I was a drummer earning money from age 12 in 1964 and I retired from the profession in 1990. I grew up with Moon and Ringo, I saw Joe Morello live, I saw Ella and Count Basie live. I loved the greats, and held Buddy Rich above them all. Then I saw this live in Edinburgh and I swear that during this solo Omar actually STOOD up on his pedals like a dancer. Never bettered!
Yessir Stewart Nicol thank you for being apart of the history lesson inside of this moment. Buddy Rich is, was and likely will be the standard. Then there is this performance by Omar Hakim that set him apart. He ripped it so hard that even the late great Kenny Kirkland can be seen laughing as he absolutely dances across every part of that drum set in a crescendo of excellence. Firing off in rapid succession. May that drum set' Rest In Peace' because he absolutely destroyed it.
I love Weckl, Royster, Dennis,Vinnie,Chris Chambers,Gadd and Harvey Mason but Omar kills it. Tasty,flashy not overplayed,physical and well arranged. The way he started softly, picked up speed and power in the middle and then unleashed it all in the end. Omar laid out the blueprint for drum soloing. Sting is one of my all-time favorite musicians. But to play a drum solo that fit a Sting project so perfectly is off the charts.
But it's not a solo, it's part of the song but it's so powerful in context of the song and such a spectacle the way he did it. Those other drummers you mentioned, I guess would have done something incredible too, the Sting song would have brought out 150% from them too. But it's Omar's chair this tour.
Totally agree...this Video was part of the opening Montage to Video Soul with Donnie Simpson, in its infancy. They played a few seconds of Omar's Brilliance hitting that China, medium and heavy Crash in a crazy pattern in his Sick Solo....I remembered that image, and finally found the performance.....Absolutely Brilliant Musicianship!!!!
Was 21 lived in Santa Cruz when “Bring on the Night” came out. Rode the mid-night bus downtown to “The Movie 1-2-3”. As the chanting got stronger Sting must have wondered what was going on behind him as Omar started to dig in. This was long before internet or personal technology. I went three days in a row to see this very song again. I walked 40 min. home at 2am. This clip brings back great memories of that time of life. BRAVO Sting, Omar, Branford, Kenny, Darryl, Dolette and Janice!
The combination of the long and quiet melodic phrase with the power and speed of the drum solo moves us all. It is like if the drum is unveiling the hidden power of the melody. Thanks to all musicians !
The pattern he starts at 3.46 not only sounds powerful, intense and musical but also has a choreographed symmetry in the sticking that makes it visually stunning. The way each cymbal on his left rocks back and forth looks so cool! They are being thrashed so hard on those accents, distributing them between the China, Splash and Crash gives each cymbal time to recover and return to it's neutral position.
That moment when he is so deep in his perfection that he throws his head back while drumming and smiles. I love to see Omar in heaven. I love feeling my hair stand up. I watch this over and over for years now.
That is the most amazing drum solo. Most unbelievable part of it. Omar is playing spotless 8th notes with his hi hat foot through most of it. Still blows my mind when I hear it. Did two shows with him about two years earlier when he was with Weather Report. WIthout Question the best live drummer I ever saw.
I come back to this solo over and over again....it's incomprehensibly soul affirming. Joyful. I despise drum solos usually. But genius changes the world and changes us along with it. I find I laugh with joy every time I come back to this performance. What's so amazing is that you can hear Hakim's solo starting behind the lovely Marshalis solo. Culminating in a crescendo to wake the gods. I love this so much it's hard to express.
I watch this video once a month and always get the same physical response; tears and hard nipples. From A-Z this is the best group of musicians on one stage in my lifetime.
Another one of the most fawesome display of drumming. Wicked!!! I never get tired of watching this. The song builds and builds and just keeps building.
Seriously? That is the only drum solo I ever get goosebumps when I see it. Never fails. I've been waiting for the DVD to come out since I played my late 80's VHS copy to death. Omar has been one of my greatest influences since. True Talent, and I myself am a better drummer because of his influence.
Bring On the Night is a movie any music fan should watch. Outstanding jazz musicians (Branford Marsalis, Darryl Jones, Kenny Kirkland, Omar Hakim) playing with Sting. A great look behind the scenes on how concerts come together. Dream of the Blue Turtles is my favorite Sting album. Oh, don't forget about Janice Pendarvis and Dolette McDonald on vocals! Thanks all ... music trancends all genres and this group proved it to be so.
