STEWART COPELAND

In case you wonder why in 7 Years Sting didn't come out with a Major Hit !!!
My answer is that he doesn't have Miles around to give him proper "creative" and constructive feedback on his latest albums!!!

I worked (Designed) with Miles for 3 years and realized the major influence, he is on all his artists. He has a drive so intense that we had to come out with the best of ourself.
Miles is not a pure businessmen but an artist himself and so excentric that he might have been the only one to tell him the truth on each album he released during his solo career under his "managment". Every single album Sting composed during the Miles Years were powerful and a financial success.
Sting is a great composer but with so much money, he might have relaxed.... Sting has to proove something to somebody!!!!. During the Police years, he had to proove wrong Stewart, during the solo years Miles !!!!
Now who is his Muse???? Do you think The Police Reunion will bring back a must needed HIT???
Sting needs the all Copeland Family, he owed them his career and they are his musical inspiration.

Let'see the next album....

I do miss Miles being around so much, myself. I wore an IRS Records pin all weekend at Bonnaroo and got a lot of comments on it...

Tell him HI if you see him, MC, and tell him to post on Ask Uncle Ian!! He is sorely missed!

Right now Miles is obsessed with his latest project The Bellydance Superstars and his Middle Eastern artists. He is busy like hell but I know that once in a while he does post on Uncle Ian Board.

A "much-needed hit"? Does Sting really need a hit song?

Why?

[quote="jeffdaweasel"]A "much-needed hit"? Does Sting really need a hit song?

Why?[/quote]

If they record new material, I hope they do it for the right reasons. That it sounds great and feels good to them being chief above all other reasons and hopefully monetary being in lower realms. In some ways, especially with the passings of Kim and Ian and the non-participation of Miles this go around, maybe some of the key components that were there the first time aren't around to complete that mix this time. That's fine by me. The current re-workings are more than enough to stimulate my pineal-eye and satiate my nearly 25 year famine of long term Police collaborations (I won't lump the '86 remakes and short-lived reunions over the years into this mix). I hope the Police Unplugged will be the Arc D'Triumph on all the whiners and bellyachers who can't sick their teeth into the brilliance of the current tour, as anyone can clearly see at the Bonnaroo show. And that it becomes a hit not of need to any of the three but of circumstance in that it is well earned shoud it come to be.

>If they record new material, I hope they do it for the right reasons.
> That it sounds great and feels good to them being chief above all other
>reasons and hopefully monetary being in lower realms.

Indeed. I don't think any of them are in any desperate need of cash at this point. Maybe hunger is a good motivator and one that would be lacking at this point...But I say a new record would be great if they feel like it; I'm actually finding myself fairly glad they didn't "rush" into any entirely new material yet if that would have been more out of studio/management pressure than what was really right at the moment (after all, just look at how the '86 sessions turned out...)

And while a lot of folks may have mocked it or not cared for it, wasn't Sting's lute album one of the best-selling classical music album of recent times? Nominated for several awards as well? (I actually liked it quite a bit better than some of his other more recent albums, personally, maybe because it was so out there and unexpected.)

>In some ways, especially with the passings of Kim and Ian and the
>non-participation of Miles this go around, maybe some of the key
>components that were there the first time aren't around to complete
>that mix this time. That's fine by me.

Yeah, I mean, who knows. It's like The Who--now down to just Pete and Roger--recording "Endless Wire". Was it comparible to "Who's Next" or "The Who Sell Out"? No, maybe not, but I thought it was a damned fine piece of work and was thrilled to see the collaboration once more of several artists who I admired working together once again. Overcomparisons to the past only serve to diminish the gifts of today, sometimes...

I miss Uncle Miles too. He certainly is a character. I'm looking forward to his book.

If you get a chance, try to see the Bellydance Superstars - it's a fantastic show!

Uncle Miles is writing a book?? Wow!

I'd love to see the Superstars.

[quote="Divemistress of the Dark"]Uncle Miles is writing a book?? Wow!

I'd love to see the Superstars.[/quote]

Yeah, I believe Uncle Miles is writing a book about the business, not a memoir or anything like that.

And I'm dying to see the Rachel Brice and the Indigo, the tribal/eastern European spin-off troupe of the Bellydance Superstars who will be going on tour in the Fall and are supposed to be touring with a full live band which should be really cool (www.theindigo.net). I think Miles just released a CD of the music featured in the show called Le Serpent Rouge that I keep forgetting to search for every time I go to Borders.

Sure, the pressence of Miles is very important.

I hope he, with all his business, is keeping in touch with his little brother band...

[quote] and tell him to post on Ask Uncle Ian!! He is sorely missed! [/quote]


Wots Ask Uncle Ian please?

I miss so much !!!


Kim

Kim, I understand what you mean.

I virtual met Ian just once, and I felt he was a wonderful man.

That is why I can feel how many people are missing his pressence nowadays...

[quote="kimmy"][quote] and tell him to post on Ask Uncle Ian!! He is sorely missed! [/quote]


Wots Ask Uncle Ian please?

I miss so much !!!


Kim

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Kim, google 'Ask Uncle Ian' and you'll see...

Also what i noticed about Miles during my time in his office is the impact he had on people. They were never themselves around him and he was driving them absolutly crazy!!!! He was shocking them and it was pure entertainment for us to witness that;)....

I think he would have been in control of the press for the Police reunion, the articles, reviews and so on would have been more spicy and more intense. Getting older Miles never lost his "agent provocateur" side of him which supplies the press with endless stories.

Those who knows him personnally will understand what i mean.

Miles talks about his upcoming book "Marketing the Impossible" in this podcast interview from last year: http://www.electricsky.net/index.php?s=miles+copeland