Modern songwriters could learn a lot by just studying what ISN'T in this track. The use of space is so refreshing in contrast to today's mixes.
@melrupinski883 ай бұрын
Spot on, as a band, they had an uncanny knack for making the spaces between notes sound great too.
@tinusplotseling31303 ай бұрын
@@melrupinski88 Yes! Thats exactly what i was thinking recently. What’s really great about the new wave sound, is the space that exists in between the notes. Makes it feel dark, deep and blue-ish. Wonderful
@buney3 ай бұрын
Yeah!
@spindriftdrinker3 ай бұрын
Space is so important in pop, and underutilized. Like the second of silence in "Good Vibrations", before the final chorus.
@cvn65553 ай бұрын
Whole sections where all you really hear are the hats? Never happen today.
@stevenbyrd21883 ай бұрын
A good example of what Rick has always reminded viewers: "Before there were pro tools, there were pros." The Police were pros.
@bobbywilson11322 ай бұрын
I hadn't heard this before. I love it. I'm gonna use this.
@mattygee50002 ай бұрын
And before there was autotune, there were people IN tune..just sayin'..
@blackdog20062 ай бұрын
Best quote ever
@IndigoJo2 ай бұрын
Pro Tools makes amateurs think they're pros, and think their bedroom is Abbey Road. Some great artists can't produce to save their lives, but their results are actually released.
@monitor42082 ай бұрын
As an amateur, I can tell, that it’s hard work, to get my ideas into something like a song or track. Struggling with my lack of ability to master my instruments, and to master the software. But it’s fun anyway.
@secularZoo3 ай бұрын
It's great that Rick has interviewed all the Police, and not the other way around. 🤣
@wesleyalan91793 ай бұрын
😂
@vincentbull3 ай бұрын
Bravo 😂
@Musicarbs3 ай бұрын
The police would completely beato rick
@PraiseIommi3 ай бұрын
Ba dum tss
@Boethius4113 ай бұрын
@@Musicarbshey, that’s my story😂😂😂. Rick can’t have it. 😇
@ggghhhbbnjjjbb23303 ай бұрын
I'm a guitar player, but when I listen to these guys I can't keep my ears off the drums. The drumming is mesmerising.
@ronaldlogan79832 ай бұрын
Stewart is amazing
@mrfuzz67442 ай бұрын
Agreed and same - guitar player myself but the drums (and bass for that matter) grab me with the Police. I guess the only other similar band like that would be Rush, also a three-piece :)
@ericgood89602 ай бұрын
Copeland's drums define the Police's primary sound, followed closely by Sting's bass. Summers guitar rounds it out, but it's nowhere near as important to capturing the Police sound as he would like you to think.
@ggghhhbbnjjjbb23302 ай бұрын
He's like a gracefully drunk gymnast/ballet dancer on meth. All over the place but he never falls over and somehow it all hangs together beautifully. Completely bamboozles my brain listening to it.
@jimyoung92622 ай бұрын
Dude...same...amazing drumming
@drew197993 ай бұрын
Rick teaches me how to listen to songs I’ve heard hundreds of times before.
@aaronsmith26112 ай бұрын
Agreed. I've been playing music for nearly 40 years. I started off by playing covers that I had to learn from cassette tapes. That meant a lot of focusing on parts, play, rewind, play, and repeat. And because of that I've developed my ear to pick up a lot of things most listeners don't hear. It's actually a very different way to listen to music and often makes it difficult to listen to songs as a whole. That said, with this series that Rick does, I notice how much I still miss.
@vedsomaiya71102 ай бұрын
The stark difference between "listening" and "hearing"
@pharmerdavid14322 ай бұрын
Rick teaches me that he and his fans idolize crap pop 'music' just like Orwell predicted would happen. Tavistock is real.
@drew197992 ай бұрын
@@pharmerdavid1432 weird take but ok.
@IggyB-Music3 ай бұрын
He finally brought back the series with one of the best bands ever Respect 🙏🙏
@robertmasteller65093 ай бұрын
...keep it up...
@johndodson45273 ай бұрын
Reggie jazola
@Compassiron13 ай бұрын
Amen!
