The Police at their peak. Synchronicity was the peak of their commercial popularity, this is their peak as a live band.

@arta6320

4 жыл бұрын

THE 80'S WERE THEIRS. NO BAND WAS COUGHED ON THEM. NOT THE STONES, NOT G 'n R, NOT EVEN THE U-2

@averyadrian1534

4 жыл бұрын

Art A Andy Summers gave The Edge his es335 - a passing of the torch moment... U2 became bigger for sure... Joshua Tree ‘87 they became super stars...

@Phlakaton88

4 жыл бұрын

agreed - this set list - this year - amazing

@untiltheend2812

2 жыл бұрын

I totally agree with you!!! The live performances of Police in 1980 is just perfect

@BaconTomatoCheese

2 жыл бұрын

No argument here!

Andy's sound is very common now, but when he started it was revolutionary. He changed the way guitarist played the instrument.

@inspectorbudget

4 жыл бұрын

I can hear it in The Edge & Alex Lifeson.

@Phlakaton88

4 жыл бұрын

textural stuff - and fabulous.

@travisclark8431

3 жыл бұрын

layering/looping + boatload of effects/reverb/harmonics

@donbailey6600

3 жыл бұрын

People don't realize that but you are 100 percent correct. When I first heard The Police on the radio, the most distinctive sound was Andy's Guitar. Nobody sounded like that before him. Ex. Don't stand so close to me.

@The.One.True.B

2 жыл бұрын

super clean tones and a chorus are a big part of it. I feel like Andy is a big reason so many people started using Roland JC120 amps

I never saw them live, but watching this I am amazed with Andy Sumers' ability to make the band sound so full. Truly one of rock's most underrated guitarists. I love Sting's voice and Stewart Copeland - what can you say except that he's just incredible!

@franciskhoury4288

8 жыл бұрын

+Patrick Pasqua I passed up the chance to see them on the next tour. Oy.

@IwanttoliveinParis

7 жыл бұрын

So glad I went to Day On The Green for the Synchronicity tour, 9-10-83. And Bowie one week later. I was seventeen and that was the only time I saw the Police ... and the only Bowie show I ever saw too.

@vetterburns1048

6 жыл бұрын

Never seen them LIVE. Yet, I bought the H3LL outta their vinyl! Great stuff.

@Phlakaton88

6 жыл бұрын

agreed. texture master

@quentinjames981

5 жыл бұрын

You never saw them live, yet. I think they will do one final tour someday...

Once again listening to Copeland’s masterful drums. One of the best.

Possibly the all time ultimate 3 piece band

@RezaPratamaR

5 жыл бұрын

have you heard rush?

@mightyV444

5 жыл бұрын

@@RezaPratamaR - I love them both! :-))

@RezaPratamaR

5 жыл бұрын

@@mightyV444 oh sure me too..

@mightyV444

5 жыл бұрын

@@RezaPratamaR - Both bands use those foot pedal synths, too! I remember hearing Rush's 'Grace Under Pressure' album (my first Rush impression) and thinking, "Oh cool, I found my Police replacement!", as the latter had split up, obviously :-)

@RezaPratamaR

5 жыл бұрын

@@mightyV444 Neil Peart once said in an interview in the movie 'beyond the lighted stage' that he was influenced by The Police during the creative process of 'spirit of the radio' i think those bands are amazing in their own area

Damn, the extended jams in this show are fantastic. Ambient but with fullness that they don't usually have. Stewart's backing vocals are also pretty damn good here. Probably the peak of their live act IMO.

@michaelliebregts9605

5 жыл бұрын

Lucas Tax agreed!! As much as i love stewart copleland he definitely tended to rush and overplay some of the earlier stuff

@mancuniancandidatem

2 жыл бұрын

Their backing vocals are the best I've heard here. I don't know if they just are louder in the mix than normal or if Stewart and Andy became complacent with the bvs.

