The Police’s Andy Summers opens up on his rocky relationship with Sting
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- Опубліковано 14 тра 2024
- Guitarist Andy Summers discusses the new documentary 'Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving the Police', the break-up, the reunion, his relationship with Sting, and interest in Lady Gaga.
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I love Andy Summers. I don’t think he gets enough accolades. Amazing guitarist. I listen to Bring on the Night over and over...amazed.
Bring on the night is my absolute favorite!
I’m with you Anna Bring on the Night and The Beds to Big Without You were wore out on all media that I ever had it on.
I agree! Have you ever tried playing his songs on guitar? It's not as easy as it sounds! The man was a beast!
If you like intstrumental music then check out some of his solo material.
Yeah. But can he play an E minor?
I always preferred Sting with the Police over his Solo work ... Andy and Stewart are very creative Musicians
Homebody Todd sting cool or is he arrogant
I always thought it unfair that Andy and Stu got *zero* writing credits on all those songs! Because those songs would not have been the same without that brilliant guitar and drum work, and I *know* Sting was not writing all their parts for them. Sting played guitar on his solo albums, and he is plainly not capable of writing the kinds of guitar parts Andy Summers does.
That is one of the trickier parts of songwriting. At what point does the arrangement constitute material contribution to the structure of the song and when is it simply a musician doing their job. Every musician brings something to a song, particularly through a recording process, so it would be impossible to give every one of them a songwriting credit. On the other hand, the organist for 60s group Procol Harum just received songwriting credit for his contribution to "Whiter Shade of Pale" even though he was not involved in its original creation.@@brianshaffneraclc
Amen. The Police, at least in the early days, had balls. Try searching for live videos from '78-'79. Amazing. Sting is so up his own *rse. I just loathe his solo stuff. He only really shines when kept in check.
Todd Sweetland. They work well together.
Good lord, this man is now 80 years old. I saw The Police in '82 & '83 as a teenager and Andy was 40 then!
Yes.
He and Alex Lifeson made three-piece bands sound huge with their chords and choice of notes.
A real musician like Andy knows how to let a song breath. What you don’t play is more important than what you play. Everything he did play added to the song. I’d say the same was true of Stewart’s and Stings playing as well. Great band! One of the best trios of all time.
Disagree. Stewart never let anything breathe.
@@maxhenry9724 did he do too many rolls, and bashes'n'crashes then? he was one of the snappiest, if not THE snappiest rock drummer, what the heck: and he rack'd up more 'clicks' and other timely impacts, than practic'ly any other rock icon, man: i guess it's all a matter-of-taste tho: fair enough, ese~
with andy's superior sense-of-time, and sting's fashionista-up-bringing, now there'd be-no-stoppin' stewart, not that there ever had, or would be anyways, i mean what-the-hey~
@@tinfoilhatter I completely agree with you. Stewart drove the songs while Andy breathed! Love the guy, my favorite drummer.
Oh good! I guess there's hope for me yet. I'm good at not playing any notes.
Andy is a class act. End of story. And one of my fav guitarists. So underrated.
PS, someone needs to tell Andy that Gaga is a satanist. She is buddies with Marina Abromovic, an admitted satanist and not to mention was sued by that Chicago hotel for bathing in BLOOD and ruining their 5K marble tub. The meat suit, it goes on and on. That is a sick chick, that Gaga. Pay no attention to that luciferian.
He Has SO Much Talent.
The Police would never have been The Police if you took away any one of those guys.
Mike Patton - so true!
100% right.
the very definition of a sum of its parts
"The Police would never have been The Police if you took away any one of those guys." Well if you listen to the first single... yep.
such a sweet guy as you - can hardly believe that
This band (Sting particularly) has always been unable to accept the fact that their best assets were each other.
like a LOT of bands.
Regardless the fact that sting was the best lyricist in the band , Stewart and Andy could write and arrange very well and egos never work in a band and sting had a huge one . Sting could have done his solo career and remained with the police . I think the more jazz / rock and pop style on Synchronicity was the direction they were headed . Either way it’s wishful thinking but another tour and them making one more album would be cool bc their chemistry was powerful and magical !
They were the best Punk Post band!