@IggyB-Music3 ай бұрын
@@robertmasteller6509 eeyo yo yo yo yoooo…
@IggyB-Music3 ай бұрын
@@justinsayin3979heck yea I would love to see that
@TheBassOnTheBass3 ай бұрын
Rick, The Police are the biggest music influence of my life. I decided to become a musician at 16 because of them and the Beatles. Twenty years on, I pay my morgage and my bills by singing opera, far away from home, where I started in my bedroom, listening to The Police and dreaming someday of jumping on the stage with my bass. God bless them, they motivated me all the way through my ups and downs. When I was listening to their music I could feel the energy of a rock band choesion, of art through adversity, of an immortal force that will live on, to quote Andy Summers, "long after the three Police members are all long gone". Sting came to one of my performances last year at the Salzburg Festival where I was singing right in front of him ... and Stewart liked and said "bravo" to my Acustic rendition of Walking on the Moon on Instagram. Not bad, for me, the little Italian who couldn't hold a note for dear life. Life is great, and music lasts a lifetime. Ciao from Austria!
@TheHelicapt2 ай бұрын
Sting and the police are the reason I learned how to play bass guitar. Huge influence on me growing up. Amazing music.
@cristiannunez2117Ай бұрын
Nice circle of life, ha❤
@eggchipsnbeansАй бұрын
A lovely story
@rachelar26 күн бұрын
How can I become a pro opera singer
@TheBassOnTheBass23 күн бұрын
@@rachelar hard work, hard work... and some more hard work
@speedypete07gnarly3 ай бұрын
That whole record is pure gold.
@FecklessCowboy3 ай бұрын
Actually it was Vinyl… 🥴
@Luftmysza.3 ай бұрын
Yea honestly it blew me away in a way which not many albums do
@nathanr58253 ай бұрын
Every song they made is pure gold. Fixed it for you
@IggyB-Music3 ай бұрын
Heck yea one of favorites to this day
@dabu733 ай бұрын
maybe not “On any other day” lol but the other songs are amazing
@geoffmarr75263 ай бұрын
In 1978/79 we saw the Police live at Bruce Stadium in Canberra. It was a warm spring evening, we were 'enhanced' and had superb sight and sound. Easilly 10,000+ in audience. They kicked off with Walking On The Moon. The whole place went deadset frikkin nuts. Two hours of bliss. One of the most joyous concerts I ever attended.
@shiv20333 ай бұрын
Yeah, we need this series to never end.
@flinx6493 ай бұрын
Rick is a great interviewer... but I like the song is great series the best.
@btimec52903 ай бұрын
One a week please!!
@mstephencrowell2 ай бұрын
@@flinx649 I like how he incorporated his interviews into the mix of this, made it even that much better!
@Mar-up7db3 ай бұрын
The atmosphere in this song is still unmatched.
@japhyryder663 ай бұрын
Yes! I feel the same way about “Tea In The Sahara”.
@martinnelson83823 ай бұрын
Atmosphere? I thought the song was called walking on the moon.
@ando-ryu3 ай бұрын
That guitar riff at the start is like a Time Machine. Straight back.
@darthlaurel3 ай бұрын
And when I think about all the hot trash making it in the radio today.....smdh.
@LowEarthOrbitPilot3 ай бұрын
The closest I could think of was ‘Dream Weaver’ (Gary Wright)
@kurtdejgaard3 ай бұрын
Living in rural Denmark without music stores in the nearest village and Danish State Radio as the only source (on rare occasions) to listen to new music, at 14 years of age I spent some of the first money I earned working at a local car repair shop to buy a transistor radio. And when everyone else on the farm was sleeping, I'd lie i bed, tuning in to Radio Luxembourg. "Walking on the Moon" was one of the first things I heard. It was a revelation. Never heard anything like it. This wasn't your typical 3 or 4-chord pop or rock song. This was... Sophisticated!... Mysterious!... Same for Randy Crawford and the Crusaders playing "Street Life". All these new sounds I had never imagined. "Don't stop til you get enough" by Michael Jackson, "Cars" by Gary Numan, "Is she really going out with him?" by Joe Jackson and the for RL somewhat prophetic "Video Killed the Radio Star" by Buggles. All within the first few weeks of owning that Blaupunkt transistor radio. I've never smoked anything stronger than tobacco. But those few weeks to months, I was high as a kite!
@dancarter4823 ай бұрын
Damn DUDE; I teared-up reading that! I was a snot-nosed latchkey kid in London at the time. Gary Newman and The Police changed my life, yeah and I LOVE Randy Crawford.
@nikodraganic3 ай бұрын
Radio Luxembourg brought forward entire generations of alternative and rock subcultures in former Yugoslavia in the time when western music couldn't be found on the radio or in record stores. Even though those generations were denied many of the freedoms we now take for granted, somehow they still had that joy of discovering music and connecting through music, which, for the most part today, is lost. Except for this channel, and this man right here, Rick.❤
@lauriesuzanne88483 ай бұрын
Ohhh what GREAT memories! Randy Crawford is totally mag!
