the police - spirits in the material world (live)

live in viña del mar

[@ladistar]

Copeland... simply the master. His sense of rhythm and syncopation is amazing.

[@bluesmau69]

true. my best drummer; fantastic.

[@teddyboy9116]

U need a sense of rhythm to be the rhythm section of a band

[@IDontReadReplies42069]

Does master imply that theres no holes in your game? Because the guy rushes a lot (as heard here) and it used to drive sting insane

[@duster15670]

Love this song & Copeland has said on tik-tok that this song is the hardest for rhythm for all 3 of them and all of them were and are so talented!!!

[@cismercier8009]

It has to be hard. Each of them is offbeat in a different way. All of them have to think the '1-2-3-4' in their heads while playing between those numbers.

[@christopherarchuleta3669]

My favorite song by them, one of my all-time favorites. It's undeniably a technical song. Executed with such a mesmerizing sound.

[@MrUsermister]

Back then, decades before the tik-tok era, a good pair of ears were more than enough to grasp the complexity and beauty of this song ...

[@pijonydotru]

@@cismercier8009Sting simplified his part a bit comparing to the record, though

[@MarioManeriMusica]

@@pijonydotruinfact it is impossible to play the original bass part and sing at the same time

[@65alphonso]

Copeland remains as the most influential polyrhythmatic drummer/percussionist for generations!

[@TheSteveSteele]

Bill Bruford owns that title but Stewart is near the top.

[@Iktius]

Danny Carey surpasses them

[@IDontReadReplies42069]

@@Iktius The absolute worst take on earth, dear god 🤣.

[@zippydooda]

All would say Neil Peart was.

[@kylerush7948]

Copeland and Carey are my two and three, but there is opinion and fact and the fact is Peart is the greatest drummer ever

[@musicalchairs777]

You know future generations will never believe this was considered the pop music of it's time

[@CPDRV]

Agree 100% Smart educated lyrics and wonderfully composed music.

[@jiros00]

I'm not a drummer but this is known as one of the hardest drum parts.

[@zippydooda]

Why, because you saw a tik tok video of Stewart saying that? 🤣 We all did

[@Wilevaldo]

Copeland is one of my favorite drummers of all ,he is the best!!!!!!

[@entwistlelives3686]

they're great. Summers is so underrated. It never looks like he's playing and yet you know he is.

[@DrCrabfingers]

that's a great comment...your comment is so underrated...

[@sandervw123]

Underrated by who?

[@volaball44]

Great LIVE song. Copeland truly a beast here. Love his drumming.

[@TheSteveSteele]

Ghost In the Machine is my favorite Police album. So ethereal.

[@richieboy6825]

Mine too!! Pretty sure it was the first LP I ever bought. Not a very common sentiment. (Most like the earlier ones best) What’s your fave song on it?

[@TheSteveSteele]

@@richieboy6825 Great question. Honestly, the last three songs on side 2. It’s perfect sequencing. Omegaman, Secret Journey and Darkness. Those three had a profound effect on me as a musician and composer. You?

[@richieboy6825]

@@TheSteveSteele very tough. Every little thing was one of the first singles I bought & got me into the police. First time hearing it on the radio It just sounded so different than anything else being played. Just like a whole different level of sophistication and intelligence. Stew goes crazy on ‘One World’ so I’ll give that one the nod- being a drummer of 40 years. I love every note of this album - even Sting’s sax parts. Still listen to the album start to finish at least once a year.

[@TheSteveSteele]

@@richieboy6825 Agreed. I’m a bassist and I play piano/keyboards and sing. Sting didn’t influence me as a bassist so much as his role in The Police. Stewart Copland is definitely the kind of drummer I like playing with. Bill Bruford too. I like the whole album. The beginning of Too Much Information. Every Little Thing is one of their best singles I think. The beginning of side one. The bass lines on Zenyatta are good. The overall atmosphere on Ghost is what’s so great, imo.

[@richieboy6825]

@@TheSteveSteele agree 100% - atmosphere - that’s the word- I think they recorded some of it in Jamaica- don’t know if that had anything to do with it. Anyway, great talking with ya & keep on rocking!!!!