Alejandro Sosa your 100 percent correct too bad they didn't realize it sooner they were music's 3 amigos I still love these guys
I think the reason it all came to end is mainly due to sting starting to write songs of more complexity and jazz in style and feel which let’s face it didn’t suite a three piece rock band you see that totally in his first solo album
Sting was as blessed to have been able to call Stewart and Andy band mates as the other way round.
While there's no overstating Sting's incredible talent, it's also difficult to overstate AS's contribution to the Police legacy. His guitar work draws you in without even realizing it. His riff on "Every Breath You Take" is the song. Same with "Voices Inside My Head"... He could also do the power thing as well, see "Synchronicity II." Police fans and musicians already know this, but casual listeners often don't. The guy is amazing. And Stewart Copeland is no slouch either. That band was loaded...
Copeland was no slouch, is an understatement. He's recently being regarded as one of the best drummers of all time!
Also Andy's work in "Can't Stand Losing You" and "So Lonely".
If you want to hear Andy unleashed I've always felt that was
- Demolition Man -
You make a good point. When these guys were getting airplay, I was listening to more heavy rock, so I didn't listen too closely to them. Listening now, I'm blown away by their talent. Amazing musicians.
No slouch lol
Andy is 75 this year and he looks fantastic
Andy is going on...forever and never!
65
I was going to say the same thing! Good genetics and good living!
He looks amazing. He's taking really good care of himself. Handsome man, great guitarist.
@@mikenuzzo3323
No, Garry was right.
the thing for me about Andy is that during the late seventies when guitars were coming out of that incredible period of self indulgence and the reaction to that was punk plank spanking , he kept melodic and tuneful guitar alive , along with James honeyman scot this lead to people like johnny marr being able to get on the scene with beautiful tones and riffs as Andy had done , so always a great listen and much appreciated man
I've always thought that Andy was the most levelheaded, down-to-Earth cat of the 3.
You must be joking ! ! ! !
It's fundamentally an issue of personality type.
Even keeled
Absolutely. The perfect mediator to keep the two big egos in check. Together, the 3 complimented each other.
@@liborsionko of course its related to their personalities
Every Police album is an essential classic.
I had a huge crush on Andy Summers when I was in my early teens. This was back in 1980-82. The Police opened me up to a whole other world of rock music.
I thought he was the best looking one! Great face
They all had a great look together I thought
The Police, Andy, Stewart and Sting and their music, along with Andy's great sense of humor, has really made my life/world a better place. I could listen to these guys sing, play music, or just talk about their lives forever and enjoy the hell out of it! Love you guys!!! To me, the best band ever...and also incredible individual careers after the band.
Dispite being a decade older than the other two, Andy has probably aged the BEST. He looks 20 years younger than he actually is!
Nope. Sting has a healthy physique. Still has those abs. Very disciplined.
I think is his good attitude toward life.
Sting is great shape as well.
@@theloniouscoltrane3778 no one judges age by looking at abs! Wtf? 😂😂
I dont look a day older than 60 and im only 50 !
Here’s the thing, there isn’t one bad album from this group of guys. Not one. The Police are woven into my youth, part of the soundtrack still today.
Agree ❤
6 great and varied albums where you can hear their growth and progression with each one! And they ended on a peak. Sophisticated pop reggae rock.
Zentaya was quite rubbish IMO.
1979 through 1986
There isn't one good album either, lol. They're all full of filler throwaway tracks. The closest to an ok album is Regatta de Blanc. They were a Greatest Hits/singles band, and that's ok. 3 killer tracks every album, so that's absolutely fine.
I have been playing guitar for 50 years. I met this band at the LA Forum in 82. Sting singed my drivers license with “ drive safely “. Andy is a phenomenal guitarist. I’ve admired Andy for many years. He is the real deal.
in'78, i remember seeing b &w posters stapled to telephone poles around L A - "the police are coming!" i thought they were a local band -maybe playing the whiskey?? lol
As much as I would love a new Police album, I would be super stoked if Mr Summers got back in the studio with Robert Fripp.
Ruprect44 ooooohhhh. maybe in the next life.
