How Did you Become a Nutter?

[Dietmar]

for me it started in late 1979, maybe early 1980...
my older brother bought the Reggatta LP and then Outlandos
a friend of mine bought the next LP and we desperately wanted to see the Rockpalast gig on TV in October 1980
our parents didn't allow us to do so, that's why I don't visit them anymore...
I remember buying the German "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" single with "A Sermon" on the b-side and that's where I noticed there's stuff to collect out there
during our next holiday abroad I bought the previous singles with "Landlord" and "Visions Of The Night" on the b-side
I remember listening to "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" when they played it on German radio for the first time.
so I bought the usual teenie magazines and the singles, and then I found some cassettes with live songs and noticed how good that was as compared to the studio versions
I remember when Every Breath came out and I saw the video on German TV. If I'm not mistaken the single entered on no.7 in the UK charts and that German TV show told us about the charts the next week. The Police didn't show up from 10 to 2 and I thought "too bad that my favourite band is already gone from the Top 10" when, of course, they made no. 1 with that one!
In that year I was almost old enough to travel to a German concert, yet not quite...
in 2007 I was almost too old, but I travelled.
in between were periods where I bought bootlegs, singles from around the world, videos, posters, patches,...
and there were periods where I sold all that
and bought it back
since CD-R were possible and I had internet access interest grew back and I started burning the few live cassettes onto CD-R
finding the right covers led me to learn more about live photos (when / where they were taken)
that made me want to learn more about everything
and that's the phase I'm still in!

[policerule]

Looks like I never posted in the original thread either. Answer: MTV, baby.
Of course, I had heard The Police on the radio and knew and loved some of their earlier hits, but I was too young to buy albums and such. Even when Synch came out, I had my dad make me a tape of his album. Yeah, I stole it! I was 14! But, before that, it was GITM on MTV. Above all, I loved The Police. I shattered on Spirits and went backwards from there.

I've said it before, but a time machine would really come in handy here. The Ghost tour would be my first stop.

[dneckels]

I heard all the police synchronicity stuff in high school, and of course everyone loved them.
But then in college I was having a hard time (i.e. partying my a@@ off) and got very into drumming. God I wanted to be a drummer but I didn't really have enough experince (okay, maybe not enough talent, hard to say....).
I got a copy of 'Police: Around the world'. Stewart was just absolutely fun to watch on that vhs. You could tell how much he loved to play and he just gave the kit all his energy. So I became a huge fan.
I got a copy of Sting's Bring on the Night video that same year, which made me into Sting and (by association) even more into the police.
Well, I finally got my act together in school, eased off on the drumming and it kind of faded away.
Something clicked, though, and I got back into drumming a couple of years ago and back into watching old vids of the police and stewart.
I hope I get to see him play in these parts sometime!!

[Divemistress of the Dark]

Y'all are welcome. Here's a repost of a Dirty Martini trick to find old threads or keywords...

*Go to Google
*Into the searchbox, type

site:stewartcopeland.net "yourtext"

The archives here at SC.net are toast, but Google sees all.

[ltwoman]

Good to know, Dive. Thanks for the tip!

[dneckels]

Good to know, Dive. Thanks for the tip!

Meow. Happy new year my fiendly kitten!

[georgygirl]

just because I like to part live in this cibernetic way.

[georgygirl]

Happy New Year Jemma Belinda!

more tequila please...

[LARNOULD THERESE]

For me i become a nutter not soon!!
i saw the clip don't stand so close to me and i began to listen all the police's songs!
i forgot how it was good songs!!
so i m happy to discover the Stewart's songs!! and to know each other!!!