@knownote

Жыл бұрын

I loved it when they provided their own background vocals like a "real" band. When they toured Synchronicity later and added the female backup vocalists (who were trying to over-sing Sting) it was so lame, and didn't sound like the recordings at all

As a drummer who idolized stu when I was in a police tribute band , to me studying piano and struggling which instrument I prefer, I am pretty much bowing to stings talent as a singer playing bass. That is insane difficulty that only ppl who play instruments understand

@tomasvanecek8626

Жыл бұрын

There were very few who could do that - sing and play bass (on this level of excellence..): Jack Bruce, John Wetton... Chris Squire also It really IS insane - to anyone who ever tried that .. Borders with schizofrenia.

November 29, 1980 Those days have gone, unfortunately...

@JayLangly

4 жыл бұрын

Know right! From '78 - '81! The best!

Great to hear Deathwish live - a great and underrated track!

I have been listening to The police since 1978 but Never realized that its Andy summers who made The police music unique. just check his work on bring on the night , you think there are three guitarists playing. stings voice and bass lines , with the legendrey stewart , this band is untouchable .. s

@mamamamarino

6 жыл бұрын

wonder if the 8-string bass helps

@ampsplus

4 жыл бұрын

All 3 of them made their music unique. There just is no one else who plays like Stewart and Andy, and Stings' vocals and not reproduceable. You can come close, but it takes Stewart, Sting and Andy to make The Police.

I snuck into The Police + The GoGos at the Rosemont Horizon outside Chicago by simply handing the clueless ticket taker an unused Emerson, Lake & Palmer ticket. Great concert.

@OmarAlohaDude

3 ай бұрын

Respect!

I like the dynamics of this music, you can hear everything. Nothing is a blur like a lot of concerts. When you are bombarded with guitars and bass you get sonic fatigue. Here with this music, you don't. Makes you want to hear more and more.

Still one of the most Happenings since the Stones or the Beatles

My favorite guitar "teacher"..i played those police albums and tapes and cds bazillions of times.. not to cop his style.. but to learn ftom it... love his workand his documentary is incredible.. thank you andy summers for some of my best guitar lessons every.. your rhythm playing went right to my soul... taught me everything i needed.

@-dugair

4 ай бұрын

You still dream of strapping on the "Tele"! 1:08:30 Cheers! -dugair PDXtc

At their peak and Sting at his most intense. Stellar performance- Deathwish, Beds too big, driven to tears, shadows in the rain are all sublime and fully jammed out that are far superior to the recorded versions

@sam8160

Жыл бұрын

Dont forget Bring On The Night + Man In A Suitcase

In the 6th or 7th Grade('77 or '78) and was checking out an Afternoon Special about Roadies and showcasting The Police. THE REST IS HISTORY!!

Thank you to John Sher for recording all these historic concerts and making them available. Although I would not mind seeing a bit more Stewart Copland

Such a great tour... and XTC were playing support at the time of their Black Sea album. Those were the days...

I saw this concert when they played in Buenos Aires ..Unforgettable

The reason why I became a bass player. Just a fab band.

@Thundergod-

7 жыл бұрын

+ Claran Doherty What model is the double bass on Walking on the Moon????

@thefoxygrandpa638

7 жыл бұрын

Van Zalinge Z Bass

@joselinpizarro2905

6 жыл бұрын

Ciaran Doherty Luis rolando pizarro menay

@miekgenklefin9616

5 жыл бұрын

The reason I play guitar still to this day,

@MrSandalwood

5 жыл бұрын

Same as me I met sting on the letterman show in 1991 when we had are first number 1 in The US of A

great band , 3 perfect pieces together.....seen them at this show....was in last row !!

The musicianship of those three was astonishing.

Tones of energy, they just never stop, unbelievable!

One song after the other, no gimmicks, relentless.....and packed with energy from start to finish. What a band!!

They were at their most muscular peak here in the sense it was obvious to everyone they were a force to be reckoned with. They were themselves and not a genre. They made it cool and smart to be a Police fan. They deserved the money.

