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Posted on 10/03/2025 2:17:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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The last real Police album. I’m partial to Regatta de Blanc, though.
Regatta de Blanc live 1979. They were on fire then. Stewart Copeland changed drumming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQGmaWYC4OE&list=RDOQGmaWYC4OE&start_radio=1
I played bass in a bar band back then on Long Island New York, 1981 a looooooong time ago when I was 17. I had to lie how old I was, and one of the songs we played was “Driven to tears” which was a great song to jam on. I can’t believe it’s been 44 years. Back then it was ridiculously easy to get gigs, nowadays I heard it’s almost impossible. I haven’t played in a band in years, at least 20 years.
Every song on Regatta de Blanc is great, Copeland’s songs always had humor to them like, “On Any Other Day”.
Not a huge fan of The Police but... Driven to tears?
Yeah, you could jam an entire 30-40 minutes in your set.
2 or three other covers and collect your gate..
“THANK YOU, CHICAGO!!!”
That said, this was 1980.
2 years earlier PF released “The Wall” and everything...EVERY THING... else was set aside.
It eclipsed Dark Side of the Moon and was a standard that was never met again.
EVER.
I have 7 copies... three in vacc-sealed visquin.
Those were the days.
Ha ha I don’t know why we played that as well, probably because it had 3 or 4 chords and an easy riff. We pretty much sucked especially the drummer, but damn we constantly got gigs, it was great.
I am also partial to Regatta de Blanc. They took giant steps on side two!
Wasn’t she in Spiderman?
In, I think, 1979 a friend snuck me into Summers on the Beach in Fort Lauderdale to hear this awesome band - three guys, one on guitar, one on bass, one on drums.
They were okay, but there playlist was thin. A song they played early in their set was repeated towards the end...I Can’t Stand Losing You. I got the impression that most of their songs were minor variations on each other. I was less than impressed.
Within 5 years I had bought all of their albums and actually wore out Outlandos d’Amour.
We don’t need no education. We don’t need no thought control.
Other than boomers?
All we are is... just another brick in the wall.
(Leave those kids alone!)
They also toured with XTC at that time, and Stewart Copeland became good friends with the band.
going to have to disagree with you there, IMHO DSOTM and WYWH are both better than the wall.
I tend to agree, The Wall is more of a Roger Waters solo album, than a PF album.
I am also partial to Regatta de Blanc. They took giant steps on side two!
“Does Everyone Stare” is one of my all-time favorite Police songs, Stewart wrote that one as well.
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