This is why RUclips is so great. Been looking for this for some 18 years, and bam, here it is. This performance always gave me chills as a teen, and hearing it again does the exact same. The Police version is good as well, but this is one of the rare Sting "re-do's" that's actually better. His solo version of Roxanne on this film was also breathtaking.
The very first time I saw the video for this song back in 1986, I fell in love with this song. It's very well written, and the drum solo is 100% stellar. Omar Hakim definitely has the skills. 80's music was the best, and I was a freshman in high school with this song came out. LONG LIVE THE 80's!!!!!!!
Omar left earth on a spiritual level and travelled the cosmos in that galactic drumming melee. Anyone who knows drums was along for the ride and felt his soul embrace them. Omar will live with the Gods in the afterlife.
My parents bought me this for my 16nth birthday and it blew my mind. It was the fist time i'd seen one of the big American players and it was the thing that made me want to be a musician. Cheers Omar i owe you big time!!!
I saw this gig when I was at Uni, I guess 1982 or 1983 at the NEC. Just outstanding and what a drum play here, Omar 'on fire burning' for this performance. I'd say one of the best play outs ever, for any song. The guy has such groove feel and just let's fly in a way so great to watch as well as hear. The haunting sax, I remember it like it was yesterday it cuts right thru you. Ice cold goosebumps right down my back n arms. Wow. Replayed 5 mins later. Same goosebumps. Really. This, is why drums is the king of performance instruments.
I look at this video everyday. I remember when this video first aired. I was in high school it was sting first solo concert after leaving the group the police
Possibly the best solo I've ever seen! Saw them at Summerfest in Milwaukee in the 80's...Omar Hakim's solo was legendary on this song & STING IS ON PAR WITH STEELY DAN TO ME!
Omar is so inside the music he can't see out...he is so deep in it. Every fill is observant of everything, setting them up, playing sweet stuff, technical as all hell. The solo is nuts.
I love the fusion,how you can get lost in timing,but be on time and still blend when everyone is is either holding bottom(pocket) or doing thier own thang..
Thank you for posting this video! A great song brought to its full potential by superb musicianship, and Hakim's solo is just off the charts. Nice to see it again after all these years!
Its does sneak up,the whole flo does..Its like a roller coaster ride..starting out real smooth and before you know it your hands are in the air like yeeeaaahhh!..Thrill seeker..
Huge influence along with Dave Weckl at the time. Listen to Omar's drumming in the song Neighborhood Threat on Bowie's Tonight album as it sums him up perfectly.
@relfers2501 I remember buying the video tape of this film in the 80's. I was a young drummer at that time. Though I really hate drum solos, I have to confess this one is my favorite...ever. Simply incredible.
Brilliant. Omar Hakim's drumming on this is fantastic. A brilliant version of The Police's version for the film Brimstone And Treacle. Branford Marsalis soprano sax throughout this whole concert was sublime.
I saw them on this tour at the Greek Theater in Berkeley, and this had the same effect on the audience. The song starts so slow, and builds to the chant at the end, and suddenly Omar is there flailing away at the drums with the multiple spots flashing at him. Mesmerizing and exhilarating.
Finnaly i found this clip.i agree to all of you guys. I found this cilp after watching vid some years ago.cant stop watching it.Omar is sick.Omar just keeps people at awe.make me want to learn to play.thums up to guy playing the flut it not a flut u know what i mean. That man is no joke too. Reggie
Stand ovation for Omar Hakim! reason why Sting decided to leave Police : stunning musicians, all! Brandford Marsalis sax, Kenny Kirkland piano R.I.P., Darryl Jones bass, Omar Hakim drum, everyone of these musicians is or was giants on their own. Just to say: i remember that a lot of nostalgic Police fans in that time, were not so happy about new Sting way. But quakity and level music by Sting band was totally superior to Police song
Omar is a beast one of my favorite drummers i hate when people try and label him as one of the best jazz drummers, he's one of the best drummers period and he's more than capable of playing any genre of music not just jazz, if your a true musician you should be able to play any music genre and not just sticking to one particular genre
This is some VERY POWERFUL SHIT.... Ive seen this solo probably 50 times (or so) Never gets old.... VERY MEAN-HARD-WELL TIMED DRUMMING........end of lesson...............................
