It has to be hard. Each of them is offbeat in a different way. All of them have to think the '1-2-3-4' in their heads while playing between those numbers.
Still sounds futuristic. Even back then, I feel like it was a stretch to make pop that was this rhythmically complex. Like, "Give it to me baby" was the hit of the summer, and these guys came out with THIS
@@dancarter482 I have a steinberger L2, serial number 068. It sounds great, and it sustains forever. Even cliff williams of ac/dc used one. Hell, every famous bass player used one. Now you know. Have a good day.
@@mattdelany6799 Casio keyboards sound great and I'm sure Rick Wakeman owns one - but he won't take it on stage. That great fretless bass Sting is famous for beats that space-stick all day everyday when it comes to live stage performances .. .... ..
the musical arrangement of this song is astonishing....and how can Sting sing those lines,while playing the bass like that ....Summers and his effects,,,,that human machine of Copeland..... incredible
@@richieboy6825 Great question. Honestly, the last three songs on side 2. It’s perfect sequencing. Omegaman, Secret Journey and Darkness. Those three had a profound effect on me as a musician and composer. You?
@@SteveSteeleSoundSymphony very tough. Every little thing was one of the first singles I bought & got me into the police. First time hearing it on the radio It just sounded so different than anything else being played. Just like a whole different level of sophistication and intelligence. Stew goes crazy on ‘One World’ so I’ll give that one the nod- being a drummer of 40 years. I love every note of this album - even Sting’s sax parts. Still listen to the album start to finish at least once a year.
@@richieboy6825 Agreed. I’m a bassist and I play piano/keyboards and sing. Sting didn’t influence me as a bassist so much as his role in The Police. Stewart Copland is definitely the kind of drummer I like playing with. Bill Bruford too. I like the whole album. The beginning of Too Much Information. Every Little Thing is one of their best singles I think. The beginning of side one. The bass lines on Zenyatta are good. The overall atmosphere on Ghost is what’s so great, imo.
@@SteveSteeleSoundSymphony agree 100% - atmosphere - that’s the word- I think they recorded some of it in Jamaica- don’t know if that had anything to do with it. Anyway, great talking with ya & keep on rocking!!!!
My FAVORITE BAND OF ALL TIME!!! I was about five years old when "Ghost in the Machine" came out and I knew from that moment, that this Band fulfilled the EXTRAORDINARY:-)
Моё сердце всегда с Sting. Этот удивительный переход, который Sting совершает каждый раз на сцене. Я вижу этот переход каждый раз. Переход от обычного человека к необыкновенному певцу. Он на сцене живет, поет и играет, танцует. Это действие происходит одновременно...
Como parte de su gira, Ghost in the machine tour, llegaron al Festival de Viña del mar. Pocas veces se da, que llega una banda en su mejor momento. Amor a primera vista. Solo tenía 14 años
This band is like NO OTHER! Love everything about this energy its so pure with such good intentions evolving. Music I think is meant to evolve up into the higher realms but so many just try & pull us down off the chakra spectrum. Junk DNA then changes & ASCENTION takes place once we climb this to 23. Or maybe I'm just crazy
before you get ahead of yourselves, calling sting lazy... notice that his left foot is playing a root note on the moog taurus synth at every kick drum beat. two hands, one foot, and a lead vocal. if you think that's lazy, you're crazy.
Yeah, but not really a good comparison. Geddy isnt playing keyboards and bass at the same time, so basically theres no difference left. And frankly Geddy is barely playing any bass pedals, he has transitioned any old parts that have more than two notes into triggers I play the catalogs of both groups on all instruments so I have an exact experience of the whole topic, this song is difficult. And Geddy didnt play two Moog Taurus`s at once while singing and playing bass, so technically Sting wins that discussion....😀
That horn section was an absolute disaster! - a prelude to stings craving for a jazz element which he progressed in 1985 where in the 40 years since he never scored another #1 hit single after walking out on Stewart and Andy!
