It's not about how Sting isn't the best bass player that ever lived, it's about how he's a decent, competent bass player and can SING AT THE SAME TIME as well as writing better songs than pretty much anyone else on the planet these last 30 or so years.
I could listen to sting play a standing bass all day, so talented guy so be able to sing as good as he does and play those awesome bass runs at the same time, most talented singer/bassist of all time
Sting really was at his peak in these years, IMHO. I think the tension/love/hate between him and Copeland and Summers kept him keen as a razor. There's a reason so much of his early solo material was Police covers.
This is filmed during tracking sessions for Ghost In The Machine! I know there has to be hours of video of them writing and recording these classics, you see a lot of studio footage in the videos. I hope they release something in the future
I actually think Sting is at his most gentlemanly self here, he's very respectable and at the peak of his musical genius. This is really great insight into the mind of a great musician and how he went about crafting songs, not to mention his awesome versatility and jazz chops on the upright, I mean come on, the dude is amazing.
I wonder how many of today's big pop stars have a jazz background / interest? Since the Police Andy Summers has made a string of jazz albums. Stewart Copeland still plays with Stanley Clarke today, one of the greatest jazz bazz players. Sting has played bass on albums by jazz musicians like Vinnie Colaiuta and Kip Hanrahan.
@evilsnakes1 they split song writing royalties equally during the police and for at least 10 years after the break up. I agree with you that without andy and stewart making stings jazz tunes into rock songs they would have been a plain band. However, you cant argue with stings talent on stage. He was unreal as a lead vocailist and great during live shows.
@evilsnakes1 "Sting has received sixteen Grammy Awards for his work, receiving his first Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1981, and an Oscar nomination for the best song. He is a member of both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame" #nosedive
Can be hard to tell in UA-cam quality, but yeah, it's Andy Summers (I'd think the "Peterson" bit was just Sting giving him a more "jazzy" name). Check the studio video for Spirits in the Material World. Andy wearing the same hat, same shirt etc.
@evilsnakes1 you're right, it's pretty easy to get a grammy. Now that I think about it, don't you have five yourself? I just remembered I've been a recipient of no less than three! Sting still has us beat a couple of times over though... fuck it, some people have all the luck.
@evilsnakes1 This is so true!!! Copeland's drums technique and play style is the one and only, very unique and without it The Police wouldn't be so amazing.
Haven't deleted anything from over a year ago. All past-week crap is gone. A couple of comments left which are just opinions without personal "attacks". If that's not what you see, then UA-cam is being slow updating. Even if this weren't the case, I'm not going to spend any time arguing about what's deleted and what's not. Haven't moderated a thing for the past 5 years, and I'm not going to again. Any spam or idiocy in the comments of this video, and I'll just delete the video.
it's a bit weird the way Sting puts on a fake cockney accent here. I have heard him do other accents. Sometimes he's a Geordie, and other times he's an English professor.
They all wore the exact same outfits in all the Ghost in the Machine era music videos. Either they shot those videos during the same day or they wore the same outfits every day.
This doc was filmed during the Ghost sessions. It's a BBC production called The Police On Montserrat. The Ghost singles vids were all filmed during the sessions.
I think at that time they really gave 0 f***s about heir looks. Sting wore his khaki jumpsuit 😍 on stage, for photo shoots and on album covers, Stewart only wore shorts, and the videos, well... it looks like most of them were shot just like that in the studio with improvised props and crazy dance moves or right outside, on a truck...😊
I would start by learning where the notes on a piano are, as music-theory was developed on piano - 4ths, 5ths etc. All white keys are C-major scale:C, D, E, F, A, B, C - no sharps or flats. Then just copy&paste that knowledge to a guitar. And move on to the next major scale. You'll only know it if you learn it. Just concentrate on 'C' to get the gist.
I fail to see how a comment I made in good faith over a year ago gets suddenly deleted, yet all the "12 year old" clap trap of the last few days, of which I played no part, gets left. Confused??
But just to clarify, no, I didn't see any idiocy from you. The only comment from you that I looked at was from 7 months ago, because it was part of (dragged into) the discussion. And it's still there.
