i always wonder if Sting and Stuart werent always going at each other so hard might we have gotten a few more great albums from them. but then i have to wonder if Sting and Stuart werent always going at each other would the albums we did get have been as good. one of those things we will never know.
Ur latter point was spot on. It was the tension and creative differences that created those amazing 5 albums. If the 3 of them got along better, those albums would not have the drive, angst and creativity they ended up with. No question.
They had one more album in them for sure ! I think because Sting so easily walked his mind was already made up ! It's a great shame they couldn't get their shit together 😢
Growing up in the 80’s The Police were on the radio anytime I went somewhere with my parents. They were a big part of my childhood memories. Then my Dad bought Van Halen 1984. That changed everything and I wanted to be Eddie. 😄The 80’s were great.
I was pissed when the Police broke up. I was so disgusted with it that I literally refused to listen to anything Sting did after the breakup. I believed it was really Stings fault. But after a few years I came around & started to enjoy Stings music post breakup. I still wish they would have stayed together. They could have done at least 2 more albums.
I bought The Police box set years ago which had every recorded song they did. I recently dusted it off and started playing it and it’s incredible how well their songs have aged. You have to think what would’ve happened after Synchronicity had they carried on. I can’t even listen to most of Sting’s solo material, it bores me beyond belief. There’s nothing memorable about any of it at all as opposed to his material with The Police. He hired the best musicians around when he went with his solo thing and they couldn’t bring his songs to life like Stewart and Andy could. Just a shame it ended after such a short time together.
The "what if" question will always be there with the Police. What if they went on as such into 1984 & 85 & beyond, instead of moving on. The thing is that is the beauty of it. Going out at the top is what Sting thought was best. Stewart & Andy clearly never wanted to break up. There was potential for more growth in they're music. The "Wrapped Around your Finger" & "Tea in the Sahara" songs for me really showed how mature & sophisticated the band was becoming. I think it was almost a slap in the face to Summers & Copeland that Sting hired a whole new band to play his songs. He didn't feel they could play the music he was coming up with anymore. And also he wanted total control, 100% authority in song writing, not having to listen to any other ideas.
Mr. Blutarsky Yes but that was after a very brief reformation for the Amnesty International tour. I think for 3 or 4 dates that was it. Their last full blown tour (prior to 07) was done in Australia March of 84.
Mr. Blutarsky Actually that last concert wasn’t in a tour. In the 86 they tried to record new versions of some of their songs but they started to fight again, so they left the idea, the thing is that since 1984 they stopped touring, making new albums, or songs, or whatever. In that concert in the '86 they played for half an hour, not more. An entire concert has a duration of one hour and a half (commonly). So, the band broke in the '84, but did that last appearance together in the '86
This is Andy's documentary, right? He seemed to suffer the most with the end of the band, then feeling the loss all again when the dream didn't keep going in 2008. Seems like such a great guy, the stable foil to Sting's airy ambition and Stewart's firecracker personality.
Andy was 41 when the Police "ended". He'd already been a gigging guitarist for 20 years and a star for the last 5-6 years. I think he was at that age where he was content to be the guitarist for The Police for the next 20 years. Stewart and mostly Sting were still young and energetic and wanted to try new music with new musicians. Andy did make some albums, but I'll agree with what you said.
20:48 what a bass line. You'll never see a version played like this of wrapped around your finger ever again. Sting's 2007 version was a watered down contemporary jazz bass kind of a thing (still great btw) but just not as raw and energetic as it is here. Look at him bounce and play at the same time, incredible talent! :)
WOW This is a complete gold dust for any Police junkie like myself.I did not even know that such footage existed. Amazing. Thank you so much for posting.
I agree. In 79 to me they were at the top of their act. They played with so much trepidation and virtuosity. So lonely was played differently and amazingly on every show. Sting’ s voice and bass playing was overwhelming, but the three of them were far superior to the rest of acts of their time.