40 years! Still kicks ass!

Amazing how they all work together, like no other band I can remember. Closer to Grateful Dead territory. They are fingers of one hand. Watch how Andy picks out the four notes for Bed's Too Big, he picks up rhythm while Stingo goes solo. Stewart Copeland Is one of the two best living drummers.

@ezechielamadeus2828

2 жыл бұрын

Copeland une légende 👍

@lukehunnable

2 ай бұрын

Who's the other?

Saw them on the Ghost in the Machine tour. I was 11 years old and still was one of my favorite concerts I went to.

@dannycraine3582

Жыл бұрын

Sting has great stage presents

The GREATEST 3 piece of all time! 😊 ❤😮

caught them in NY .. I was a young angst drummer.. I was fixed on Stewarts drums and signature snare pop.. with attitude.. and what was written on his Toms..

Holy crap this is intense. I’ve always enjoyed the Police, but I’ve never really explored their live work until the last few days. The energy is just on fire from beginning to end, I envy people who saw the Police live during this period.

@sfbayareagirl

Жыл бұрын

Check out their Live at The Beat Club 33-min set 1979. Incredible. I’ve watched dozens of times.

@charliebath1462

Жыл бұрын

I cannot stop watching this concert- there’s something cool about it being in black and white as well! The camera angles are quite good too!

I'm so grateful that Sting still performs so many of these songs live and I've been fortunate to stand in the front and rock out to these classic Police songs 43 years later. It keeps me young!

@pam164

Жыл бұрын

Yea but he is old now, so not like this. I love Police have from 20 I'm 62 now

@tinagoldman2316

Жыл бұрын

@@pam164 We are all older, he looks great regardless! I met him a couple of times in 2014-15 and he is very humble and kind now

@pam164

Жыл бұрын

@@tinagoldman2316 That's nice you met him, I know we all get older i was just saying I really liked him when he was young, then and now.

Outstanding guitar work by Andy.

Musicianship off the charts

Wow. was born in 1980 and grew up listening to The Police, but I never realised how talented they were - I always pictured another couple of support musicians on stage with them. All three band members were on top form in this performance, and I would have to say that they are some of the best musicians I have ever seen put on a live show after watching this.

Sat in the last row with Scott and Figs great concert

NOICE !! gotta love The Capitol Theater for their commitment to preserving rock history...

Wonderful concert footage! Thanks for the upload.

Love the police early albums..they provided the musical background to my late teens and 20s ..

I saw this tour' live in Fukuoka, Japan. Thank you for the upload!

Thanks for posting this!

now that's multitasking, hitting those notes on the minimoog while playing bass!

the police imortal

I didn't know the police were this good this early

omg this is so amazing. thanks for uploading. 28:26 is gorgeous, what a break...

One of the top 5 rock groups of all time.

@hemmohoving2558

4 жыл бұрын

And who are the other four?

@XanAxDdu

4 жыл бұрын

for sure more than 5 that is just a way to say how much hot and important the police has been

@scottharrisohn6972

4 жыл бұрын

@@hemmohoving2558 doors beatles LZ bee gees

@veroniquefiorentino5898

Жыл бұрын

The best

I was there!!!! It was awesome!!!

Love it when Andy plays square sounds and Sting plays round ones!

Wow this is the greatest live stuff I’ve heard other than the first disc from the double live disc. Thanks ,

The live version of “bring on the night” is a great song.

@gustavojuarez6673

2 жыл бұрын

Andy's solo makes me cry Excelente! 🎸

Downloaded. Thank you! Gulf Shores

Love this. Thanks a lot

I was at this show all the way in the back , great post.

@doughall5303

8 жыл бұрын

+JVS Christmas me too...pretty cool

Shadows in the rain, Summer's harmonics are to die for..

Such a sick show - they killed it on "Man In A Suitcase"....was hoping for Secret Journey but I've never seen a video, just a recording or two live.

