Passive aggressive??? That is bs . Is that some one who is holding their temper from not knocking your teeth down your throat. Same time saying look your getting on my nerves but I dont want to hurt you. Actually people who accuse people of passive aggressive should get their teeth knocked down their throat.
@@erniescullion8452 yeah right? I love that they bring out this much passion in you, that you would put that much thought into your comment. Again, Love these guys. (And I’m actually quoting what they’ve said about each other over the years in different interviews)
@@nocturnalron69 . I'm passionate. A person on accused me of passive Aggressive because I said I was disappointed that they couldnt take time to leave good feedback as I had posted same day within an hour of payment and I felt it wasn't the Gettysburg address to take a little time to send me a message that it had arrived and leave even 1 line of feedback. So it's such that I find it an improper phrase . Also its not applicable to every situation but people think they want up with up to date lingo make them sound /look interesting or intelligent. missuse it SERIOUSLY grates me. So yeah right?? What a come back einstein
I’ve been in bands since 1968. Creative people with fragile egos battling for control, coupled often, with money issues. That’s the way it is. I’ve witnessed many a slug fest, on and off stage. God help you if you end up on the road, sharing a hotel room with an asshole keyboard player or drummer. It can become a living hell...
Yeah but that drum fill he just piles into during So Lonely around 2:10 is indeed LAUGHABLE. It doesn't land on the 'one', in fact nowhere near. IMPOSSIBLE to play along to! For one of the best bands ever (one of my faves obviously, followed em from the start), that's a shocker. :) PLUS if it's YOUR song.....(Every Breath Your Take)....it's hard work when you have to be so guarded and measured in requesting that the drummer remove one flam.
@@Keepgoing42 That's BS. Everybody in band has a right to make suggestions or negotiate. Especially when a band member is a musical genius. Watch the backstage vid for the Pink Floyd "reunion" - 4 songs for a charity concert around 2008. The guys are telling Nick how to end a song. And Nick is saying "Sure, ok". As he should.
@@Keepgoing42 Correct, I've never been in A band. I've been in about 10 or 15 bands over many, many years. Some cover bands, but mostly originals bands, in which I was usually one of the singer/songwriters. Sometimes the songwriter (including me) had an idea on how the parts should be played. One time I had to tell the guitarist to play the riff the way I wrote it (because it was better and more unique than his generic idea).
Well, Stewart played a 7-beat fill and got out of time - Sting laughed and stopped the band. Stewart was the one saying how awesome his fill was. You're overlooking the fact that Sting is the bass player and is sure going to notice when the drummer loses the beat.
....and Millions and Millions of Dollars. I cringe a bit however...because i've been playing in bands now for around 45 or so years...and, as i ponder retirement...i definitely can relate to the 'icky feeling...of how 'band life'...with other 'bass playing elements'... Lol!....can be. or 'Guitar'. or 'Keys'. or...the fucking Singer. Yup. Seen and done it all. really takes a lot to be in a band. much much more than the average bloke might realize. These guys are amazing. What a History...
As of posting this comment, I’ve read all previous comments 😂 Half are Team Copeland, half are Team Sting. Guys, Sting and Copeland are still friends to this day, they’re just passionate about the music. I’ve played in many bands, and I can tell you from experience, this is extremely normal when you have multiple Alphas. But their love for the craft is what made the songs amazing. If you removed any one of the three members, it would not sound the same. This is my all-time favorite band!
Totally wrong. Sting has been proving his surplus of talent by writing, evolving, touring and excelling at competencies in excess of just playing Police songs. Copeland is in a world that doesn't respect that and still thinks it is his band,, but without Sting writing the songs where would Stewart be? Where Sting has continued producing original music and playing with the finest musicians in the world because of reality accumen, cred and direction, he is too greater acomplished an artist to discredit and therefore who would be stupid enough not to trust in his vision. He is the writer. He's not arrogant just poorly listened to and cooperated with to realise a vision in the abscence of Copeland having one! I'm a drummer, I respect Stewart's earlier command of the songs but he sure picks the weirdest times to disagree. That's when Sting is unamused and is mislabeled arrogant. Most geni-i suffer fools too often. This is those times.
The Police were The Beatles of the 80's, and finally gave us the reunion tour we never got from the Fab Four. They even had a similar kind of personality dynamic, with Andy as off-the-cuff as Ringo, Stewart seething like George, and Sting with enough ego to cover both John and Paul...
Not being a musician and The Police being my favorite band, it amazes me how 3 guys can come up with these sounds. For me, they are the greatest ever to combine their talents to create their sound. Andy and Stewart are the greatest players of their respective instruments, and Sting composed some of the greatest bass lines and melodies. There's no band for me who together were that great at their respective crafts. One of the biggest wishes in my life was to see them live, and I did at MSG in 2007. They were freakin amazing. I wish they had stayed together.
They all care enough about the music to fight for it. No one is an ass hole. All bands go through this. Also, the Sting slander is ridiculous because at the end of the day, HE WROTE THE HITS!! We wouldn't even know them if he didn't . The FULL Police sound must have Andy's sound and execution of Sting's ideas and the monster drumming of the brilliant Stewart Copeland. All are essential.
Pretty good comparison, indeed. At the end, John and George seemed to be pissed off by the way Paul constantly try to impose his songs to the others and how they should, exactly, play them notes by notes, turning the Beatles into his backing band...