[@verve92]

Copeland is out of his MIND!

[@elpayaseteetesayap1199]

Ha, ha! It calling cocaine... xDDD

[@rogerwalnut]

Stewart rocking the XTC Drums and Wires shirt - love it.

[@tubeyhamster]

Stewart alway had cool clothes.

[@ACCH-cm9ou]

the musical arrangement of this song is astonishing....and how can Sting sing those lines,while playing the bass like that ....Summers and his effects,,,,that human machine of Copeland..... incredible

[@joshuamartins9487]

He alters the bass line , in the verses ...to make it possible to sing over

[@ACCH-cm9ou]

@@joshuamartins9487 which is pretty genius itself to me

[@DEVAULT.]

Very unfortunately, Sting simplifies his bass line after 2 bars in, as soon as he starts singing actually. What a bummer. Oh well .....

[@danielmarquis5258]

My FAVORITE BAND OF ALL TIME!!! I was about five years old when "Ghost in the Machine" came out and I knew from that moment, that this Band fulfilled the EXTRAORDINARY:-)

[@luvspaiste]

Sting is such an underrated bassist. Stewart gets to create brilliant chaos because Sting is the timekeeper.

[@oreally8605]

In the studio but live no. Having to sing and play bass seems laborious to him in my opinion.

[@dancarter482]

@@oreally8605 Especially with that silly little style-over substance Steinberger bass!

[@mattdelany6799]

@@dancarter482 I have a steinberger L2, serial number 068. It sounds great, and it sustains forever. Even cliff williams of ac/dc used one. Hell, every famous bass player used one. Now you know. Have a good day.

[@mattdelany6799]

Underrated? No he’s not.

[@dancarter482]

@@mattdelany6799 Casio keyboards sound great and I'm sure Rick Wakeman owns one - but he won't take it on stage. That great fretless bass Sting is famous for beats that space-stick all day everyday when it comes to live stage performances .. .... ..

[@oneboyce]

I love when he says "maybe you guys should trade places" amazing sting!!

[@ronnyvalenciagalvez5873]

FESTIVAL DE VIÑA DEL MAR, CHILE...FEBRERO 1982👍👍👍👍👍🥂🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱

[@user-ij3ie6gw8h]

Моё сердце всегда с Sting. Этот удивительный переход, который Sting совершает каждый раз на сцене. Я вижу этот переход каждый раз. Переход от обычного человека к необыкновенному певцу. Он на сцене живет, поет и играет, танцует. Это действие происходит одновременно...

[@subwaygoddess1]

My favorite Police song ✌🎶💙

[@blasterman9]

Stewart Copeland is such a good drummer!!

[@John-df1nr]

That horn section was an absolute disaster! - a prelude to stings craving for a jazz element which he progressed in 1985 where in the 40 years since he never scored another #1 hit single after walking out on Stewart and Andy!

[@sigmann66]

Amazing how he sings and plays that baseline at the same time.

[@oreally8605]

And he's not very precise about it either.

[@televisiondevil5235]

He doesn’t play the triplets though, he plays it lazily. I still love it though.

[@jumpinjojo]

*Bass line

[@dystopian..]

Just a brilliant trio.

[@mardajeco]

Como parte de su gira, Ghost in the machine tour, llegaron al Festival de Viña del mar. Pocas veces se da, que llega una banda en su mejor momento. Amor a primera vista. Solo tenía 14 años

[@fredmoore8661]

We ARE SPIRITS living in the material world. He was so young to have understood this.

[@bigtexansfan]

Whoa! Sting's got some killer range. This song went up a whole interval from E to A and he's nailing it with no problem. Killer!

[@mpmcruz]

No fucking phones! Just the pure joy os music, what masterful musicians!

[@ChrisVanDeJoel]

If there're phones at the time, they'll bring it for sure and do some sh*tty recording

[@blackeer6614]

@@ChrisVanDeJoel no they wouldn't

[@DanielWesleyKCK]

If cell phones had existed back then, they'd have used them, too.