I saw them on their Synchronicity Tour! I knew it was the last one because Sting said they got as big as you can get after playing Shea Stadium and selling it out. He knew that was the pinnacle. So he pulled the plug on the machine! 😎👏🏻🎸
@@leonstraatman1857 Ha ha overated. Beatles have influenced more musicians to pick up an instrument than any other band in history. They are so overated that at last count there has been about 300 books written about them and their contribution to popular culture. Do a little research....when The Beatles arrived in Adelaide in 1964 - nearly 300,000 people lined the streets from the airport to the city centre. Unfortunately most fucking idiots think music began the day they bought their first CD. I repeat 300,000 just digest that number for a minute. Songs that are still played and downloaded 50 years after their release. The song Yesterday the most covered song of all time with over 3000 versions. Yeah overated.
@@3rdmm I once read a promo poster in a record store that said " definitely maybe carrries on where Abbey Road left ". I was about 18 at the time but even then I knew that statement was full of shit". History has proved me correct
But who had done that? Also, find one instance of someone accusing the Police of plagarism. Not saying Zep isn't great, but the Police were at least, if not more, original.
When they parted at their peak, I didn’t believe it. I didn’t want to because I love the band even until today. So my ultimate dream was for them to get back together with the maturity of years past & create new songs with a brand new sound at least since they’ve been apart for a long time. I know there’s so much music these guys still have in them. With all the influences they’ve gathered, it would be very interesting if they could play again & not be bickering but to be in their most matured selves.
In a way, it's good they broke up when they did. They ended up with only great albums and great shows. When they reunited decades later they grossed more than anybody. To me, that's how it should be.
@@DonHalli I honestly think not enough credit was ever given to Andy Summers or Stewart Copeland. Their work truly contributed to that unique Police sound. I think Sting may have been the alpha in the reunion tour and asserted his own style that he developed after the breakup.
Nice to see all this unseen footage of some of the shows from 83/84 paricularly shea stadium and wembley arena too. Many years ago before youtube i thought the only footage that existed from that tour was the omni and le spectrum shows.
I had always liked every song that I'd heard from the Police!(and that me friend is rare for me to like every song from an album! the others are: Hendrix,YES,Floyd and RUSH , in all of these icons none of them could write a bad song!)... when Synchronicity came out all of my attention immediately shifted as I blissfully forgot about everything else! i put things on the back burner for that period- which was uneventful, so-so, in "The Doldrums"and blah at best!...Then when the Hand of Fate intervened I perked up and took notice as something new and different appeared as of out- of- nowhere in my life, I was carried away on a Magic Carpet of Sound, diverted onto an alternate time-line gently arriving with a fresh outlook and a new-found interest to occupy me.Each day when I'd put on the headphones and press play I was transported to another state of being, pleasantly shut away from distractions, comfortably numb before hand and in a world of Reggae-Pop fusion where i intently payed attention with laser-like focus , listening to Copeland's & Sommer's signature m.o's and trying to figure out what Sting was saying in his haunting, melodious and poetic style!( no other band sounded like them that I'd heard from up to that point and everything else wasn't notable!) i heard a couple songs from it on the radio and that's all it took, I liked them so much because of their newer, more refined rhythms, slowed down and methodical tempos that ASAP I went to town on a mission, with one agenda, a single priority to The Record Bar inside the Mall, ( those good ol' days😏😢)just as soon as I got home I put that poor cassette through the ringer as i played it so many times,over and over again, every day that it got to be where it became inaudible! I bought another one and it wore out also, finally i bought another one -3 in all!... The other day I was reminiscing about the 80's and playing music videos from that era and in You Tubes song list for rotation- cue a Police song came on and since then I've been watching them occasionally(but not wearin' then out lol) On some of the early videos Stu is being light-hearted and it makes me laugh while I'm dancing to them, it lifts my Spirit to see his clownish ingenuity in bringing drums to life where none really exist lol (and it made things alot easier too,drums aren't as portable as folks think!)...also BTW very few 3-Person Bands I can think of🤔:The Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Doors,The Band, E.L.P,the original Genesis w P.C., Triumph,RUSH and B.T.O. , now up to our modern age ummm...🧐 (Chevelle is the only one I can think of! and I know that I probably left alot more out that should be in here!)