Funny comment by Andy when Sting is talking to the audience.. Sting says, "seems all the noisy people are up there, and all the quiet people are down here.. they need to change places"... Then Andy says, " the straight people are down in the front there". :)
What does he mean by that line? Don't confuse their language with ours. The same words mean different things depending on which side of the pond the speaker comes from
This show was probably after the presentation in Rio de Janeiro in 1982 or 1983, which I saw. That's because Sting is wearing a shirt with the name of an old Boutique of the time, "40 Graus" (Degrees). What is the temperature that makes Rio de Janeiro most of the year! At first glance were 3 absolutely white faces (like candle) with a certain intellectual tone, that is, English. The show in Rio was very different from Chile, with the audience crazed, standing, not sitting in the chairs.
@@ronnyvalenciagalvez5873Man you had to see what happened here in Rio de Janeiro a week before. The audience went crazy, all the chains in the audience were broken. I watched the soundcheck and the show and the guys had something clearly elitist intellectualized in their appearance, but it had chemistry with the audience.
SONG OF THE DAY Spirits in the Material World- 🎸By The Police. Released 40 years ago, in 1981- This was released as a single in 1981. This song reached No. 12 in 🇬🇧 the UK; and No. 11 in the 🇺🇸 USA! The song was written by Sting. It is also the opening track for 🎸 their 1981 album “Ghost in the Machine”. (I always did love the name of that album)! “Spirits In The Material World” Lyrics/🎶Poetry There is no political solution To our troubled evolution Have no faith in constitution There is no bloody revolution We are spirits in the material world Are spirits in the material world Are spirits in the material world Are spirits in the material world Our so called leaders speak With words they try to jail you They subjugate the meek But it's the rhetoric of failure We are spirits in the material world Are spirits in the material world Are spirits in the material world Are spirits in the material world Where does the answer lie? Living from day to day If it's something we can't buy There must be another way We are spirits in the material world Are spirits in the material world Are spirits in the material world... ua-cam.com/video/BHOevX4DlGk/v-deo.html (Loving this Music Video Memory)! Happy Listening! ❤️🎸🎶
Sting will play the coda for three minutes on lazy songs like Walking on the Moon and So Lonely, yet with a funky jam like this one, he cuts the song off at the 3 minute mark.
@typsypyg The basslines of Police with training can be sung and played at the same time, same Spirit in the material with 8 notes. It's just a matter of repetition. By McCartney it's hard truly.
@@mancuniancandidatem Yes, this is exactly my impression as well. You can hear from other live recordings that the players are competent, but the arrangements generally lack power and imagination, as if someone did them in a hurry without knowledge of what a horn section shoud sound like. Perhaps some of the songs, like this, were also challenging to begin with.
Continuing... I was 16 at the Rio de Janeiro show. I watched the soundcheck of the guys, they were all very white and blonde, I was very surprised. Compeland and Sting were very tall, anyway, they looked like college foreigners on vacation. When the show started it was crazy, the audience went crazy, all crazy, all the seats in the audience broke... When Sting goes to Chile, the behavior of the audience is strange.
@UklaTheMokk Whats lazy about that. The drums sound way better in the studio version, just like the bass and the guitar. I dont see how Copeland saved the band, not saying he is bad, hes a great drummer. If Copeland is the only one with the good feedback, whats wrong with Andy. anyways I just hate how most people just bring sting down. I also feel like Andy is the one underrated and not Copeland.
Is the Austin Texas Concert ?? If so Sting stopped the Concert and do you know what he said ??If this is that Concert He made a very Interesting Comment About Texas !!!
Love this song & Copeland has said on tik-tok that this song is the hardest for rhythm for all 3 of them and all of them were and are so talented!!!
It has to be hard. Each of them is offbeat in a different way. All of them have to think the '1-2-3-4' in their heads while playing between those numbers.
My favorite song by them, one of my all-time favorites. It's undeniably a technical song. Executed with such a mesmerizing sound.