I rather enjoy pulling out a hidden gem that others never heard of
Lazlo ... I often throw on I Advanced Masked when I have people over as a kind of musical litmus test. :)
Nice. The other day I was watching some live Jeff Beck, and my wife said "so, that Beck guy, it's that guy?" ...... 8| ...... I called the lawyer, that's it.........
@Running Around
"8"?
Did she mistake Jeff Beck for Beck?
Damn... What a guy... What a guitarist. Him and Alex Lifeson... God's.. So underrated the both
Even “Message in a bottle” slaughters your hands.
Got to agree with that William.
@DFS57 : I was about to say that neither of these guys are underrated. They both have influenced millions of guitarists for many decades now, and I'm one of those guitarists, but for me especially Alex. There was a time when I knew every single note he'd played on record. I had turned into a Lifeson clone, so much so I had to stop listening to them for a few years so I could start developing my own style.
Neither are underrated
This guy is probably one of the greatest in history. Just try playing it. Wow my hand hurts.
Yeah, no way I could manage even Message in a Bottle. Unless i had Arsenio Hall's fingers.
Andy Summers..one of the few musicians I wall actually/physically cry for when he kicks the bucket. :-)
Amazing band The Police, back when musicians worked hard on their craft. I met Andy Summers once in a camera shop in London in the late 80's & he came across as such a down to earth & decent guy.
What do you mean _"back when musicians worked hard on their craft"?_ Are you really just listening to the radio still? Do yourself a huge favor and stop doing that. Then start using the search function to find there is if anything, far far more musicians who are incredibly talented out there than you ever could have dreamed existed. Many of them (like myself) are huge fans of players like Andy.
@@aylbdrmadison1051 a talented musician who hasn’t posted any videos that’s a new one on me
Such a skilled and versatile guitarist,he could slot seamlessly into almost any band
To hold together a three piece band one has to be VERY proficient on their own instrument in order be successful. Andy Summers may not be a shredder, however, he is a perfect match against Stings bass , vocals and Copeland's over the top drum's. His melodic, and soundscape approach to playing is the glue that hold the Police together without a doubt.
Andy Summers wasn't a "shredder" in The Police because Sting didn't want to share the spotlight.Andy has stated that when he tried playing lead guitar live on stage with The Police that Sting would actually begin to sing over his playing.
He could shred.
Not necessarily true, Andy made it clear in his memoirs the band collectively did not want to put conventional guitar solos in because every other band was doing the same pentatonic / blues shredding, they wanted a more improvisational, atonal, textured and less-is-more approach (e.g. the solo in Driven To Tears). Andy was soloing a LOT more live when they reunited in 2007, and the newer arrangements for the songs closely mirrored Sting's solo band versions, so Sting was definitely letting him get his guitar on way more than in the past (Sting stepped up the chops on bass too).
Pils Nrimgaard well said
very much like Rush in terms of how Lifeson completed the trio...
Each of these band members was, individually, excellent. Their musical talent was intoxicating, and it was so wonderful to listen to.
The Police’s Andy Summers opens up on his rocky relationship with Sting?
No, he didn't do that at all.
He only acknowledged it. nothing more
she said sting wasnt a team player and he agreed full stop.
The geezer made him very rich.
He really didnt say much at all
@@SvenTviking Who made who rich???
I saw the Police in late 1979, they were fantastic...such talented musicians and songwriters, quite a unique sound
Great interview, Andy is a fantastic guitarist and did some fabulous sounds, the Police would not have been the same without his great playing, thanks Andy.
I seriously love this guy, he rocked my world on guitar and just his presence... in the 80's. I worked 4x as hard on guitar to learn to play like he does. Anyone that thinks Andy's tasteful guitar style is "easy" has not spent a night playing a set loaded with parallel 5ths.
yeah. I love the textures he created.
Stacking 5's gets easy if you do it on the regular. When you start working on them, it seems impossible.
