STEWART COPELAND

YouTuber Rick Beato has interviewed each member of the Police separately. STEWART's interview is done in the Sacred Grove. While about 85% of information in the interview is well known to true Nutters, it is regardless quite enjoyable to watch. I particularly like seeing The Flag occasionally pop up on STEWART's computer screen saver.

STEWART
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIJkRhd1CTY

Andy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V67Fq47U4ng

Sting (a little bit old)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efRQh2vspVc

On a tangent, if you like Rick Beato, I highly recommend that you watch his interview of Italian guitarist Matteo Mancuso. If you don't know who Matteo is, click below and you are in for a real treat. He is a very special talent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rASUoqbHhqY

It's not hyperbole when he suggests that Matteo is the world's greatest guitarist.

I was really surprised that STEWART hates the album version of Wrapped Around Your Finger (or at least the drum part). It is so sublime. One of the track that made me a really hardcore STEWART fan.

I also don't think GITM sounds as good (recording wise) as STEWART does. It is inconsistent. Hugh's production home run with the Police was not until Synchronicity.

For once, I check this place just in time. Only a day late!

Added Stewart and Andy interview to Watch Later

While, unsurprisingly, I found STEWART's interview the most enjoyable, I thought the most impressive job of interviewing by Beato was with Sting. Beato has a talent for getting the subject to say the most without Beato having to say too much. It seemed like Sting was a bit wary at first, but it seemed like Beato got Sting comfortable quickly and he enjoyed answering questions that were not the typical journalist questions but questions from a person with a relatively deep understanding of both the subject's work and music in general. I rarely find Sting interviews to be of much interest, but this was definitely quite compelling. Compelling enough to cause me to listen to . . . Nothing Like the Sun for the first time in a long while. That was a really good album. I just wished that (1) Andy's guest appearance on Lazarus Heart was better, and (2) STEWART had played on Be Still My Beating Heart, which I think would have been an incredible Police song.

TheEqualizer wrote:I also don't think GITM sounds as good (recording wise) as STEWART does. It is inconsistent. Hugh's production home run with the Police was not until Synchronicity.

Songs on GITM that sound awesome:
Invisible Sun, Secret Journey, Darkness, Spirits, Omegaman, ELTSDIM, I Burn for You (if that counts)

Songs on GITM that I don't think have a great production sound:
Demolition Man, Too Much Information, One World, Rehumanize Yourself, Hungry for You

I think that's acceptable, since GITM was very funky, and heavier than Syncronicity, which in many ways was a pop record with session musicians recording their stuff separately, to back the star singer.

I have a 2CD japanese jazz funk album (that serves as a soundtrack), and it is also a bit dirty and thick like Ghost in The Machine.

I watched all three interviews.

If you're going to interview people who have been around 40-plus years and interviewed thousands of times, don't ask questions that have been repeatedly answered.

And I cannot understand why no one who interviews Stewart asks about the excellent songs he wrote for the Police.