@obbadda3 ай бұрын
Meeee tooo! *_Thank you so much_* for sharing that powerful experience of discovery and awe. @@dancarter482
@user-po3ir2tx5z3 ай бұрын
Ah... memories of RTL. "Sends magic through the air!"
@rolandlickert29043 ай бұрын
I'm 75 years old and it's one of my favourite songs. Have all police CDs.
@jimplummer48798 күн бұрын
I had all of their LPS back in the day.
@Forceprincess2 ай бұрын
After all of these years, the music of the police still sound like magic
@VINZBROWN2 ай бұрын
Abbbbsolutely ❤❤❤❤
@tchristianphoto3 ай бұрын
Stewart Copeland's minimalist and highly, highly variable drumming is a masterclass on how to say more with less.
@matthewperry27673 ай бұрын
Less is definitely relative when you’re Talking about him cuz he was very busy in certain aspects
@mattraino32743 ай бұрын
Uh what? Just the fact the man has a gong says Stuart is NOT a minimalist…..you’re thinking Ringo.
@sundaynightdrunk3 ай бұрын
If you watch his Rick Beato interview, he had no idea what Sting and Andy were doing half the time, so he mostly did his own thing and they tended to like it.
@automachinehead3 ай бұрын
i think him and jeff porcaro are the rawest drummers in the business
@feloniousmonk30493 ай бұрын
@@sundaynightdrunk /\ Facts! But seriously, Copeland, in terms of style, is really up there, with Bonham, The Professor, Neale Peart, Jeff Porcaro and Bernard Purdy. At least, in my lifetime, those are the top rated that come to me as really standing out.
@Gunterlooker3 ай бұрын
What makes this "what makes this song great" video even greater than others, is the fact that Rick has interviewed the three members of the band and has exclusive insights into the creation, recording and production. No one else can do this!
@wildbeanz3 ай бұрын
My thoughts exactly.
@alexmartell24323 ай бұрын
I can't believe "what makes this song great" is back! So awesome! Rick has an awesome ear, and he gives you the confidence to attempt to emulate him. Wow that Guitar tone!
@travkatz3 ай бұрын
Rick Beato belongs in the hall of Fame
@matthewperry27673 ай бұрын
No
@purplebondsaiyan29873 ай бұрын
He's in the Rochester Music Hall of Fame just got Inducted This Year
@matthewperry27673 ай бұрын
@@purplebondsaiyan2987 Ra-Cha-Cha
@markmcarthy5963 ай бұрын
Hall of Fame is No longer worthy of the Best. Was-but not anymore
@DeanCameron3 ай бұрын
There should be a Beato Award.
@michaelpoe83322 ай бұрын
I like it when he says " did you hear that?" , then he singles out the track and I say " now I do" . then that part stands out more than anything else
@paulcoffland86732 ай бұрын
These elder musicians who didn't fry their brains back in the day are so smart and technical- it's a master class whenever they speak and Rick is able to make it relatable.
@VINZBROWN2 ай бұрын
A PERFECT comment!!!
@phildarwell6553 ай бұрын
I remember Sting one saying "it's not just about the notes you play, but the gaps in between". Perfectly demonstrated here. Wonderful band.
@backslash683 ай бұрын
perfectly demonstrated on track bed's too big without you, I mean the gap left by the bass there is one whole measure!
@boriss.8612 ай бұрын
Sting could have been made aware or heard someone like Vladimir Horovitz who was a Master in music being made by the space in-between the notes and can be perfectly seen in black and white by the compositions of Frederick Chopin who's compositions only come to life if space is made between the notes. Glenn Gould ( Bach Goldberg Variations).. Nigel Kennedy ( Vivaldi Seasons) these broke the mould.
@templarpunk93322 ай бұрын
Moving to bass in my current group after over 30 years playing guitar has taught me a lot about the value of space, especially in the low end. Nothing muddies up a song like the bass player carrying on like a coked-up Jaco Pastorius.
@rohandoe83613 ай бұрын
I have said for 40 years that the drumming in this song is as good as it gets. But I never knew WHY it was so good, or HOW they did it … until today. Thank you Rick for educating me, and a bigger thank you to Stewart Copeland for creating such magic.
@jonashormann57003 ай бұрын
Glad to hear 'What makes this song great' is making a return :)
@NickKoziupa3 ай бұрын
I remember standing in front of a stereo at Sears as an eight year old in 1979 listening to this for the first time and being totally confused and mesmerized.
@brettocheltree74373 ай бұрын
I don’t believe in perfection, but the Police’s music is perfect.