I still to this day, don’t know how 3 musicians sound so full…it has to be the combination of the busy drumming, the chorus/ effect guitar, filling it up, smooth bass lines, good strong vocal…tell me?
That's awesome when a band acknowledges in terms of ticket sales and merchandise that they owe it to the fans to have a rivalry against each other to see who will make the greatest contribution to the tour. That's the mentality that every band should have.
I had a friend who ran sound in the 80’s. Even back then, they were literally beating the crap out of each other before and after the shows. He was witness to the violence.
I noticed with Sting, he likes to do new arrangements of songs, whether police songs, or even his own solo stuff. He isn't like Rush, that plays the songs exactly the same way over and over. You can hear an d see, even the way he sings a lyric of a Police song, he changes it. So that may be where some conflict comes in, if Stewart or Andy may have expected to just play it rote.
Really jazz is a lot of fun and difficult, and sting is an amazing jazzist. Rush is not. Rock n roll is very mathematical, where jazz, blues can be improvised.
and that in part is what ruined it (Sting) for me. Always rearranging and eF'ing with the tunes. Like seriously pal? We didn't come to hear some interpretation of a tune we spent money on, we can to hear...that tune.
I don’t think Sting understands the value, for the audience, of playing the music the same way night after night. Hearing it played the same way as it was heard on the radio allows the audience to sing along with the band (beyond the obligatory “ee-yo” sections of the songs at a Police concert)Pearl Jam is another band that plays its songs the way they are on the album-for that reason.
Such a great band, all geniuses in their own way, but how they managed (each other) for 5 years is truly astounding. It must've been the most challenging assault couse imagineable, yet their output was always top quality. Over the years I've come to the conclusion that this band deserves to be in the Top 3 of the greatest bands ever.
I tend to agree with you. They were such great musicians together and yet somehow they aren’t really taken seriously in the same way other great bands are. Maybe it’s the faux reggae sound or maybe it’s just people resent Sting?
@@andrewbenson4439 I think it's probably true that people aren't keen on Sting, but then that alone is still so misguided really. Sting, for all his apparent pretentiousness, is a great musician and some of his solo albums are right up there. I just don't have the answer, but as a band The Police really were top drawer.
@@alexjewell2351 I agree that Sting is a fantastic song writer and musician. My first gig was the Dream of the Blue Turtles tour. I loved the Police as a young kid. But a can also see that he has a pretentious side too.
This appears to be a classic of example of an unstoppable force repeatedly meeting an immovable object. And, Andy... simultaneously existing in a state of being and killing it on the guitar until observed.
They're so good together because they always fought with each other and had that ultimate chemistry, AND are all top musicians. People that haven't been in bands probably can't relate. I do hope they do another reunion. They were sooooo good last time around!
Amazing that they were ever able to put together such an impressive repertoire of songs. Watching genius Sting trying to get what he wants out of genius Stewart who hears it totally differently is crazy frustrating sitting here. Can't imagine what it was like living it.
I think the tension between Sting and Stewart actually makes them better musicians. They seem to bring out the perfectionist in each other . Andy Summers seems a lovely bloke who doesn't get involved in their arguments.
They were all fantastic musicians. I'm glad I got to see the Police at the height of the band's fame. Rochester, NY, Summer of 1983 at now long demolished Aquinas (Hollander) Stadium. I remember winning tickets to the Synchronicity tour after naming the song question from a local radio station of the Hollies, "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother." Concert line-up - The Flock of Seagulls, The Fixx, and the Police. First song of the Police, "King Of Pain," Sting on Bass, a back-up musician on key boards behind him attempting to play the opening chords to King of Pain, but is doing the wrong chords.. Sting, quite irritated, walks back, bends over the keyboard and shows the player how to play the correct chords. Anyway, a fantastic outdoor, afternoon concert. But my one take away was that funny opening moment with "King Of Pain." 🙂
I love this band. I have owned every album, watched their live video "Police Around the World"... I saw Bring On the Night, watched so many videos, and have spent much time reading about them, their comments, their pursuits, etc etc etc. I am a huge fan, and they will remain one of my favorite groups, some of my favorite songs, favorite sounds, of all time. Having said that: I saw them on this tour, in Northern CA, and I absolutely hate to say: they were terrible. They were Not playing as a unit, together, at all... the grooves fell apart, pushing and pulling awkwardly... more wrong notes from Andy than I've ever heard in any live performance. I couldn't believe it. Bummed me out, because I know what they are capable of doing. And I still love them...
They are three individuals that have strong but extremely different characters they are also intelligent methodical people and sometimes they are out of sync but boy when they are in sync they are a fantastic musical force of nature plus I think we all agree that they are virtuoso’s in their chosen instruments percussion/bass guitar/lead,rhythm guitar.
Rush in an interview spelled it out. With Rush, the basis was friendship, then virtuosity. With the Police, it's just virtuosity. They are so good together, but no relational glueThey are greater than the sum of their parts.
No matter how many times i watch this i still get goosebumps and tears in my eyes when i hear the Roxanne jam as it brings me right back to the stadiums and arena i went to during the reunion tour. Happy, happy days. 🚓👮🏼
As much as I respect Sting he would have done better to let Andy and Stewart to play what they felt. His way or the highway method was uncalled for and lead to the death of a great band.
