ANAHEIM, Calif. — As he sifted through the hours and hours of Super 8 footage for the 2006 rockumentary, “Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out,” The Police drummer Stewart Copeland knew he needed familiar music from the band to go along with the film.
But he didn’t want to play it straight. Instead, he found recordings of “obscure moments, improvisations on stage and wild jams” to create alternate versions of Police material for the movie, which he dubbed “derangements.”
“I started carving up these songs and as soon as the scalpel came out, the orgy began,” the 70-year-old drummer said during a recent phone interview from his home in Santa Monica. He’d also just collected his latest Grammy award at the 65th annual ceremony in Los Angeles for the “Divine Tides” project with Ricky Kej, which features music from all over the world.