The jazz drummers play music, while the rock guys just play drums,and hit real hard. i'm 18, play drums, and also looove jazz ! nice to see other people like me !
I’m not sure why, but Hakim might be my favourite drummer. Even more than Weckl, Collaiuta, others. Hakim and Katche. Collins when I need a little more muscle. Ever see him at the Buddy Rich memorial? Good Lord!
if you want to hear the "blue turtles" rythym section of omar hakim and daryl jones in a different context than this, check out "still warm" by john scofield, which was recorded with that legendary jazz guitarist immediately after this tour with sting
I want to find a longer version of that solo -in 1985 in Hamburg, Germany he did a very long version of that... all the other stopped playing and there was nothing else as Omar 8 arms ...-............ :) 5 minutes or more
Sting is a slick, beautiful bastard to get all these musicians together. Killer! I think he said, in his head, "Ok...did the tug of war with The Police thing. Now I'm going to do what I REALLY want to do." Love The Police and the solo stuff. He's a fine wine. he takes turns I may or may not like, but I know it's going to be interesting.
THIS is amazing! I wish those kids that post comments like "awesome" and "sick" to Travis Barker's videos watched THIS and learned what "playing drums" means.
Omar showed many what drumming is about. A lot of drummers hide behind their rudiments and do not play with soul. Omar showed mastering rudiments and tapping into your SOUL can do for a drummer.
Yah, he's having a great time. My leg hurts just watching him play eighth notes with his left foot through that whole solo. He must have legs of steel.
It takes a second to realize what's happening, that's how a drum solo should be performed, within the music! Elegant!
Nobody does it like omar. Hes my fav. Soloing in the middle of the song.....absolute perfection
Great word 'elegant'. And savage.
I couldn't agree more.
Finesse, smooth, played cleanly, with absolute control and confidence. Slow crescendo building up to a mad finish.
Love kenny Kirkland looking over and loving it.
I was a drummer earning money from age 12 in 1964 and I retired from the profession in 1990. I grew up with Moon and Ringo, I saw Joe Morello live, I saw Ella and Count Basie live. I loved the greats, and held Buddy Rich above them all. Then I saw this live in Edinburgh and I swear that during this solo Omar actually STOOD up on his pedals like a dancer. Never bettered!
Stewart Nicol 😳 Wow!
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Yessir Stewart Nicol thank you for being apart of the history lesson inside of this moment. Buddy Rich is, was and likely will be the standard. Then there is this performance by Omar Hakim that set him apart. He ripped it so hard that even the late great Kenny Kirkland can be seen laughing as he absolutely dances across every part of that drum set in a crescendo of excellence. Firing off in rapid succession. May that drum set' Rest In Peace' because he absolutely destroyed it.
Excellent story!
Has anyone ever been able to figure out wtf he’s doing during that incredible drum solo???
I love Weckl, Royster, Dennis,Vinnie,Chris Chambers,Gadd and Harvey Mason but Omar kills it. Tasty,flashy not overplayed,physical and well arranged. The way he started softly, picked up speed and power in the middle and then unleashed it all in the end. Omar laid out the blueprint for drum soloing. Sting is one of my all-time favorite musicians. But to play a drum solo that fit a Sting project so perfectly is off the charts.
But it's not a solo, it's part of the song but it's so powerful in context of the song and such a spectacle the way he did it. Those other drummers you mentioned, I guess would have done something incredible too, the Sting song would have brought out 150% from them too. But it's Omar's chair this tour.
Totally agree...this Video was part of the opening Montage to Video Soul with Donnie Simpson, in its infancy. They played a few seconds of Omar's Brilliance hitting that China, medium and heavy Crash in a crazy pattern in his Sick Solo....I remembered that image, and finally found the performance.....Absolutely Brilliant Musicianship!!!!
One of the kings of the ostinato drum solo. He does something similar on John Schofield “still warm” album. Such a groovy beast!
