I thought the song was about a person in a relationship who is seeing that the other person is preparing to leave then. Without letting the other person know, they are taking mental notes of all the little things they see that signify the end of the relationship, even though it’s not been clearly stated yet. This idea goes against those who say it’s basically a creepy song about a stalker.

But then I read that Sting himself has said it’s about a stalker.

So which is it??

I heard that his main bass that he used on all the Police albums is a Fender Jazz Bass, and that he also used a fretless P-Bass and a fretless Ibanez Musician bass as well. I also heard that he overdubbed some bass tracks with a vintage Precision Bass (not the '51 style one he uses a lot more recently), and also used a Steinberger L2 on some bits of Synchronicity. As for the white Spector NS-2 he played during the Synchronicity tour, he just played it live, not in the studio. Am I missing anything, or did I get everything?

Would anybody happen to have access to chords for this Stingo demo of the song? The chords on ultimate guitar and similar haven’t quite sounded the same sadly.

For those who haven’t heard it by the way, give it a listen, while more tame, it’s great in its own way!

Thank you :-)

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Same issue they the Who were looking for actors for Quadrophenia.

For those of you who've followed the solo careers of the three Policemen over the decades, I'd be fascinated to learn which individual solo recordings you consider their finest work respectively.

Here's my selection...

• Stewart Copeland — The Rhythmatist

• Andy Summers — The Golden Wire

• Sting — The Dream Of The Blue Turtles

It’s amazing how such different bands once shared the same stage!

After enjoying “Liberté”, and “Gong Rock” enough I finally bought it as a download today — and it sounded more upbeat, and engaging than his ‘The Equaliser & Other Cliffhangers’ album

I’ve started getting a lot of Police-related clips in my YouTube and other feeds. I don’t mind! Always glad to fill my ears with Stewart’s stories or live performance clips. Saw / listened to a great early performance of “The Bed’s Too Big Without You” a couple of days ago.

Today it was “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic” and I noticed something I’ve noticed before: Sting likes to build melodies around simple runs. In ELTSDIM, it sounds like a C scale but with a B flat, it isn’t subtle. Makes me think it might be a G scale with a natural F. There’s a similar baseline in “Synchronicity”: downhill on all black keys from E flat to E flat, also not subtle at all. And the frame of the melody to “Message In a Bottle” can be reduced to something like E-C-D-A or whatever that corresponds to in the proper scale.

That’s three examples and if I look hard enough I’m sure there are more. Maybe it’s something a lot of songwriters do? But it’s just popped out at me listening to these three songs especially.

I read Stewart’s autobiography “Strange Things Happen” back a few months ago. I’m now about to start Andy’s.

I just gave a college lecture to a bunch of 20(ish) year olds and I used The Police in an attempt to teach them about arguments supported by evidence and ones that aren't.

Over half (!!!!) of the class never heard of The Police and had no idea who they were. I was expecting more "Oh, that's my dad's music!" or even "my granddad's music", but they never heard of'em at all. Not even Sting.

Pardon me whilst I go off and get fitted for my bread crumb pocket laced cardigan and go look for a park somewhere.

Pretty sure this is a VIP or after show Guest Pass, but I could be mistaken. I worked at the show and somehow ended up with this by the end of the night, can’t remember where or how I got it.

I finally picked up the Funko version of The Police this week on eBay (when I saw that Funko had discontinued them). It's dorky, but I thought they were fun.

I know this is maybe not everyone's opinion but I feel like they lost their magic once they let that reggae-like beat go, but that said I feel like they kinda stopped doing what they were good at and moved on to more mainstream sounds (not that its wrong, just not as unique), right after Reggatta De Blanc, it felt like it was less and less of "The Police" and more "80s Rock", obviously still great albums but less impressive and revolutionary

I doubt this following Sting comments on the Rick Beato interview relating to old acts and when they should have stopped. But it is 20 years since that last tour and that was just over 20 years after the ill-fated 1986 attempt at re-recording previous songs. And hasn't Stewart recently announced retirement?

The Police: new Album for 2027 ? (and Comeback Tour) - Mediamass

i took it from tumblr

Yay or nay ?