Over the decades since its release, Regatta De Blanc is the Police album I return to more than any other. Sting and Andy are certainly in fine form on Regatta De Blanc but Copeland's drumming is absolutely incredible on that album. He's just on fire.
I'm not disagreeing with you but when you make statements like that your forgetting the other greats that came before or after them: Cream ZZ Top Motorhead Rush The Jimi Hendrix EXPERIENCE BBM Primus John Mayor Trio Blink-182 Genesis Buddy Holly & The Crickets The Jam Manic Street Preachers Muse Nirvana Just to name a few... Of course you have the right to your opinion but many Power Trio's most often than not split up & go on to write & perform better works, but it was the Trio that launched them, & this is definitely true of The Police... In light of coronavirus stay safe and healthy where ever you are in the world... .....
I've seen many different Police documentaries. It's really great to hear it from the perspective of the former guitarist Mr. Padovani. It really brings a perspective to their history that one doesn't get from the other band members. Thank you!
Marky E totally agree. Padovani consistently seems to gloss over this story.. he was a 3 chord guitarist ffs! Got frustrated when Andy started playing sus4 chords. All thats pretty well documented. Yes of course there was a power shift. There had to be. Andy brought sooooo much to the table. He enabled Sting to write more sophisticated songs. Songs we all grew up with. I hate Padovani's story telling about this time, he writes himself in to the Police history all the time. He's made shit loads selling books and interviews over the years. This doc makes me laugh when Padovani tells his story all you can hear is Andy's guitar in the background.
Andy’s Telecaster is almost like a 4th Member of the band, it helped contribute all the riffs we hear in their songs !!! I’m so glad Fender did a signature model based on it !!!
Saw an interview with Stewart once and if memory serves, he said he picked up the 3-stroke beats in the arab world as a child when he was living there because his father was working the region at the time. The titlesong is my favorite by the way. eeeeooo eeeeeeooooo eeeeeeoooooyooooo
Andy is the most under-rated "guitar hero" in rock! People talk about Dave Gilmour, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page. I think Andy Summers can wipe the floor with all of them, he just wasn't a show-off type of player. You need to hear his solo records to realize what kind of a player he is. With the Police, on their final tour, he let it rip a bit more. On Regatta and other albums, his playing is tastefully understated, but you can hear the genius just under the surface.
ANOTHER correction. The first three albums were named by Miles Copeland. The band didn't particularly care for the names but they needed something. They weren't trying to explain away the reggae aspect of the music. That was Miles doing.
People talk as though if they had met Andy Summers in 1977 they would have instantly said "This guy is amazing! He's gonna be a rock star!!" Or the same for any other member of the Police or any other band...ever. If you think it's easy...do it now. Look around at all the struggling musicians and tell us which one is gonna be a huge rock star. If you could do that a record company would pay you 10 million dollars right away. This is all called "survivaship bias".
Regatta de blanc is considered by million of fans the best album of the band and surprisily on it are 3 StewRt Copeland songs and others in co authoring Sting w/Stewart & Andy besides the Sting hits at great songs from that marvellous album. Regards from Lima Peru. ✌🎸💣💥🎵😎
Andy! I thought brought some guitar finesse to the Police!!! With his sus2 and sus add9 chords and guitar leads he demonstrated that he was more than the typical punk rock guitar player that just bangs out power chords and plays sloppy!!!😊☺😊☺🎸🎸🎸🎷🎶🎹🎼🎹🎶🎹🎼🎹🎼🎼
@romandame So has Justin Beaver, Miley Cirus and One Direction ... you can't account for dodgy American taste. If you surveyed most of the British public then Police would be less popular than The Jam definitely and The Specials possibly!
A 3 PIECE BAND THAT SOUNDED LIKE A 5 PIECE BAND. STING, ANDY AND STEWART WERE TRUE MASTERS OF THEIR INSTRUMENTS TO BE ABLE TO BRING ABOUT SUCH A FULL AND INCREDIBLE SOUND WITH EXPLOSIVE ENERGY
I think Henri is dead on about 97% of the time and a pretty cool character. To paint him as a guy who is upset because he lost out on millions is pedestrian thinking. Money isn’t everything. There would have been none of that success with him in the line-up. It’s not his fault, he was just a different kind of musician. If he wanted to be an Andy Summers type guitar player then he would have studied in that direction. I think he wanted to be exactly what he was, a rocker. When you lose a girl to a guy she eventually marries it’s usually easy to see why you weren’t right for each other and why her husband was the perfect partner for her fulfillment. No hard feelings in that, it simply is. I think this is Henri’s very mature assessment. A lot of these video clips clearly demonstrate why the Police became so revered (and also reviled). They were astoundingly good creative musicians who had the balls to let the music lead them to a new sound. They played HARD, probably self-conscious about their music being too pretty and sophisticated. I see no coasting at all in anything they played, they were present and risk-taking and if they let the others down in any way they sure got hell for it (notice Andy chiding one of the other about a timing issue). This is a dream situation for a musician, playing with two other equals who are relentlessly push you to be better. I loved the police when I was younger and still get shit for it but even more than ever I stand my conviction that they are one of the best bands in popular music and hold their own against anyone.