I WOULD GIVE ANYTHING ON THIS EARTH, TO BE ABLE TO PLAY LIKE OMAR HAKIM! HE'S ONE OF THE GREATEST DRUMMERS OF ALL TIME!!!
Me too. I have always wanted to play like him. Effortless. Check Trio of Oz. Awesome
Was 21 lived in Santa Cruz when “Bring on the Night” came out. Rode the mid-night bus downtown to “The Movie 1-2-3”. As the chanting got stronger Sting must have wondered what was going on behind him as Omar started to dig in. This was long before internet or personal technology. I went three days in a row to see this very song again. I walked 40 min. home at 2am. This clip brings back great memories of that time of life. BRAVO Sting, Omar, Branford, Kenny, Darryl, Dolette and Janice!
The combination of the long and quiet melodic phrase with the power and speed of the drum solo moves us all. It is like if the drum is unveiling the hidden power of the melody. Thanks to all musicians !
no wonder wayne shorter and joe zawinul got omar hakim to join weather report for the 1982 tour...simply one of the best drum solos ever....
The pattern he starts at 3.46 not only sounds powerful, intense and musical but also has a choreographed symmetry in the sticking that makes it visually stunning. The way each cymbal on his left rocks back and forth looks so cool! They are being thrashed so hard on those accents, distributing them between the China, Splash and Crash gives each cymbal time to recover and return to it's neutral position.
That moment when he is so deep in his perfection that he throws his head back while drumming and smiles. I love to see Omar in heaven. I love feeling my hair stand up. I watch this over and over for years now.
That is the most amazing drum solo. Most unbelievable part of it. Omar is playing spotless 8th notes with his hi hat foot through most of it. Still blows my mind when I hear it. Did two shows with him about two years earlier when he was with Weather Report. WIthout Question the best live drummer I ever saw.
I’ve been watch this video for 30 years. BET used to play it on Video Soul with Donnie Simpson back in the 80s and I still love it.
I come back to this solo over and over again....it's incomprehensibly soul affirming. Joyful. I despise drum solos usually. But genius changes the world and changes us along with it. I find I laugh with joy every time I come back to this performance.
What's so amazing is that you can hear Hakim's solo starting behind the lovely Marshalis solo. Culminating in a crescendo to wake the gods. I love this so much it's hard to express.
Thats funny u should say that, that was exactly my response!
Possibly the best solo I've ever seen! Saw them at Summerfest in Milwaukee in the 80's...STING IS ON PARE WITH STEELY DAN TO ME!
Finesse, smooth, played cleanly, with absolute control and confidence. Slow crescendo building up to a mad finish.
What a band, oh for a time machine! Go off Omar - what a beautiful organic build of a solo!
ｇｏｏｄtime❤🎵🎵🎵➰最高抜群よん🌸楽しみ……スゲな、、、✋✌👍👀➰➰
that is the greatest drumming i have ever seen.
I watch this video once a month and always get the same physical response; tears and hard nipples. From A-Z this is the best group of musicians on one stage in my lifetime.
Omar Hakim never really got the recognition he deserved he’s a badass and very versatile
thats the Most Amazing Drum Solo I have ever witnessed !
Another one of the most fawesome display of drumming. Wicked!!! I never get tired of watching this. The song builds and builds and just keeps building.
Seriously? That is the only drum solo I ever get goosebumps when I see it. Never fails. I've been waiting for the DVD to come out since I played my late 80's VHS copy to death. Omar has been one of my greatest influences since. True Talent, and I myself am a better drummer because of his influence.
Totally awesome!!!
Bring On the Night is a movie any music fan should watch. Outstanding jazz musicians (Branford Marsalis, Darryl Jones, Kenny Kirkland, Omar Hakim) playing with Sting. A great look behind the scenes on how concerts come together. Dream of the Blue Turtles is my favorite Sting album. Oh, don't forget about Janice Pendarvis and Dolette McDonald on vocals! Thanks all ... music trancends all genres and this group proved it to be so.
This is why RUclips is so great. Been looking for this for some 18 years, and bam, here it is. This performance always gave me chills as a teen, and hearing it again does the exact same. The Police version is good as well, but this is one of the rare Sting "re-do's" that's actually better. His solo version of Roxanne on this film was also breathtaking.