You are missing the point of the post - its that Andy Summers guitar style has some challenges. As for parallel 5ths, it gets less difficult but for most players its never "easy", as its an unnatural stretch of the hand, and can be very painful and actually cause hand damage requiring orthopaedic treatment - especially if a person does more than their hand can take.
what are parallel 5ths?
start w/ 1st and 5th then a major second (as if it is a 5th above the fifth you just played. ie ....CGD
The deceptive title turned out to be a good thing. It made us push play on an interesting, funny & informative chat with a much underrated guitarist & person. Class Act. Thx 4 sharin 👍
One of the greatest bands in my lifetime. They left behind an amazing legacy of music. I was always a huge fan of Andy's B+W photography
There’s only 3 of them. That screams of the incredible talent of each of these guys. Andy can play lead and rhythm and harmonize. That talent makes up for fewer band members and instruments and fits perfectly. These guys are amazing still.
No question he influenced me starting at 1980 and a lot of other young guitarists in the very early 80s.
they're the only three piece band where I feel like there's nothing lacking from their arrangements. So many other 3-pieces have such boring guitar parts or super basic bass lines.
I really enjoyed his book, One Train Later. The guy is articulate and has a wonderful gift, not only as a muso but as a writer and photographer.
Copeland who is regarded by Billboard to be the 10th best drummer in history really can't be quantified. He had this sort of syncopated rhythm that gave their sound body and depth.
summers guitar work , always a unique colorful sound,still love walking on the moon when it comes on the radio.
Andy, you are so cool and yet so humble... I don't know if anyone has seen his instructional video, but Andy is one of the great guitarists. I'd put him the top ten. He can do Jazz, Blues, Rock, you name it... so so cool
Absolutely! Andy had made his bones as a musician before he auditioned for The Police. That band only brought him international fame and superstardom. He already had the chops.
I think you need to meet him in person....!
Right, Robert Fripp did a couple of albums with Andy. That alone tells you that Andy is a great player.
Andy even took on some classical training, which shows in "Bring on the night." He is nothing like most guitar players because his interest in soloing is limited; he cares more about harmonies, textures, and colour, which is far harder to make.
@@djangorheinhardt Why?
Andy is a pitch perfect power trio guitarist. One thing you’ll notice about the most effective power trios (The Police, Rush, Nirvana, King’s X, Primus)…they all have a few thing in common. A powerful, exciting drummer…big, driving bass…and a guitarist who understands the use of atmosphere and space. Andy always understood (consciously or otherwise) that his broadest contribution to the band was atmosphere and depth. It’s a very specialized role on guitar that requires a preternatural understanding of “big picture” music.
Were never a power trio.
"big driving bass" - no kidding! i'd add mel schacher to that list! and sting, on bass- DAMN! his sound covers everything- in the most unique way.
@@craigrheberling
Sting is actually a weirdly underrated bass player…he can play walking bass lines, taurus pedals, fretless…even fretless while singing which is a whole other trip. Im not a major “sting is god!” type or anything…but the dude is definitely highly talented.
Man, this guy fucking rocks. Gonna pick up his documentary after watching this. The unsung hero of The Police.
his book one train later is a gripping and witty read.
I was having dinner at a cheap hotel in Mallorca, there was an English fsmily at the next table. One of boys was whining about the fare and he reminded me of Sting, but as a boy. 20 years later, I still remember him as "Little Stingie". That's about as off topic as Sting's shag-a-thons, right?
Love Andy Summers, amazing intuitive guitarist, one of the best ever xxxxx
"Best" is meaningless in this context. His sound was completely unique, and was an integral part of the biggest band of its era. That's enough, I should think.
The use of "best" was totally in context as meaning offering or producing the greatest advantage, utility, or satisfaction. Andy's guitar playing gave the Police a unique sound from which I derive satisfaction. For me,best sums it up perfectly.
So talented, you look great Andy!
he is utterly charming ~ Summers is such an extraordinary guitarist and musician, so very underrated.......
Saw them Oct 28, 1983 Miami Orange Bowl. The most electric energy of any show I have ever seen. A lifetime highlight.
I loved this interview! Props to Andy. I think he’s actually the most brilliant musician in the band.
Still blows my mind, (and gave me a glimmer of hope for years), that he was 37 when he joined the band.
I loved these guys as a kid and still do. Andy Summers is an amazing guitarist, check out some of his work, Last Dance of Mr. X has been one of my favorite albums for decades. Thanks for all the beauty you, Sting and Stewart bring into the world.
