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