Pre-warning: Entire "discussion" from the past 12+ hours will be deleted. I don't much care if you like Sting or not, or if you like The Police or not. But I'm not having my notifications mail spammed with pathetic personal slights between people who sound like 12 year olds.
What really annoys me is how Sting's accent changes according to his audience. On Dream Of The Blue Turtles he sounds like a pompous aristocrat...on Parkinson, when Billy Connoly was discussing his working class roots, Sting suddenly has a Geordie accent return...and here it's different again... Copeland rules. As does Jools.
@@thewomble1509 I think it was Hurricane 'Hugo' . There is a documentary somewhere with George Martin looking through the wreck of the studio years after it happened. It may also have been damaged by a volcano, I'm not sure.
@@thewomble1509 I found this little clip but there's another documentary called Under the Volcano all about the studio. 👍 ua-cam.com/video/77BhKRaJpBA/v-deo.html
Yeah you are right about the humor thing. Sting would be better to try self deprecating humor. The arrogant putdown style humor works better for real old pathetic looking guys ("Thank you ladies and jerks, you've been a lousy audience") etc.
'...most people think so' - is the logical fallacy called 'Appeal To Majority' and is never a good argument. What 'plot' do you speak of? Yours? Mine? His? You presume that a man who steered a trio to the most popular band in the world needs his goal to be 'most popular' for his next act. Like you, I personally preferred The Police but he did not. That's all.
He's on TV because musicians respect him, will talk with him, and trust his motives. He was the main interviewer for The Beatles Anthology because of this. And everything in your second sentence is true.
+SXI96 "I love The Police, and admire Sting's talent greatly, but I find the upright bass a bit of a self-indulgent overreach; he's not very good here..." HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. erm, no. you're wrong. all expression, at some level, is self-indulgent. as soon as one posts something on UA-cam, for instance, "indulge me" is implied. the upright bass sound was fantastic in this clip as well as when Sting played it on Shadows In The Rain, Walking On The Moon, and Don't Stand So Close To Me. as for him not being very good, gimme a break. he's fantastic. the fact that he doesn't wig out and go all Stanley Clarke on us has more to do with his focus on songwriting. so, which is it? do you want him to not be self-indulgent or to be "very good" here? sounds like confusion to me.
@dw2345 ??? He is a good musician by pop standards, but that is not much of a measure. He is no more "gifted" than literally millions of other musicians. "His" song writing is a sham: copeland and summers' sound is what you identify as the police sound, but they don't get songwriting credits for that because it is simply "arrangement". Gee, I wonder why sting's songwriting and career took a nose dive after leaving the police.
I don't care how many commercials use Sting's music to sell their products, the only thing Sting did that people look back and care about is the Police, and Summers and Copeland got robbed by a ridiculous songwriting credit that completely ignores arrangement and production. Without Summer's clean tone arpeggios and the unique sound of Copeland's kit and style in pop circles, Sting would have had nothing but a bunch of simple, mundane pop tunes.
It's not about how Sting isn't the best bass player that ever lived, it's about how he's a decent, competent bass player and can SING AT THE SAME TIME as well as writing better songs than pretty much anyone else on the planet these last 30 or so years.
so much talent in the police
this makes me so unbelievably happy
iiRachel Madness me too. Ghost in the machine was my first album. Pure magic!!!
Looks like the first part was filmed the same day as the video for "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic".
All that jazz!!! i could listen to them two for hours...
This is outfit from the "every litte thing she does is magic" video.
and Spirits too
I love how it moves from subtle jazz/ blues to Stu beating the shit out of his drums!
I could listen to sting play a standing bass all day, so talented guy so be able to sing as good as he does and play those awesome bass runs at the same time, most talented singer/bassist of all time
+Lucky Rocket Yeah I agree really talented. Didnt think he was into jazz
No more talented than Geddy Lee, who plays bass, complicated bass, sings and plays keyboards with his feet all at the same time
Sting really was at his peak in these years, IMHO. I think the tension/love/hate between him and Copeland and Summers kept him keen as a razor. There's a reason so much of his early solo material was Police covers.
He came from a jazz background
curragh 42. Yes 'Last Exit' the band.