BEST DRUM SOLO EVER..
The very first time I saw the video for this song back in 1986, I fell in love with this song. It's very well written, and the drum solo is 100% stellar. Omar Hakim definitely has the skills.
80's music was the best, and I was a freshman in high school with this song came out. LONG LIVE THE 80's!!!!!!!
Incredible
That drum solo is the sound of God flowing through Omar’s hands.
Omar's magic !
Fantastique musicien Omar Hakim !!
Been watching this one scene I was a kid... still one of my favorite drum solo's ever!
Omar left earth on a spiritual level and travelled the cosmos in that galactic drumming melee. Anyone who knows drums was along for the ride and felt his soul embrace them. Omar will live with the Gods in the afterlife.
For the last 2:30 of this song Omar was the baddest MF on Planet Earth!
Un alieno !
Super!
Gd genius. So beautiful. Watching this again makes me want to see Bring on the Night for the 40th time LOL
Love, love, love this solo. Haven't watch the video in forever. Thank you for posting this.
My parents bought me this for my 16nth birthday and it blew my mind. It was the fist time i'd seen one of the big American players and it was the thing that made me want to be a musician. Cheers Omar i owe you big time!!!
I saw this gig when I was at Uni, I guess 1982 or 1983 at the NEC. Just outstanding and what a drum play here, Omar 'on fire burning' for this performance. I'd say one of the best play outs ever, for any song. The guy has such groove feel and just let's fly in a way so great to watch as well as hear. The haunting sax, I remember it like it was yesterday it cuts right thru you. Ice cold goosebumps right down my back n arms. Wow. Replayed 5 mins later. Same goosebumps. Really. This, is why drums is the king of performance instruments.
I look at this video everyday. I remember when this video first aired. I was in high school it was sting first solo concert after leaving the group the police
Possibly the best solo I've ever seen! Saw them at Summerfest in Milwaukee in the 80's...Omar Hakim's solo was legendary on this song & STING IS ON PAR WITH STEELY DAN TO ME!
This is what musicianship is all about!
My other fav Hakim Flambeaux is "Children's Crusade" from DOTBT.
Omar is so inside the music he can't see out...he is so deep in it. Every fill is observant of everything, setting them up, playing sweet stuff, technical as all hell. The solo is nuts.
I love the fusion,how you can get lost in timing,but be on time and still blend when everyone is is either holding bottom(pocket) or doing thier own thang..
Thank you for posting this video! A great song brought to its full potential by superb musicianship, and Hakim's solo is just off the charts. Nice to see it again after all these years!
Love Sting. This is my favorite Sring song. It is incredile. The most beauitful love song.Thanks
Solo significa da solo!! Grande Hakim❤🥁
Its does sneak up,the whole flo does..Its like a roller coaster ride..starting out real smooth and before you know it your hands are in the air like yeeeaaahhh!..Thrill seeker..
Wow I stumbled on this one by accident... thank you so much !
Pure talent and perfect style!
Always wondered if Sting knew Omar was going to unleash this or if it was spur of the moment. Either way I watch this solo and am transported.
Sting ♥ thanks for writing this great song !
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for posting this!!!!
Huge influence along with Dave Weckl at the time. Listen to Omar's drumming in the song Neighborhood Threat on Bowie's Tonight album as it sums him up perfectly.
@relfers2501
I remember buying the video tape of this film in the 80's. I was a young drummer at that time. Though I really hate drum solos, I have to confess this one is my favorite...ever. Simply incredible.
Brilliant. Omar Hakim's drumming on this is fantastic. A brilliant version of The Police's version for the film Brimstone And Treacle. Branford Marsalis soprano sax throughout this whole concert was sublime.
What a great moment ! THANX for this !
omar is a BEAST!!!!
Perfect video to reflect perfect performance.
false down votes, unless 6 people were abused by drum sets when they were a child
No other way to explain it...
I once tripped on a snare stand hit my head on a crash and landed on the kick. Ba Dup bom!
The only explanation...
No accounting for bad taste. They must be emotionally disconnected.
Has anyone ever been able to figure out wtf he’s doing during that incredible drum solo???
VERY AMAZING! GREAT!
