Over a year after the Police wrapped their reunion tour, Stewart Copeland revealed that his longtime problems with Sting carried over to the reunion dates. Copeland, who recently released his memoirs called Strange Things Happen, has returned to his "day job" scoring film and theatrical pieces, but shed some light on the tensions between him and Sting on the reunion tour, telling Mojo, "At one of the dreaded band meetings Sting gets Andy (Summers) lined up and they tell me I'm a liability, I'm screwing up.

I say, 'Excuse me, have you read a single f***king review? Nobody says I'm playing too loud, too fast, too much. In fact, I have been singled out for praise because of my energy. So f***cking get off my back both of you, don't f***cking tell me to stop doing what I'm here to do."

Copeland recalled the night things came to a head between him and Sting -- who has always been overtly critical of Copeland's high-octane drum style: "We had our showdown in Singapore (on February 4th, 2008 -- the 100th gig) when I was able to say, 'Stingo, I am not your problem, you don't need to worry about whether I'm making too much noise, nobody else is worried about it. You may not like it, but that's because you think you're stuck with it. You're not. The end is near. But isn't this fun? Stop resisting it. Stop trying to change me and mold me into something you can use. You can't use me because I'm f***ing out of here! Don't worry.'"

He went on to add, "I'm actually very happy about it all. We had to go through this and I love my two colleagues and I understand where they're coming from and there's not a trace of bitterness now. It was about what hadn't been said that I wished I'd said -- I stopped playing drums for 10 years because I hadn't said it. So the glorious thing about the tour was it all got said."

Copeland says that after years of dealing with Sting and Andy Summers solely as friends as opposed to bandmates, it took them a while to fall back into the Police's usual tense, but natural groove: "It took us a while to get back to our formula, to appreciate our formula. And our formula is tension. And the formula is that we don't cut each other any slack. We challenge each other, we push each other into places where we normally wouldn't go, we're all out of comfort zone. And it took us while to appreciate that that's what makes the band rock. The fact that Sting plays harder and more aggressively with me behind him, and maybe I play a little less obnoxiously with him in front of me."