My favourite band, saw then in Melbourne at the 84 concert and same again in 2008. Awesome band, I do wish they recorded at least one more album, but it is what it is. Cheers
They were so $uccessful...yet, they were very stressed and divided...esp. Sting. His personal life was not where he wanted it to be...hence, why the music was so great. Yet, it may have been his best material. The dichotomy.
I think I still have his book Throb somewhere. He was doing a book signing here in Cincinnati. I'm a musician I handed him a tape of my songs and he just looked fried.
Love The Police ..brilliant MTV was the precursor to social media's Phenomenon ...that "everyone can be a star".. which Warhol predicted ... We sat and watched what it took to be a star much more directly.. it's WAP.
Poor Andy at the beginning," Lets clear this up about us calling it a day" little did they know they did call it a day or at least Sting called it a day with the Police. I think the Police were way better than solo Sting.
I really want to see The Police in (the early of) Synchronicity tour when Sting was still using his Fender Jazz Bass, before he switched to the white Spector bass all of the remaining tour. Is there any (long) (youtube) video about that, please? Anybody has the information?
Yunus SH He only used that bass (Fender JB) for the Chicago show and the Indianapolis show. After that for majority of the tour (with the exception of some of the European shows) he used that bass. However the only footage I can find is from that Chicago show which in this video
When they split I though sting made a mistake especially because I went to his concert with the blue turtles before less than 4000 people ( that was in Lyon France on 86 ) Two years before police was having a show same place which was packed ; Anyway I though that his first solo album was great but the hit was copy paste of police vibe ; Sting then took off with fantastic records served by brilliant musician I respect hat guy
Horses can do that to you! I remember calling record shops for "Every Breath you Take- The Singles" the weekend it came out. Every one of them told me 'No we don't have that single, it's no longer available'. Jeesh.
my band was kiss when I heard the police that was I really like them met andy summers in 1987 took an picture with him with a john lennon shirt on still love the police that is my band from chris chenel
What concert is it from, cause I found one that’s in Oakland and it had Jamaica farewell, and I’m on a quest to find all the concerts with random old songs mixed with regatta de blanc
Saw this tour August 10th 1983 Foxboro, Mass. Horrible sound system, very muddled.Don't stand so close 86' remake was as a group, their last studio recording. After all these years, kinda still waiting. Sting's solo career fizzled horribly... 2019, maybe a new Police regeneration of new material? Today's American Idol-The Voice music SUCKS!
Still is weird how they pulled the plug! Damn remember the shit clear as day. The whole album, apart from a 2 or 3 songs sucked! Major! First 3 albums were the bomb! That was the whole energy between the 3 guys. The folliwing were more produced and emo. Few songs were ok but it was done after Zenyatta
most of them are improvised live just a good band can do that , some concerts you had good stuff and another no , but i think they last concerts where not so good
The blame for the break up of The Police rests squarely on Stewarts shoulder. He was too arrogant, too pushy, too egocentric to accommodate Stings ever growing song writing abilities. Stewart was a habitual over player, constantly ruining Stings subtle sophisticated pop songs. Stewart simply refused to pull his head in and "serve the song" and Sting was absolutely correct to leave him.
@@massimoviggiani3378 Said by a musician who knows that the writer and singer dictates the song arrangement. And good drummers play simple to make the song sound better. Interesting you use the word narcissist because that's exactly what Stewart was and is. An arrogant selfish prick with no sense of style.
Thanks for including footage of "Message in a Bottle" - another pretentious, droning, repetitious tune that displayed all of the band's, and Sting's, suckiness in a single track. The Police and a few other sucky bands were dragging Rock steadily downhill from the heights it had achieved in the mid to late 1970's.
Yes that droning stacked 5th 1,6,7,4 progression with kick drum driven, syncopated jazz accents with bass that pulls away from the beat and those hackneyed lyrics referencing Robinson Crusoe are boring as all hell.
Best line by Stewart Copeland: “Want to see me give Sting a whopping?”
😂
i always wonder if Sting and Stuart werent always going at each other so hard might we have gotten a few more great albums from them. but then i have to wonder if Sting and Stuart werent always going at each other would the albums we did get have been as good. one of those things we will never know.
