And very humble too. At Neil Pearts service. He opened his speach with " Fans approached me and said you are my second favorite drummer" Total class i can see how they were friends for close to 40 years
I grew up with the Police. There was very little haze about Andy then. Mostly Stuart and Sting. I am glad he has finally been equally hailed in the latter years.
I remember Sting jumping off a little Trampoline during the concert I saw in 1983! I was very impressed with his agility and dexterity because he was singing and playing the bass at the same time! And he was wearing the Synchronicity costume as well. This song was was very exciting because they opened with it and it’s a fast rocker! Great show I saw! 😮😊
Probably the best drummer of the era, shame his rock career sort of fizzled out after the police as he choose composing movies. Would love to have seen him in some experimental rock bands, definitely would've been massive for grunge.
Nobody leans on the beat like Copeland. He’s always at the edge of taking off, but doesn’t. The fills don’t matter. The best drummers in the world all struggle to do what is being done in this clip. For musicians that aren’t drummers; the best live drummers try to push an upbeat rock song to sound like they are playing too fast, but they are not. This video is a clinic on what it should sound like. Gives the song teeth.
Copeland is really pushing on this one. Always such an exciting and unpredictable drummer. A real musician, not just a time keeper..Just like Colaiuta or Weckl
@@kiwimax4659 I agree. When a drummer’s heart is really in the song you can hear the beat almost breathe. It’s the human factor that click tracks remove. It compresses the tempo and smooths out all of the rougher edges, but those edges are where the heart and soul live.
@@kiwimax4659 OMG finally! As a drummer, and as much as I L-O-V-E Stewart's drumming, there were times during this song when I was like wtf... Having listened to the Police since umm... forever, I just think this particular song is not in Stewart's territory: he sounds and looks like he's trying to muscle it out and it doesn't sound solid as it should. Stewart's greatness comes out when he can play at a slower tempo and let his drumming breathe.
Took me way too long in life to truly appreciate Stewart Copeland. The tightness of his drums, the power he puts into it. Good lord that man is jacked!
I know right. Was that boy on coke? lol Hes rocking. I played along to this with drums and bass and this dude is fuckin flying compared to the recorded version. lol. Bad ass!
Man he is hard to keep out of the best Rock drummers ever. I saw Peart. He's good for Rush but can I put him above Copeland NO!!! Stewart plays some extreme off the wall beats and nobody plays harder. What I mean by harder is not the tempo its how hard he hits the drums. I remember the 2nd time I saw the Police and the splinters flying. He had a tray of sticks by his side because he kept breaking them. Dude is genius Drummer!
Andy Summers Tele work on this song is just fantastic. It gives the song the depth and melody it deserves. Sting and Stewart- friggin fantastic. Listened to this every day on my way into college in the morning back in the early 80’s.. Best part of my day.
One of the best social poems I ever heard written in English. Bravo Sting. On the other hand, melody, rhythm and performance are "top notch RNR" - an explosion of energy. In a word: a masterpiece.
I was about to write a comment like this. Yes, they are both great, but c’mon. There will never be another Sting. Those melodies!! Such a perfect composer.
I’ve never seen this until now. 9 years later, THANK YOU for this! I missed seeing them on the Synchronicity tour. I thought I’d missed my chance at ever seeing them. Fortunately, the gods smiled, and Sting, Andy and Stewart showed up at the American Airlines Center in Dallas many years later. The sky opened up on my friend Chris and I as we walked to the AAC. That’s Texas. Within ten minutes, it went from partially cloudy to looking for Dorothy’s house overhead. We didn’t have an umbrella, and spent the entire two hours soaked. We didn’t care at all. It was one of the greatest experiences of my life, and the long lamented first concert that wasn’t when I was 13 was made up for beautifully. I’ve seen a hell of a lot of bands since missing the Police in ‘84-Queen, Van Halen, Heart, U2, Rush, Kansas, Steely Dan, Queensryche, Yngwie Malmsteen, Dream Theater, Fates Warning, Megadeth, Joe Sattiani, King’s X, Extreme, Porcupine Tree, Tori Amos, and many, many more-most of them many times. The only two concerts that I missed and never got a chance to make up for were Savatage and Pink Floyd. But of all those shows, counting well over a hundred, I think the Police and Rush were the best. Two power trios, each populated by three absolute musical gods. Now that Neil Peart is gone, Stewart is my favorite living drummer. He’s an unbelievable percussionist, and watching him play, and the obvious joy he feels behind the kit-what a treasure. And Andy…as a guitarist myself, yes, he’s so incredibly underrated and under-appreciated. Those three boys were a supernova, and we were lucky to enjoy their musical genius.