I don't doubt Henry, I mean, I certainly wasn't there, but his bitterness is still subtly palpable. Why does he need to say "Miles said, 'You should have kept Henry.'"? Doesn't add anything to the documentary other than to let you know that Henry felt they still could have made it with him. Not saying he's a bad a guitarist, but the Police we know were only the Police with Andy. Later, "If it wasn't for Sting, he [Stewart] never would have played reggae." Really, Henry? You're sure of that? He's a weird, embarrassing, semi-confusing addition to the documentary.
Interesting take. I don’t see him as any more bitter than any other middle-aged person I know. He is certainly French, pretty typically so in my experience. “Weird”? I guess he reminds me of so many artists and musicians I know. Watching Henri I feel like I completely understand where he is coming from. Just seems like a guy with a very unique perspective, an inside look into the formation of one of the most important groups in the eighties. I think he’s my favorite part of the documentary! Haha. To each their own.
@@aar1967Bitter? He had a successful career of his own with a couple of other groups, worked in the industry (hired by Miles, Copeland's brother), and on TV in France. He remained friends with the band and played on stage with them during their final reunion concert. Nothing bitter there. He knew Summers was a far better and seasoned guitarist than him.
why does the end of this turn into a zenyatta bash party? unless this is part of a bigger series that goes through all their albums it seems unnecessary.
Regatta De Last Exit! The second album and they were still doing cover versions of old Last Exit material. As for 3:30 the guy just got it plain wrong re Sting having never been to London before Stewart called him down. In reality Stung was doing gigs in London in 1976 before he ever met Stewart. Even after forming the police they were still playing old Last Exit material in the punk clubs and continued to do Last Exit cover versions recorded for other albums including Brimstone and Synchronicity (& Dream of the Blue Turtles afterwards.) Henri talks about uncool with links to Last Exit but in reality the LX material gave the police so many of the biggest police hits ever recorded
Sorry Henry, Andy Summers brought more the group chord wise. So much so years afterwards Def Leppard’s Phil Collen used the riff from “Message In A Bottle” for “Pour Some Sugar On Me” 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 !!!
I once read this interview with one of the guys of the bands who toured with the Police when they were starting out, who didn't make the best impression on Sting, when he asked him if he could lend him his bass amp for the night since his own didn't work anymore. Well, perfectly normal thing to do, why would Sting be angry with that? Well the unfortunate guy thought his name was "Stink" which he thought was a very punk rock name, fits in perfectly with Johnny Rotten and Rats Scabies. Later when reminded of the encounter, Sting could laugh about it.
All their album titles sound the same, Regatta de Blanc, Zenyatta Mendatta, Bugatti The Spotty, Mabinky Zendinki, My Sister Melissa, The itchy my bum, Gropa the dopa, at least they're consistent.
Padovani has his own personal reality. Fuck knows why they used him in this. He was fired by Sting who sat listening to him playing a guitar that was out of tune and not having the ears to tell the difference.
I've heard all their records, and Synchronicity is easily the best album they ever produced. It may have cost them dearly in terms of relating to each other as colleagues, but it's the most complete and deepest of their albums. Other albums had just silly shit, like songs about blow-up dolls, and the like and then a couple hits, like Roxanne, Walking on the Moon etc. Synchronicity is a masterpiece from end to end. I'm so tired of hearing 'Every Breath You Take' that I skip it every time out, but everything else on that record is as good as Roxanne, and on one record. You can tell they did this doc on the cheap, but they missed the whole story of this tremendously important band. Weak piece of work here. Didn't even mention the last record, which was by far the most successful. What a piece of dross. Sorry to have wasted my time on such a piece of shit work on such a great band.
