You should get royalties for this. Top notch job!!

Eli E That’s so kind! I was very young, lots still to learn.

@@artysanmobile Excellent work! Would love to listen to the entire concert!

paolo-n2000 Thank you very much. My recording was done for the band so I have no knowledge of its whereabouts now. It seems the Old Grey Whistle Test purchased rights to a small portion for a promotional film shoot they were doing that day, which you see here. That shoot was strictly limited to a few songs, to my knowledge. No video truck was present that night so I doubt there is any additional video to what you’ve seen.

Wow!

no, bruce lee is the stewart copeland of the martial arts world

Ryan Thorpe 👍👍

ed Straker perfectly said

This guy is just incredible...

Hope they do it one more time. It’s a while since 2007. They need to it again

Court Beall Copeland is my favourite drummer of all time,brilliant.

The king of hi-hat!

I 'learned' how to play this groove many years ago - only to see videos like this and find out I learned it wrong! Who would have thought to play it like this - besides Copeland, that is...

Greg Saunier of Deerhoof gets close. Or maybe *wants* to get close! Same energy without quite the same level of technical excellence. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a8mBbM6GtdXFoX0.html

WRONG! THE DRUMMER OF JOY DIVISION WAS GENIUS AMAZING UNTIRED! A GIANT!

I see him playing with both hands pretty much the whole time

@@Timrobrus that’s my mistake. I only saw one at the beginning

Lol, definition of epic fail... and 34 dummies like that.. Man, the only one handed drummer was in Def Leppard, I think his name is Rick Allen.. ;)

❤💪💯

Sting used to get annoyed at him because he was a bit all over the place sometimes.. little did he know.. also it seems that inner conflict in a band is an essential ingredient that will frequently translate into pure Magic

@@roadArt132 Well he WAS all over sometimes.. many of his accents make no sense at all.. artificial, as if he was just trying to be interesting, flashy .. Sting had enough hard time even without that, to sing and play the bass so perfectly as he did...

Even drummers don’t all understand ‘groove’ which is a time element of a beat pattern, with such minuscule divisions to be virtually immeasurable, BUT… anyone can feel it. Some drummers have mastered groove and the rest should pick a different instrument. It is the reason one person can, using a single conga drum, lay down a beat so deep you cannot remain still, no matter how hard you try. Many years ago, I was guitarist and arranger in a band with a very questionable drummer, struggling thru yet another pointless rehearsal. We sounded better if he didn’t show up. A drummer acquaintance at that time - Jean Bolduc- now my closest friend in the world, stopped by to hang. Our pretend drummer left to get a beer. While he was gone Jean grabbed a cardboard box to play cajon-style just to help out as we continued work on the song. In ten minutes we had played three perfect takes, the first ever of that piece. Beer guy returned to find he’d lost his job. That’s groove.

@@artysanmobile So right.. I dont know who it was.. I think Miles Davis, who said - to keep the groove, you have to have what he called "protecting the beat".. like some inner timing, subdividing the obvious beat, that timing, to what you call minuscule division.. so to the point, that I couldnt have said that better ! The best example to me is Al Jackson Jr.. just watching videos of him drumming, you see it .. and the same was Bonham

@@tomasvanecek8626 Bonham was a legendary groove machine. In fact, drummers who have it are widely loved especially by those who know nothing about it technically. Ringo was a groover. Charlie Watts so much so that the Rolling Stones should just step down. I often thought Led Zeppelin showed tremendous restraint going in different directions. It was never going to be the same without him and they impressed the hell out of me by knowing it. I have some close friends who are legendary drummers, groove monsters. They have spoiled me forever. I’ve been super fortunate to record the greatest live throughout my career. It is the magic for every drummer - hand drums, percussion, kit. A clock that seems to run all on its own.

good !👍👍👍👍

Playing bass on this level and singing is a thing to behold.. but there was also Jack Bruce and John Wetton, who could do that with the same incredible excellence 🤩

good comment dear William ! god bless ! Daniel desde Ecuador✌💕🎤🤙😉

Yes he is. No one mentions his mastery of timing. He’s so tight, not an easy thing playing around copeland and sting

Andy Summers beats all the others... it's just a shame most people don't appreciate or recognize what an amazing talent he is.

@@samanthafox2664 I really like most of those players named, but indeed Andy is better in many ways. I think it's his understated playing that fits the band and music perfectly that makes him the best. He is the most accomplished and and tasteful too. Very rare.

@@qballshanratty1447I heard an interview with him recently and he said 'my timing's immaculate'. No hint of arrogance or conceit-just a matter of fact.

Rory Gallagher ;)

There were three geniuses in that band.

you mean Sting and Copeland

Xchardtop Andy summers was a virtuoso in his instrument I'll have u know

I guess that is what he wrote. And there is Sting. :) Great Band. One of my few favorites.

TheGalwayFarmer no. He means summers and copeland

Stewart Copeland ROCKS.. literally... I just LOVE him - best darned drummer EVER - just sit back and REALLY LISTEN, he's so blinking underrated! ❤

Stewart had also refined the use of an echo specifically on his hat to a very high level. Between my two shows with them that year were only a few months but he had stepped it way up. We had time the afternoon of this show and he was very generous sharing his method. Those who know - mostly but not exclusively drummers - recall what an essential part of the band’s sound that became, leading to the exacting use of a switch beside the heel of the pedal sending his hat mic thru his onstage echo to the hat mic channel. He worked that system masterfully in my opinion, sending just the right phrases at just the right level to syncopate with his own playing. 44 years ago, an innovator.

Chris Hernandez jealous !!

💯 Sting best song writer for my money and his bass lines are incredible Spirits is my fav

awesomeness*

Where was that Gusman?

@@miami5547 yep

the best song and performance.

Jazz more than classical.

They always played "The Bed's Too Big..." like this live in 1979 and 1980. There are full concerts in both video and audio which bear witness to that here on KZfaq.

Rush.

What?

Cream. Jimi Hendrix Experience.

lol, this is why good music is good music. not internet

JayLeePoe I am truly delighted so many are enjoying this today. I was the music recording engineer on this date, using 24 track analog recorders in my recording truck out on Flagler Street. I have not heard it back for almost 40 years.

Peter Yianilos do you remember if they played walking on the moon that night ?

Anicey Yzloc Yes, it was about to be released in a few weeks and become an enormous hit. I had recorded them earlier that year in a club in .S. Fla when the song was completely unknown. They announced it as ‘a first time performance’ but that is a fairly common little lie, so who knows? The song absolutely floored me. It was new musical territory.

@@artysanmobile damn I'm sure you were

Craig Hancock I agree!

+Ziggy “Frappanised” Zappada It's one of mine too. Mainly because Sting's bass playing is on par with Summers and Copeland on this one.

Robby Gaume Yeah, I like Sting as a bassist, yet he is mostly ahead of the beat... an old English 'punk' thing. I agree Sting's playing is on this song is 'on par' with Andy and Stewart.

Absolutely, also my most favorite!

Très juste

Still getting your tits out?

Absolutely agree!!!

talented musicians totally realize it , its the non musicians or low quality ones posting on you tube who dont get it

But they didnt fade away. Sting straight up left at the prime of the police..... i think fading means they start to put out shit material after awhile then just go away do to nobody liking a band anymore.

Copeland has long been lauded as one of the most innovative, original technically gifted drummers of all time.I am a drummer myself and his influence on my playing is immense, especially his hi hat work