STEVEN ADLER ART Drummer The Police
One In A Million
by Steven Adler


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STEVEN ADLER ART Drummer The Police
Mama Kin
by Steven Adler


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Used To Love Her
by Steven Adler


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Used To Love Her

Mama Kin

Move To The City

Nice Boys

One In A Million

Reckless Life

You're Crazy

Patience
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STEVEN ADLER ART

The second full scale collection by legendary drummer Steven Adler, LIES on CANVAS began production in mid 2022. Steven entered the studio with Los Angeles art team SceneFOUR with the objective of crafting a fine art collection made from the rhythms on the classic Guns N Roses album Lies. The process of creation is an extensive one, but begins with the drummer utilizing drumsticks that light, much like a painter uses brushes with oils. While performing the classic rhythms, his movements are captured and eventually brought into the design studio for reworking to bring out the abstract. The results are remarkable - vivid, colorful, and conceptually extraordinary.

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In early 1977, Copeland founded the Police with lead singer-bass guitarist Sting and guitarist Henry Padovani (who was soon replaced by Andy Summers), and they became one of the top bands of the 1980s. The Police's early track list (before their album debut) was largely Copeland compositions, including the band's first single "Fall Out" (Illegal Records, 1977) and the B-side "Nothing Achieving". Though Copeland's songwriting contribution was reduced to a couple of songs per album as Sting started writing more material, he continued to co-arrange all The Police's songs together with his two bandmates. Amongst Copeland's most notable songs are "On Any Other Day" (where he also sang lead vocals), "Does Everyone Stare" (later to be used as the title of his documentary on the band Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out), "Contact", "Bombs Away", "Darkness" and "Miss Gradenko". Copeland also co-wrote a number of songs with Sting, including "Peanuts", "Landlord", "It's Alright for You" and "Re-Humanize Yourself".

Copeland also recorded under the pseudonym Klark Kent, releasing several UK singles in 1978 with one ("Don't Care") entering the UK Singles Chart that year, along with an eponymous 10-inch album on green vinyl released in 1980. Recorded at Nigel Gray's Surrey Sound Studio, Copeland played all the instruments and sang the lead vocals himself. Kent's "Don't Care", which peaked at No. 48 UK in August 1978, actually predates the first chart single by the Police by several months ("Can't Stand Losing You", issued in October 1978) as "Don't Care" was released in early June 1978.

In 1982, Copeland was involved in the production of a WOMAD benefit album called Music and Rhythm. Copeland's score for Rumble Fish secured him a Golden Globe nomination in 1983. The film, directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola from the S. E. Hinton novel, also had a song released to radio on A&M Records "Don't Box Me In" (UK Singles Chart n. 91)—a collaboration between Copeland and singer-songwriter Stan Ridgway, leader of the band Wall of Voodoo—that received significant airplay upon release of the film that year.

The Rhythmatist record of 1985 was the result of a pilgrimage to Africa and its people, and it features local drums and percussion, with more drums, percussion, other musical instruments and occasional lead vocals added by Copeland. The album was the official soundtrack to the movie of the same name, which was co-written by Stewart. He also starred in the film, which is "A musical odyssey through the heart of Africa in search of the roots of rock & roll." the police, polive live, police band, music the police, sting the police, the police hits, the police live, the police band