I have watched a lot of documentaries about the Police and I wonder why they are talked about like the pioneers of reggae-infused rock, when the Clash were doing it at the same time.
They were never a reggae band and a lot of the comments in this doc are garbage. Miles Copeland came up with the "Regatta" name because it sounded unusual and kitsch.The police were really a very accessible fusion band, like the Beatles.
Both band are incredible. No competition. Two different styles. Both are sick. The Police aren't just about reggae if you know your music. It's middle eastern, jazz, funk...so much. Just listen to Death Wish for example. that's Bo Didley with a speed up reggae-ish bass, rock chorus, drums are...pick a legendary black jazz drummer from the 50s/60s but with A LOT of muscle. That's just one song.
One of the most exciting things about this point in musical history was that bands were tuning more into non-European/American musical styles. Certainly in the UK, the heavy West Indian population introduced ska and reggae (which influenced bands from the Police, through The Clash, The Specials, UB40, etc.). In the US, Talking Heads and others brought in a lot of African and Latin inspired beats for the first time. The great thing about the so-called punk movement was not the punk music itself (although I enjoyed that). Rather it was the throwing out of the standard rules of rock and roll and a willingness to experiment.
These are never really "documentaries"...They're brief flashes of widely available music clips with lame interviews of lame people with lame opinions thrown in between. This format has been exhausted. Unwatchable rubbish
Reggatta de blanc: Last Stewart Police´s vision Album... The album were drums are in the same level than voice... Stewart wanted to fight Sting´s vision... "The other one was complete bull-shit", Klark Kent , and all that...
@00:14 - The bloke at the beginning of the video has no idea what he's talking about 😆 Regatta doesn't mean reggae, it means race in a boating / yachting context. So Regatta de Blanc literally means White Race.
@@andybaldman Yes, you may be correct, if you're spelling 'regatta' with one 'g' (dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/regatta) however, the title of the album is Reggatta de Blanc, spelled with two... I suggest maybe you investigate further...
I love Henri. But be reasonable. No one can touch Andy. And why is he in so much of this doc? He played no role whatsoever in the band except for the first 45, and he didn't even play the lead on that. Stew played it. I notice that the longtime and legit members of The Police are nowhere in this doc.
Padovani needs to stop. He can't play. Fuck being "cool" (whatever that is). The three who became The Policeall had a vase taste in music and all were jazz trained. They weren't just play reggae beats. There's A LOT of stuff going on if you know your music. They all fit together. Stewart interested in him for punk cred. Andy could play...but more importantly, he could play what Sting wrote. Steward wanted to sneak into the punk scene but it doesn't make sense to reject a strong music for a look. The music can't grow that way. It wouldn't have grown if Padovani was in the group...and Sting would have left earlier than he did. It wasn't about Sting "stealing " the band. He's the better writer. We wouldn't even be talking about them if he didn't write the songs for them to play on. And yes, he wrote a lot of the guitar parts as well (SOS).
Stop what? He's still mates with Sting and Copeland, and he's played with them several times over the years. He didn't get on with Summers, since he was a very experienced guitarist with pedigree and thus a threat to his position in the band, but he says he never resented being pushed out and agrees that Summers found his home and sound in The Police. “Things happened the way they did, and that’s perfectly fine. I never felt like I missed out. I did what I did, and I’m pleased with how things turned out for me.”
What a shitty fucking "documentary", nothing but music critics and no name losers giving their opinions about tracks without any input from the band members (except Salty Padovani), no isolated tracks, nothing. It's a giant waste of time!
Henry is too bitter shame he has a such a prominent role in this documentary because he had nothing to do with this album... I had to stop watching after 15 mins.
Bitter? He's still mates with the bandmembers, and played on stage with them during the final gig of their reunion tour. Copeland's brother hired him at one point and they played together other times too.
And now listen to what he says AFTER that quote. You know the thing about how after some time Andy found his place in the band and how well Andy's playing fits Sting's songwriting. Why are you only quoting the only part of that interview which had a negative tone to it?
Why do they hammer this particular performance over and over in this video? Its not a particularly good one...Ive seen loads better Police performances. Andy's out of tune a lot, Andy and Sting are not in tune, Andy hits a lot of bum chords and notes, Sting's voice is flat. I mean it still rocks but am I the only one hearing this?
