business papers and wanted to add it to the worldwide web for present and future searchers of Keith Copeland information.