@@SammyJ.. RUSH was a better band and more talented. But the Police were more successful. But the Police went for mainstream and top 40 appeal. RUSH went for themselves.
Amazing song through lot's of many beautiful drummer from our times. Whatever Stewart Copeland had been on top of his ways at this moments and he still rest for my part one of the best drummer ever. By the ways he could drive this trio with his strange method to drum and for his différent ways to support the others musiciens on his band. Without him sting, the bass and guitar couldn't be on top. For that lot's of respect for stewart and for his gift to the drummer familly till the years...... Thanks buddy 👍💪👊🙏🥳💥😜🎉
Stewart Copeland was undoubtedly the powerhouse behind the police and the driving force behind everything they did. But then it was Stewart's band after all and Stewart alone who gave Sting his much needed break onto the world stage.
But it was Sting who wrote the songs that provided the canvas onto which the others would add their colours. Much as present-day Sting has the unrivaled potential to annoy the living daylights out of me, the man brought an incredible talent to the table - just like Stewart and Andy. It was the three of them that made the Police what it was. All that friction provided the energy that would make them fly - and, eventually, disintegrate. Viewed from that angle their demise was basically hard-wired into the band right from the start. They burned fast - and incredibly bright.
@@renderizer01 I agree. Stewart is amazing and one of my fav drummers of all time BUT you need a song to play on. Do you hear the structure of this song? No need for people to continue to disrespect Sting because Sting is an incredible songwriter and lyricist. He wrote ALL of the classics including most of the guitar parts. Andy made them beautiful. No need to sht on Sting in order to praise Stewart. Both are sick. Sometime the comment section in Police videos are so childish. So thank you to Stewart for picking Sting and forming an incredible band.
Mr. Stewart: Thank you for the tutorial of real drumming. From stick holding to kick drum to snare rolls - love to see him play. Great band and great song!
so, I thought I was a discerning consumer of music, and I keep forgetting about the Police and others, soooo, I hereby give up all opinions written, never again, but I will listen to all
So much energy especially the drummer. Amazing musicians. Great songs. Spirits in the material world is my favorite with this song second. One of best bands especially in the 80’s when they were at there height
It’s taking things Bonham did and sorta flipping it on its head, loud snare instead of loud kick, fast hats instead of fast kick.. traditional instead of matched. Less backbeat oriented.
Andy Summers and Stewart Copelands guitar and drums sounds are forever imprinted on my brain and can always tell its them the second I hear them playing.
When the Synchronicity Album came out in 1983 I was totally into The Police. My favorite Cover band Rat Race Choir used to play the Police every time i seen them preform throughout the Tri State Area. Then in late 1983 i got a great job offer to work in the US Navy at Port Hueneme in Ventura County, CA and I moved there. Living in Oxnard, CA was a totally different mindset from Throgg's Neck in the Bronx. I started hanging out at this dive bar on the road that lead up to the entrance of the Navy Base i worked at. Being from the Bronx i still had my Bronx accent. This is the only bar that accepted my Bronx accent. I met many California girls in that bar and invited them to come back to my apartment on J Street in Oxnard. Having a great sound system and playing this song Synchronicity II while sitting on my couch and knowing all of the words, helped me to finish the deal and Fuck their Brains out without using drugs. Using drugs to fuck a woman is bad. It is a sign of desperation for somebody that doesn't have game. PERIOD!
