the Police, the band

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  BruceH said:

  Bill Barton said:

  7/4 said:

  Bill Barton said:

I'm glad that you clarified "the band" .

This could be interesting...

Earlier I added this to a political thread titled the Police. It took me a few min to realize what I did.

  catesta said:

Isn't Sting just talking his way through the songs now, or did I watch some off performances?

I haven't heard any of the recent performances, but personally I wouldn't care, as Copeland and Summers are the *real* stars in my book. An interesting parallel is Cream. Clapton became a megastar, but Baker and Bruce (especially the stuff with Kip Hanrahan) produced the more provocative music post-dissolve.

There is a parallel in that both Sting and Clapton were fairly lame singers.

As for a new Police album...be still my heart. They might do better to just release a new single. The kids don't "do" albums these days, and the Police always struck me as a good singles band but not very good at programming an album.

Well first off, Andy Summers had already played with Soft Machine and other groups before he ever met the others, and Copeland had already produced (and performed) on records under the name 'Klark Kent'. Hey, I like Sting, but to say that the other guys would have been nowhere without him is a bit much. I do understand your point though...it's all about the tunes in the rock world and Sting sure can crank em out.

As far as programming albums...I thought they did a pretty damned good job on 'Ghost in the Machine' and 'Synchronicity'....

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