This is filmed during tracking sessions for Ghost In The Machine! I know there has to be hours of video of them writing and recording these classics, you see a lot of studio footage in the videos. I hope they release something in the future
I actually think Sting is at his most gentlemanly self here, he's very respectable and at the peak of his musical genius. This is really great insight into the mind of a great musician and how he went about crafting songs, not to mention his awesome versatility and jazz chops on the upright, I mean come on, the dude is amazing.
He’s a jack-wagon. You must be an American who thinks an English accent makes someone a gentleman.
@@jamesm.3967 What are you on about?
I wonder how many of today's big pop stars have a jazz background / interest? Since the Police Andy Summers has made a string of jazz albums. Stewart Copeland still plays with Stanley Clarke today, one of the greatest jazz bazz players. Sting has played bass on albums by jazz musicians like Vinnie Colaiuta and Kip Hanrahan.
"what we need is a guitarist.. somebody with skill. OH! it's andy peterson!"
great upload, thanks a lot!!!
very interesting, pure talents they were/are
happy to find this video! thanks
if you think about it, this interview video looks like a real life "this is spinal tap" scene, especially the "it goes to eleven" scene.
Very cool, thanks!
Yes, exactly, I really liked this little jam session as well!
Love Em Or Hate Em , They we’re and are still Incredible AAA Calibre musicians , there was no weaknesses in The Police 🌞🌞🌞👍🏻❤️⭐️
Gotta love that Teac 144! Rare as hell!
I really dig that little jam session =]
Famous theme from Grieg LOL
so good
Awesome shorts.
@evilsnakes1 they split song writing royalties equally during the police and for at least 10 years after the break up. I agree with you that without andy and stewart making stings jazz tunes into rock songs they would have been a plain band. However, you cant argue with stings talent on stage. He was unreal as a lead vocailist and great during live shows.
@evilsnakes1
"Sting has received sixteen Grammy Awards for his work, receiving his first Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1981, and an Oscar nomination for the best song. He is a member of both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame" #nosedive
Sting reminds me of Alex in Clockwork Orange in this.
Only he was am(and still is imo) super cute and hot. More than Malcolm Mc Dowell, though I like him.
i like the police, like to hear them, hear them in my brain.
Yes, it's recorded around the middle of 1981, during the recording of GitM.
Here, here. :-)
So the Police were really a Jazz band!!! :)
KRAZEEIZATION well jazz and the blues is really the essence and heart of rocking roll anyway
Well - they started off as faux punks - then strangely reggae with a little bit of electro synth.
To answer your question, 2/3 yes. Both Sting and Andy played in Jazz bands before the Police.
Nice shorts.
did sting just call stewart a creep at 41 seconds
yes
Yes, he did.
Yes, but you must keep in mind that Stewart had "Fuck Off Sting" written on his drums at the time 😊
Awesome(my standard comment)
They're for the most part, british so its part of their sarcastic humor. alot of people dont get it.
Can be hard to tell in UA-cam quality, but yeah, it's Andy Summers (I'd think the "Peterson" bit was just Sting giving him a more "jazzy" name).
Check the studio video for Spirits in the Material World. Andy wearing the same hat, same shirt etc.
Half expecting Will Ferrell to turn up rocking some jazz flute 😂
these guys know eachother and are having a bit of fun - no cockery there
thank you! somebody who understands what im talking about! not to mention...he was also a bit rude to Stewart ya know?
...
yes he did...
Andy Summers
31/12/1942
79 años (80)
What's the Oscar nomination for, "It's Probably Me"?
make sure you keep the solo's under 8 bars andy!!!- Sting
Note that what makes one 'cool', especially in the music industry, is the opposite of your majority sentiment.
@evilsnakes1
you're right, it's pretty easy to get a grammy. Now that I think about it, don't you have five yourself? I just remembered I've been a recipient of no less than three! Sting still has us beat a couple of times over though... fuck it, some people have all the luck.
@evilsnakes1
This is so true!!! Copeland's drums technique and play style is the one and only, very unique and without it The Police wouldn't be so amazing.
I think he said Django Reinhardt. Watch Sweet and Lowdown with Sean Penn.