That is not what great musicians do. Sting is Sting for a reason. His career kept growing after the police unlike the other two who i madly respect as well. They are great players, Sting is a great player but also a great composer and thats why he had the chore of organizing the band how to play a specific song
Agreed, Andy and Stewart are brilliant musicians, but at the end of the day it was Stings songs and he has his vision of how he wants it to sound. They were awesome and ended way to early, but it's their journey and I think it worked out well over all. Sting wanted more control and sound so he went solo. It's his life and it's what he wanted and needed at the time, so whether you like it or not, it is what it is. Cheers.
@@majortom4543 Yeah, but also he's playing with Stewart Copeland who is one of the best rock drummers. And I'd think that Copeland's playing style had a major major role in making the Police stand out.
@@majortom4543 He didn’t have to organize anything!! The songs were already written and iconic! Sting should’ve just let nature take it’s course!! To be honest, I saw that reunion tour and if not for being such a huge admirer of The Police and their music, I would say they played less than stellar. That, my friend, is due to ‘Sting’s’ constant meddling, tinkering and ‘reaffirming’ that he is the leader. Yes, musicianship is work but it should also be fun and Sting, shown here saying, “I can’t fire anybody’, proves what a ‘self-absorbed’, egomaniac he has become! Yes, wildly talented and successful but also, a bit too much ego! It was, after all, Stewart’s band and in the end, it became Sting’s band. Truth is, Sting is the reason they became so successful but to shove it down the other member’s throats was just ‘tasteless’ and ‘classless!’ Totally unlike the image Sting attempts to portray! Oh yes, he’s English. Ahhhh!
This early rehearsal video was shot in 2007. The last Police concert had been in 1984. Sting had performed in NINE world tours after the Police and over a thousand concerts during that time. While Stewart and Andy were also very productive in various music genres, they had done a few small tours and maybe 200-300 live shows between them. So, of course, Sting was going to be way ahead in playing, timing and arrangements for Police songs.
His guitar work is amazing in The Police. Every Breath You Take is now regarded as a standard, and is probably one of the greatest songs ever made. I'd bet money that wouldn't be the case if Andy's guitar work hadn't been on it.
Hearing Sting openly say he wishes the joint creative process and rehearsing was more like a game of Chess that he could have more control over, just makes you realise how unbelievably lucky he was to have those 2 stay with it for the number years they did. Any lesser musicians than Stuart Copeland and Andy Summers would have walked. And they'd have been a 2-3 album band rather than a 7 album one.
No comparison between both bands, theyare great but in one side the charism, fresh and virtuosity of The Police members are incredible, I like Rush too but I feel them more squared not fresh and without that chemestry on image, virtuosism and music. Regards from Lima Peru. ✌🎸💥🔥👏
I would’ve loved to be a 4th member of this band. I’d be the quiet one who just plays, sits back, and enjoy the show of watching the others have a go at each other
True artist. They are never truly happy with the product, they feel it can be done better. When he went on his own, I think most of us realized without Gordon the Police were eh.
Just in the small bands I've been in over the years, I came to realisation that I would never want to contend with what comes along with being a major touring band...frankly just the inescapable monotony...and repetition. I never had to worry because I never had the chops for it, but just watching this confirms even if I did, I wouldn't it.
That's a band where you have 3 leaders. No one wants to follow anyone else. Very difficult getting someone else to compromise when they think they should sound louder than you.
As a bassist I'm concerned about how Andy cannot tell that the tempo speeds up when the dynamics rise and the tempo never recovers. As a consequence, the song is faster in the end of it's duration.
Lol, I can definitely see how Sting could be a fkn pain in the a$$ and a vibe killer lol. I can see he’s definitely the control freak in the band , He’s talented af but he needs to not make it so much work and let everyone have fun too.
Somehow it's hard to imagine the mild mannered Andy Summers going ballistic with the likes of Sting and Stewart although he may get stuck in the crossfire. The strong personalities and flamboyant style of these guys are what sets them apart from other power trios. I heard that Andy still has some animosity over not getting a writing credit for Every Step You Take. I think the band profits with the tension to an extent. Behind the scenes it must at times be intense....
Sting's into that 'Sade kind of singing' well go on and do what you do in your own time! The fans want the fuckin Police and not stings poppy jazzy vibe! *Next to you *so lonely *man in a suitcase Thats the shit! Not the englishversion of Eros Rammazotti
My biggest regret is not ever getting to see them live....Once they came to Copenhagen on this last tour and I had to work..I was gutted and still am...
Considering he wrote 95% of all the songs, it's more like a complete understanding of how the songs should be. Copeland, while I love his style, just comes off as a dick in this video.
@@richnewman You're missing the dynamics of a band. Sting is a talented musician but as a solo artist he's always teetering on the knife edge of 'clever' and self-congratulatory pretentious wank. He's done some good stuff, but there's a thousand times more soul in a single empty bar of 'Walking on the Moon' than everything else he's done solo combined. Opinions, eh? Like arseholes, everyone has one...
@@JamesHartnell Nobody is saying Sting isn't full of himself or arrogant/pretentious. We are saying he's the guy writing the hits. I don't care much for most of his solo stuff, but there's no denying he had a lot of hits. I can name a good ten or so without trying. Sting also wrote Walking on the Moon. Copeland is a fantastic drummer and a mediocre sound track composer. That's it. He's also quite arrogant and far more abrasive than Sting IMO.