Damn, Omar here and John Bonham on Fool in the Rain. Two best drums I’ve ever heard.
I saw them on this tour at the Greek Theater in Berkeley, and this had the same effect on the audience. The song starts so slow, and builds to the chant at the end, and suddenly Omar is there flailing away at the drums with the multiple spots flashing at him. Mesmerizing and exhilarating.
Go Omar Hakim!
Finnaly i found this clip.i agree to all of you guys. I found this cilp after watching vid some years ago.cant stop watching it.Omar is sick.Omar just keeps people at awe.make me want to learn to play.thums up to guy playing the flut it not a flut u know what i mean. That man is no joke too. Reggie
This is the greatest drums solo of all times ; been listening to it for ages, but never was able to reproduce the half of it :-D
Wow! Just wow!
This concert film was great
Stand ovation for Omar Hakim! reason why Sting decided to leave Police : stunning musicians, all! Brandford Marsalis sax, Kenny Kirkland piano R.I.P., Darryl Jones bass, Omar Hakim drum, everyone of these musicians is or was giants on their own. Just to say: i remember that a lot of nostalgic Police fans in that time, were not so happy about new Sting way. But quakity and level music by Sting band was totally superior to Police song
Magical...
Omar is a beast one of my favorite drummers i hate when people try and label him as one of the best jazz drummers, he's one of the best drummers period and he's more than capable of playing any genre of music not just jazz, if your a true musician you should be able to play any music genre and not just sticking to one particular genre
just superb what more can i say that guy was like an octopus
You are EXACTLY right!
incredible
Thank you!
@funkyleo1973 I can relate to that perfectly. I was a young musician when I saw this band & it turned my perception of music on its head.
This is some VERY POWERFUL SHIT.... Ive seen this solo probably 50 times (or so) Never gets old.... VERY MEAN-HARD-WELL TIMED DRUMMING........end of lesson...............................
Stings first solo concert, and judging by the audience response to Omar, Stings solo career launched from that moment.
The jazz drummers play music, while the rock guys just play drums,and hit real hard. i'm 18, play drums, and also looove jazz ! nice to see other people like me !
2:19 Get ready to have your mind blown! 🤯
Omar Hakim is in top five drummers in the world. Bring on the night in the top ten all time albums
my favorite movie on YT.
Omar Hakim.. .is crazy on the drums
Unbelievable
I’m not sure why, but Hakim might be my favourite drummer. Even more than Weckl, Collaiuta, others. Hakim and Katche. Collins when I need a little more muscle. Ever see him at the Buddy Rich memorial? Good Lord!
Great musicans!
long live Omar :)
The burn gets serious @ 3:09
if you want to hear the "blue turtles" rythym section of omar hakim and daryl jones in a different context than this, check out "still warm" by john scofield, which was recorded with that legendary jazz guitarist immediately after this tour with sting
I think I have finally seen the best most liquid ....in time Drum solo EVER
I want to find a longer version of that solo -in 1985 in Hamburg, Germany he did a very long version of that... all the other stopped playing and there was nothing else as Omar 8 arms ...-............ :) 5 minutes or more
It exists, keep searching youtube!! I agree the whole drum solo and Munch's bass solo are intense. Omar's solo is like 5 minutes on its own.
Killer !!!!
Sting is a slick, beautiful bastard to get all these musicians together. Killer! I think he said, in his head, "Ok...did the tug of war with The Police thing. Now I'm going to do what I REALLY want to do." Love The Police and the solo stuff. He's a fine wine. he takes turns I may or may not like, but I know it's going to be interesting.
THIS is amazing!
I wish those kids that post comments like "awesome" and "sick" to Travis Barker's videos watched THIS and learned what "playing drums" means.
Omar showed many what drumming is about. A lot of drummers hide behind their rudiments and do not play with soul. Omar showed mastering rudiments and tapping into your SOUL can do for a drummer.
Yah, he's having a great time. My leg hurts just watching him play eighth notes with his left foot through that whole solo. He must have legs of steel.
amazing :O
The band: Kenny Kirkland (RIP) Keyboards, Branford Marsalis, Saxophones, Daryl Jones, Bass, Omar Hakim Drums, Dolette MacDonald/ Janice Pendarvis BG Vocals