The great bands work together and allow the stronger lyricists/musicians to shine. Sting was that, and Stuart couldn't cope with second fiddle.
Less about Stewart and more about Sting having the freedom to do whatever he wanted.
Ur latter point was spot on. It was the tension and creative differences that created those amazing 5 albums. If the 3 of them got along better, those albums would not have the drive, angst and creativity they ended up with. No question.
They had one more album in them for sure ! I think because Sting so easily walked his mind was already made up ! It's a great shame they couldn't get their shit together 😢
We can't change chemistry of something and hoping the result would be the same
Growing up in the 80’s The Police were on the radio anytime I went somewhere with my parents. They were a big part of my childhood memories. Then my Dad bought Van Halen 1984. That changed everything and I wanted to be Eddie. 😄The 80’s were great.
two all time greats
I was pissed when the Police broke up. I was so disgusted with it that I literally refused to listen to anything Sting did after the breakup. I believed it was really Stings fault. But after a few years I came around & started to enjoy Stings music post breakup. I still wish they would have stayed together. They could have done at least 2 more albums.
Same here…although I started listening and enjoying Sting from Sound Cages on…coincidently when he went back to bass playing…
i still havent forgiven sting ......
I bought The Police box set years ago which had every recorded song they did. I recently dusted it off and started playing it and it’s incredible how well their songs have aged. You have to think what would’ve happened after Synchronicity had they carried on. I can’t even listen to most of Sting’s solo material, it bores me beyond belief. There’s nothing memorable about any of it at all as opposed to his material with The Police. He hired the best musicians around when he went with his solo thing and they couldn’t bring his songs to life like Stewart and Andy could. Just a shame it ended after such a short time together.
5:25 “Synchronici-tea!” How very British.
The police were ahead of their time in a lot of ways.
Andy is very charismatic and a helluva guitarist.
"Tea in Sahara" is one cool song by the musicians The Police.
When they all looked like Wayne Gretzky.
The "what if" question will always be there with the Police. What if they went on as such into 1984 & 85 & beyond, instead of moving on. The thing is that is the beauty of it. Going out at the top is what Sting thought was best. Stewart & Andy clearly never wanted to break up. There was potential for more growth in they're music. The "Wrapped Around your Finger" & "Tea in the Sahara" songs for me really showed how mature & sophisticated the band was becoming. I think it was almost a slap in the face to Summers & Copeland that Sting hired a whole new band to play his songs. He didn't feel they could play the music he was coming up with anymore. And also he wanted total control, 100% authority in song writing, not having to listen to any other ideas.
Rusty Kuntz when Sting started telling Stewart how to play the drums that's when I knew it was over. Total control freak.
Wasn't their last concert in '86?
Mr. Blutarsky Yes but that was after a very brief reformation for the Amnesty International tour. I think for 3 or 4 dates that was it. Their last full blown tour (prior to 07) was done in Australia March of 84.
Well I have to say that if that was a tour date you still have to call it a Police concert, Rust.
Mr. Blutarsky Actually that last concert wasn’t in a tour. In the 86 they tried to record new versions of some of their songs but they started to fight again, so they left the idea, the thing is that since 1984 they stopped touring, making new albums, or songs, or whatever. In that concert in the '86 they played for half an hour, not more. An entire concert has a duration of one hour and a half (commonly). So, the band broke in the '84, but did that last appearance together in the '86
This is Andy's documentary, right? He seemed to suffer the most with the end of the band, then feeling the loss all again when the dream didn't keep going in 2008. Seems like such a great guy, the stable foil to Sting's airy ambition and Stewart's firecracker personality.
Andy was 41 when the Police "ended". He'd already been a gigging guitarist for 20 years and a star for the last 5-6 years. I think he was at that age where he was content to be the guitarist for The Police for the next 20 years. Stewart and mostly Sting were still young and energetic and wanted to try new music with new musicians. Andy did make some albums, but I'll agree with what you said.
Behind The Music says otherwise, Andy went along with Sting to made a decision to stop after Shea Stadium. Stewart was the one who wanted to continue.