Back then, decades before the tik-tok era, a good pair of ears were more than enough to grasp the complexity and beauty of this song ...
@@cismercier8009Sting simplified his part a bit comparing to the record, though
@@pijonydotruinfact it is impossible to play the original bass part and sing at the same time
Copeland remains as the most influential polyrhythmatic drummer/percussionist for generations!
Bill Bruford owns that title but Stewart is near the top.
Danny Carey surpasses them
@@Iktius The absolute worst take on earth, dear god 🤣.
All would say Neil Peart was.
Copeland and Carey are my two and three, but there is opinion and fact and the fact is Peart is the greatest drummer ever
Copeland... simply the master. His sense of rhythm and syncopation is amazing.
true.
my best drummer; fantastic.
U need a sense of rhythm to be the rhythm section of a band
Does master imply that theres no holes in your game? Because the guy rushes a lot (as heard here) and it used to drive sting insane
You know future generations will never believe this was considered the pop music of it's time
Agree 100%
Smart educated lyrics and wonderfully composed music.
Still sounds futuristic. Even back then, I feel like it was a stretch to make pop that was this rhythmically complex. Like, "Give it to me baby" was the hit of the summer, and these guys came out with THIS
Went from playing small punk clubs to 50k arenas
And boy was it great!!!
It's Steve Copeland that makes it a rock and roll reggae ska band
I'm not a drummer but this is known as one of the hardest drum parts.
Why, because you saw a tik tok video of Stewart saying that? 🤣 We all did
Copeland is one of my favorite drummers of all ,he is the best!!!!!!
Sting is such an underrated bassist. Stewart gets to create brilliant chaos because Sting is the timekeeper.
In the studio but live no. Having to sing and play bass seems laborious to him in my opinion.
@@oreally8605 Especially with that silly little style-over substance Steinberger bass!
@@dancarter482 I have a steinberger L2, serial number 068. It sounds great, and it sustains forever. Even cliff williams of ac/dc used one. Hell, every famous bass player used one. Now you know. Have a good day.
Underrated? No he’s not.
@@mattdelany6799 Casio keyboards sound great and I'm sure Rick Wakeman owns one - but he won't take it on stage. That great fretless bass Sting is famous for beats that space-stick all day everyday when it comes to live stage performances .. .... ..
the musical arrangement of this song is astonishing....and how can Sting sing those lines,while playing the bass like that ....Summers and his effects,,,,that human machine of Copeland..... incredible
He alters the bass line , in the verses ...to make it possible to sing over
@@joshuamartins9487 which is pretty genius itself to me
Very unfortunately, Sting simplifies his bass line after 2 bars in, as soon as he starts singing actually. What a bummer. Oh well .....
@@joshuamartins9487 still isn't easy, I assure you
Ghost In the Machine is my favorite Police album. So ethereal.
Mine too!! Pretty sure it was the first LP I ever bought.
Not a very common sentiment. (Most like the earlier ones best) What’s your fave song on it?
@@richieboy6825 Great question. Honestly, the last three songs on side 2. It’s perfect sequencing. Omegaman, Secret Journey and Darkness. Those three had a profound effect on me as a musician and composer. You?
@@SteveSteeleSoundSymphony very tough. Every little thing was one of the first singles I bought & got me into the police. First time hearing it on the radio It just sounded so different than anything else being played. Just like a whole different level of sophistication and intelligence. Stew goes crazy on ‘One World’ so I’ll give that one the nod- being a drummer of 40 years. I love every note of this album - even Sting’s sax parts. Still listen to the album start to finish at least once a year.
@@richieboy6825 Agreed. I’m a bassist and I play piano/keyboards and sing. Sting didn’t influence me as a bassist so much as his role in The Police. Stewart Copland is definitely the kind of drummer I like playing with. Bill Bruford too. I like the whole album. The beginning of Too Much Information. Every Little Thing is one of their best singles I think. The beginning of side one. The bass lines on Zenyatta are good. The overall atmosphere on Ghost is what’s so great, imo.
