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That may be the 3rd or 4th best song on that cd, not taking into account how much it's overplayed.![]()
Or where it is played.
That may be the 3rd or 4th best song on that cd, not taking into account how much it's overplayed.![]()
Did you... JUMP AROUND?
Saw him in Milwaukee last week w/Emmylou Harris at the Pabst Theater.
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I'm listening to some old favs (The Police, S&G and Paul Simon solo)...however... let me throw some thoughts out to you for feedback...
The Police -
I LOVE this band but when I go through phases like this where I listen to them heavily, I also wonder just *** Sting was thinking when embarking on a career away from them and then continuing that solo career beyond say 2-3 years. yeah, try it I guess but then you don't realize how bland it is in comparison?
The Police have character, each player has a style and voice, Sting's solo work? quite boring in comparison.
studio musicians while great with metronome timing and easy to control since that's part of their job (to take orders), they can never be as creative as guys like Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland. NEVER!
and on a somewhat related note...Paul Simon...while I like Graceland, LOVE Rhythm of the Saints and like various other points of his solo career (early and late...his last album was quite good) he just has never seemed to realize that the most emotionally touching points of his music are him w/Garfunkel or him alone with his guitar (drop the whole 15 drummer thing)...at least imo
thoughts from other fans of these guys/bands?
I missed this somehow when you posted...
The Police...
Not sure that there was much left for them to cover. I think they were just done and from all I've read about them, they couldn't stand to be in the same room with each other by the end.
Not much can be done about that and many fans look at Synchronicity as a low point anyway or a start to a downward slide. I couldn't disagree more with that thought as it's probably my favorite of their albums, but to each their own.
Personally, I like(d) Dream of the Blue Turtles although a couple of the songs (Russians, for one) are quite dated now. What I like though is the Jazz angle that this album has. Bring on the Night is a good dvd that chronicles this time period. This segment from that dvd shows how smokin' and rejuvenated some of the material became.
The CDs for Bring on the Night are quite good and I still listen to them at least once a year. Probably the best version of Tea in the Sahara that you'll hear
In this video, Branford Marsalis talks a little about Sting and I found it interesting...
I stopped following Sting after Dream as the next album started moving towards adult easy listening although Sister Moon and his take on Little Wing are standouts.
I also have a CD from this era where Sting plays a show at some festival in France with Gil Evans (jazz guy) backed up by Evans' 10 or so member band. This is good too although I prefer Bring on the Night as it's a bit tighter.
A fun little Stuart Copeland project was when he did Oysterhead with Les Claypool and Trey Anastasio. The studio album is good, but the shows were a blast - I saw them twice. The three of these guys together... seemed like they had always been together. Great energy and if you've ever seen Claypool, he's a show all by himself.
As for Simon and Garf, I believe that they really only belonged in the 60s. Some of their stuff pulls on me in a very profound way, but I just don't see them doing that sort of work outside of that era.
The Concert in Central Park for instance, seems very dated to me (can't stomach listening to it at all - especially HATE the keyboard parts) in a way that their original recordings or their concerts from the 60s don't. Can't put a finger on why this is, but they just seem rooted to me in that time and place.
I first got into them, believe it or not as a freshman in college. A couple of buddies of mine had their greatest hits in constant rotation at their apartment in amongst Ozzy, Appetite for Destruction and Tesla to name a few. Weird, but no one ever questioned it and it worked.
Delved into their catalogue in more depth later in life. LOVE their interpretation of this...
I like Paul on his own to some degree, but not as much as Simon & Garf.
Gurt: too bad you aren't local. Then again, my wallet is probably thankful you're not local.![]()