@@richnewman yes, Sting did write those songs….he also trusted Stewart and Andy to write and play their own parts on the Police records. So what happened since then?
I'm guessing the other two wanted to make some cash and Sting didn't want to let his old band mates down. I mean, what's the motive here? A new challenge?? I don't think the energy between Steward and Sting is funny. Steward in my opinion is someone who grew up wealthy and it shows, he knows it will work out for him anyway. Sting opted for a life as a teacher, then played in large bigbands and took a giant gamble and jumped head first into being lead singer in a band. After the police broke up he worked hard to make a name for himself. His solo career now is twice the timespan of the police, and twice the success plus revenue. Andy and Steward just took the money and basically lived off that.
2:05 Incredible! just hilarious......What a liason man! The only reason that sting played off iIS because Sting was laughing so freaking hard at Stewart! Just great!
That moment @ around (8:15), I swear Sting looked like he was seriously thinking about reprising his role as Feyd from Lynch's Dune and square-off against Stuart as Paul "Muad'dib" Atreides!!!
Rush are a bunch of punks, they are nothing compared to the Police. Geddy lee is a witch i dont know who told him he could sing with that hideous voice.
@@majortom4543 You don’t have to like Rush or Geddy’s voice but they are and we’re fantastic musicians. Even The Police wouldn’t argue against that statement.
I remember I was shocked the first time I found out a band I liked weren’t best friends. I think I was watching something about The Who when I was a kid and they each showed up to a gig in a different limo. I was like shouldn’t they all be arriving together? Then they started talking crap on each other. Opened my eyes.
@@travis8665 The Who didn’t get along-period. Most notably, like when Roger punched Pete in front of tens of thousands of people. I think that happened more than just once.
3 different opinions, and they are all right. What do you do? But I guarantee, not a singe argument is about "making MY part better," it's about making THE SONG better.
Condescending and patronizing Sting, overly dramatic Stewart, and passive-aggressive Andy.......I love these guys.
Nailed it
Passive aggressive??? That is bs . Is that some one who is holding their temper from not knocking your teeth down your throat. Same time saying look your getting on my nerves but I dont want to hurt you. Actually people who accuse people of passive aggressive should get their teeth knocked down their throat.
@@erniescullion8452 yeah right? I love that they bring out this much passion in you, that you would put that much thought into your comment. Again, Love these guys. (And I’m actually quoting what they’ve said about each other over the years in different interviews)
@@nocturnalron69 . I'm passionate. A person on accused me of passive Aggressive because I said I was disappointed that they couldnt take time to leave good feedback as I had posted same day within an hour of payment and I felt it wasn't the Gettysburg address to take a little time to send me a message that it had arrived and leave even 1 line of feedback. So it's such that I find it an improper phrase . Also its not applicable to every situation but people think they want up with up to date lingo make them sound /look interesting or intelligent. missuse it SERIOUSLY grates me. So yeah right?? What a come back einstein
@@erniescullion8452 yeah I’m a fan too. I saw them live in 1983 and then I got to see sting perform about 10 years ago. So wild!
This is absolutely hilarious. Come on, anyone that's been in a band, this is exactly how it is.
Yep. This is how it is, no matter how successful you might get. At least they got past picking a name.
Absolutely. Exactly the same.
Absolutely - a point missed by some it seems.
I’ve been in bands since 1968. Creative people with fragile egos battling for control, coupled often, with money issues.
That’s the way it is. I’ve witnessed many a slug fest, on and off stage.
God help you if you end up on the road, sharing a hotel room with an asshole keyboard player or drummer. It can become a living hell...
I heard Aerosmith would damn near have fistfights.
Telling Stewart Copeland how to play the drums? That’s when you know the dynamics of the lead singer have gone well beyond reality.
Yeah but that drum fill he just piles into during So Lonely around 2:10 is indeed LAUGHABLE. It doesn't land on the 'one', in fact nowhere near. IMPOSSIBLE to play along to! For one of the best bands ever (one of my faves obviously, followed em from the start), that's a shocker. :)
PLUS if it's YOUR song.....(Every Breath Your Take)....it's hard work when you have to be so guarded and measured in requesting that the drummer remove one flam.
@@Keepgoing42 That's BS. Everybody in band has a right to make suggestions or negotiate. Especially when a band member is a musical genius. Watch the backstage vid for the Pink Floyd "reunion" - 4 songs for a charity concert around 2008. The guys are telling Nick how to end a song. And Nick is saying "Sure, ok". As he should.
@@Keepgoing42 Correct, I've never been in A band. I've been in about 10 or 15 bands over many, many years. Some cover bands, but mostly originals bands, in which I was usually one of the singer/songwriters. Sometimes the songwriter (including me) had an idea on how the parts should be played. One time I had to tell the guitarist to play the riff the way I wrote it (because it was better and more unique than his generic idea).
Well, Stewart played a 7-beat fill and got out of time - Sting laughed and stopped the band. Stewart was the one saying how awesome his fill was. You're overlooking the fact that Sting is the bass player and is sure going to notice when the drummer loses the beat.