Jeez. 'here hear'. Hahahaha
standard 12-bar blues
Were they inhaling helium or is the sound track a bit fast?
They were younger I think.
Haven't deleted anything from over a year ago. All past-week crap is gone. A couple of comments left which are just opinions without personal "attacks". If that's not what you see, then UA-cam is being slow updating. Even if this weren't the case, I'm not going to spend any time arguing about what's deleted and what's not. Haven't moderated a thing for the past 5 years, and I'm not going to again. Any spam or idiocy in the comments of this video, and I'll just delete the video.
@dw2345
I would use cocky, because arrogant implies some sense of misdirection in one's confidence.
when was this film took?
Does anyone know what song they are jamming to?
"stop acting like an idiot and play the piano"....LOL
0:00-is this man Jools Holland?
is this all in the key of C?
Yeah, but since the video is slightly sped up it sounds closer to C#.
Stewart, what are those words on your drum heads and do they serve a function?😂🤣😂
why is sting speaking in a strange mockney accent here?
it's a bit weird the way Sting puts on a fake cockney accent here. I have heard him do other accents. Sometimes he's a Geordie, and other times he's an English professor.
This video is named correctly...
Sting says we need a guitarist, it s Andy Peterson. Is nt the guitarists name Andy Summers?
I should have guessed..
Why Sting doing a mockney accent here? It's years before he even met Guy Richie.
They all wore the exact same outfits in all the Ghost in the Machine era music videos. Either they shot those videos during the same day or they wore the same outfits every day.
This doc was filmed during the Ghost sessions. It's a BBC production called The Police On Montserrat. The Ghost singles vids were all filmed during the sessions.
I think at that time they really gave 0 f***s about heir looks. Sting wore his khaki jumpsuit 😍 on stage, for photo shoots and on album covers, Stewart only wore shorts, and the videos, well... it looks like most of them were shot just like that in the studio with improvised props and crazy dance moves or right outside, on a truck...😊
I'd say they were literally too busy to give clothing a thought esp as it's such a small island as well.
I would start by learning where the notes on a piano are, as music-theory was developed on piano - 4ths, 5ths etc. All white keys are C-major scale:C, D, E, F, A, B, C - no sharps or flats. Then just copy&paste that knowledge to a guitar. And move on to the next major scale.
You'll only know it if you learn it. Just concentrate on 'C' to get the gist.
Is that andy summers jamming with stings and jools holland? I think he says andy peterson
I fail to see how a comment I made in good faith over a year ago gets suddenly deleted, yet all the "12 year old" clap trap of the last few days, of which I played no part, gets left. Confused??
three words.
freeform jazz exploration.
but not in front of a festival crowd.
yet.
@michaelzxhc yeah yeah yeah yeahhhhhh
This goes in my playlist out of order, because fuck Sting!
But just to clarify, no, I didn't see any idiocy from you. The only comment from you that I looked at was from 7 months ago, because it was part of (dragged into) the discussion. And it's still there.
what does jools say at 24 seconds?
"Have you learned that Django Reinhardt tune yet?" One of Summers main influences on jazz guitar. Look him up,quite a character.
jajaja
Why has Sting developed a cockney accent??
Pre-warning: Entire "discussion" from the past 12+ hours will be deleted. I don't much care if you like Sting or not, or if you like The Police or not. But I'm not having my notifications mail spammed with pathetic personal slights between people who sound like 12 year olds.
why does he call Stewart a Creep?
+Lucky Rocket he's kidding around.
"look stop acting like an idiot, why don't you play the piano"
What really annoys me is how Sting's accent changes according to his audience. On Dream Of The Blue Turtles he sounds like a pompous aristocrat...on Parkinson, when Billy Connoly was discussing his working class roots, Sting suddenly has a Geordie accent return...and here it's different again...
Copeland rules. As does Jools.
You should hear Paul McCartney once he's in Liverpool.
It's embarrassing.
Shame the studios were wrecked by a storm
Wasn't it a volcano?
@@thewomble1509 I think it was Hurricane 'Hugo' . There is a documentary somewhere with George Martin looking through the wreck of the studio years after it happened. It may also have been damaged by a volcano, I'm not sure.