This band was a perfect storm which can never be recreated. In many ways they went out on a high leaving the crowd wanting more. In my opinion, that’s often the best way although I would’ve loved to have heard what more they could’ve done. Their chemistry is what made them but also what led to their breakup.
I loved The Police but never took to Sting's solo stuff. Andy Summers seems incredibly grounded. Great interview.
Rod Stewart, when Sting got a Grammy instead of him, called his solo material "pure smooth jazz, angels flying out of your arse".
Yea i don't like Sting on his own either
Andy Summers aged gracefully. He is same age as Paul Mccartney. Amazing and his music is a whole generation post Beatles
His longevity is mind-blowing.
@@nessy9022 Paul's or Andy's or both?
@@timishere1925 I guess I was referring to Andy at the time, I didn't realise until recently how old he was when he was in the police, he'd already had a decent music career for a decade before joining the band, and then to be winning album of the year (with the Police) at the age of 41-42 defies pop's obsession with youth. Obviously McCartney has hit huge milestones on and off for decades - but he's kind of in a different league, a household name, having been in The Beatles. Whereas Summers stands out for me as a working musician, who stuck around after many of his generation had passed their prime and, against all odds, in his late thirties found himself in one of the biggest bands ever - influencing guitarists the world over. But anyway, it's no slight on McCartney's longevity.
@nessy9022 Good comment and thoughts.
He's brilliant. I could listen to him talk and play guitar both for days.
when as a young lad i first heard message in a bottle and its mind blowing opening riff had me back on the guitar train
Walking on the moon in my opinion really shows why they needed all 3 to do what they did. Andy's subtle and unique playing. Stewart playing around with Delay on his drums, playing one of the most interesting drum beats ever.
And stings super cool and once again UNIQUE baseline and vocals.
LONG LIVE THE POLICE! ❤🙏❤
No Andy, no Police ...
Ha, The Police existed before Andy. It's Stewart's band. He recruited Sting, and later Andy.
Don't forget Stewart's brother, their manager Miles; who, as a strategy, made the band tour distant nations before launching a USA tour. A successful strategy, a great manager.
Though they toured the USA before they were well known there. They were number one on the charts in the UK, but toured the USA for the exposure. Definitely helped to make them worldwide superstars!
No Police, no Andy.
LOL. Quick, list for me all of the Police HITS not written by Sting alone. Go!
I love Andy Summers (and the Police). He's an outstanding guitarist with a unique approach to the instrument, and some really memorable licks and chord progressions. His documentary movie was really great too.
Thanks for a great interview!
#ThePolice are with all members still alive and still innovative. Please, guys, give us one more studio album and a tour to support it.
💛 The Police 🎶
I'd see the three of them together doing a jazz album. But not as The Police.
"Every Breath You Take" is arguably both Sting's and The Police's greatest song. The instantly recognisable signature guitar riff that basically makes the song was created by Andy. Pure Genius. Possibly the greatest "Less Is More" Guitar player ever to walk this Earth.
My favorite is Spirits in the Material World--great instrumentation, especially the synthesizer riff.
It is lyrically very shallow and repetitive at the same time.
Just a commercially successful pop song about jealousy….not much of a deep message.
I can think of many songs they cooked up that were much more meaningful lyrically. Possibly as a zone out hypnotic song.
And the sound of every breath is also very repetitive.
One of the best guitarist I have seen live ( and I've been playing for 55 years). Terry from Oz.
Such a great band. Being round 4 or 5 when they were hitting their stride, everytime I hear their songs it reminds me of riding round with my Dad and enjoying the music together and growing up in the MTV era
One of my favourite 80’s bands, they really were massive, I just can’t think of a track that was put out by them that wasn’t any good. Just fantastic.
Yeah 👍🏻 they were kick ass good .
Interesting humble guy - very level headed.
Andy Summers is the BEST writer! I just loved his first book!! Couldn't put it down. I can't wait to read this one.
