Somehow I’m a Police fan now

[bucephalus]

Man, I’ve hated The Police as long as I can remember. Namely due to “Roxanne”, but overall there was just this light-hearted thing that I didn’t jive with at all with that band. That chorus in “Everything Little Thing She Does Is Magic” or whatever it’s called is like nails on a chalkboard to me, only getting worse as the song goes on and Sting starts ad-libbing….makes me wanna smash a table.

Over the last couple months, as a result of those Beato videos playing while I’m in the studio, I kept hearing fucking Police songs and eventually “Walking On The Moon” got stuck in my head, first that D11 chord, ‘da-da’ and that bass line, so simple and perfect….and then I hear the hihat and snare with the reverb and delay and that was it, I was off to the races on Stewart Copeland vids. Probably the only drummer to have a Cornish rig!



And then this song found its way to me and I’ve just been enamored with how musical it is. So lush sounding and just perfect.



I’ve probably listened to that song 100x in the last 3 days. Copeland’s percussion stuff is just perfect and it’s just a musical song. And now I’m digging back more and more, while I can’t stand a lot of the production, I’m loving the originality of the band and hearing them in an entirely different light. Stuff like “Bring On The Night”, Copeland’s grooves just move those songs along so damn well.

Yeah, this is all on you. Light hearted, lmfao. Serious musicianship and songwriting skills in this band. Also deep belly lol it took Rick Beato to bake you look again

 

[DrewJD82]

Yeah, this is all on you. Light hearted, lmfao. Serious musicianship and songwriting skills in this band. Also deep belly lol it took Rick Beato to bake you look again

You anti-Beato dudes are a weird bunch. I can’t for the life of me understand why it’s laughable that a dude with infinitely more musical knowledge than I will ever posses was the conduit for me digging on a band I’d long dismissed. Reminds me of the Korn and Deftones kids calling me “virtuoso f*g” in high school because I was into Steve Vai and Dream Theater.

 

[Jarick]

The 2008 reunion tour show is one of my musical religious experiences.

I tried SO SO HARD to get tickets and never could. Really bummed that I missed out on that because I was born in 83 so had no chance to ever see them live.

I really like the Police although mostly the hits as the deep cuts didn't do much for me. But I was a drummer first so Stewart Copeland was required listening.

 

[Jarick]

Also I have to say, Drumeo is one of the greatest channels I've ever seen. They are so insightful and reverent of great drummers, the content is great, Brandon Toews is an EXCELLENT drummer on top of being a really good presenter and host. It would be so cool to be a drum nerd growing up with that kind of content.

My daughter taught herself to read music and play piano at age 9 using an app which is really cool, I can't imagine how far you could go if you had access to that technology on top of being somewhat musically inclined and as passionate about learning the instrument as I was as a young teenager.

 

[CBHScott]

While I have always liked The Police, it was only recently (last couple of years or so) that I really started listening more intently to the individual instruments and dug into how their music is deceptively complex. I always knew that Copeland was considered one of the greats, but it finally hit me as to why.

 

[KHAAAAAAANNNNNNN!!!!!!!!]

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The Police are perfection. I get your Ick if we're talking "De Do Do Do; De Da Da Da" 1000%. Otherwise; Copeland is one of the greats and Sting, while admittedly being pretentious AF; is also.

All the Sting albums through Ten Summoner's Tales are amazing too. His band's are HOF.

 

[TSJMajesty]

When I saw them, Stewart was on the big screen right at the moment when he grabbed a towel to wipe his face, and kept everything going with one hand while he did so, and even though in retrospect it was probably as natural as Portnoy or Mangini pushing back his glasses mid-beat, at the time I thought it was THE COOLEST THING EVER!

 

[TSJMajesty]

I learned my 9th chords from Message in a Bottle, well before I knew about a certain other guitarist using them in his riffs.

 

[Frodebro]

Andy Summers is a badass guitarist, and his autobiography is a great read. That guy came up in the late sixties London scene, and knew EVERYBODY. As for me, The Police were prime time just as my musical tastes were developing so they’re part of the soundtrack of my preteen and early teenage years.