Funny eh? I was with a few friends and we went to see a mutual friend play in his band at the Horseshow. A band we had never heard of - The Police - were opening. They came on and all of us - local professional musicians in Toronto - sat there ... stunned. They were horrible. Same old, same old 16ths on the floor toms and screaming. Punk ... meh. We all left went up the street for a few beers and came back for our buddy's band. Something CERTAINLY happened after that first gig - cause well ... look at where they went. There were about 50 people in The Horseshoe - 1/2 of them left.
Sting may be annoying as hell, but you know nothing about bass or harmony or songwriting to say that he's "along for the ride". An utterly fatuous opinion, to which you are entitled -- and if you want to own it, well, go ahead. This was a band of 3 brilliant musical equals, in my opinion.
This ridiculous documentary put Sting songs, and Sting composed almost all songs of this album as if composed by Summers that didnt composed anything. Awful.
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My favorite record of all time. Wore out two vinyl copies in high school. Stupefyingly great.
My favorite band.... Amazing
I can still play this album on the drums note for note. Only because I played along to it literally a thousand times as a teenager. Masterpiece.
Saw them in 1980 and they were great, really great. All members played their best and added to the sound.Best concert I've ever been to.
1st album I ever bought. Masterpiece.
Over the decades since its release, Regatta De Blanc is the Police album I return to more than any other. Sting and Andy are certainly in fine form on Regatta De Blanc but Copeland's drumming is absolutely incredible on that album. He's just on fire.
Arguably, the Greatest trio band of all time.
I'm not disagreeing with you but when you make statements like that your forgetting the other greats that came before or after them:
Cream
ZZ Top
Motorhead
Rush
The Jimi Hendrix EXPERIENCE
BBM
Primus
John Mayor Trio
Blink-182
Genesis
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
The Jam
Manic Street Preachers
Muse
Nirvana
Just to name a few... Of course you have the right to your opinion but many Power Trio's most often than not split up & go on to write & perform better works, but it was the Trio that launched them, & this is definitely true of The Police...
In light of coronavirus stay safe and healthy where ever you are in the world...
.....
RUclips Is An Influencer : Hence the word, “arguably”.
easily
I saw Muse in 2002 and they were the best trio I've seen. Kings X are great too.
The Doors might disagree with that comment.
I've seen many different Police documentaries. It's really great to hear it from the perspective of the former guitarist Mr. Padovani. It really brings a perspective to their history that one doesn't get from the other band members. Thank you!
Part of the soundtrack of my childhood.....great times...great band....i feel lucky to have grown up with such great music.
Padovani's comments on Andy "not bringing anything" is about as laugh out loud as anything else I'm going to hear all day.
Marky E totally agree. Padovani consistently seems to gloss over this story.. he was a 3 chord guitarist ffs! Got frustrated when Andy started playing sus4 chords. All thats pretty well documented. Yes of course there was a power shift. There had to be. Andy brought sooooo much to the table. He enabled Sting to write more sophisticated songs. Songs we all grew up with. I hate Padovani's story telling about this time, he writes himself in to the Police history all the time. He's made shit loads selling books and interviews over the years. This doc makes me laugh when Padovani tells his story all you can hear is Andy's guitar in the background.
@Andrew Fry you got it. People don't listen to the context in which he said it. In fact he mentions later how brilliant Andy is.
@@regaltip8A if he had remained in the band there wouldn't have been the band and therefore no millions of dollars.
Go play every album note for note...get back to me..
@Andrew Fry um, not at all. just a connoisseur speech out of his ass
This album deserves a better documentary. Best Police album followed closely by Synchronicity
Synchronicity was the end
3 virtuosos in one band plus Sting being one of the greatest songwriters of 20th century,
Yes, Sting composed almost the whole album.
Saw them in 07 at msg for 260$. I'm not rich but I thought this would be my 1 and only shot. They were really great.
Bought this album in 1979 two ten inch records with a poster, so cool!
I have the same one !!!
Andy’s Telecaster is almost like a 4th Member of the band, it helped contribute all the riffs we hear in their songs !!! I’m so glad Fender did a signature model based on it !!!
Saw an interview with Stewart once and if memory serves, he said he picked up the 3-stroke beats in the arab world as a child when he was living there because his father was working the region at the time. The titlesong is my favorite by the way. eeeeooo eeeeeeooooo eeeeeeoooooyooooo
Andy is the most under-rated "guitar hero" in rock! People talk about Dave Gilmour, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page. I think Andy Summers can wipe the floor with all of them, he just wasn't a show-off type of player. You need to hear his solo records to realize what kind of a player he is. With the Police, on their final tour, he let it rip a bit more. On Regatta and other albums, his playing is tastefully understated, but you can hear the genius just under the surface.