20:48 what a bass line. You'll never see a version played like this of wrapped around your finger ever again. Sting's 2007 version was a watered down contemporary jazz bass kind of a thing (still great btw) but just not as raw and energetic as it is here. Look at him bounce and play at the same time, incredible talent! :)
Yes very cool, never heard such a version! On top of their great studio albums, they were such a fantastic live band.
WOW This is a complete gold dust for any Police junkie like myself.I did not even know that such footage existed.
Amazing. Thank you so much for posting.
Chris Remington thanks for watching! Please subscribe
Obiwazz Not the whole video, there's a lot more included....... hopefully that aren't copyright problems
Okay thanks for clarifying. Yeah I hope it stays up, good work
Obiwazz Thanks! Just please don't report me lol
Deleted my earlier comment :)
What a time the early 80s must have been. Candy you can sniff up your nose and the Police. Can't get any better than that.
Gotta love that booger sugar
That's still pretty easy to find. I'd rather have The Police.
15:35 imagine Sting being your teacher
I imagine Sting was the subject of schoolgirl fantasy.
I agree. In 79 to me they were at the top of their act. They played with so much trepidation and virtuosity. So lonely was played differently and amazingly on every show. Sting’ s voice and bass playing was overwhelming, but the three of them were far superior to the rest of acts of their time.
I saw them on their Synchronicity Tour! I knew it was the last one because Sting said they got as big as you can get after playing Shea Stadium and selling it out. He knew that was the pinnacle. So he pulled the plug on the machine!
😎👏🏻🎸
The Police....... Beatles of the 80s
Beatles??????? They are not even to allow to polish andy,sting and stuart's shoes!!!!!! The beatles are the most overrated band ever.....
@@leonstraatman1857 Ha ha overated. Beatles have influenced more musicians to pick up an instrument than any other band in history. They are so overated that at last count there has been about 300 books written about them and their contribution to popular culture. Do a little research....when The Beatles arrived in Adelaide in 1964 - nearly 300,000 people lined the streets from the airport to the city centre. Unfortunately most fucking idiots think music began the day they bought their first CD. I repeat 300,000 just digest that number for a minute. Songs that are still played and downloaded 50 years after their release. The song Yesterday the most covered song of all time with over 3000 versions. Yeah overated.
Sure. Just like Oasis were the Beatles of the 90's...
@@3rdmm I once read a promo poster in a record store that said " definitely maybe carrries on where Abbey Road left ". I was about 18 at the time but even then I knew that statement was full of shit". History has proved me correct
Lol never
Sting just got tired of being in Stewart's band, and wanted one of his own.
The Police was to the eighties what Led Zeppelin were to the seventies.
Pablo Ortega Bofill Wrong, The Police were actually original.
aavila120 eh not really just mixed new wavish punk with raggae not saying it wasnt great
One of the few 80s bands I gladly remember!
The best group of 3 of all time.
But who had done that? Also, find one instance of someone accusing the Police of plagarism. Not saying Zep isn't great, but the Police were at least, if not more, original.
When they parted at their peak, I didn’t believe it. I didn’t want to because I love the band even until today. So my ultimate dream was for them to get back together with the maturity of years past & create new songs with a brand new sound at least since they’ve been apart for a long time. I know there’s so much music these guys still have in them. With all the influences they’ve gathered, it would be very interesting if they could play again & not be bickering but to be in their most matured selves.
I was 16 when they split , I cried 😢
6:49 - 7:09 Hilarious. I loved their senses of humor.
One of the best bands ever. I'm still hoping for another album.
Aint never gonna happen I'm afraid .
@@paulwilkinson8099 You may be right, the tour might be the last reunion we have for the Police.
In a way, it's good they broke up when they did. They ended up with only great albums and great shows. When they reunited decades later they grossed more than anybody. To me, that's how it should be.
You're right, but it still hurt when they did.
5 albums not enough
@@ajh21313 def
@@DonHalli Sting did change his whole musical style altogether after they split up. Singing the way he did when he was younger is hard though.
@@DonHalli I honestly think not enough credit was ever given to Andy Summers or Stewart Copeland. Their work truly contributed to that unique Police sound. I think Sting may have been the alpha in the reunion tour and asserted his own style that he developed after the breakup.