@@SteveSteeleSoundSymphony agree 100% - atmosphere - that’s the word- I think they recorded some
of it in Jamaica- don’t know if that had anything to do with it.
Anyway, great talking with ya & keep on rocking!!!!
Great LIVE song. Copeland truly a beast here. Love his drumming.
Stewart rocking the XTC Drums and Wires shirt - love it.
Stewart alway had cool clothes.
FESTIVAL DE VIÑA DEL MAR, CHILE...FEBRERO 1982👍👍👍👍👍🥂🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱
No fucking phones! Just the pure joy os music, what masterful musicians!
If there're phones at the time, they'll bring it for sure and do some sh*tty recording
@@ChrisVanDeJoel no they wouldn't
If cell phones had existed back then, they'd have used them, too.
My FAVORITE BAND OF ALL TIME!!! I was about five years old when "Ghost in the Machine" came out and I knew from that moment, that this Band fulfilled the EXTRAORDINARY:-)
they're great. Summers is so underrated. It never looks like he's playing and yet you know he is.
that's a great comment...your comment is so underrated...
Underrated by who?
Моё сердце всегда с Sting. Этот удивительный переход, который Sting совершает каждый раз на сцене. Я вижу этот переход каждый раз. Переход от обычного человека к необыкновенному певцу. Он на сцене живет, поет и играет, танцует. Это действие происходит одновременно...
Como parte de su gira, Ghost in the machine tour, llegaron al Festival de Viña del mar. Pocas veces se da, que llega una banda en su mejor momento. Amor a primera vista. Solo tenía 14 años
Just a brilliant trio.
My favorite Police song ✌🎶💙
So awesome. Love the drumming, one of my favorite Police songs 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
This band is like NO OTHER! Love everything about this energy its so pure with such good intentions evolving. Music I think is meant to evolve up into the higher realms but so many just try & pull us down off the chakra spectrum. Junk DNA then changes & ASCENTION takes place once we climb this to 23. Or maybe I'm just crazy
So very true.
Whoa! Sting's got some killer range. This song went up a whole interval from E to A and he's nailing it with no problem. Killer!
Stewart Copeland is such a good drummer!!
before you get ahead of yourselves, calling sting lazy... notice that his left foot is playing a root note on the moog taurus synth at every kick drum beat.
two hands, one foot, and a lead vocal.
if you think that's lazy, you're crazy.
Singing this song without doing something physical to keep the rhythm is impossible. It takes muscle memory or something.
Root PLUS 5th! Really odd choice of key change here! Did they go up a 4th from the studio version?
Mean while Geddy Lee is somewhere singing, playing wicked bass lines, playing keyboard and tap dancing on his Tarus pedals lol
@@dpss2112 in every live police change the key in this song! ;)
Yeah, but not really a good comparison. Geddy isnt playing keyboards and bass at the same time, so basically theres no difference left. And frankly Geddy is barely playing any bass pedals, he has transitioned any old parts that have more than two notes into triggers I play the catalogs of both groups on all instruments so I have an exact experience of the whole topic, this song is difficult. And Geddy didnt play two Moog Taurus`s at once while singing and playing bass, so technically Sting wins that discussion....😀
Amazing how he sings and plays that baseline at the same time.
And he's not very precise about it either.
He doesn’t play the triplets though, he plays it lazily. I still love it though.
*Bass line
Copeland is out of his MIND!
Ha, ha!
It calling cocaine... xDDD
Gracias por regresar los años Maravillosos.
A mi vida.
That horn section was an absolute disaster! - a prelude to stings craving for a jazz element which he progressed in 1985 where in the 40 years since he never scored another #1 hit single after walking out on Stewart and Andy!
We ARE SPIRITS living in the material world.
He was so young to have understood this.
Que lindo se escucha
That Steinberger bass sounds great.
Love that Stu's wearing an XTC shirt in this one.