Far and away the greatest song this awesome band ever recorded. I loved it so much I sent a short appraisal to my local paper, the Tamworth Herald, and I love my fellow Police fans so much I'm going to reproduce it for you here! Enjoy:- This song is definitely not recommended for family men (or women) nearing the end of their tether. A sort of pastiche of a hundred bad sitcoms, it’s truly a nightmare set to music. The track opens with one of Andy Summers’ more maddening guitar riffs, repeated for nearly 30 seconds. Just when you feel you can’t take any more, Andy signs it off with a flourish (one of the sharpest ‘hooks’ in rock history) and away we go on a journey into pure horror... Daddy endures the usual hellish scenes around the breakfast table, then flees to the office in his ‘shiny metal box’. The tedium of work is relieved only by humiliating dressing-downs from his superior, until it’s time to go home. By now it’s obvious that Daddy is on the verge of a breakdown, and is about to wreak vengeance upon his family. None of this is particularly original, but the meaning of the title becomes clear as Sting cunningly weaves in other, faraway events involving some monstrous, inhuman Doppelganger. This Nessie-like creature closing in on the cottage of an unsuspecting crofter is, of course, mirrored by the unspeakable fate awaiting the family. The black humour works beautifully, and makes for a far more effective condemnation of modern high-pressure living than the song would have achieved without it. ‘Synchronicity’ was The Police’s last studio album. The No. 1 single ‘Every Breath You Take’ will probably be most people’s highlight, but I respectfully beg to differ.
One of the first records i ever bought was Outlandos D'Amour just a few months after it was released when i was 8 years old . I still have that copy... and everything else they recorded. One of the truly outstanding bands of all time.
One of my prized concert DVD’s…directed by Russell Mulkahey (Duran Duran vids and DD’s “When The Lights Go Down.”)…this has a few animated nuggets sprinkled in the concert, a signature of Mulkahey back then. This is The Police captured at their height. Excellent concert vid!!!
Watch the way he moves from fingers to plectrum, too. It can be seen clearly the second time he does it later in the song. Needless to say, his playing is amazing here.
He used the other guitar for Syncronicity 1 before this song necessitating the guitar change. I think it was either a 12 string or synth guitar or both. Unfortunately Syncronicity 2 was omitted from the original release.
@@mancuniancandidatem this is why i don't have it on my vhs i guess...but why there is no audience? Why there are backing vocals but no girl is in the video?
curvedair Yip, Stewart's band! I bet Sting has much to be grateful for by Stewart's decision to free him from a life of teaching in Newcastle where he might still have been today if it hadn't been for his chance meeting with Stewart in 1976. On behalf of police fans the world over...Thank you Stewart!
@@johngray9434 a man who has wrote message in a bottle walking on the moon Roxanne fields of gold desert rose every breath you take an Englishman in new York fragile etc etc etc idiotic comments from idiot people
@@kevinmole9982 ease up! Both can be true they are each rock God's in their own rights. Stewart Copeland meant more or as much to me in the Police... my favorite band ever and, by far, my favorite drummer ever (sorry John Bonham, it's Stew)!!
In interviews I've heard Sting say that Copeland was always changing the pace and speeding up the beat on him to mess him up. All I know is these guys were amazing and I'm glad the world got to enjoy them while we did.
Andy is a seriously underrated guitarist
NOBODY else sounds like Andy Summers, never has.
Yea because The Police aren't know for their guitar.....
Good thing they’re a tight band, otherwise everything would’ve fallen apart when Andy decided to pick slide and hit random harmonics 😂😂
But I totally agree, he’s very underrated.
The Police has a whole are a seriously underrated band, always wish they’d stayed together
Stuart Copland has to be one of the greatest rock drummers of all time how he gets the heads on his kit so tight to get that sound is amazing.
And very humble too. At Neil Pearts service. He opened his speach with " Fans approached me and said you are my second favorite drummer" Total class i can see how they were friends for close to 40 years
Andy Summers is just on another level, one of the best guitarist of all time .
Can you imagine watching The Fixx open for them? I bet tickets were barely $20. When music was music!
Face melter
Damn Right you see his solo innovated
I grew up with the Police. There was very little haze about Andy then. Mostly Stuart and Sting. I am glad he has finally been equally hailed in the latter years.
I remember Sting jumping off a little Trampoline during the concert I saw in 1983! I was very impressed with his agility and dexterity because he was singing and playing the bass at the same time! And he was wearing the Synchronicity costume as well. This song was was very exciting because they opened with it and it’s a fast rocker! Great show I saw! 😮😊
The best song on the synchronicity album
Nope. Top best track from the Police and Sting.
Arnold Mollaneda Jr karma for all of the human race for destroying the planet
The best song The Police ever did. Fucking masterpiece.
With murders by numbers although it s not on the original Lp.
Nope,that's murder by numbers!
He beat those drums like they owed him money.
he beat that snare drum like it was a red headed stepchild
He beat the shit out of them
🤭
My thoughts exactly!