@@Keepgoing42 Sting is the *bass player*. The job of a bass player is to lock in the groove with the drummer. If the drummer loses the beat, well...
This is three strong personalities arguing with each other. It's Painful, stressful, and aggravating. But what does that produce? Hit songs.
3 Alphas.
....and Millions and Millions of Dollars. I cringe a bit however...because i've been playing in bands now for around 45 or so years...and, as i ponder retirement...i definitely can relate to the 'icky feeling...of how 'band life'...with other 'bass playing elements'... Lol!....can be. or 'Guitar'. or 'Keys'. or...the fucking Singer. Yup. Seen and done it all. really takes a lot to be in a band. much much more than the average bloke might realize. These guys are amazing. What a History...
Stewart and Sting know how to push each others button in EVERY SINGLE THING THEY SAY! LOL!
In…every note they play?
Saw Rick Beato's interview with Copeland. He gives props to Sting. Sting came up with most of the music as well as all of the lyrics.
As of posting this comment, I’ve read all previous comments 😂
Half are Team Copeland, half are Team Sting. Guys, Sting and Copeland are still friends to this day, they’re just passionate about the music.
I’ve played in many bands, and I can tell you from experience, this is extremely normal when you have multiple Alphas. But their love for the craft is what made the songs amazing. If you removed any one of the three members, it would not sound the same.
This is my all-time favorite band!
Indeed, they all say they all get along quite well outside of playing music together.
Sting looks like he would be a nightmare to work with. Copeland is the coolest guy around.
Sting and Stewart are both alphas
I feel like Stew is more the problem there. Then again, I'm a vocalist and guitarist, heh heh.
Asshole quotient:
1. Sting
2. Copeland
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Distant 3. Summers
@@utoobia Agreed
Totally wrong. Sting has been proving his surplus of talent by writing, evolving, touring and excelling at competencies in excess of just playing Police songs. Copeland is in a world that doesn't respect that and still thinks it is his band,, but without Sting writing the songs where would Stewart be? Where Sting has continued producing original music and playing with the finest musicians in the world because of reality accumen, cred and direction, he is too greater acomplished an artist to discredit and therefore who would be stupid enough not to trust in his vision. He is the writer. He's not arrogant just poorly listened to and cooperated with to realise a vision in the abscence of Copeland having one!
I'm a drummer, I respect Stewart's earlier command of the songs but he sure picks the weirdest times to disagree. That's when Sting is unamused and is mislabeled arrogant. Most geni-i suffer fools too often. This is those times.
Stewart Copeland is a MONSTER!!! 🥁🥁🥁
The Police were The Beatles of the 80's, and finally gave us the reunion tour we never got from the Fab Four. They even had a similar kind of personality dynamic, with Andy as off-the-cuff as Ringo, Stewart seething like George, and Sting with enough ego to cover both John and Paul...
"Lose the flams"??
Stu's signature for Police drumming? Lose the flams?!?! Yeah sure Sting, if you lose the A-string Deal?
I thought the exact same thing lol
Not being a musician and The Police being my favorite band, it amazes me how 3 guys can come up with these sounds. For me, they are the greatest ever to combine their talents to create their sound. Andy and Stewart are the greatest players of their respective instruments, and Sting composed some of the greatest bass lines and melodies. There's no band for me who together were that great at their respective crafts. One of the biggest wishes in my life was to see them live, and I did at MSG in 2007. They were freakin amazing. I wish they had stayed together.
They all care enough about the music to fight for it. No one is an ass hole. All bands go through this. Also, the Sting slander is ridiculous because at the end of the day, HE WROTE THE HITS!! We wouldn't even know them if he didn't . The FULL Police sound must have Andy's sound and execution of Sting's ideas and the monster drumming of the brilliant Stewart Copeland. All are essential.
In their beginning I didn’t care about this band or their music but now I treasure their music & have so much love & respect for the whole band !
50% are Sting sucks. The other 50% are Stewart sucks. And I’m just like meh... poor Andy lol
When you see a great band live, just know that it is a miracle and a very fleeting thing.
Sting is to The Police what Paul McCartney was to the Beatles. After a while, everyone went their separate ways.
Pretty good comparison, indeed. At the end, John and George seemed to be pissed off by the way Paul constantly try to impose his songs to the others and how they should, exactly, play them notes by notes, turning the Beatles into his backing band...
You can tell, Sting was hard work with. But his perfectionist mentality was a means to an end.
I still to this day, don’t know how 3 musicians sound so full…it has to be the combination of the busy drumming, the chorus/ effect guitar, filling it up, smooth bass lines, good strong vocal…tell me?
I think Andy actually got even better over time. Fierce!
That's awesome when a band acknowledges in terms of ticket sales and merchandise that they owe it to the fans to have a rivalry against each other to see who will make the greatest contribution to the tour. That's the mentality that every band should have.
I had a friend who ran sound in the 80’s. Even back then, they were literally beating the crap out of each other before and after the shows. He was witness to the violence.
" No, it's not my ear... But do I look funny?...... do I look funny?" The vulnerable side of Sting and he can laugh at himself too which is great.
I noticed with Sting, he likes to do new arrangements of songs, whether police songs, or even his own solo stuff. He isn't like Rush, that plays the songs exactly the same way over and over. You can hear an d see, even the way he sings a lyric of a Police song, he changes it. So that may be where some conflict comes in, if Stewart or Andy may have expected to just play it rote.
