Andy Summers took Sting's songs and reinvented them that's what made the Police sound, l consider him to be an absolute master of the guitar and very underated.
This song reminds me of a time when the world was a bigger mystery and the future full of excitement about what's to come. Can't help but be a bit nostalgic for the days before the internet.
It's possible without the internet non of this would be remembered anymore. All the VHS machines are broken, the cd players are broken, damn, even iPods are no more. My friends in the 90s would mock me for still listening to The Police. It was hell. Grunge, Acid House, Jungle, Garage, Rap, Acid Jazz, Brit Pop. Friggin horrible decade. The first few years of the internet were great. I think it's more, cell phones and the way the internet has been manipulated that is more of a problem. There was a brief period where broadband was fast enough to play RU-vid videos and there was no advertising. I think that was before Google purchased RU-vid. I actually had hope in the initial years of the internet but it's been so corrupted by big businesses and algorithms that it's basically become toilet TV.
@@mancuniancandidatem absolutely rigth! Nowadays trending topics on music and video are the ones who promotes 3rot1c content and more if they are lgtb... all media is garbage that have inner mission to alterate or driving the consciouness of people. Regards from Perú. 🎵🤘
i love seeing a shot with just andy and a lil of stew!!! usually cameras in these live shows are 90 percent stings face and i love seeing stew and andy playing 💓
Little? :-) The thinng is that he has his very personal way of filling up the space without the proverbial (and tired) scale run. Just think that aside from some pedal note played by an invisible player, the rest of the comp is just Andy.
@@Keepgoing42 Sorry for the year long delayed reply. I was busy dancing to Klark Kent B-sides. So yeah, there's nothing wrong with Sting on the pedal. It was good here. Obnoxious though during the Newcastle 1982 concert.
Actually Andy started off playing jazz in his teens, then went into rock during the 60's as well as studying classical guitar for 3 years. It was his combination of all these genres that made the Police sound. He took Sting's songs and added his unique style of guitar playing and the rest is history
I saw them in 1984 in Atlantic City, and then again 2007 at the same venue! Andy Summers is so under rated it makes me sick! The most talented trio period!
I wouldn't say "underrated". I mean, he's the guitar player in the most successful three-piece in history. Kinda hard to be underrated. Underpaid, definitely (Sting got all the royalties when P. Diddy copped the Every Breath You Take riff).
@@showbox2084 two brilliant albums. Amongst musicians he is not underrated by any means but he never really got his due for the riffs he came up with the Police in my opinion. Win the day
magnificent guitarist, the one and only Andy Summers..the one and only of the kind...and he is superbly excellent, in recording studio and onstage... not a 'conventional' musician, it's a dream for a band to have him/guitarist like him
Stewart looked like such a natural athlete, just look at his build, his stamina on stage was incredible. I reckon he would have been great at sports had he not picked up the drums
Unusual to just see Andy but I like it. And he’s playing his famous Telecaster. I like all the intricate textures he plays! He does arpeggios and rhythmic notes and all kind of effects. And for him it looks easy. And Stew is playing well behind him! 😎👏🏻🎸
Nice to see that even Andy can miss a note or two in concert :) And fabulous to see exactly where some of these notes are played, and how they're voiced -- Andy always had great voicings
Summers and Johnny Marr were guitarists who created a sonic tapestry under the lead vocal. Two of my all time faves. But listen to Steve Cropper's guitar for "Dock of the Bay" (which he co-write with Otis). You'll see who the father of them all is.
@@willinguyen1 That's the funniest scene of "It May Get Loud", where Edge shows how little he's actually playing on "Elevation" (I think it is). But that's a talent, too.
George Harrison was also in this line of players. The song is first and do what the song need. Their parts end up being an integral part of the song, not merely comping.
Ok guys lets try this. Both Alex and Andy are exceptional guitarists who bring exceptional, wonderful, stupendous and totally off the wall bitchin talents that no other guitarist can bring to Rush and The Police. They both are in my top 20 best guitarists of all time.
@@SeatLeonMK2 Only by 6 months. Both born in 1942. Incidentally, Andy was shortlisted to join the Rolling Stones when Brian Jones (also born in 1942) died in 1969.