[@innosense4366]

This band is like NO OTHER! Love everything about this energy its so pure with such good intentions evolving. Music I think is meant to evolve up into the higher realms but so many just try & pull us down off the chakra spectrum. Junk DNA then changes & ASCENTION takes place once we climb this to 23. Or maybe I'm just crazy

[@fredmoore8661]

So very true.

[@BlueBeeThemeMusic]

Yep, a retread

[@MitchTenderness]

That Steinberger bass sounds great.

[@thespots]

before you get ahead of yourselves, calling sting lazy... notice that his left foot is playing a root note on the moog taurus synth at every kick drum beat. two hands, one foot, and a lead vocal. if you think that's lazy, you're crazy.

[@kevinericsnell4092]

Singing this song without doing something physical to keep the rhythm is impossible. It takes muscle memory or something.

[@dpss2112]

Root PLUS 5th! Really odd choice of key change here! Did they go up a 4th from the studio version?

[@coopcoop8]

Mean while Geddy Lee is somewhere singing, playing wicked bass lines, playing keyboard and tap dancing on his Tarus pedals lol

[@AlobytesOgniddove]

@@dpss2112 in every live police change the key in this song! ;)

[@evankeal]

Yeah, but not really a good comparison. Geddy isnt playing keyboards and bass at the same time, so basically theres no difference left. And frankly Geddy is barely playing any bass pedals, he has transitioned any old parts that have more than two notes into triggers I play the catalogs of both groups on all instruments so I have an exact experience of the whole topic, this song is difficult. And Geddy didnt play two Moog Taurus`s at once while singing and playing bass, so technically Sting wins that discussion....😀

[@sprocketmonkey]

Love that Stu's wearing an XTC shirt in this one.

[@mwalker3547]

Stewart Copeland is F-ng amazing.

[@demetrios3232]

Funny comment by Andy when Sting is talking to the audience.. Sting says, "seems all the noisy people are up there, and all the quiet people are down here.. they need to change places"... Then Andy says, " the straight people are down in the front there". :)

[@peteguard3571]

What does he mean by that line? Don't confuse their language with ours. The same words mean different things depending on which side of the pond the speaker comes from

[@bodlexz6091]

Straight - not high/drunk probably?

[@JC-zw9vs]

@@bodlexz6091 no, in the UK at that time it meant the boring people.

[@georgemyers8750]

@@JC-zw9vs could also be a class thing (I think the boring people vs the more fun people comment is probably correct)

[@deanpetrell2468]

Love the lyrics and the sound

[@dawak666]

copeland is an absolute genius

[@inrachma]

It's unforgetable!

[@gabrielestrada6009]

Gracias por regresar los años Maravillosos. A mi vida.

[@Flinh02]

ghost is the best tour of police. This concert and gateshead shows it.

[@RicardoMartinez-oh9sq]

Raw The Police, most interesting.

[@fabricioassismg5622]

"40 GRAUS" (40 degrees)... I think that Sting bought this shirt in Brazil, when the band played in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo (i think), in 1982!

[@right-hand1388]

stings concert always wonderful

[@carterwatson1949]

love this song and album its from!!

[@gustavomartinez9626]

Que lindo se escucha

[@YahStoneMassive]

Stewart is the only one that's holding down the right version.

[@rmrib5]

It is difficult to Andy because there is no keyboards, so He has to play different in this Live version.

[@oreally8605]

Sting almost never plays the original bass line- the song 🎵 is so far from the studio version it kinda sucks.

[@ripsnorter185]

Well Andy got screwed over in the studio recording since sting preferred a synth rather than a guitar for this song

[@paulmorgan5841]

Totally correct

[@ernestoadriancifre9415]

Espectacular!!!!!!!

[@coffeebot3000]

Man, keeping that bass line going as he sings. Sting has a mastery over rhythm.

[@bridpie118]

Sting lovely as ever.