Really jazz is a lot of fun and difficult, and sting is an amazing jazzist. Rush is not. Rock n roll is very mathematical, where jazz, blues can be improvised.
and that in part is what ruined it (Sting) for me. Always rearranging and eF'ing with the tunes. Like seriously pal? We didn't come to hear some interpretation of a tune we spent money on, we can to hear...that tune.
I don’t think Sting understands the value, for the audience, of playing the music the same way night after night.
Hearing it played the same way as it was heard on the radio allows the audience to sing along with the band (beyond the obligatory “ee-yo” sections of the songs at a Police concert)Pearl Jam is another band that plays its songs the way they are on the album-for that reason.
I can agree
Such a great band, all geniuses in their own way, but how they managed (each other) for 5 years is truly astounding. It must've been the most challenging assault couse imagineable, yet their output was always top quality. Over the years I've come to the conclusion that this band deserves to be in the Top 3 of the greatest bands ever.
what a loser and bell end this sting f.....ker
I tend to agree with you. They were such great musicians together and yet somehow they aren’t really taken seriously in the same way other great bands are. Maybe it’s the faux reggae sound or maybe it’s just people resent Sting?
@@andrewbenson4439 I think it's probably true that people aren't keen on Sting, but then that alone is still so misguided really. Sting, for all his apparent pretentiousness, is a great musician and some of his solo albums are right up there. I just don't have the answer, but as a band The Police really were top drawer.
@@alexjewell2351 I agree that Sting is a fantastic song writer and musician. My first gig was the Dream of the Blue Turtles tour. I loved the Police as a young kid. But a can also see that he has a pretentious side too.
This appears to be a classic of example of an unstoppable force repeatedly meeting an immovable object. And, Andy... simultaneously existing in a state of being and killing it on the guitar until observed.
They're so good together because they always fought with each other and had that ultimate chemistry, AND are all top musicians. People that haven't been in bands probably can't relate. I do hope they do another reunion. They were sooooo good last time around!
Amazing that they were ever able to put together such an impressive repertoire of songs. Watching genius Sting trying to get what he wants out of genius Stewart who hears it totally differently is crazy frustrating sitting here. Can't imagine what it was like living it.
Just awesome. The music, the groove, and the TENSION! Love it!
I think the tension between Sting and Stewart actually makes them better musicians. They seem to bring out the perfectionist in each other . Andy Summers seems a lovely bloke who doesn't get involved in their arguments.
They were all fantastic musicians. I'm glad I got to see the Police at the height of the band's fame. Rochester, NY, Summer of 1983 at now long demolished Aquinas (Hollander) Stadium. I remember winning tickets to the Synchronicity tour after naming the song question from a local radio station of the Hollies, "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother." Concert line-up - The Flock of Seagulls, The Fixx, and the Police. First song of the Police, "King Of Pain," Sting on Bass, a back-up musician on key boards behind him attempting to play the opening chords to King of Pain, but is doing the wrong chords.. Sting, quite irritated, walks back, bends over the keyboard and shows the player how to play the correct chords. Anyway, a fantastic outdoor, afternoon concert. But my one take away was that funny opening moment with "King Of Pain." 🙂
I love Stewart's drumming, but I don't think he would be an easy person to get along with.
I love this band. I have owned every album, watched their live video "Police Around the World"... I saw Bring On the Night, watched so many videos, and have spent much time reading about them, their comments, their pursuits, etc etc etc. I am a huge fan, and they will remain one of my favorite groups, some of my favorite songs, favorite sounds, of all time.
Having said that:
I saw them on this tour, in Northern CA, and I absolutely hate to say: they were terrible. They were Not playing as a unit, together, at all... the grooves fell apart, pushing and pulling awkwardly... more wrong notes from Andy than I've ever heard in any live performance. I couldn't believe it. Bummed me out, because I know what they are capable of doing.
And I still love them...
so what
Just like 3 brothers. They argue like hell but love each other really. Whilst also making brilliant music
Loved this whole tour. It was great to see them together again.
Anyway, I'm off to my massive residential recording studio house in Tuscany now.
They are three individuals that have strong but extremely different characters they are also intelligent methodical people and sometimes they are out of sync but boy when they are in sync they are a fantastic musical force of nature plus I think we all agree that they are virtuoso’s in their chosen instruments percussion/bass guitar/lead,rhythm guitar.
Rush in an interview spelled it out. With Rush, the basis was friendship, then virtuosity. With the Police, it's just virtuosity. They are so good together, but no relational glueThey are greater than the sum of their parts.
No matter how many times i watch this i still get goosebumps and tears in my eyes when i hear the Roxanne jam as it brings me right back to the stadiums and arena i went to during the reunion tour. Happy, happy days. 🚓👮🏼
As much as I respect Sting he would have done better to let Andy and Stewart to play what they felt. His way or the highway method was uncalled for and lead to the death of a great band.
That is not what great musicians do. Sting is Sting for a reason. His career kept growing after the police unlike the other two who i madly respect as well. They are great players, Sting is a great player but also a great composer and thats why he had the chore of organizing the band how to play a specific song
Agreed, Andy and Stewart are brilliant musicians, but at the end of the day it was Stings songs and he has his vision of how he wants it to sound.