@hcp239520 күн бұрын
My friend , I agree completely with you. Perfect music = police.
@jwallacephoto3 ай бұрын
Love how every instrument has their own space, nobody is interfering with anyone else!
@Yellowtruck553 ай бұрын
That's a good point, especially on such a sparse, uncluttered piece of music.
@andercoyote41703 ай бұрын
This song is all about space…
@earthangel76203 ай бұрын
@@andercoyote4170😂
@TjByers3693 ай бұрын
@@andercoyote4170 😏
@domo35523 ай бұрын
Exactly.. That's the genius and discipline of musicians who put the arrangement and the song first, the musicians themselves are humble enough to see themselves as mere conduits to the song, as 'enablers' and 'facilitators' to the song, without ego getting in the way.
@gregb914013 ай бұрын
That 1st chord Andy Summer plays is very similar to the opening chord for Hard Days Night
@markbayer16653 ай бұрын
Was just thinking exact same thing
@zippitydoodah56933 ай бұрын
That hit me as well
@mrminor94183 ай бұрын
Got on here to say the same
@mikenicholson74653 ай бұрын
Singing: Giant steps are what you take and I've been working like a dog.
@markbayer16653 ай бұрын
@@mikenicholson7465 bwahaha. That interview got me digging thru my old vinyl. Required a trip to the basement to retrieve this one
@adlovett98313 ай бұрын
I'm obsessed with the Police and never noticed the synthesiser or piano before. Thank you for enlightening me Mr. beato.
@brianhackett-jl3hc3 ай бұрын
My thought too! I've been listening to this song for 45 years, learned how to play it for a band I was in, and never noticed the synth!
@RCAvhstape3 ай бұрын
I noticed the pad but never thought much of it, never noticed those sci fi noises before.
@jackblah58423 ай бұрын
18:15 how could we have never noticed that warble! Incredible
@thebelgian19593 ай бұрын
Same here never knew
@pitchforker33043 ай бұрын
The Police were ahead of their time. So grateful each member sat with Rick Beato to talk music and song writing. Other bands would be wise to follow The Police, again.
@danfromnorcal2 ай бұрын
Rick is like his own industry. As you say, every band that wants to remain relevant should contact Rick.
@antimoricciardi75083 ай бұрын
I well remember when I was dancing to it (actually, I let its energy flow through me) in the 80s. And just a year ago, I was at a Sting concert with my 2 teenage children who were going wild just like me 40 years later. The joy, the power, the beauty of their music knows no barriers. No band has managed to cross generations as if time meant nothing. Then as now, The Police are simply a "stand alone band". 13:43
@CaptainReedo403 ай бұрын
High school marching band trip through Italy in 1986, listened to this song maybe 100,000 times, on a yellow “Sports” Walkman. Good times.
@jmazoso3 ай бұрын
Still have my Sports Walkman, i was cool when i got it for Christmas.
@CorbCorbin3 ай бұрын
Was it the one they advertised to hang from the shower head? 😆
@AngelHadzi3 ай бұрын
I had the same Sports Walkman back in Argentina in the same year! really good times!
@aboczsr3 ай бұрын
Great time to be alive. Remember what it was like to go to a record store when a new album from a fav band came out? Pure joy!
@WichhartAcres3 ай бұрын
Core memory
@sarajamus3 ай бұрын
The speed at which I clicked on the notification….! My all time fave Police song!!
@IThinkYouLookLarvely3 ай бұрын
Same here, I clicked on it and the video had zero comments, then tons of them within seconds!
@Yakaru13 ай бұрын
Same here.
@jmeakin43 ай бұрын
Same!
@YOURTECHFRIEND3 ай бұрын
Agree, one of my absolute favorites if not THE favorite track. There's just something about it! 🎸😎
@330thcube3 ай бұрын
Mine too! It's so chill and has a little bit of a nostalgic feel to it
@verified.my2cents3 ай бұрын
Sting has said he was drunk in a hotel room when the riff came into his head. He started singing 'Walking round the room, ya, ya, walking round the room" - had to share, once you hear that - you never forget it.
@eatmoremusic36503 ай бұрын
Walking round, walking round the rooom
@mightyV4443 ай бұрын
In Munich, apparently 😊
@cbeserra3 ай бұрын
It’s an odd song. Unique to my ears.
@jalphabet53 ай бұрын
I've been drunk lots of times and never devised anything this brilliant!
@Nyquest3 ай бұрын
The ‘Walking back from your house’ lyric was in reference to a thought about Stings previous girlfriend in Newcastle. He said in 2003 Deborah Anderson was my first real girlfriend...walking back from Deborah's house in those early days would eventually become a song, for being in love is to be relieved of gravity.