@mightyV444

3 жыл бұрын

'Secret Journey' most probably hadn't even been written at that point in time, however it wouldn't be much longer before they'd start work on the 'Ghost In The Machine' album :-)

What Power and Positive ENERGY, and what impro they used always… and for Ever !!!… Pure Freedom Music. 👮‍♂️👮‍♂️👮‍♂️🙏❤️❤️❤️💕💕💕

The best gig ever from Police amazing never see that before! Thank you!! 🙏🙏🤘

This was their best tour, three albums worth of material, sticking to the tracks on the album, with some great jams. While their best album is yet to come, ghost in the machine (which is my all-time favorite album of any group/artist) but on that ghost tour, some may remember was when sting started to create new arrangements of their songs for live concerts. These Arrangements were not good ( and I am being kind about it). Take a look at the ghost tour and his awful rearrangement of Hungry for You. This, in turn led to some thinking that they are not a good live band, but that was actually not the case and with the synchronicity tour they sort of got back to just playing the songs. Sort of, Not completely though, The Grammys and their reunion tour was again rearranging great songs to make them less not more. A shame. Ghost in the machine is near perfection, if not perfection. The band’s amazing talent was tightly surrounded by keyboards and saxophones. Why not play like the record in concert? Went to that show and it was very disappointing. Oh well, I got over it. Sort of.

That a Diamond Dave impression at 1:11:37?

@adrianweingast1466

3 жыл бұрын

Juaaaaaaaaaaaaaa yes!!!!

@ollieoneill5961

3 жыл бұрын

Fucking idiot

@-dugair

4 ай бұрын

That fruit loop dreams of having Stingo's talents. Didn't dave have an album called "Shark Sandwich"? What was the 2 word review? Oh yeah... Anyone remember? -dugair PDXtc ↓↓↓↓↓↓

Back in the days they had the punk rock vibe with the sophisticated equipment of a prog band (fretless 8 string bass, 3 taurus pedals and 2 minimoogs!!!)

Man. I'm old and this is one of my favorites

Amazing Band....Amazing concert!

I started at Message in a bottle, looking understand Andes Summer, but the drums arise by them selvesand, when ling on the bass.. another genius grows... The entire nad is amazing! But is wxample of sinergic working of three genius.

Just so talented

Best banding stuff ever!!❤ ONE2

I have perused LOTZ! Thx for the B & W classics! Capitol Theater is/was a classic Venue! Just imagin' being the Crowd!

I can't give this enough Thumb's up 👍 !

how could Sting possibly make that bass sound really mysterious?

I saw this tour when I was 15. Changed my life--my "garage band" at the time went Police crazy. We practiced basically Cars and Police covers for a while. Three guys leaving on the stage like no one else could at that time. Thanks for posting this. Great memory of a great time.

I was there with my brother

@babulah8447

Жыл бұрын

I saw you!

Great stuff Thanks 👌

Great stuff! And irrefutable proof that these three guys completely earned their success, working their ass&s off in amazing gigs like this across the world.

This is goldust...why have i never seen this before??

I am a huge Police fan but I was still a little young to fully appreciate them this early. I was bourn in 1967 so I was still kind of a tweenager during this year. I had just discovered them in 1980 and only had a couple of their songs I recorded off of a radio station late night on a crappy mono tape recorder but it was a treasure to me. These are my favorite songs and did not realize how far back they recorded them. Man do I wish someone would have do a new vinyl pressing of this concert. I would be in heaven. Hell even a remaster with a clean up and new vinyl pressing would be worth it's weight in Gold to me. I still have 5 decent cassette decks at home just waiting for a tape of this to play. TDK, Sony, Tascom, 3M anybody out there are you paying attention? Are you listening? Many of us are starving for actual Music instead of the garbage being dumped out there today. What does it tell you when many current groups have been trying to play covers or are sampling older music to make new recordings of their tweaked music.

the best all times

Brilliant performance.

Although zenyatta mondatta is not their best work in my opinion, they were at their peak live on this tour. On this concert they were amazing, I especially like when the World is running down, bring on the night, so lonely, driven to tears and the bed's too big without you.