[@roshi9660]

Oh que hermosa canción

[@freakshowing88]

Love this

[@DesertSageArizona]

SONG OF THE DAY Spirits in the Material World- 🎸By The Police. Released 40 years ago, in 1981- This was released as a single in 1981. This song reached No. 12 in 🇬🇧 the UK; and No. 11 in the 🇺🇸 USA! The song was written by Sting. It is also the opening track for 🎸 their 1981 album “Ghost in the Machine”. (I always did love the name of that album)! “Spirits In The Material World” Lyrics/🎶Poetry There is no political solution To our troubled evolution Have no faith in constitution There is no bloody revolution We are spirits in the material world Are spirits in the material world Are spirits in the material world Are spirits in the material world Our so called leaders speak With words they try to jail you They subjugate the meek But it's the rhetoric of failure We are spirits in the material world Are spirits in the material world Are spirits in the material world Are spirits in the material world Where does the answer lie? Living from day to day If it's something we can't buy There must be another way We are spirits in the material world Are spirits in the material world Are spirits in the material world... kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHmylqmOaamffc0 (Loving this Music Video Memory)! Happy Listening! ❤️🎸🎶

[@jayrussell3796]

And this folks, shows the difference between live and a recording.

[@mandolindleyroadshow706]

Sting will play the coda for three minutes on lazy songs like Walking on the Moon and So Lonely, yet with a funky jam like this one, he cuts the song off at the 3 minute mark.

[@benopatrol]

saludos , a todos los fanaticos , the police

[@claudiomaturana5580]

extraordinario registro audiovisual, imagen y sonido de culto.

[@BrunaOliveira-qq6nl]

Sting 💜

[@franciscomiranda3239]

En CHILE pa variar

[@BlueBeeThemeMusic]

The record was stronger than the previous pop efforts. The writing expressing the yearnings, not the hobbles of everyday life. If he had gone on from there, they would have conferred so much more on the world. Labels are not Fables - fables last.

[@dominicseanmccann6300]

Copeland. ...brilliant.

[@maurisdrums9341]

Copeland Es un grande

[@fedeplac]

Ma quanto era carino Sting qui????!!! Che meraviglia!

[@ia5662]

@LinoAMV it's def. a Steinberger, coincidentally a ton of live reggae musicians love these things

[@NINOABSNABSN]

This show was probably after the presentation in Rio de Janeiro in 1982 or 1983, which I saw. That's because Sting is wearing a shirt with the name of an old Boutique of the time, "40 Graus" (Degrees). What is the temperature that makes Rio de Janeiro most of the year! At first glance were 3 absolutely white faces (like candle) with a certain intellectual tone, that is, English. The show in Rio was very different from Chile, with the audience crazed, standing, not sitting in the chairs.

[@ronnyvalenciagalvez5873]

Festival deViña del Mar, febrero 1982🇨🇱

[@NINOABSNABSN]

​@@ronnyvalenciagalvez5873Man you had to see what happened here in Rio de Janeiro a week before. The audience went crazy, all the chains in the audience were broken. I watched the soundcheck and the show and the guys had something clearly elitist intellectualized in their appearance, but it had chemistry with the audience.

[@RollingStones1962]

Live in Chile 1982

[@elnuevosr.bolainas5503]

Live in Viña Del Mar Festival, Chile, 1982

[@rilincogaming3198]

nice bass tone

[@danbrown9085]

Copeland is such a cool drummer. Add XTC's "Drums and Wires" t-shirt FTW

[@marxelov5]

Live in Chile, at Festival de Viña del Mar!

[@dianesolkah6896]

❤❤❤

[@mattheweldredge9880]

Fucking brilliant

[@killyourtvnotme]

there needs to be a "ghost in the machine: the horn-less mix"

[@Blabbermouthwoodworking]

That comment he could not make any other place in the World !!!

[@barbaracabrera3416]

Que buena combinación, me encanta...Pero que linda edad! Besos..

[@MariaNickLambert]

so glad they god rid of the horn section after this tour!

[@ramonesbyKO]

Festival de Viña del Mar, Chile 1982...