@dawudabdullaah69773 ай бұрын
Man, that song is one of my favorite jams. Once I was riding in my car blasting "Walking On The Moon", and after it ended my little cousin, who is seven, said "I like that song."
@Notelvispresleymyself2 ай бұрын
as a 2011, 13 year old, this music is a lot better than whatever pop music is being produced right now.
@psh66543 ай бұрын
I would bicycle through the tunnel of the Rijsmuseum in Amsterdam yelling out Police chants "E-Oh E-Oh Yo Yo" in 1980. Great reverb tunnel.
@achenarmyst21563 ай бұрын
E-Oh E-Oh E-Yo-Yo……. 😊
@achenarmyst21563 ай бұрын
Yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo YEAAAAAAAH 🎉🎉🎉
@callingchristiano3 ай бұрын
Steinberger stick bass ?
@VINZBROWN2 ай бұрын
RIIIGHT!!!!😂😂❤❤❤
@sobrien1123 ай бұрын
Still fresh, 45 years down the road. Amazing.
@JulienMARY3 ай бұрын
That's the genius of Sting. His production doesn't age.
@isabel19833 ай бұрын
The bass on Walking on the Moon is just sublime, the drumming as well. Incredibly composed to say the least.
@robertp4573 ай бұрын
It was the second song I learned on bass and it's one of my favorites.
@demian9003 ай бұрын
And the great Sting with his great and unique voice
@isabel19833 ай бұрын
@@demian900 of course! 😉🙌🏼
@raycathode1997Ай бұрын
I had to figure out the baseline too… on the piano
@micv51493 ай бұрын
Thank the maker you have brought this series back, my god the internet has been a wasteland without this series.
@alxra3 ай бұрын
The music from the Police is literally timeless.
@BassByTheBay3 ай бұрын
The most reggae song they did was "The Bed's Too Big Without You" from the same album. I'll never forget the first time I heard "Walking". I had convinced my mom to give me some money to buy Regatta de Blanc, and I was excitedly listening to it on the turntable. Before the first measure of Walking even finished, I was transfixed. It's so deeply mysterious, melodic, and rhythmic, I was just instantly hooked.
@jimmoore89513 ай бұрын
White reggae at its best
@ichi5974Ай бұрын
@@jimmoore8951you ain’t lied
@martycusack2703 ай бұрын
When I first heard this song I was 22 yrs. old. Of course I was at a party in 79, I looked around the group of people I was with and nobody reacted to this great song! I told myself I have to find some new friends. Thank You.
@colinjames24693 ай бұрын
good call.
@brucecall15953 ай бұрын
Regatta de blanc is a masterpiece. Every song.
@chriscampbell91913 ай бұрын
Exactly.
@Enigma87502 ай бұрын
Me and my daughter would sing together to this song when we were driving home from her gymnastics practice. I get tears in my eyes when I listen to this song because we had so much fun singing together with it.
@P-L-J_3 ай бұрын
This is some of the best quality content online. Please more of this, Rick.
@johnhoran98403 ай бұрын
For me, it's the best drumming of Stewart's career. He does so much with so little.
@terrybartholomew73113 ай бұрын
so little? - he's playing 32nds.....(well the echo makes it sound like that...)
@indigofruit87103 ай бұрын
What makes Rick great is his ability to discuss music in an interesting way
@blueberryrazz86373 ай бұрын
When a band influences Rush, you know they're something special :)
@AngelHadzi3 ай бұрын
They influenced everyone! from U2 to Soda Stereo
@TheCheffer763 ай бұрын
But blueberry is saying they influenced the greatest LIVE band ever. And before you say U2, tell me, has U2 ever roasted 100’s of chickens as their backdrop and then gave the chickens to homeless shelters in every city they played?
@Antonivs3 ай бұрын
@@AngelHadzi and Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Incubus, Pearl Jam, even Van Halen (dirty water dog, Eddie himself told it)
@RCAvhstape3 ай бұрын
Rush was a few years old as a band when the Police came around, but Alex Lifeson always pays attention to newer bands, and he was a huge Police fan.
@melrupinski883 ай бұрын
@@RCAvhstapeI don’t know if you could truly say anyone influenced Neil Peart at that point, but I know he definitely took an interest in Stewart’s approach to drumming. It’s so amazingly cool that those two became such close friends later in life. The videos of them jamming at Stewart’s home studio are pure gold.
@HoosierDaddy_Ай бұрын
Thank God for the return to "what makes this song great"!!!! I learn so much when these songs are taken apart and analyzed.