Andy Summers had just turned 40 before the release of Synchronicity .
So
Rich Viola Yep, he is 9 or 10 years older than Sting and Stewart.
But they all looked the same age to me!
@@rb7007 Duh old news
Chris Zito It may be old news to you. But not for younger people who are just getting into The Police. 🙄
@@rb7007 so true. 👊🔥🔥
Nice to see all this unseen footage of some of the shows from 83/84 paricularly shea stadium and wembley arena too. Many years ago before youtube i thought the only footage that existed from that tour was the omni and le spectrum shows.
I had always liked every song that I'd heard from the Police!(and that me friend is rare for me to like every song from an album! the others are: Hendrix,YES,Floyd and RUSH , in all of these icons none of them could write a bad song!)... when Synchronicity came out all of my attention immediately shifted as I blissfully forgot about everything else! i put things on the back burner for that period- which was uneventful, so-so, in "The Doldrums"and blah at best!...Then when the Hand of Fate intervened I perked up and took notice as something new and different appeared as of out- of- nowhere in my life, I was carried away on a Magic Carpet of Sound, diverted onto an alternate time-line gently arriving with a fresh outlook and a new-found interest to occupy me.Each day when I'd put on the headphones and press play I was transported to another state of being, pleasantly shut away from distractions, comfortably numb before hand and in a world of Reggae-Pop fusion where i intently payed attention with laser-like focus , listening to Copeland's & Sommer's signature m.o's and trying to figure out what Sting was saying in his haunting, melodious and poetic style!( no other band sounded like them that I'd heard from up to that point and everything else wasn't notable!) i heard a couple songs from it on the radio and that's all it took, I liked them so much because of their newer, more refined rhythms, slowed down and methodical tempos that ASAP I went to town on a mission, with one agenda, a single priority to The Record Bar inside the Mall, ( those good ol' days😏😢)just as soon as I got home I put that poor cassette through the ringer as i played it so many times,over and over again, every day that it got to be where it became inaudible! I bought another one and it wore out also, finally i bought another one -3 in all!... The other day I was reminiscing about the 80's and playing music videos from that era and in You Tubes song list for rotation- cue a Police song came on and since then I've been watching them occasionally(but not wearin' then out lol) On some of the early videos Stu is being light-hearted and it makes me laugh while I'm dancing to them, it lifts my Spirit to see his clownish ingenuity in bringing drums to life where none really exist lol (and it made things alot easier too,drums aren't as portable as folks think!)...also BTW very few 3-Person Bands I can think of🤔:The Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Doors,The Band, E.L.P,the original Genesis w P.C., Triumph,RUSH and B.T.O. , now up to our modern age ummm...🧐 (Chevelle is the only one I can think of! and I know that I probably left alot more out that should be in here!)
Stingchronicity.
They need each other. Reunite. Sting has no soul anymore in his solo work.
My favourite band, saw then in Melbourne at the 84 concert and same again in 2008. Awesome band, I do wish they recorded at least one more album, but it is what it is. Cheers
They were so $uccessful...yet, they were very stressed and divided...esp. Sting. His personal life was not where he wanted it to be...hence, why the music was so great. Yet, it may have been his best material. The dichotomy.
13:08
I laughed so hard at this. love you andy
Such a great vibe .... every show !!!!
Thank you for collecting these videos and posting them. They bring back such great memories.
Stewart is like a hyperactive child, almost like the little boy from The Babadook 🙈
It never sat right with me the way they went out. I felt like they had stolen from me or something, hard to explain.
I agree. I loved the band & their music. Every year I wished there would be a reunion announcement. What might have been.
Damn u Sting.
Martha Stewart *I Want My MTV* wOw, These were the days and how I miss *The Police*
I think I still have his book Throb somewhere. He was doing a book signing here in Cincinnati. I'm a musician I handed him a tape of my songs and he just looked fried.
This is so RAD! I want Andy's shirt at 5:52!
Sting blew it
They went out on Top! Very few people do that.
I remember them like this since my younger days !!!
Greatest Trio of all time!!
