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 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.
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.
@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 RU-vid 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.
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.
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??
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...😊
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.
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.
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.
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 RU-vid 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.
@@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. 👍 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-77BhKRaJpBA.html
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.
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.
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.
+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 RU-vid, 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.
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.
'...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.
@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.