Ай бұрын
I was 12 and it was the first 45 rpm I have ever bought. Since then, I have never stopped listening to these great musicians
@murphyphillipsmusic3 ай бұрын
The drums on this song are so cool.
@freefallin68712 ай бұрын
The creativity of that band was off the charts to the extent that they were really their own genre in that it was a fusion of so many. In 50 years time, their music will still hold up.
@VINZBROWN2 ай бұрын
YESSSSS... to all that you said
@AlerieHightower3 ай бұрын
So glad to see this series back! Hearing Stewart Copeland isolated makes my entire week. 🥁
@alexkatsanos84753 ай бұрын
One of the best lines from an 80's song "walking home from your house....walking on the moon" I see him coming back from her house and you really like her and she really likes you and it's so early in your relationship...there is so much hesitation in the song that creates that sustained tension...he met Trudy walking down the street...and lived literally right next to her in 77...
@RobDircks3 ай бұрын
probably my favorite lyric ever. It brings me back to my youth every time, captures that moment of young love like no other lyric
@wisemoon403 ай бұрын
Man, every song on every album The Police made…amazing. And to end their run at the high point with Synchronicity? Perfect. One of my favorite bands.
@benlarcombe45913 ай бұрын
This album has the quality of time transportation. I remember where I was, what I was doing, who I was doing it with and just being pleased that I could dance with a big smile on my face, lost in the song …… Thank you Police.😊
@Lexy-O3 ай бұрын
"When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still Around" from Zenyatta Mondatta has brilliant production too.
@dancarter4823 ай бұрын
_CHOON!_ For my money that was their last great LP. All went a bit sideways after that.
@Lexy-O3 ай бұрын
I like Ghosts in the Machine but not Synchronicity
@Ozymandi_as3 ай бұрын
It sounds as fresh, and as original, as it did in 1979, with each band member making his own distinctive contribution. Although relatively simple in its arrangement and production, it could only The Police. Rick's interviews were fascinating, often hilarious and very revealing of how on band struggled to contain so much talent.
@JamesWilliams-en3os3 ай бұрын
“What’s amazing is that there is so much space in the arrangement.” Yes. I’m so glad to see this series come back, and this is a great song to kick-start it with. Thanks, Rick.
@boardbraker12 ай бұрын
Bring it back! Don't ever stop making these!!!
@timmytuneuptooker35432 ай бұрын
It's my favorite POLICE song! And I'm so glad that you highlighted it! It's perfect absolutely freaking perfect. And nobody writes songs like this anymore which is a sad sad sad but you know when the police hit the stage I saw them at the tower theater. I've never seen anything like that in my life. They were a bright flame and that burns fast. I mean the Taurus pedals the echo all that stuff man it was bananas. And I was listening to return to forever and weather report and Billy Cobham and Stanley Clarke and all that stuff prior to the police hitting the stage. In high school we played Spain by Chick Corea so it took a lot to really shake me up. But that was the song for me. Thank you so much Rick Beato
@jeffreywolfe13 ай бұрын
45 years after Regatta came out -- it's still absolutely perfect. Everything about it. Stuart's drumming on Walking On The Moon -- Foundational, generational......I run out of adjectives. My 16 year old self remains speechless and grateful beyond words. Thank you, Mr. Beato, for interviewing all three.
@alainsuero653 ай бұрын
That album is a masterpiece, and that song elevates simplicity to an artform.
@yonitznkc3 ай бұрын
One of my fav’ jam tunes by The Police: “Voices Inside My Head.” Soloing over it is fun, practicing sneaking in modalities. But I’ll even dance to it, over-and-over. I’ll even pass cars on the highway to it. It’s infectious!
@hux20003 ай бұрын
Same with "When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still Around", right after it. Zenyatta Mondatta is a great jamming album and "Voices..." is for sure one of the best tracks on it!
@achenarmyst21563 ай бұрын
Tschak……
@jdecamp1003 ай бұрын
This wonderfully plaintive, haunting, otherworldly reggae tune is my favorite song of theirs. I could listen to it 100 times in a row and it would be fresh and exquisite every time!
@Frank-Lee-Speeking3 ай бұрын
Until Rick explained why in this episode, it had never once occurred to me that this song was influenced by reggae.
@ramonrojasalmuzara2902 ай бұрын
I cherish the memories of the day I saw The Police live. Not only that one but the ones that went from getting the tickets until the very evening of the concert, the anticipation. It was october 1983 and also Sting's birthday, there was a cake Andy pulled on stage and all the audience sang happy birthday to our idol. Memorable night
@maryvallas7723 ай бұрын
And there was 7 year old me in 1979, just thinking... "This song is cool!" Not having any idea how revolutionary it was or that I would still love it and The Police so much, 45 years later!