They were awesome and ended way to early, but it's their journey and I think it worked out well over all.
Sting wanted more control and sound so he went solo.
It's his life and it's what he wanted and needed at the time, so whether you like it or not, it is what it is. Cheers.
@@majortom4543 Yeah, but also he's playing with Stewart Copeland who is one of the best rock drummers. And I'd think that Copeland's playing style had a major major role in making the Police stand out.
@@majortom4543 He didn’t have to organize anything!! The songs were already written and iconic! Sting should’ve just let nature take it’s course!! To be honest, I saw that reunion tour and if not for being such a huge admirer of The Police and their music, I would say they played less than stellar. That, my friend, is due to ‘Sting’s’ constant meddling, tinkering and ‘reaffirming’ that he is the leader. Yes, musicianship is work but it should also be fun and Sting, shown here saying, “I can’t fire anybody’, proves what a ‘self-absorbed’, egomaniac he has become! Yes, wildly talented and successful but also, a bit too much ego! It was, after all, Stewart’s band and in the end, it became Sting’s band. Truth is, Sting is the reason they became so successful but to shove it down the other member’s throats was just ‘tasteless’ and ‘classless!’ Totally unlike the image Sting attempts to portray! Oh yes, he’s English. Ahhhh!
I can listen to Sting talk all day and night long.
7:11 I find it interesting that Sting managed to take off his coat and put it on again in just 2 seconds lol
This early rehearsal video was shot in 2007. The last Police concert had been in 1984. Sting had performed in NINE world tours after the Police and over a thousand concerts during that time. While Stewart and Andy were also very productive in various music genres, they had done a few small tours and maybe 200-300 live shows between them. So, of course, Sting was going to be way ahead in playing, timing and arrangements for Police songs.
Sometimes it feel like Andy feels under appreciated. His guitar afterall significantly creates the police sound
His guitar work is amazing in The Police. Every Breath You Take is now regarded as a standard, and is probably one of the greatest songs ever made. I'd bet money that wouldn't be the case if Andy's guitar work hadn't been on it.
I think Andy was the consummate professional. He was a spectator to the drama and just did his job and made the Police what there were.
GOD Bless You 🎸🎸🎸
Hearing Sting openly say he wishes the joint creative process and rehearsing was more like a game of Chess that he could have more control over, just makes you realise how unbelievably lucky he was to have those 2 stay with it for the number years they did. Any lesser musicians than Stuart Copeland and Andy Summers would have walked. And they'd have been a 2-3 album band rather than a 7 album one.
No comparison between both bands, theyare great but in one side the charism, fresh and virtuosity of The Police members are incredible, I like Rush too but I feel them more squared not fresh and without that chemestry on image, virtuosism and music. Regards from Lima Peru. ✌🎸💥🔥👏
Great song.💯🤳
I would’ve loved to be a 4th member of this band. I’d be the quiet one who just plays, sits back, and enjoy the show of watching the others have a go at each other
The more we give it up, the better the music becomes!! There it is!!
General Bradley - 4 letters - OMAR
6:06 -> STEWART'S MOMENT! Great Version of SynchII!
Sting, as usual, seems to needlessly enjoy changing bits here and there to see how far he can go without pissing off the other guys
True artist. They are never truly happy with the product, they feel it can be done better. When he went on his own, I think most of us realized without Gordon the Police were eh.
True, and his new ways of singing the songs is never an improvement over the old.
STEWART !!!! Such an amazing drummer
Just in the small bands I've been in over the years, I came to realisation that I would never want to contend with what comes along with being a major touring band...frankly just the inescapable monotony...and repetition. I never had to worry because I never had the chops for it, but just watching this confirms even if I did, I wouldn't it.
Fascinating
Finally it all comes down to Stewart playing flams and Sting disliking them :)
At 11.42, Andy's guitar part during Roxane sort of sounds like the guitar in maybe, Stings The Soul Cages. Maybe another song from that album.
That's a band where you have 3 leaders. No one wants to follow anyone else. Very difficult getting someone else to compromise when they think they should sound louder than you.
Nothing ever grows from compromising apathy … but fiery synergy will always be remembered.
So Stewart did wear the headband on stage lol
This would make a great double bill with This is Spinal Tap.
As a bassist I'm concerned about how Andy cannot tell that the tempo speeds up when the dynamics rise and the tempo never recovers. As a consequence, the song is faster in the end of it's duration.
10:02 killer solo 🔥🔥
Lol, I can definitely see how Sting could be a fkn pain in the a$$ and a vibe killer lol. I can see he’s definitely the control freak in the band , He’s talented af but he needs to not make it so much work and let everyone have fun too.
It’s easy to talk like that, but ultimately the Police’s music wouldn’t have been as good if he wasn’t a control freak.
Great musicians
Tension feeds creativity....natural rhythm of The Police,
Somehow it's hard to imagine the mild mannered Andy Summers going ballistic with the likes of Sting and Stewart although he may get stuck
in the crossfire. The strong personalities and flamboyant style of these guys are what sets them apart from other power trios.
I heard that Andy still has some animosity over not getting a writing credit for Every Step You Take. I think the band profits with the tension
to an extent. Behind the scenes it must at times be intense....