Love this version of "Man In A Suitcase"

@sam8160

Жыл бұрын

"Hole In My Life"would be very good if they performed it here

Speakers are exploded, THE POLICE sirens are started. Energy, generosity on the stage were the key of this incomparable & unforgettable band. Unique Sting boice, unique Copeland hit=hat & snare sound, unique Summers British phlegm : unique trio.

Excellent two thumbs up

Luarbiasa band masa SMP ku (Excellent very, my fav band during high school

Sorry I wasn't there. Absolutely great

Mesmerizing, energetic, incredible.

Amazing then! Still amazing today! Too bad Sting couldn't do his solo work and still make music with The Police....Thanks for posting!!!!!!!!

Great show indeed!

Ninth grade when they played this show. Mrs. S, the French teacher. Don't Stand in reverse. Great memories.

this was a perfect venue back in the day

@ClueSign

9 жыл бұрын

robertk2007 YES

My loves brought so much joy to my life.

Typically, I try to share a high-point in a long-play video. But, there is NONE! This is INCREDIBLE throughout! Eh?

@vetterburns1048

6 жыл бұрын

Yes. I am a tool. But, MEYTAL just makes it look soo natural. kzread.info/dash/bejne/doN9xLqolqard6g.html

I was at this show. Finally got around to watch this all the way through. I suppose I hadn't ever before because I remember it being GREAT and didn't want to look at this video to see otherwise 30 years later, LOL. Good news: It was great. Especially the second half of this video including Roxanne and the encores. A strong memory that I had was that during Roxanne, they had very bright backlights that seemed blinding to the audience. They turned them on during the chorus of the song. It was very cool because those lights hadn't been used prior to that moment of the show. I did see evidence of this in this video, but the angle that the camera captures the stage doesn't give it full effect. I'm going to trust my memory of it ; ) Trust me. I was happy to watch this today, seeing Sting in his prime, about to become a world-class performer. I also got reminded why Stu was my favorite drummer back then. I loved the way his entire drum kit shook and bounced. The Police were a great band. Last comment - the video that proceeds this one is from a show in the UK not quite two years after this one. You can see what a big year and half it was for the band, and how popular they had become. And one more comment from me - I saw them at Nassua Coliseum at the end of their North America leg of the Ghost in the Machine Tour. I expected it to be not as good as this one, (much larger venue, etc) but it may have been even better. Can somebody post THAT concert?? Haha.

@jamesegan4435

8 ай бұрын

Hey Robert, I think I was also at this show. Do you recall it starting with a guy coming out after the warmup band saying there was a bomb scare and we should look under our seats. Then when there was no bomb the show went off.

A great sound on Andy's guitar.

Fully Jammed out

Wow--I didn't know they still included "Fall Out" on the setlist this far into their career!

@maskedmotorsdiy3575

6 жыл бұрын

Far? They'd only been an album band for 2 years at this point, 2 years is not far. Fall Out disappeared from the set list at Ghost in the Machine tho, just seemed so out of place with the more sophisticated songs.

@RichV20

6 жыл бұрын

They just released their 3rd album at the time of this show with new songs played off the album.

@jasonlefler3456

5 жыл бұрын

Didn’t they play Fallout as late as the Police Picnic in August 1981?

@jasonlefler3456

5 жыл бұрын

Just checked. Fallout was not played.

@johnsmith-cv1lp

4 жыл бұрын

@@jasonlefler3456 still playing it on Feb 22nd 1981 Melbourne festival theatre show.

Incredible performance. 👏

四十年前.. 光陰似箭,, 人生無常.. 音樂常伴！

I loved THE POLICE when i was very young (1980...), funny, but in the same time i loved STATUS QUO too

Thx giving for timestamps hyperlinked in tracklist description

They are really amazing, thru the years, The Police!!!!

great stuff #oldskool luv the live tunes

Outstanding