Probably the best drummer of the era, shame his rock career sort of fizzled out after the police as he choose composing movies. Would love to have seen him in some experimental rock bands, definitely would've been massive for grunge.
Nobody leans on the beat like Copeland. He’s always at the edge of taking off, but doesn’t. The fills don’t matter. The best drummers in the world all struggle to do what is being done in this clip.
For musicians that aren’t drummers; the best live drummers try to push an upbeat rock song to sound like they are playing too fast, but they are not. This video is a clinic on what it should sound like. Gives the song teeth.
Copeland is really pushing on this one. Always such an exciting and unpredictable drummer. A real musician, not just a time keeper..Just like Colaiuta or Weckl
Notice, though, how unmetronomic he is: the tempo is everywhere. Yet the band sticks together!
@@kiwimax4659 I agree. When a drummer’s heart is really in the song you can hear the beat almost breathe. It’s the human factor that click tracks remove. It compresses the tempo and smooths out all of the rougher edges, but those edges are where the heart and soul live.
@@kiwimax4659 OMG finally! As a drummer, and as much as I L-O-V-E Stewart's drumming, there were times during this song when I was like wtf... Having listened to the Police since umm... forever, I just think this particular song is not in Stewart's territory: he sounds and looks like he's trying to muscle it out and it doesn't sound solid as it should. Stewart's greatness comes out when he can play at a slower tempo and let his drumming breathe.
Took me way too long in life to truly appreciate Stewart Copeland. The tightness of his drums, the power he puts into it. Good lord that man is jacked!
In my opinion it's nice, that Stewart improvised in so many songs. It makes every show special.
They were supposed to be punks afterall
He's a jazz drummer at heart and in talent.
He gets bored quickly otherwise.
It's been a Sting trademark ever since..... you hear a new show Every time! He said he never wanted to just play "the albums"
Copeland = awesome
Ja, aber die snare klingt sowas von sche.....!
I know right. Was that boy on coke? lol Hes rocking. I played along to this with drums and bass and this dude is fuckin flying compared to the recorded version. lol. Bad ass!
The way he pounds that ride cymbal
Man he is hard to keep out of the best Rock drummers ever. I saw Peart. He's good for Rush but can I put him above Copeland NO!!! Stewart plays some extreme off the wall beats and nobody plays harder. What I mean by harder is not the tempo its how hard he hits the drums. I remember the 2nd time I saw the Police and the splinters flying. He had a tray of sticks by his side because he kept breaking them. Dude is genius Drummer!
@@mattgrant1169 Copeland better than Peart? No way in hell.
Andy Summers Tele work on this song is just fantastic. It gives the song the depth and melody it deserves. Sting and Stewart- friggin fantastic.
Listened to this every day on my way into college in the morning back in the early 80’s.. Best part of my day.
The live version or Studio
One of the best social poems I ever heard written in English. Bravo Sting. On the other hand, melody, rhythm and performance are "top notch RNR" - an explosion of energy.
In a word: a masterpiece.
I miss this rock band a lot :(
Bands that have two drummers are trying to do what The Police did with just one Steward Copeland.
I was at that show. Stage left 10 feet away.
Wow! At the Omni! Must have been awesome!
Did you have hearing loss from the moog?
That's badass!
Lucky dude..
We had 6th row in front of Sting on night 1 at the Omni. Great times, eh?
Everybody talking about Stewart and Andy, but Sting is the man.
just ask him mate
Without a shred of a doubt! ❤
meh, he's OK 😔
haha, JK!! He wrote these masterpieces!!
😙👌
I was about to write a comment like this.
Yes, they are both great, but c’mon.
There will never be another Sting. Those melodies!! Such a perfect composer.
@@enkiitu I strongly concur
Andy Summers is the booooomb!!!
Andy Summers was extraordinary in this song. Police's fan since 1981when I got "Regatta de Blanc". This is one of my Police's Top 5 favorite songs.
That guitar riff at the end of the song is amazing. Sounds hypnotic.
The groove the band gets into at 4:02 is sick
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 I rewound that part a million times!
Anyone else notice that Stewart needed a new drumstick at 1:36? Pretty slick.
hes a monster on the drums... great band!!!
The lyrics are amazing. And Andy's playing is top shelf!
I’ve never seen this until now. 9 years later, THANK YOU for this!