ANOTHER correction. The first three albums were named by Miles Copeland. The band didn't particularly care for the names but they needed something. They weren't trying to explain away the reggae aspect of the music. That was Miles doing.
People talk as though if they had met Andy Summers in 1977 they would have instantly said "This guy is amazing! He's gonna be a rock star!!" Or the same for any other member of the Police or any other band...ever. If you think it's easy...do it now. Look around at all the struggling musicians and tell us which one is gonna be a huge rock star. If you could do that a record company would pay you 10 million dollars right away. This is all called "survivaship bias".
I was Four years old at the time.
My bin Brother bought the Album.
Still with me nearly every Montagvormittag my Life.
Mr. Sumner, thank you..
Every month of my Life. I hate autocorrect
Regatta de blanc is considered by million of fans the best album of the band and surprisily on it are 3 StewRt Copeland songs and others in co authoring Sting w/Stewart & Andy besides the Sting hits at great songs from that marvellous album. Regards from Lima Peru. ✌🎸💣💥🎵😎
The Jam....Another great 3 piece
Better imho
@@beetleything1864 😥
Saw them in Milwaukee in 08. Best $50 ever spent
Awesome album
Best police material live from this lp.
This is actually enjoyable.
The doc leaves A LOT to be desired!! If you don't know The Police, this isn't it.
great! what amplifier and speaker did Andy Summer use to record Message in a Bottle in the studio?
Andy! I thought brought some guitar finesse to the Police!!! With his sus2 and sus add9 chords and guitar leads he demonstrated that he was more than the typical punk rock guitar player that just bangs out power chords and plays sloppy!!!😊☺😊☺🎸🎸🎸🎷🎶🎹🎼🎹🎶🎹🎼🎹🎼🎼
He made his fingers do yoga for those chords (believe me, I play a little guitar and this song was beyond tricky).
Great great bandf! I didn't realize Andy couldn't harmonize live.
Beautiful documentary
Copeland and Summers were masterful players. It sounded like the vocal harmonies were a little flat, but you can't have it all.
They were up there with Squeeze, Costello, Jam, Specials, Beat - no doubt about it.
You mean Squeeze and Elvis Costello were up there with the Police
@@terencerosenthal6693 They were behind The Jam!
@romandame So has Justin Beaver, Miley Cirus and One Direction ... you can't account for dodgy American taste.
If you surveyed most of the British public then Police would be less popular than The Jam definitely and The Specials possibly!
I wore this cassette out.
“Walkin’ round the Room!!”
the bed's too big without you
A 3 PIECE BAND THAT SOUNDED LIKE A 5 PIECE BAND. STING, ANDY AND STEWART WERE TRUE MASTERS OF THEIR INSTRUMENTS TO BE ABLE TO BRING ABOUT SUCH A FULL AND INCREDIBLE SOUND WITH EXPLOSIVE ENERGY
39:16 Did I TikTok been too fast?
I think Henri is dead on about 97% of the time and a pretty cool character. To paint him as a guy who is upset because he lost out on millions is pedestrian thinking. Money isn’t everything. There would have been none of that success with him in the line-up. It’s not his fault, he was just a different kind of musician. If he wanted to be an Andy Summers type guitar player then he would have studied in that direction. I think he wanted to be exactly what he was, a rocker. When you lose a girl to a guy she eventually marries it’s usually easy to see why you weren’t right for each other and why her husband was the perfect partner for her fulfillment. No hard feelings in that, it simply is. I think this is Henri’s very mature assessment. A lot of these video clips clearly demonstrate why the Police became so revered (and also reviled). They were astoundingly good creative musicians who had the balls to let the music lead them to a new sound. They played HARD, probably self-conscious about their music being too pretty and sophisticated. I see no coasting at all in anything they played, they were present and risk-taking and if they let the others down in any way they sure got hell for it (notice Andy chiding one of the other about a timing issue). This is a dream situation for a musician, playing with two other equals who are relentlessly push you to be better. I loved the police when I was younger and still get shit for it but even more than ever I stand my conviction that they are one of the best bands in popular music and hold their own against anyone.