Funny comment by Andy when Sting is talking to the audience.. Sting says, "seems all the noisy people are up there, and all the quiet people are down here.. they need to change places"... Then Andy says, " the straight people are down in the front there". :)
What does he mean by that line? Don't confuse their language with ours. The same words mean different things depending on which side of the pond the speaker comes from
Straight - not high/drunk probably?
@@bodlexz6091 no, in the UK at that time it meant the boring people.
@@JC-zw9vs could also be a class thing (I think the boring people vs the more fun people comment is probably correct)
Love the lyrics and the sound
It's unforgetable!
love this song and album its from!!
I love when he says "maybe you guys should trade places" amazing sting!!
Stewart Copeland is F-ng amazing.
"40 GRAUS" (40 degrees)... I think that Sting bought this shirt in Brazil, when the band played in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo (i think), in 1982!
ghost is the best tour of police. This concert and gateshead shows it.
Stewart is the only one that's holding down the right version.
It is difficult to Andy because there is no keyboards, so He has to play different in this Live version.
Sting almost never plays the original bass line- the song 🎵 is so far from the studio version it kinda sucks.
Well Andy got screwed over in the studio recording since sting preferred a synth rather than a guitar for this song
Totally correct
Sting lovely as ever.
Stewart has stated that this was his most challenging song to play.
Raw The Police, most interesting.
Amazing Talent ! How does Sting sing over that syncopated bass line?!!!
stings concert always wonderful
Espectacular!!!!!!!
Oh que hermosa canción
extraordinario registro audiovisual, imagen y sonido de culto.
Live in Viña Del Mar Festival, Chile, 1982
Ma quanto era carino Sting qui????!!! Che meraviglia!
This show was probably after the presentation in Rio de Janeiro in 1982 or 1983, which I saw. That's because Sting is wearing a shirt with the name of an old Boutique of the time, "40 Graus" (Degrees). What is the temperature that makes Rio de Janeiro most of the year!
At first glance were 3 absolutely white faces (like candle) with a certain intellectual tone, that is, English. The show in Rio was very different from Chile, with the audience crazed, standing, not sitting in the chairs.
Festival deViña del Mar, febrero 1982🇨🇱
@@ronnyvalenciagalvez5873Man you had to see what happened here in Rio de Janeiro a week before. The audience went crazy, all the chains in the audience were broken. I watched the soundcheck and the show and the guys had something clearly elitist intellectualized in their appearance, but it had chemistry with the audience.
En CHILE pa variar
@LinoAMV it's def. a Steinberger, coincidentally a ton of live reggae musicians love these things
"Spirits In thah Materiahl World!"
Crowd: *Thunderous Applause*
Guitarist: *Heck ya!*
Sting: *I LOVE this song!*
Drummer: *Motherf-cker!!!*
SONG OF THE DAY
Spirits in the Material World- 🎸By The Police.
Released 40 years ago, in 1981-
This was released as a single in 1981. This song reached No. 12 in 🇬🇧 the UK; and No. 11 in the 🇺🇸 USA!
The song was written by Sting. It is also the opening track for 🎸 their 1981 album “Ghost in the Machine”. (I always did love the name of that album)!
“Spirits In The Material World”
Lyrics/🎶Poetry
There is no political solution
To our troubled evolution
Have no faith in constitution
There is no bloody revolution
We are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world
Our so called leaders speak
With words they try to jail you
They subjugate the meek
But it's the rhetoric of failure
We are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world
Where does the answer lie?
Living from day to day
If it's something we can't buy
There must be another way
We are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world...
ua-cam.com/video/BHOevX4DlGk/v-deo.html
(Loving this Music Video Memory)!
Happy Listening! ❤️🎸🎶
De culto.en el festival de viña del mar Chile
saludos , a todos los fanaticos , the police
mixer. the bass is in the kontext too loud.
Sting will play the coda for three minutes on lazy songs like Walking on the Moon and So Lonely, yet with a funky jam like this one, he cuts the song off at the 3 minute mark.
Copeland Es un grande
Good lord Copeland is fantastic!!!