I missed seeing them on the Synchronicity tour. I thought I’d missed my chance at ever seeing them. Fortunately, the gods smiled, and Sting, Andy and Stewart showed up at the American Airlines Center in Dallas many years later.
The sky opened up on my friend Chris and I as we walked to the AAC. That’s Texas. Within ten minutes, it went from partially cloudy to looking for Dorothy’s house overhead. We didn’t have an umbrella, and spent the entire two hours soaked.
We didn’t care at all. It was one of the greatest experiences of my life, and the long lamented first concert that wasn’t when I was 13 was made up for beautifully.
I’ve seen a hell of a lot of bands since missing the Police in ‘84-Queen, Van Halen, Heart, U2, Rush, Kansas, Steely Dan, Queensryche, Yngwie Malmsteen, Dream Theater, Fates Warning, Megadeth, Joe Sattiani, King’s X, Extreme, Porcupine Tree, Tori Amos, and many, many more-most of them many times. The only two concerts that I missed and never got a chance to make up for were Savatage and Pink Floyd.
But of all those shows, counting well over a hundred, I think the Police and Rush were the best. Two power trios, each populated by three absolute musical gods.
Now that Neil Peart is gone, Stewart is my favorite living drummer. He’s an unbelievable percussionist, and watching him play, and the obvious joy he feels behind the kit-what a treasure. And Andy…as a guitarist myself, yes, he’s so incredibly underrated and under-appreciated. Those three boys were a supernova, and we were lucky to enjoy their musical genius.
I know theres not alot of footage of andy summers or interviews but god, when he plays live he really plays. The master of chord voicings himself
A strong rock that remains in history. Songs and poetry are wonderful, but Andy's guitar solo sound effect is wonderful
Best three man band ever. Best drummer ever !
I love the way that at 3:10 the thing crawls out of the dark Scottish lake behind Stewart Copeland. 😳
Greatest three piece band ever.
*EVER*
They’re great. Rush is better.
Rush has entered the chat.
@@SammyJ..the Police are better...
@@SammyJ.. RUSH was a better band and more talented. But the Police were more successful. But the Police went for mainstream and top 40 appeal. RUSH went for themselves.
Amazing song through lot's of many beautiful drummer from our times. Whatever Stewart Copeland had been on top of his ways at this moments and he still rest for my part one of the best drummer ever. By the ways he could drive this trio with his strange method to drum and for his différent ways to support the others musiciens on his band. Without him sting, the bass and guitar couldn't be on top. For that lot's of respect for stewart and for his gift to the drummer familly till the years...... Thanks buddy 👍💪👊🙏🥳💥😜🎉
hell of a trio
Stewart Copeland has so much energy.
"The factory belches filth into the sky" - classic line!! I also like "The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache"!!
That solid hammer down on Copland left hand shots during the lead. Solid crisp rimshots. Sh### fire!
Stewart Copeland was undoubtedly the powerhouse behind the police and the driving force behind everything they did. But then it was Stewart's band after all and Stewart alone who gave Sting his much needed break onto the world stage.
But it was Sting who wrote the songs that provided the canvas onto which the others would add their colours. Much as present-day Sting has the unrivaled potential to annoy the living daylights out of me, the man brought an incredible talent to the table - just like Stewart and Andy. It was the three of them that made the Police what it was. All that friction provided the energy that would make them fly - and, eventually, disintegrate. Viewed from that angle their demise was basically hard-wired into the band right from the start. They burned fast - and incredibly bright.
@@renderizer01 I agree. Stewart is amazing and one of my fav drummers of all time BUT you need a song to play on. Do you hear the structure of this song? No need for people to continue to disrespect Sting because Sting is an incredible songwriter and lyricist. He wrote ALL of the classics including most of the guitar parts. Andy made them beautiful. No need to sht on Sting in order to praise Stewart. Both are sick. Sometime the comment section in Police videos are so childish. So thank you to Stewart for picking Sting and forming an incredible band.
look at the arms on copeland!
Believe me, I am!
Copeland toca na frente da banda
That dude has some guns!
Amen. A rock and roll God and so very delicious...
Their best song...hands down!
Police..my Favorite band... at 35 years ago.. until now
Everlasting to love the police..
Indonesia..
power + power + power ...amazing sound !
The Energy in this ... im out of breath just listening to it ! Absolutely Loving it!