I can listen to his guitar playing all day. One of the greats for sure
i was not a huge fan of the police but once i was bored started reading his book (my roommates) and couldn't put it down. i appreciate what the police did. but this guy is really interesting. i recommend people read his book even if you're not a fan or a musician.
keep in mind the music fit the times - the crash of cymbals on regatta de blanc was a first splash of bright light on the dark stage the world was in with reagan, thatcher and the placing of mx missiles in europe. the police arrived when we needed them the most
The Police brightened the world when Reagan was president? Most wars in 20th century began with DEMOCRAT presidents. Look it up. Anyone brighten 8 years of Obama when he nearly ruined the country?
Typical fascist using deflection when attempting to refute a valid point. ^^^^^
I'm going to love you, honcho.
The Andy Summers autobiography is one of the best music books I've read would highly recommend.
The "rocky relationship with Sting" part should be taken out of the title. Not relevant as this interview delves way deeper and Andy and Sting never really had that rocky a relationship. The title is clearly click bait. LOL
I have to agree. It's kind of what drives Andy's sarcasm, the blatant commercialism that threatens to steal the "art".
it was Sting and Stewart that fought not Sting and Andy everyone knows that LOL
It was sting and Stewart
@MrBlitzkriegman Lets be bitter and critical instead eh?
April Dannette Gosa very true I’ve seen some footage from the 80’s when they were on tour with Sting and Copeland brawling and really meaning it.
Hes the one playing the riffs on message in a bottle and Every breath you take!
Nuff said❤️❤️🎸
I've never listened to an interview with Andy before. He sounds like a really down to earth sensible chap.
all's i know is Andy was (and still is) a fkn great guitarist, his guitar talent made the police in every way !!
Andy plays chords that are very difficult for average players to fret. They sound simple, but your hand feels like exploding.
Oh yeah. Andy is the exact opposite of everyone's idea of a rock guitarist. He's low profile, not very fond of catchy stuff, whenever he plays solos he sounds more like Penderecki than Slash. He completely takes over the harmony function, connecting Sting's vocals with Stewart's complex drumming, and I always found it funny to think that was also his social function in the band, mediating between the more outspoken guys. Definitely one of the most original rock and roll guitarists of all time.
As a guitarist, I can attest to this.
Difficult? Message in a bottle is near impossible for me to stretch that far. Simple melody from a very talented guy.
Cris Martin is a very complex rythum guitarist as well with his cord shapes
@@MadManUSMC try Bach
Just watched this...really well done and honest.
Andy is an excellent guitarist and it was so much fun to watch this documentary he created (Thank you, Andy!!
Stewart Copeland as always is such a fun & mischievous dude and an absolutely incredible drummer.
I respect Sting (grew up listening to the Police) but I’m not gonna say much more.
I think people out there who are Police fans understand...
Nice to hear from Andy.. we saw the Police 2008 tour in Las Vegas. Really good show with Elvis Castello opening. We did see you Andy in our town of Santa Barbara getting breakfast on State Street, so cool. Thank you for all the great orchestral music you created from that one little Tele!!!
Andy your are one good guy and your shimmering guitar is brilliant !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
absolute musical genius, if you haven't read his autobiography, you should, fascinating book. he was in the Animals, recorded the longest guitar solo in history with them, up til that point, on a rock record. went from being a rock star to living on the beach with almost nothing, divorced... I don't want to spoil it, an amazing story, worthy of a feature film, based on it.
Andy, You are the best Pal! Loved your work with the police and I love your humility and your spirit Bro! Without you, there would have not been an awesome band called the Police. All the best to you Andy!
I love Andy's personality. And the interviewer is really good. Great questions.
Andy seems like the only one who wasn't on an ego trip.
definitely not true.... his marriage ended during the police run.
Watch old interviews with Andy, he wasn't hurting for ego.
Abbey 72 he admitted his rock star ego caused the marriage to end
andy's book one train later is the best read ever...a true journey in itself,only andy could have handled dealing with the other two..that's for sure yeah!!
Abbey 72 I agree, I really enjoyed it! Stings book "Broken Music" is excellent as well! It reads more like a novel and it's brimming with intelligence. Stewart's book was interesting but was very similar to his narration on "Everyone Stares" movie. Good, but not as enjoyable as the other two IMO.
Great trio. I love a 3 piece band because there's no way for any of the musicians to hide behind anyone. There can be no weaknesses in any of the players which is true of this band.
Rush and The Police..... brilliant trios.