Love this
Copeland. ...brilliant.
Live in Chile, at Festival de Viña del Mar!
@hoarhey1 the year is 1982..
Sting 💜
Que buena combinación, me encanta...Pero que linda edad! Besos..
❤❤❤
@typsypyg The basslines of Police with training can be sung and played at the same time, same Spirit in the material with 8 notes. It's just a matter of repetition. By McCartney it's hard truly.
Copeland is such a cool drummer. Add XTC's "Drums and Wires" t-shirt FTW
Sting, my boyfriend ❤, mi novio!
Live in Chile 1982
nice bass tone
the horns don't work here....
Horns don't work anywhere on white music.
@@Chrisamusic1 what
I think it was some really lazy arranging. I wonder who arranged the horns? In many places just playing in unison. It adds nothing to the tunes.
@@mancuniancandidatem Yes, this is exactly my impression as well. You can hear from other live recordings that the players are competent, but the arrangements generally lack power and imagination, as if someone did them in a hurry without knowledge of what a horn section shoud sound like. Perhaps some of the songs, like this, were also challenging to begin with.
Stewart said this song was the most musically difficult song for all 3 of them to play
Vamos Police!!
que mundo que era este......
que corno nos pasó???
That comment he could not make any other place in the World !!!
FESTIVAL DE VIÑA DEL MAR. febrero 1982. Chile 🇨🇱
so glad they god rid of the horn section after this tour!
And this folks, shows the difference between live and a recording.
Continuing... I was 16 at the Rio de Janeiro show. I watched the soundcheck of the guys, they were all very white and blonde, I was very surprised. Compeland and Sting were very tall, anyway, they looked like college foreigners on vacation. When the show started it was crazy, the audience went crazy, all crazy, all the seats in the audience broke... When Sting goes to Chile, the behavior of the audience is strange.
copeland is an absolute genius
I would absolutely hate playing this song overnight. freakin
murder
kool song real good
RLK- If you and your spirit have issues that's your problem. My spirit is just fine. On-Line likes The Police. Robin L. Knudsen Honor-Honoree
@UklaTheMokk Whats lazy about that. The drums sound way better in the studio version, just like the bass and the guitar. I dont see how Copeland saved the band, not saying he is bad, hes a great drummer. If Copeland is the only one with the good feedback, whats wrong with Andy. anyways I just hate how most people just bring sting down. I also feel like Andy is the one underrated and not Copeland.
Festival de Viña del Mar, Chile 1982...
Genius all 3
What are they in such a hurry for?
magniifico
Isn't Andy that gives them that weird funk? Sting and and Stewart are backbeat rhythm section. Andy and Sting's lyrics are the treble of the band.
Well without Andy they’d sound like a jazz band. He was able to produce the punk and reggae
What year was this????
Interesting song for early 80's in chile, for sure...
FESTIVAL DE VIÑA DEL MAR, CHILE. FEBRERO DE 1982.
@@ronnyvalenciagalvez5873 La misma festival que esta en la quinta vergara? que interesante mi primer viaje a chile fue 2002.
Man, keeping that bass line going as he sings. Sting has a mastery over rhythm.
It's a much-simplified and redacted version of the original bass line.
Where is this and what year is it?
Is the Austin Texas Concert ?? If so Sting stopped the Concert and do you know what he said ??If this is that Concert He made a very Interesting Comment About Texas !!!
What did he say? the other musicians look like mariachis. (and sound).
CHILE. FEBRERO 1982. VIÑA DEL MAR FESTIVAL🇨🇱
Who are they .. the police sir … were
They arrested
I think playing a coordinated syncopated bassline and singing is too difficult live!
+Ramon LeBlanc Harts i find "Driven to Tears"'s bassline more difficult
Tell that to Geddy Lee.
Lukasz Calabrese they’re both very complicated, and to sing at the same time as doing both...
SuperSparrow45 best comment I’ve seen all day!
That is exactly what we are.
Copeland the master