This is a neat song. I can't say Andy Summers is THE greatest guitarist, but... What I consider the mark of a great guitar player is how they can bond what they compose into a song to make it unique to that song, and no other. When you hear the first few bars, you know immediately what song it is. He does a great job. Songs like "Mississippi Queen," "Gimmie Three Steps," "Layla," and others have the same trait. That's why Vai, Malmsteen, Satriani, and Wylde never have huge hits. They don't bond.
I'm currently learning this song on guitar and there's no better lesson than this video. I've been pausing, going back and forth looking at Andy's chords and fingers. Simply the best. Ps: Copeland a beast as usual.
I went to the recent reunion tour.... the effects were not there! This is Summers at his peak if you ask me...Big thank you for posting this....been waiting for it! :)
Awesome. Andy's original sound and technique is legendary. Stewart, sporting the jazz-grip for snare. He always does this, but you never see "rock drummers" do this...ever. Obviously shows a sign of a percussionist and not just a time-keeper.
@@jamesha175 A good musician can play out of time while still feeling the time. Leaves a lot of room to improvise. I dont like Jazz but I love the concept.
I'm a guitarist and absolutely agree Andy is essential and underappreciated to the sound, but that said: IMHO its Stewart's drums that really define the Police sound. If you listen to Andy with other drummers, he morphs a bit and it loses its original Police sound, whereas Stewart always has that distinctive tone.
Andy Summers, Robert Fripp and Greg Lake were childhood guitar mates, they went to the same guitar teacher. You can see that by the way they play;different music styles and applications, but they 3 keep the hands on and pluck the guitar in the same way
Sting is complete musicien bass player ,a singer and storyteller...Good show man on stage .. with the audience.. he is creator of living music.... ignorant can't see it
Amazying stuff from the legendary Andy summers... But how did you manage to get full shots from Andy alone ,??? Is it possible to find similar cam for the legendary stewart copland.?
Hey idiot, Sting's insistence of a melodic pop sound to sell the band worldwide makes Sting the genius of them all, and without him, Andy and Stewart would be another two unheard of musicians in a basket with hundreds of other extremely talented drummers and guitarists who are not recognized in the mainstream.
@@Julius_Paul Hi idiot. Old Chinese proverb (amended for the 21st century); Better to type nothing and appear an idiot than to let your fingers run wild and remove all doubt.
@chany4101 Yes! +1.....Learning Dave Matthews' rhythm style gave me such amazing dexterity w/ all four fret hand fingers. It also taught me some really weird new movable shapes. There is practically no chord too challenging even during fast changes since studying Dave's catalog. This song is haunting, mostly due to the shade the guitar lines lend it. Summers is a master at these types of rhythmic arpeggios. Many people have borrowed his style, mostly because it is worth borrowing.
This video clip is yet another affirmation as to why Andy Summers was the missing piece that Sting and Stewart needed in order to become the three headed monster they were.
i dont think the police had time to study rush, it is true the contraire, rush took its time to study what the best was going around, we know about their fusion of led zeppelin and yes and in the middle of the 80th talk talk, too
The Police didn't even have time to record their own albums! They'd get to the studio and within 10 - 15 minutes after hearing Sting's demos, the band recorded 2 or 3, or at most 4 takes for each song. Then (particularly after recording Zenyatta Mondatta) slept a few hours and went back on a world tour. Don't think they really thought about much during their time, much less other pop bands of the day
Andy Summers is making me pick up the guitar and putting away my bass for a while. I never new that Summers used fingerstyle, which is convenient since I'm learning and aim to play pick and fingers. I think he's very interesting. Summers, Knopfler, and Lifeson are my favorite guitarits.
OMG! They're among my favourites too! I love imaginative, sound- and arragement-oriented players, as much as (if not more than) riff-and-solo-oriented players, which is a breed that gets boring after a while.
U2 is not a power trio. Although four-piece bands such as the Who or Led Zeppelin may function instrumentally as a power trio, with three instrumentalists and a lead vocalist, these bands are not usually considered power trios.
@Christian Martin Understand.. I would agree.. Bono would make U2 a quartet..? They could be U4... lol. Perhaps I wasn't thinking when I envoked the labeling of the band a "Power trio" ... cheers