Police Poor Performance

[aimusic]

Hey Everyone,Now I love the Police to bits, but I was searching through youtube and came across this video...Is it me or is this an extremely weak performance? It sounds like Andy keeps making mistakes on the guitar... Maybe it's just me?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n6zO_Fn ... elatedTake CareB

[ggalen]

Well, the notes say it was a "rehearsal performance", meaning they were playing for a small audience as a test run and knew they didn't have it all down yet, right?

[aimusic]

But I've listened to a few of their live videos of this track and have heard numerous mistakes on most of them.*waiting for someone to chime in "ANDY LIKES AVANTE GARDE STYLE"* Even if it is a rehearsal gig - surely they rehearsed for it

[foustmusic]

Anyone seen this version of "Message In A Bottle?" What do you think?http://new.music.yahoo.com/videos/--33318502

[michael11]

Aug 1, 2008, 4:07am, aimusic wrote:Hey Everyone,Now I love the Police to bits, but I was searching through youtube and came across this video...Is it me or is this an extremely weak performance? It sounds like Andy keeps making mistakes on the guitar... Maybe it's just me?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n6zO_Fn ... elatedTake CareBI don't think there is anything weak about the performance at all,in fact for a three piece it's a very powerful sound.Andy does make a few obvious balls ups and plays behind the beat a little too often but there's nothing there that can't be fixed with a bit more rehearsal and a few lines of coke.

[stoney]

Refreshing to see that even Andy Summers needs to put in a few hours of practice. Copland, what a drummer! Cheers really enjoyed watching this.

[ernstinen]

Aug 1, 2008, 10:03am, stoney wrote:Refreshing to see that even Andy Summers needs to put in a few hours of practice. Copland, what a drummer! Cheers really enjoyed watching this.I've never tried to play that song on guitar, but I'm sure it's pretty hard to play. Andy will get it together by tour time!Sometimes when the stage lighting isn't right, it's awfully hard to see where you are on the guitar neck. I remember doing a warmup gig with my band, and the first chord of one of my songs was a "Summers-style" chord --- I missed it by a half-step --- How embarrasing! BTW, I saw The Police at Hollywood Park during their "Synchronicity" tour, and they were jaw-droppingly good!Ern

[gongchime]

Both the bass player for U2 and the bass player for Led Zeppelin have had reputations for missing section changes etc... Of course they have good enough technique but sometimes musical memory is the killer. Streisand has to sing with the lyrics taped to the floor of some of her most memorable songs. And Joni Mitchell makes mistakes playing the mountain dulcimer live on stage, and on camera! If you start fairly intense musical training when you're 4 then all this kind of stuff is less likely. If you start playing when you're 22, then all the practice in the world doesn't make up for the fact the pathways in your brain are only an offramp to musical skill instead of a four lane highway. This makes me think about savants. They can't tie their shoe. They can barely count to ten but they can learn Flight of the Bumblebee from only one hearing. They can play 8,000 songs from memory. Their memory is very deep but also very narrow. Since they CAN'T think even shallowly about any other things such as tying shoes, then they spend every single day and probably nights too, thinking ONLY about music. They don't have a 4 lane highway as one pathway of many, they've got a worm hole singularity to another dimension.

[gongchime]

And every second we spend doing anything else for money continually dilutes the musical connections and strengthens the dishwashing, billpayinig, car driving pathways.

[mojobone]

Just say no to the dishwashing brain pathways...