A legendary Telecaster suddenly appears!
epic telecaster. andy is totes amazing
0okamino Andy’s Tele is up there with Prince’s Hohner Tele !!!
Mr. Stewart: Thank you for the tutorial of real drumming. From stick holding to kick drum to snare rolls - love to see him play. Great band and great song!
so, I thought I was a discerning consumer of music, and I keep forgetting about the Police and others, soooo, I hereby give up all opinions written, never again, but I will listen to all
So much energy especially the drummer. Amazing musicians. Great songs. Spirits in the material world is my favorite with this song second.
One of best bands especially in the 80’s when they were at there height
John Bohnam re-invented. Stewart Copeland is the best drummer, in the last 30 years, period.
Stewart and John Bonham are nothing alike
Sergeant Gaben true two completely worlds. both great drummers, but very different.
More than 30 years.
1/2 tempo a frente da banda, incrível, fantástico
It’s taking things Bonham did and sorta flipping it on its head, loud snare instead of loud kick, fast hats instead of fast kick.. traditional instead of matched. Less backbeat oriented.
Andy Summers and Stewart Copelands guitar and drums sounds are forever imprinted on my brain and can always tell its them the second I hear them playing.
The song never ever ever gets old still Loving it!!! ❤❤❤
Andy is such an original musician and a great guitarist.
Love the way they filled in for the Andy's slick guitar change at the start - awesome pros to the core
When the Synchronicity Album came out in 1983 I was totally into The Police. My favorite Cover band Rat Race Choir used to play the Police every time i seen them preform throughout the Tri State Area. Then in late 1983 i got a great job offer to work in the US Navy at Port Hueneme in Ventura County, CA and I moved there. Living in Oxnard, CA was a totally different mindset from Throgg's Neck in the Bronx. I started hanging out at this dive bar on the road that lead up to the entrance of the Navy Base i worked at. Being from the Bronx i still had my Bronx accent. This is the only bar that accepted my Bronx accent. I met many California girls in that bar and invited them to come back to my apartment on J Street in Oxnard. Having a great sound system and playing this song Synchronicity II while sitting on my couch and knowing all of the words, helped me to finish the deal and Fuck their Brains out without using drugs. Using drugs to fuck a woman is bad. It is a sign of desperation for somebody that doesn't have game. PERIOD!
Far and away the greatest song this awesome band ever recorded. I loved it so much I sent a short appraisal to my local paper, the Tamworth Herald, and I love my fellow Police fans so much I'm going to reproduce it for you here! Enjoy:-
This song is definitely not recommended for family men (or women) nearing the end of their tether. A sort of pastiche of a hundred bad sitcoms, it’s truly a nightmare set to music.
The track opens with one of Andy Summers’ more maddening guitar riffs, repeated for nearly 30 seconds. Just when you feel you can’t take any more, Andy signs it off with a flourish (one of the sharpest ‘hooks’ in rock history) and away we go on a journey into pure horror...
Daddy endures the usual hellish scenes around the breakfast table, then flees to the office in his ‘shiny metal box’. The tedium of work is relieved only by humiliating dressing-downs from his superior, until it’s time to go home. By now it’s obvious that Daddy is on the verge of a breakdown, and is about to wreak vengeance upon his family.
None of this is particularly original, but the meaning of the title becomes clear as Sting cunningly weaves in other, faraway events involving some monstrous, inhuman Doppelganger. This Nessie-like creature closing in on the cottage of an unsuspecting crofter is, of course, mirrored by the unspeakable fate awaiting the family. The black humour works beautifully, and makes for a far more effective condemnation of modern high-pressure living than the song would have achieved without it.
‘Synchronicity’ was The Police’s last studio album. The No. 1 single ‘Every Breath You Take’ will probably be most people’s highlight, but I respectfully beg to differ.
Saw the 2008 Tour at the Gorge in George Washington! Love the Police!
One of the first records i ever bought was Outlandos D'Amour just a few months after it was released when i was 8 years old . I still have that copy... and everything else they recorded. One of the truly outstanding bands of all time.
best sounding snare ever
Bass guitar\singer , lead guitar, drummer = kick ass music. One of the best 3 man bands ever, right up there with Rush, ZZ Top, and Triumph!!!!!!!!!
... AND King's X.