Rush.
Still got to try those analog versions of spaghetti mix, Stu…
I fancied sting and I’m a heterosexual male
That means you are bisexual, moron.
@@alukuhito its called irony bell end
@@anniebailey2871 "Irony bell end"? Dafuq is dat?
Great !!! Merci The Police !!! jblm17
Captain Andy Summers Lol
golden times .
Love The Police ..brilliant
MTV was the precursor to social media's Phenomenon ...that "everyone can be a star".. which Warhol predicted ... We sat and watched what it took to be a star much more directly.. it's WAP.
No social media... They were as big as you could be around the world
Poor Andy at the beginning," Lets clear this up about us calling it a day" little did they know they did call it a day or at least Sting called it a day with the Police. I think the Police were way better than solo Sting.
I miss the 80s
Great Stuff
00:10 New Year :3! 1983.... 0:32 0:13 0:15 0:11 0:12 0:33
I really want to see The Police in (the early of) Synchronicity tour when Sting was still using his Fender Jazz Bass, before he switched to the white Spector bass all of the remaining tour.
Is there any (long) (youtube) video about that, please? Anybody has the information?
Yunus SH He only used that bass (Fender JB) for the Chicago show and the Indianapolis show. After that for majority of the tour (with the exception of some of the European shows) he used that bass. However the only footage I can find is from that Chicago show which in this video
@@darrenhenderson3 Isn't there any complete video of that "Chicago Show" ?
He probably made the right call for cutting through muddy arenas and stadiums but the Jazz sounds more like the album.
He was using a Steinberg here and there too if I recall correctly.
Do you have anymore of the King of Pain video because that's golden content
Joel Haskew which one? From Oakland or from the Kenny Everett Show?
Darren Henderson That answers his question lol
Joel Haskew which one? From the Kenny Everett show or from Oakland
OMG..Andy Summers is SO bloody funny..RALMFAO! 😂😂😂😂
met Andy on his book tour, he was wearing that same jacket
When they split I though sting made a mistake especially because I went to his concert with the blue turtles before less than 4000 people ( that was in Lyon France on 86 )
Two years before police was having a show same place which was packed ;
Anyway I though that his first solo album was great but the hit was copy paste of police vibe ;
Sting then took off with fantastic records served by brilliant musician
I respect hat guy
too bad Stewart broke his collarbone in "86. they did the remake cant stand losing and surely another studio album would've come about.
Horses can do that to you! I remember calling record shops for "Every Breath you Take- The Singles" the weekend it came out. Every one of them told me 'No we don't have that single, it's no longer available'. Jeesh.
The remake was Don't stand so close to me
@@graemebaird170 Sting also remade De do do do. It floats around now and then.
@@graemebaird170 yes. You're right. I knew that but wrote it out wrong
my band was kiss when I heard the police that was I really like them met andy summers in 1987 took an picture with him with a john lennon shirt on still love the police that is my band from chris chenel
Don't do coke kidz!
Robert Barrass why not? It’s make you just as famous as these guys
Darren Henderson 🤣
0:32 0:33
0:10 what is this song ? In cant stand lousin you ?
RIGHT-HAND It's just called 'Can't Stand Losing You'
I mean it starts with the new years song, then goes into can't stand losing you
Could someone tell me what's the name of the song before they go into "I can't stand loosing you"?
andreas krasnek at what time in the video?
Somewhere around 0:32
andreas krasnek Old Lang Syne
Wow, thanks :)
andreas krasnek np
thx love
Ahhhh, the infamous vhs edit, white noise gracing the screen. Miss the days of having to program VCR equipment.
0:10 name is concert ? Full please...
Jacop New Year’s Eve, 1983...London
London NYE 83
What’s the song on the middle of regatta de blanc at the beginning
Old lyne sang
Thanks what concert is it from
What concert is it from, cause I found one that’s in Oakland and it had Jamaica farewell, and I’m on a quest to find all the concerts with random old songs mixed with regatta de blanc
0:10 have thıs concert link anyone ?
RIGHT-HAND EXACTLY
I need it
Funny guys! : D
Hmm the what if question still haunts us right? It is what it is.