I don't doubt Henry, I mean, I certainly wasn't there, but his bitterness is still subtly palpable. Why does he need to say "Miles said, 'You should have kept Henry.'"? Doesn't add anything to the documentary other than to let you know that Henry felt they still could have made it with him. Not saying he's a bad a guitarist, but the Police we know were only the Police with Andy. Later, "If it wasn't for Sting, he [Stewart] never would have played reggae." Really, Henry? You're sure of that? He's a weird, embarrassing, semi-confusing addition to the documentary.
Interesting take. I don’t see him as any more bitter than any other middle-aged person I know. He is certainly French, pretty typically so in my experience. “Weird”? I guess he reminds me of so many artists and musicians I know. Watching Henri I feel like I completely understand where he is coming from. Just seems like a guy with a very unique perspective, an inside look into the formation of one of the most important groups in the eighties. I think he’s my favorite part of the documentary! Haha. To each their own.
@@aar1967Bitter? He had a successful career of his own with a couple of other groups, worked in the industry (hired by Miles, Copeland's brother), and on TV in France. He remained friends with the band and played on stage with them during their final reunion concert. Nothing bitter there. He knew Summers was a far better and seasoned guitarist than him.
why does the end of this turn into a zenyatta bash party? unless this is part of a bigger series that goes through all their albums it seems unnecessary.
Regatta De Last Exit! The second album and they were still doing cover versions of old Last Exit material. As for 3:30 the guy just got it plain wrong re Sting having never been to London before Stewart called him down. In reality Stung was doing gigs in London in 1976 before he ever met Stewart. Even after forming the police they were still playing old Last Exit material in the punk clubs and continued to do Last Exit cover versions recorded for other albums including Brimstone and Synchronicity (& Dream of the Blue Turtles afterwards.) Henri talks about uncool with links to Last Exit but in reality the LX material gave the police so many of the biggest police hits ever recorded
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Exit_(British_band)
henry spoke well here
!Enri is down to earth
Sorry Henry, Andy Summers brought more the group chord wise. So much so years afterwards Def Leppard’s Phil Collen used the riff from “Message In A Bottle” for “Pour Some Sugar On Me” 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 !!!
Favorite DOES EVERY STARE WONDERFUL
Hugh Fielder doesn't know a regatta is a boat race.
Who IS that guy who's only reggae reference is Bob Marley?
The guy who didn't make the band. haha
I believe it is journalist Chris Welch.....
Without Andy no police
I agree; he's a monster. But all three had to be in the band for it to work.
The Police Great Great Stewart copeland
Regatta De Blanc didn't make them huge in the US. Zendaya Mondatta was their breakthrough album in the states.
I once read this interview with one of the guys of the bands who toured with the Police when they were starting out, who didn't make the best impression on Sting, when he asked him if he could lend him his bass amp for the night since his own didn't work anymore. Well, perfectly normal thing to do, why would Sting be angry with that?
Well the unfortunate guy thought his name was "Stink" which he thought was a very punk rock name, fits in perfectly with Johnny Rotten and Rats Scabies. Later when reminded of the encounter, Sting could laugh about it.
For me their best is Ghost in the Machine.
One thing that stands out to me from this, for no reason, is the resemblance of Andy Summers to Rod Stewart.😆
TWO Gs in Reggatta!! Gave up with this. Cheap doc.
How do I take this documentary seriously if they misspell the name of the album in the title?
Having a guy in the band comment on a record he had nothing to do with removes all the credabillity this show had.
Mi favorito??? Todos
The Rock too Big With You!
What does Shirley Williams know about music?
All their album titles sound the same, Regatta de Blanc, Zenyatta Mendatta, Bugatti The Spotty, Mabinky Zendinki, My Sister Melissa, The itchy my bum, Gropa the dopa, at least they're consistent.
WHEN THE POLICE WENT FROM PUNK TO REGGAE, THEY BECAME ONE OF THE GREATEST BANDS IN THE WORLD. MUSIC LEGENDS TIL INFINITY
who/what on earth is "cathopa"? (27:06)
33:13 - 33:39 - WHAT SONG IS THAT FROM.
CaapriceTube the Bed’s too big without you
Thanks. Such a GREAT melody and song!
They dyed their hair because they were in a Wrigley bubblegum commercial. This doc needs work.
Padovani has his own personal reality. Fuck knows why they used him in this. He was fired by Sting who sat listening to him playing a guitar that was out of tune and not having the ears to tell the difference.
Can you upload in English?
