More Andy Interviews with More Police News!

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A few other Police-related tidbits from recent Andy Summers interviews...

1) Andy discusses a planned Police concert release recorded at CBGBs during a Q104.3 "Out of the Box" interview. (around the 15:30 minute mark)

https://q1043.iheart.com/featured/jonathan-jc-clarke/content/2021-08-23-the-police-unearth-recording-of-one-their-earliest-us-gigs-at-cbgbs/

2) Andy claims that Sting was the holdout for any new Police album during and after the 2007/2008 tour. No surprise there.

excerpted from https://www.pastemagazine.com/books/andy-summers/legendary-police-guitarist-andy-summers-talks-new/

Paste: <During and after the 2007/2008 tour>... How much interest did you have in making a new album, especially when it was clear that people came out in droves to see those shows? I mean, one imagines the music-business machine was seeing dollar signs.

Summers: Oh yeah, everybody wants to make money. I was probably—I don’t want to use the word “cynical,” but by the time we got through that tour, I knew there was no way we were going to make a new album. There was no way Sting would step up to the plate and agree to do that. So I didn’t really hold out much hope.

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Paste: It wasn’t just chops, it was the growth. So it was like, “Why wouldn’t a band in this position make new music?”

Summers: Look, I can only say, “Ask Sting.”

Paste: What made it clear to you that he “wasn’t going to step up to the plate”?

Summers: Well, he’s a very—what’s the right word, intransigent?—person. Very self-enclosed. You couldn’t get in there. Although, now that I think about it, there was some talk about that. He and I did have some conversations along those lines. It’s such a Spinal Tap cliché, but we talked about doing an acoustic album. God, I can’t believe we actually said that. [Laughs.] So there was some talk, but then of course the tour was over and we all just drifted back to wherever we were. I mean, that was almost a two-year involvement. That’s something you have to come down from to get back to reality.

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