[@annemarie021]

kool song real good

[@Flinh02]

@typsypyg The basslines of Police with training can be sung and played at the same time, same Spirit in the material with 8 notes. It's just a matter of repetition. By McCartney it's hard truly.

[@RollTideRising]

Genius all 3

[@masepidesevive]

@hoarhey1 the year is 1982..

[@Gohot229]

......prophecy.........

[@joseassuncao5598]

magniifico

[@jaygentile5202]

Stewart said this song was the most musically difficult song for all 3 of them to play

[@sash7551]

Amazing Talent ! How does Sting sing over that syncopated bass line?!!!

[@li213]

Sting, my boyfriend ❤, mi novio!

[@dariomazziotti1574]

Vamos Police!! que mundo que era este...... que corno nos pasó???

[@skysmith6364]

I used to think he was saying " milk in my cereal" lol

[@lancewolf2451]

the horns don't work here....

[@Chrisamusic1]

Horns don't work anywhere on white music.

[@tbeee6168]

@@Chrisamusic1 what

[@mancuniancandidatem]

I think it was some really lazy arranging. I wonder who arranged the horns? In many places just playing in unison. It adds nothing to the tunes.

[@markshorter76]

@@mancuniancandidatem Yes, this is exactly my impression as well. You can hear from other live recordings that the players are competent, but the arrangements generally lack power and imagination, as if someone did them in a hurry without knowledge of what a horn section shoud sound like. Perhaps some of the songs, like this, were also challenging to begin with.

[@Biggdaddychris]

English musicians playing reggae ..; the perfect storm

[@unbelivableLP]

@UklaTheMokk Whats lazy about that. The drums sound way better in the studio version, just like the bass and the guitar. I dont see how Copeland saved the band, not saying he is bad, hes a great drummer. If Copeland is the only one with the good feedback, whats wrong with Andy. anyways I just hate how most people just bring sting down. I also feel like Andy is the one underrated and not Copeland.

[@DanLebron-rv1mz]

Copeland😮

[@NINOABSNABSN]

Continuing... I was 16 at the Rio de Janeiro show. I watched the soundcheck of the guys, they were all very white and blonde, I was very surprised. Compeland and Sting were very tall, anyway, they looked like college foreigners on vacation. When the show started it was crazy, the audience went crazy, all crazy, all the seats in the audience broke... When Sting goes to Chile, the behavior of the audience is strange.

[@robinl.knudsen5631]

RLK- If you and your spirit have issues that's your problem. My spirit is just fine. On-Line likes The Police. Robin L. Knudsen Honor-Honoree

[@dialog420]

PICK IIIIIIITTTTTT UUUUUUPPPP!!!!

[@PeppermintTwyst]

Jesus, how hot is Sting?

[@nebkadune]

wajajajjaja buena la talla.... como la alcaldesa de ese tiempo que dijo que gracias a que salieron en el festival ganaron el grammy al mejor grupo del año ......

[@NelsonAlfaro-hx4ji]

When Sting smoke weed

[@bemorecheetah]

Trumpet player on an all dayer

[@paulcrosslin]

It was Always there for You, just needed a lil nudge .. there we go, in stereo. Live Your Life Complete

[@user-sf7kl9uh7k]

They should have had an additional touring guitarist.

[@hommerecorder7003]

mixer. the bass is in the kontext too loud.

[@RSTAR2009]

I think playing a coordinated syncopated bassline and singing is too difficult live!

[@lukaszcalabrese1709]

+Ramon LeBlanc Harts i find "Driven to Tears"'s bassline more difficult

[@SuperSparrow45]

Tell that to Geddy Lee.

[@gooberthorpos8195]

Lukasz Calabrese they’re both very complicated, and to sing at the same time as doing both...

[@bladeobrian2144]

SuperSparrow45 best comment I’ve seen all day!

[@sniffableandirresistble]

Its often overlooked that they were a power trio its amazing how much sound 3 people can make nirvana cream rush zz top green day jimi hendrix experience motorhead gfr blink 182 james gang my neighbors at 3am haha 😂