I've heard all their records, and Synchronicity is easily the best album they ever produced. It may have cost them dearly in terms of relating to each other as colleagues, but it's the most complete and deepest of their albums. Other albums had just silly shit, like songs about blow-up dolls, and the like and then a couple hits, like Roxanne, Walking on the Moon etc. Synchronicity is a masterpiece from end to end. I'm so tired of hearing 'Every Breath You Take' that I skip it every time out, but everything else on that record is as good as Roxanne, and on one record. You can tell they did this doc on the cheap, but they missed the whole story of this tremendously important band. Weak piece of work here. Didn't even mention the last record, which was by far the most successful. What a piece of dross. Sorry to have wasted my time on such a piece of shit work on such a great band.
Synchro is their worst by far imo. They lost their edge.
Stewart beating the shit out of his kit.......never!
Padovani, The Police’s Pete Best... Bitter bitter man..
Apparently not. Still friends with Sting and Stewart Copeland after all these years.
I have watched a lot of documentaries about the Police and I wonder why they are talked about like the pioneers of reggae-infused rock, when the Clash were doing it at the same time.
Great lp its all wright for you
They were never a reggae band and a lot of the comments in this doc are garbage. Miles Copeland came up with the "Regatta" name because it sounded unusual and kitsch.The police were really a very accessible fusion band, like the Beatles.
@Dbomb Danny And the Poiice outsold the Clash on a worldwide level probably to the amount of hundred to one.
Both band are incredible. No competition. Two different styles. Both are sick. The Police aren't just about reggae if you know your music. It's middle eastern, jazz, funk...so much. Just listen to Death Wish for example. that's Bo Didley with a speed up reggae-ish bass, rock chorus, drums are...pick a legendary black jazz drummer from the 50s/60s but with A LOT of muscle. That's just one song.
One of the most exciting things about this point in musical history was that bands were tuning more into non-European/American musical styles. Certainly in the UK, the heavy West Indian population introduced ska and reggae (which influenced bands from the Police, through The Clash, The Specials, UB40, etc.). In the US, Talking Heads and others brought in a lot of African and Latin inspired beats for the first time. The great thing about the so-called punk movement was not the punk music itself (although I enjoyed that). Rather it was the throwing out of the standard rules of rock and roll and a willingness to experiment.
Soft loud soft...
Like Pixies and Nirvana...
Not the same but similar.
Walking on the moon sounds like walking on the moon.
SALAMI !! SALAMI !!! SALAMI !!!
Ghost in the machine is their best album, but Regatta de Blanc is second, Padavani is a poor version of Kieth Levine
I agree with GIM but Synchronicity is their next best one or actually tied for top spot.
Are they speaking English? wtf
progressive punk as Stewart said.
They were never punks
These are never really "documentaries"...They're brief flashes of widely available music clips with lame interviews of lame people with lame opinions thrown in between. This format has been exhausted. Unwatchable rubbish
and Sting's voice is pretty bad during the live bits
That's exactly what I think about those. They barely have anyone involved in the actual making of the albums.
Reggatta de blanc:
Last Stewart Police´s vision Album...
The album were drums are in the same level than voice...
Stewart wanted to fight Sting´s vision...
"The other one was complete bull-shit", Klark Kent , and all that...
Shame Andy Summer's guitar is so out of tune in the intro song! The rights to this were cheap for a reason
@00:14 - The bloke at the beginning of the video has no idea what he's talking about 😆
Regatta doesn't mean reggae, it means race in a boating / yachting context. So Regatta de Blanc literally means White Race.
While you're correct about "regatta", album's title is "Reggatta de Blanc." That, in fact, does mean white reggae.
From WIkipedia: The album's title is a pseudo-French translation of "white reggae".
Check your facts. What you're saying is correct, however you're still wrong.
@@andybaldman Yes, you may be correct, if you're spelling 'regatta' with one 'g' (dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/regatta) however, the title of the album is Reggatta de Blanc, spelled with two... I suggest maybe you investigate further...
Regatta is very good - Zenyatta was crap and i guess they did this before Ghost In the Machine which might be their best........
I liked the original guitar player way better when the police were a punk band
I love Henri. But be reasonable. No one can touch Andy. And why is he in so much of this doc? He played no role whatsoever in the band except for the first 45, and he didn't even play the lead on that. Stew played it. I notice that the longtime and legit members of The Police are nowhere in this doc.
What a bunch of utterly crap commentators 👎
Police with padovani would never have become a big band
Not classic reggae, more like psuedo reggae.
Horrible Doc. Poorly made.