He didn’t write the guitar part sting did
@@samirait-kaci-gf3bn It's well documented that although Sting came up with the basic melody Andy helped with the guitar parts....
Yep , 40 yrs for me 🎼🎸
Did anyone else here consider scrolling past this when Sting grabbed the lute?😂
Sting's into that 'Sade kind of singing' well go on and do what you do in your own time!
The fans want the fuckin Police and not stings poppy jazzy vibe!
*Next to you
*so lonely
*man in a suitcase
Thats the shit!
Not the englishversion of Eros Rammazotti
I love the Police, but watching them play together is so funny. Each of them are master musicians, but they love each other, AND hate each other.
I have all andy summers stuff on my playlist and Stewart Copeland as well but no sting . I liked him when I was a kid tho
All the petty bickering remind me of me and my brothers....minus the musical genius, of course.😂😂😂
Siblings.
My biggest regret is not ever getting to see them live....Once they came to Copenhagen on this last tour and I had to work..I was gutted and still am...
Sting doesn't lack for, uh, let's call it confidence...
Considering he wrote 95% of all the songs, it's more like a complete understanding of how the songs should be. Copeland, while I love his style, just comes off as a dick in this video.
@@richnewman You're missing the dynamics of a band. Sting is a talented musician but as a solo artist he's always teetering on the knife edge of 'clever' and self-congratulatory pretentious wank. He's done some good stuff, but there's a thousand times more soul in a single empty bar of 'Walking on the Moon' than everything else he's done solo combined. Opinions, eh? Like arseholes, everyone has one...
@@JamesHartnell Nobody is saying Sting isn't full of himself or arrogant/pretentious. We are saying he's the guy writing the hits. I don't care much for most of his solo stuff, but there's no denying he had a lot of hits. I can name a good ten or so without trying. Sting also wrote Walking on the Moon. Copeland is a fantastic drummer and a mediocre sound track composer. That's it. He's also quite arrogant and far more abrasive than Sting IMO.
@@richnewman 'We'? Righto. You're missing my point band wise - sum of the parts and all that - no worries. Thanks.
@@richnewman yes, Sting did write those songs….he also trusted Stewart and Andy to write and play their own parts on the Police records. So what happened since then?
Poor Andy.
I love these guys......a true social study lesson of disorderly personalities attempting to keep things orderly . haha 🎤🥁🎸
4:57 The "Flams" are a Police trademark, Sting 😐
I absolutely love Stewart Copeland
They say it all in this short clip …all individuals….all contributors to the songs ..no one is better what ever that means …
9:17 This bit by Copeland made me laugh out loud. So well told and acted out.
I'm guessing the other two wanted to make some cash and Sting didn't want to let his old band mates down. I mean, what's the motive here? A new challenge?? I don't think the energy between Steward and Sting is funny. Steward in my opinion is someone who grew up wealthy and it shows, he knows it will work out for him anyway. Sting opted for a life as a teacher, then played in large bigbands and took a giant gamble and jumped head first into being lead singer in a band. After the police broke up he worked hard to make a name for himself. His solo career now is twice the timespan of the police, and twice the success plus revenue.
Andy and Steward just took the money and basically lived off that.
2:05 Incredible! just hilarious......What a liason man! The only reason that sting played off iIS because Sting was laughing so freaking hard at Stewart! Just great!
That moment @ around (8:15), I swear Sting looked like he was seriously thinking about reprising his role as Feyd from Lynch's Dune and square-off against Stuart as Paul "Muad'dib" Atreides!!!
Three very selfconcient men. Hard to accept that no one can be the leader and is the leader. But - they are great and inspired millions of muscicians
Love Andy, he's so funny.
2.00 Yep! Id be laughing too. Coming in on the 4th beat of the bar thinking its the 1 of the next one
02:00
La mejor banda,los ví en vivo y quedé locooo" tremendo recital
Compare this to RUSH. Geddy Alex Neil. Very different vibe
Rush are a bunch of punks, they are nothing compared to the Police. Geddy lee is a witch i dont know who told him he could sing with that hideous voice.
@@majortom4543 what are you on about?
@@majortom4543 Totally agree😊
@@majortom4543 You don’t have to like Rush or Geddy’s voice but they are and we’re fantastic musicians. Even The Police wouldn’t argue against that statement.
This is a damn inspiring interviewer! 💪
Copeland is a phenomenon.
Such a result, and there are only three guys ! It shows the talent of each one.
I remember I was shocked the first time I found out a band I liked weren’t best friends. I think I was watching something about The Who when I was a kid and they each showed up to a gig in a different limo. I was like shouldn’t they all be arriving together? Then they started talking crap on each other. Opened my eyes.
They arrive in separate cars in case the car has an accident. The Bee Gees were the same.
@@travis8665 The Who didn’t get along-period. Most notably, like when Roger punched Pete in front of tens of thousands of people. I think that happened more than just once.
I wouldn't last a day with Copeland as a band mate. What a hyper-pants pain in the ass.
Those conversations are so mindlessly, numbingly broken. Then they start playing and the magic reappears...
It all makes sense. Thanks for the madness!
I regret not seeing the tour but damn no matter how much I love the Police, I couldn't afford it at the time.
3 different opinions, and they are all right. What do you do? But I guarantee, not a singe argument is about "making MY part better," it's about making THE SONG better.