@dwh83103 ай бұрын
...and there was 18 year old me wondering if your legs could actually break walking on the moon, and also thinking what the heck is that guy doing on his drum set?
@voskresene3 ай бұрын
One of my favorite Police songs of all time.
@betamax-vhs-super89783 ай бұрын
I dreamed of videos like this when I was a 15 year old listening to this on headphones, trying to figure out what The Police were doing to create this magic. Thank you, Rick!
@charlesabboud16132 ай бұрын
I’ve been listening to this song for 45 years, but what an education, thank you Rick!!
@doug1e13 ай бұрын
1st record ever purchased...never get bored of listening to it....40years later ❤
@robber_h3 ай бұрын
This is the song that got me 'into' The Police. I remember hearing it on the radio one night in 1979 and thinking, "Man, that's great!". Since then, The Police have been one of my favourite bands. Brilliant.
@marcogme3 ай бұрын
Wow, all these years hearing this song and never noticed that synth. Beato, you are the best.
@jasonremy16273 ай бұрын
Please keep bringing this series back! I miss it so much!
@OZRIC19853 ай бұрын
I was hooked on this song from the first time I heard it on the radio back then. I was already a huge Police fan by then, and I bought all 5 studio albums each time they were released. What an incredibly talented and innovative band they were.
@gib59er562 ай бұрын
Stu is the glue that holds them together. Amazing drummer.
@ComDocH3 ай бұрын
This is songwriting at its best. Andy, Sting and Stewart bring their A games. It’s astonishingly simple, but no other band but The Police could have created it.
@lordstanley343 ай бұрын
Think about all the times you listened to this song back in the day, grinning ear to ear, singing (or playing) along, enjoying every minute of it. And then fast-forward to today where Rick explains why you were so happy. Greatest Tuesday ever...
@renatosantosneto3 ай бұрын
It's one of my favorite albums of all time. Message In A Bottle, Regatta de Blanc, Bring On The Night, Walking On The Moon and The Bed's Too Big Without You
@wattage20072 ай бұрын
To my 9 year old ears at the time, it was the strange distant sound of the voice and the unusual rim side-stick sound which totally turned me onto this song, and to a career in music. Thanks guys!
@glennmartin42322 ай бұрын
As time moves on their music is becoming more and more special. One of the great bands.
@leftwrite3 ай бұрын
During the 'Synchronicity' tour stop in Austin, the Police played a now gone outdoor amphitheater called the South Park Meadows. I'll never forget that night. There were 30,000 people in attendance. During their set the weather turned and a very strong wind popped up and started blowing everything around. As the Policed started playing "Walking on the Moon" a large full moon rose above the top of the amphitheater highlighting the swirling dust caused by the wind - it was other worldly. With that song playing as the moon rose in the wind, it was beyond perfect. If only iPhones had been around then to capture the image.
@mc400cricket23 ай бұрын
I was at that show and remember that cold front blowing through during their set!
@patrickwashburn45013 ай бұрын
I was there also; I remember the band took off in a helicopter after the show. I was playing in a ska band at the time and we had a few Police covers in our set.
@mightyV4443 ай бұрын
You don't need an iPhone if your mind still remembers it all perfectly like it seems to! 😉
@georgie33 ай бұрын
A big reason that the 1970s and this record were great is that there were no iPhones.
@kadiummusic3 ай бұрын
75 -85... the greatest decade in pop music. 😎
@mirrorblue1003 ай бұрын
Yes!
@rubicon-oh9km3 ай бұрын
Nah. 67-77.
@neilfitzsimmons18002 ай бұрын
Totally agree. So many genres.
@Jack_Plisken3 ай бұрын
That chord you played at the beginning, first made me think of A Hard Days Night - The Beatles
@carlskinner93763 ай бұрын
It's the exact same chord, note for note
@BenPinecone3 ай бұрын
There it is. I was wondering if anyone else was hearing that.
@allenshively63743 ай бұрын
Me too!
@Rawsz-jk2rn3 ай бұрын
Great ears hear alike 😂
@Sloozen1Ай бұрын
In my area this tune was never played on the radio and I'd consider a deep cut. I always loved it and as a young guy I alway thought of it as I walked at night, high. Beautiful.
@jamesmccusker14332 ай бұрын
The best bands ever growing up. Boston, the Police and Tears for fears. 61 still listening to all of them.