Padovani needs to stop. He can't play. Fuck being "cool" (whatever that is). The three who became The Policeall had a vase taste in music and all were jazz trained. They weren't just play reggae beats. There's A LOT of stuff going on if you know your music. They all fit together. Stewart interested in him for punk cred. Andy could play...but more importantly, he could play what Sting wrote. Steward wanted to sneak into the punk scene but it doesn't make sense to reject a strong music for a look. The music can't grow that way. It wouldn't have grown if Padovani was in the group...and Sting would have left earlier than he did. It wasn't about Sting "stealing " the band. He's the better writer. We wouldn't even be talking about them if he didn't write the songs for them to play on. And yes, he wrote a lot of the guitar parts as well (SOS).
Stop what? He's still mates with Sting and Copeland, and he's played with them several times over the years. He didn't get on with Summers, since he was a very experienced guitarist with pedigree and thus a threat to his position in the band, but he says he never resented being pushed out and agrees that Summers found his home and sound in The Police.
“Things happened the way they did, and that’s perfectly fine. I never felt like I missed out. I did what I did, and I’m pleased with how things turned out for me.”
What a shitty fucking "documentary", nothing but music critics and no name losers giving their opinions about tracks without any input from the band members (except Salty Padovani), no isolated tracks, nothing. It's a giant waste of time!
Henry is too bitter shame he has a such a prominent role in this documentary because he had nothing to do with this album... I had to stop watching after 15 mins.
Bitter? He's still mates with the bandmembers, and played on stage with them during the final gig of their reunion tour. Copeland's brother hired him at one point and they played together other times too.
Regatta doesn't have anything to do with Reggae. Sting's father, and young Sting himself maybe, worked in shipyards. Regatta is a mariner term.
Not when it's in French.
Henri Padovani: "Andy contributed nothing to the band."
OK boomer.
Learn to listen.
And now listen to what he says AFTER that quote. You know the thing about how after some time Andy found his place in the band and how well Andy's playing fits Sting's songwriting. Why are you only quoting the only part of that interview which had a negative tone to it?
@@RastaSaiyaman o sure he did. After they kicked padovani out because he was a hack
KneedleKnees of course he is a boomer. is that supposed to be some kind of insult?
what are you, a little boy?
@@jamesha175 OK boomer
Why do they hammer this particular performance over and over in this video? Its not a particularly good one...Ive seen loads better Police performances. Andy's out of tune a lot, Andy and Sting are not in tune, Andy hits a lot of bum chords and notes, Sting's voice is flat. I mean it still rocks but am I the only one hearing this?
The specy twat at the start what a wanker
The talking heads on this are far far too annoying to listen to!
No one needs to be patronised by someone eles OPINIONS
Funny eh? I was with a few friends and we went to see a mutual friend play in his band at the Horseshow. A band we had never heard of - The Police - were opening.
They came on and all of us - local professional musicians in Toronto - sat there ... stunned. They were horrible. Same old, same old 16ths on the floor toms and screaming. Punk ... meh.
We all left went up the street for a few beers and came back for our buddy's band. Something CERTAINLY happened after that first gig - cause well ... look at where they went.
There were about 50 people in The Horseshoe - 1/2 of them left.
Gordon Sumner (Sting) was lucky as hell. Stewart and Andy were the musicians, Sting was just along for the ride. Just my opinion.
lol. that's funny.
@staircase2 Fair enough. We all have our opinions. Both you and I enjoy this music and will never disagree on that. Agreed?
Sting may be annoying as hell, but you know nothing about bass or harmony or songwriting to say that he's "along for the ride". An utterly fatuous opinion, to which you are entitled -- and if you want to own it, well, go ahead. This was a band of 3 brilliant musical equals, in my opinion.
That's because you are quite blatantly an utter m0r0n
Sting is out of tune, as usual
WhIte Boys Sample Reggae ...from the Master Bob Marley and win a Grammy ....
they didn't 'sample' reggae, they reinvented it.
Stop cuting the show with blabla by those horribles like this padovani..etc..😠
The Police bring you The White Race. Nice, (not).
You speak this from inside the rat nasty hood ?
@@raybenoit5238 regatta is a race ....blanc means white...I've always thought it, at the very least, inappropriate as a title.
@@raycochrane3971 You can't be fucking serious...
This ridiculous documentary put Sting songs, and Sting composed almost all songs of this album as if composed by Summers that didnt composed anything. Awful.
What the hell are you talking about!??
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