@@thewomble1509 I found this little clip but there's another documentary called Under the Volcano all about the studio. 👍
ua-cam.com/video/77BhKRaJpBA/v-deo.html
@@chathamabs2011 Cheers mate.
It's a shame the video tape was sped up. They all sound like chipmunks.
@evilsnakes1
partly true, mostly bullshait
it´s Sting with a dodgy cockney accent!
Wasn´t cool to be northern at the time I suppose..
Craig Farr maybe if he sang in a Geordie accent it wouldn't have sounded as good
@dw2345 of course he's arrogant. They're all arrogant. Arrogance is part of the job for a rock star.
yea the talented are usually perceived as such by the talentless
Oh and Andy might be a wee but coked up here too. lol Just a little.
two words.
spinal
tap
;-)
Kinda sounds like Jason Kay from Jamiroquai haha
@berto1337
...ouch, did you just say something about the grannies? I guess you have nothing but respect for Buble as well.
sting is on coke
and the pope is catholic
I think he did need to get his nose fixed with an operation after his habit with that drug.
Jools Holland was the first ever MOCKNEY.
Yeah you are right about the humor thing. Sting would be better to try self deprecating humor. The arrogant putdown style humor works better for real old pathetic looking guys ("Thank you ladies and jerks, you've been a lousy audience") etc.
cocaine !
+themanfromutopia1 no sting is just a hyper person
very true.
Wierd, amidst all that pro gear they have a humble Tascam portastudio, (cassette 4-track).
Please pass along the musicianship of yesteryear....without it...your proficiency will be lost!
'...most people think so' - is the logical fallacy called 'Appeal To Majority' and is never a good argument. What 'plot' do you speak of? Yours? Mine? His?
You presume that a man who steered a trio to the most popular band in the world needs his goal to be 'most popular' for his next act. Like you, I personally preferred The Police but he did not. That's all.
Why, how and whose idea was it to put Holland on Tv?
He has a terrible voice and lacks any charm, personality or charisma!
35 years later and he's still the same!
No u.
He's on TV because musicians respect him, will talk with him, and trust his motives. He was the main interviewer for The Beatles Anthology because of this.
And everything in your second sentence is true.
I love The Police, and admire Sting's talent greatly, but I find the upright bass a bit of a self-indulgent overreach; he's not very good here.
+clinke2007 it's just a jam session, they're having fun, Sting is a great bassist imo
+SXI96 "I love The Police, and admire Sting's talent greatly, but I find the upright bass a bit of a self-indulgent overreach; he's not very good here..."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
erm, no.
you're wrong.
all expression,
at some level,
is self-indulgent.
as soon as one posts something on UA-cam,
for instance,
"indulge me" is implied.
the upright bass sound was fantastic in this clip as well as when Sting played it on Shadows In The Rain,
Walking On The Moon,
and
Don't Stand So Close To Me.
as for him not being very good,
gimme a break.
he's fantastic.
the fact that he doesn't wig out and go all Stanley Clarke on us has more to do with his focus on songwriting.
so,
which is it?
do you want him to not be self-indulgent or to be "very good" here?
sounds like confusion to me.
clinke2007 The upright bass has a beautiful sound. I'm glad he used that lovely instrument.
clinke2007 youre not very good
Yeah sting, don't over-indulge in a unique hobby
sting's intonation is bad.
@dw2345
???
He is a good musician by pop standards, but that is not much of a measure. He is no more "gifted" than literally millions of other musicians. "His" song writing is a sham: copeland and summers' sound is what you identify as the police sound, but they don't get songwriting credits for that because it is simply "arrangement".
Gee, I wonder why sting's songwriting and career took a nose dive after leaving the police.
I don't care how many commercials use Sting's music to sell their products, the only thing Sting did that people look back and care about is the Police, and Summers and Copeland got robbed by a ridiculous songwriting credit that completely ignores arrangement and production. Without Summer's clean tone arpeggios and the unique sound of Copeland's kit and style in pop circles, Sting would have had nothing but a bunch of simple, mundane pop tunes.
But he wrote and composed the songs.