The Jam
the energy is completely off the charts here
Very good performance
What a beautiful memory, I had the first tickets for the concert in the Netherlands
Great performance, Stewart Copeland plays the drums well .......
Only well ???? He's a monster!
Stewart Copeland is a god-damned monster. He could have powered an automobile factory by himself
Stewart's a BOSS!
Javier Beleni , you’re correct he’s a BEAST
ekathe85 Rigghttt
Stewart Copeland!!!!
One of my prized concert DVD’s…directed by Russell Mulkahey (Duran Duran vids and DD’s
“When The Lights Go Down.”)…this has a few animated nuggets sprinkled in the concert, a signature of Mulkahey back then. This is The Police captured at their height. Excellent concert vid!!!
It was directed by Kevin Godley and Lol Creme of 10cc fame...................................
The Fixx being the opening act for this show blows my mind, wow what a night that must have been!
great 3 musicians .... great band ....
Damn Stew just brought mad energy; one of my all time favorite drummers!
It's my favorite live version ever, since was a kid on the 80's!
I remember than heard this version on the radio!
I really miss those days!
Very good quality image and sound. Thank you for Up!
Stewart fkn Copeland!! He is a machine
Stellar performance.
stewart Copeland Great drummer
One of the best power trío indeed, long live to rock n roll
andy was 10 years older than sting and stewart,, but really looked younger.. he actually played in a band with jimi Hendrix
Hard to believe he's over 40 here
Saw them on this tour in the old Sullivan 🏟️ Foxborough MA USA
A glorious masterpiece! In all respects... this is about the human condition
Have the sound guys turn up Stewart’s overhead mics. I can barely hear his cymbals
What was Stewart Copeland like here?
A machine in the background never missing a beat...
sounding even better live than on record.
Steward Copeland is a beast enough said
seen them twice! those were the days
Class
Andy's guitar switch. Amazing! And didn't drop a note.
Watch the way he moves from fingers to plectrum, too. It can be seen clearly the second time he does it later in the song. Needless to say, his playing is amazing here.
When Neil Peart says Stuart is one of his favorite drummers, you pay attention... closely
Copeland beating those drums within an inch of their lives.
I dont know much about The Police but that drummer is so good
There is no end to his greatness. My favorite drummer far and away!
Fantastic 🎉
What happened to Andy’s guitar at the start? Impressive swap before intro solo. Superstar
He used the other guitar for Syncronicity 1 before this song necessitating the guitar change. I think it was either a 12 string or synth guitar or both. Unfortunately Syncronicity 2 was omitted from the original release.
It's actually intro riff
@@mancuniancandidatem this is why i don't have it on my vhs i guess...but why there is no audience? Why there are backing vocals but no girl is in the video?
@@mancuniancandidatem It looked like a 12 string.
the great STEWART COPELAND ,AND his band
curvedair
Yip, Stewart's band! I bet Sting has much to be grateful for by Stewart's decision to free him from a life of teaching in Newcastle where he might still have been today if it hadn't been for his chance meeting with Stewart in 1976.
On behalf of police fans the world over...Thank you Stewart!
@@johngray9434 what a load of crap
@@johngray9434 a man who has wrote message in a bottle walking on the moon Roxanne fields of gold desert rose every breath you take an Englishman in new York fragile etc etc etc idiotic comments from idiot people
@@kevinmole9982 ease up! Both can be true they are each rock God's in their own rights. Stewart Copeland meant more or as much to me in the Police... my favorite band ever and, by far, my favorite drummer ever (sorry John Bonham, it's Stew)!!
Hail to Police and Mr. Andy Summers!
I would kill for that jacket!
Human Pinata
brilliant.
Andy doing a brilliant solo between bridge and pick-up
Stewart Copeland was a fucking monster on the drums
BAM!! REAL musicians here... depending on the young generation to breathe life into music again!
Class .
Sometimes I sit and listen to this and my brain explodes
Stewart is O.P.! That's "over powered" for anyone over the age of 10...
This song... wow!!!
What a great song!!...
I love this song!
Magnificent Musicianship💜❤️💛💖💜
So much sound from a 3 piece band. So tight.
In interviews I've heard Sting say that Copeland was always changing the pace and speeding up the beat on him to mess him up. All I know is these guys were amazing and I'm glad the world got to enjoy them while we did.
That snare, that snareeeeee!!! Love that snare!!!!!!!