 

[itchyfingers]

One of my favorites to listen each time through focusing on just one guy, they're each brilliant...

 

[Hollowway]

Also I have to say, Drumeo is one of the greatest channels I've ever seen. They are so insightful and reverent of great drummers, the content is great, Brandon Toews is an EXCELLENT drummer on top of being a really good presenter and host. It would be so cool to be a drum nerd growing up with that kind of content.

My daughter taught herself to read music and play piano at age 9 using an app which is really cool, I can't imagine how far you could go if you had access to that technology on top of being somewhat musically inclined and as passionate about learning the instrument as I was as a young teenager.

Came here to say the same thing. The Stewart Copeland and II interviews are my favorites. I’m not a drummer, but I love all of the background and dissection of technique they do.

The Police have always been one of my favorite bands. They left a lot of space in their songs, which was really cool. They never felt empty, but it allowed Copeland to do some weird stuff without it sounding too busy. It’s a shame they imploded, and couldn’t be like a Rush or U2 (don’t @ me) and just keep evolving and cranking out good music.

 

[Alex Kenivel]

Such a tight trio. As an 80s baby they were a part of the soundtrack to my early childhood.

 

[Stone]

Fantastic musicains, great songs, and Stewart Fucking Copeland

 

[newholland]

ghost in the machine has been, and probably will forever be, one of my absolute favorite records ever made. hugh padgham was a genius too.

 

[Sascha Franck]

Just an incredible band. I also like a whole lot of Sting's solo work - just got a bit sour about them taking each other to court recently. But then, they always seemed to have serious trouble with each other behind the scenes.

 

[FracKing]

Somehow I’m a Police fan now​

Oh, come on! You've been Policing threads from Day 1...!

 

[DrewJD82]

Also I have to say, Drumeo is one of the greatest channels I've ever seen. They are so insightful and reverent of great drummers, the content is great, Brandon Toews is an EXCELLENT drummer on top of being a really good presenter and host. It would be so cool to be a drum nerd growing up with that kind of content.

My daughter taught herself to read music and play piano at age 9 using an app which is really cool, I can't imagine how far you could go if you had access to that technology on top of being somewhat musically inclined and as passionate about learning the instrument as I was as a young teenager.

Dude, this, this and more this, 1000%. That channel is outstanding and seems to have been successful in pulling off what Truefire was going for. Maybe Truefire is more successful than I’m aware of and I just don’t pay attention to it, but I never feel like I’m being sold anything when I watch the Drumeo vids, even when they’re advertising their courses.

I was fortunate that when I started playing drums I was working in a drum store where my best friend and I could devour drum instructional videos as much as we wanted, but this is a whole other level of that. The interviews and insight is quite priceless and their ability to get these guys in a studio and under the gun while still being relaxed is impressive.

And I feel drummers are so much more willing to fall flat on their faces when attempting to play other drummer’s parts than guitarists would be. I’d love to see a whole channel of stuff like that with guitarists.

 

[Fishbulb]

Really big influence on me...

 

[JiveTurkey]

Drumeo is awesome. Stewart Copeland, Igor Cavelera and John Otto and Abe Cunningham rundowns on the same channel? For. Get. About. It.

Just an incredible band. I also like a whole lot of Sting's solo work - just got a bit sour about them taking each other to court recently. But then, they always seemed to have serious trouble with each other behind the scenes.

For me; kind of on the contrary. Summers has always been grumpy from all I've heard but the only thing I ever heard about that lawsuit was Sting had to pay them. Which in this day and age of public oversharing of all behind closed doors business was pretty impressive. You watch videos of them now and no one is disparaging the other any more than back in the day

Sting just posted a video of him and Dominic (speaking of killer guitar players) doing a gig at an art museum in Amsterdam. It was definitely full on Sting but they sounded great.

 

[JiveTurkey]

I will also add that earlier I stated the Police are great at jamming their material out. This is 100% true BUT my one caveat is that Stewart Copeland is like the George Lynch of drummers where he plays something completely awesome on record then wings something else completely live. Probably awesome as well but super frustrating if you are a person on the musical spectrum who needs to hear the fills and drum riffs done the way they are on the album!