What is the song at 0:10
What song are they playing in the beginning?
Auld lang syne
Whats the song at the start of the video
Can’t stand losing you
like it when sting forgets the words in synch 2. Looks messed on something...is that shea stadium?
In Chicago at Corm. Park on July 23rd, 1983
cool, wld love to see the entire show.
chris hill Well I have the audio version. It's somewhere here on my channel
ok ill check it out
Saw this tour August 10th 1983 Foxboro, Mass. Horrible sound system, very muddled.Don't stand so close 86' remake was as a group, their last studio recording. After all these years, kinda still waiting. Sting's solo career fizzled horribly... 2019, maybe a new Police regeneration of new material? Today's American Idol-The Voice music SUCKS!
Guy Symons Great show! I actually have an audio bootleg of that show on my channel
name of the song at 00:10 ??
rocknroller Auld Layne Sayne (I think that’s the spelling
Auld Lang Syne. A Rabbie Burns special
Japanese、ホタルの光。
It's too bad they broke up at the height of high popularity
❤️🔥💋❤️🔥💋❤️🔥💋
what a fuckig band
Still is weird how they pulled the plug!
Damn remember the shit clear as day.
The whole album, apart from a 2 or 3 songs sucked!
Major!
First 3 albums were the bomb!
That was the whole energy between the 3 guys.
The folliwing were more produced and emo.
Few songs were ok but it was done after Zenyatta
Goddamn you are a Debby downer
0:09 whats this song?
Japaneseではホタルの光。
13:08 andy postulado como humorista del festival de viña
Andy: que chitochito choy
So
1:05 1:10
I loved their albums. But live performances were never that ehr ....accurate and well rehearsed in my opinion.
most of them are improvised live just a good band can do that , some concerts you had good stuff and another no , but i think they last concerts where not so good
Live is when they really soared IMO.
22:02 "sting, copeland e simmer". god I hate italian journalists.
Jesus, at that time, sting was so sickly full of himself with all his comments....
Were they on drugs through most of this?
kayakchrispy probably
why even do it at all? they seem so miserable
Ego- they were the biggest at the time. And money.
What?
The blame for the break up of The Police rests squarely on Stewarts shoulder. He was too arrogant, too pushy, too egocentric to accommodate Stings ever growing song writing abilities. Stewart was a habitual over player, constantly ruining Stings subtle sophisticated pop songs. Stewart simply refused to pull his head in and "serve the song" and Sting was absolutely correct to leave him.
Said by a guitar narcisist who want to be SERVED lol
@@massimoviggiani3378 Said by a musician who knows that the writer and singer dictates the song arrangement. And good drummers play simple to make the song sound better. Interesting you use the word narcissist because that's exactly what Stewart was and is. An arrogant selfish prick with no sense of style.
Sounds like shit!!! You know the sound it makes when it hits the water! Plop plop
Youre that shit
@@Tabish29 Plop plop
They were a glorified garage band they exeeded their own expectations. Typical case of to much success to soon .
Giovani22 Far more sophisticated than a garage band
Yes a garage band that employed jazz harmonic knowledge. Very typical then as now.
Giovani22 you're very dumb
*too
....too bad more garage bands couldn't make it out of their parent's garages....
Terrible most overated of all time total crap boring
You?
And yet here you are watching a video and commenting about them! Sad fucker.
U sad fat fuck
@@Tabish29 Actually I'm happy No new music from these shitstains almost 40 years🤮
@@BoutYoungAnnaLee Thought I give em one more chance to impress me...............🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Thanks for including footage of "Message in a Bottle" - another pretentious, droning, repetitious tune that displayed all of the band's, and Sting's, suckiness in a single track. The Police and a few other sucky bands were dragging Rock steadily downhill from the heights it had achieved in the mid to late 1970's.
Ignorance is daring.
Yes that droning stacked 5th 1,6,7,4 progression with kick drum driven, syncopated jazz accents with bass that pulls away from the beat and those hackneyed lyrics referencing Robinson Crusoe are boring as all hell.
Russ G I've never read anything more stupid in my life
WTF?
Who's Russ G?