@darkneal3 ай бұрын
I fell in love with the Police after Rick did ‘every little thing she does is magic’ all the way back at the beginning of his Channel. Haven’t stopped listening to them since…so glad this is back
@jimgorycki40133 ай бұрын
How I loved the Police was when I picked up "Ghost in the Machine" album, then saw them in concert that year. Blown away. I started listening to all of the albums of the three playing before Sting went solo. Reggatta de Blanc is one of my favorite albums.
@relativetimeworx84593 ай бұрын
The production on this song/album was obviously a big inspiration for a band a few years later: The Fixx.
@Fdurey3 ай бұрын
Nailed it! He uses virtually the same sus chords on many of their songs - Facing The Wind comes to mind specifically.
@zachary9633 ай бұрын
The Fixx is a forgotten legend imo
@mcclendonreport3 ай бұрын
The intro chord to Hard Day's Night resonates with Walking on the Moon.
@fnjesusfreak3 ай бұрын
I knew I couldn't be the only one who noticed that...
@mcclendonreport3 ай бұрын
@@fnjesusfreak Right on!
@allenshively63743 ай бұрын
I had to search the comments just to see if anyone else thought of this! Hearing that chord all by itself instantly took me there.
@duggl3 ай бұрын
I also hear the beginning of Roxanne.
@mcclendonreport3 ай бұрын
@@duggl not precisely but yes in spirit.
@russc.96182 күн бұрын
Somewhere in the mid 1990’s I went on a trip with my then girlfriend to Ouchita state park in Arkansas. One night we were camping on the top of a mountain. It was late and we were relaxing around our campfire. There was a thunderstorm kind of circling the mountain with a great lightning and thunder show in the distance, a cool breeze but not raining. This song came on at the perfect moment during all that and it was one of the most magical moments I’ve ever experienced in my life. It’s a great great song. Miss you J.D.
@idonthavealoginname2 ай бұрын
What a track, still sounds fresh in 2024 !
@greentg97093 ай бұрын
Such is the power of this song, I can still vividly remember the first time I heard it. I was nearly 19 and in work early , it was about 07:30 am and my boss and I were working away with the radio on. The DJ announced that this was the new Police single, which was being played on UK radio for the first time and the minute we heard it, my boss and I looked at each other and said, "this is effing brilliant". We were both heavily into our music and were blown away by the track. Even to this day, every time I hear it, I'm taken back to that morning and how I felt the first time I heard it.
@andyyouell50373 ай бұрын
This song represents a very, very special moment in contemporary music. Nothing quite like it before, or since.....
@Gn_Arnold3 ай бұрын
Listening to this as I'm driving from a Sting show in The Czech Republic ❤
@wilhelmrogue13 ай бұрын
Sold out!
@zegermanscientist26677 күн бұрын
When I travelled internationally a lot back in the day, this was my song to hear as soon as we were above the clouds. Still can't think of a better one.
@etamommy2 ай бұрын
He said one of the most reggae songs the Police did and I would also add to that The Beds too big without you. They had amazing dubby bass lines that hooked ya for the whole song and they wove magic all around those riffs to boot! I really don't think anyone sounded like them. Exotic, Cool, Precise yet rockin and musically sophisticated sounding (at least for rock and roll). Melodies, vocals and lyrics were also usually quite great.
@TheGunnarRoxen3 ай бұрын
The brilliance of leaving space in the recording and drumming for a song called "Walking on the Moon" is so perfect 😀
@saxonwarrior3883 ай бұрын
This brings back a flood of memories, 17 yrs old watching this song on MTV in my grandma's living room, wow. Life was so much more simple then, and I didn't quite realize how special the music was in the 70's and 80's. I always enjoyed The Police, Copeland's drumming was original and crazy good, Sting was one of the best vocalists ever, and Andy was an inspiration in my own playing.
@howertingsyaboya37893 ай бұрын
Looking back to when this song came out, with cold and hot wars going on all over the world and killing and bombings every week in Northern Ireland along with almost everyone in my country (Republic of Ireland) being very poor, things were quite grim on the whole. But all this bad stuff washed over me as a 15 year old kid with all this amazing music coming out weekly but we just took it for granted at the time that this was just the way things were. Now I realise how lucky we were in many ways.
@jimyeomans63733 ай бұрын
Thank goodness this is back
@brucemacmillan95812 ай бұрын
Regatta de Blanc is my fave Police album. Lots of raw energy, but a certain level of polish as well. And great songs from start to finish. ALL KILLER. NO FILLER.
@philipmarsh35223 ай бұрын
Those guys made some great music together. I think the percussion on this song is one of the best performances I’ve ever heard.