Rest in Peace Neil Peart. You made Canada proud.
I saw the Police in Boston Garden around 1980 - 82, backup band was Bow Wow Wow. Fantastic show!
I am so glad & grateful I met Andy @ F.I.T./NYC in the 80's - a truly great day!!! DJ
Stewart Copeland's snare sound is the truth!
That nasty snare snap could break bones!
Looks amazing here for 72. He's now almost 77!
He has aged well... They all have. Hard to believe they're in their 60s..70s... Im 57. Was 15 first I heard of them...liked them ever since.
Alan Mauro I had to google it just to be sure. He’s going to be 77 in December. Wow!
That's insane. He looks like a rugged 50.
78 now
Andy is such an incredible musician. He was such an underrated musician. I love his music, especially XYZ, his only vocalized album. I'm looking hard for the soundtrack he produced for the movie Weekend at Bernies. I love listening to his music.
*Late 70s and 80s. Great rock music and great time growing up in America. The chemistry and sound was truly great. Three-piece bands cannot match this today. As always you think such great music and times would last forever.*
I just heard Stings recent release called My Songs where he re-recorded numerous Police Classics and it’s Terrible! Listen to it and you instantly realize just how much Stewart and Andy brought to the Police! Without them it just doesn’t work. The Police were a 3 Sided Triangle. Sting wrote and sang the songs yes but the other two fleshed out the music and made it better! It was a Band with a unique musical chemistry and a power Trio! The mixture made it magical! It’s like three Primary Colors mixing! Red, Blue and Yellow.
As a Rush fan and player, i can tell you that the Drummer was essencial to the Police, the guy makes even the band's basic songs sound huge
I'm pretty sure that Neil is a big fan of Copeland actually.
@@danradu231 was :(
@@danradu231 big fans of each other.
That guy was one of the best rhythm guitar players I've ever heard . A freakin' genius when it came to rhythm guitar .
I love the Police, part of my youth. listening to their music brings back old memories and feelings.
Don’t be sad it ended. Be happy it happened.
Everything ends.
Absolutely
I’ve always felt so weird knowing he was 10 years older than Sting and Stewart, if anything he looks younger than them, or at least back then.
fantastic musicians, if you listen to they individual inputs, each brought so much to they songs
They were a trio, each indispensable to the band and the sound.
He's so easy going, refreshing
They always reminded me of another incredibly successful trio... Cream. Only three musicians, but they integrated so well together. Purposefully, their records weren't over-produced and didn't bury the songs and the performances, allowing space for the listener to get into the music too. It's amusing that three such skilled musicians were once lumped in with the three chord bands of the first punk explosion way back in the seventies.
Don't want to sound sacreligous, but I reckon The Police were a better and more complete band than Cream....as good as Cream was......
Gotta say I never rated Cream, one good song and three egos
@@panchopuskas1 Cream were two bands. The live 'jazz' improvisational juggernaut and the studio band, who rarely fulfilled their potential. They also only lasted less than three years. Sting is, also, an outstanding songwriter.
@@jamesblonde2271 Cream has a lot more than just 1 good song. Sunshine isn't even close to being their best song anyway.
@@blib3786 Cream's completely unforfilled potential, at least to those of us who didn't witness them live contributed to the mood that bred punk.
Played the melody *and* rhythm guitar at the same time *and* played the lush phatty chords that defined The Police sound. And sang backup too! One of the most underrated guitarists ever. Surely he had a ton of great songs that never made the albums b/c Sting refused to allow it. And a funny and humble human being.
I wish I had been old enough to see them live. I saw Sting on stadium tour and he surprised me by being really great live. The Police were probably another level. I wish they would do one tour since I was not able to see them in the late 2000's.
I've grown to appreciate Andy's work more than when The Police were together. I find guitarists like him and The Edge with their minimalist approach refreshing to the more prevalent mile-a-minute solos that make up most other guitarists' playing styles. Do miss the sound and the times of the early 80s a lot.
Read Andys book, One Train Later, recently, great read, seems like a decent down to earth bloke, recommended.
I have always been addicted to their music (I'm 60) and will ever be.
Such a classy man. God Bless him. Absolutely love him.