Chords for Guitarist Andy Summers on Sting, fame, and whats next for The Police.

[Bb] We're like this all the time, you know.
This is it.
We'd be like this tomorrow.
This is what you get.
But at the moment, Al and I have a fight.
Yeah.
Much better television than the Russians.
_ Okay.
I tell you what, should we film me whupping Sting?
Yeah.
That would be good, wouldn't it?
That would be great.
[Gb] _ _ _ Let's go.
Let's go.
The Police are one of the greatest bands of the 70s and 80s, a British trio led by Sting,
with Stuart Copeland on drums, and our next guest, Andy Summers, on guitar.
They put out a slew of great albums, like [G] Synchronicity and Tijana Mondata, and unforgettable
songs like [Bb] Roxanne and Every Breath You Take.
[E] But as Summers explains in his new documentary, [G] Can't Stand Losing You Surviving the Police,
as the group grew more [F] successful, the band grew apart.
And he says when they recorded their [Gm] last album, Synchronicity, they made [E] it with each
man playing his part in separate rooms and [Gb] fighting over the mixes.
It's fascinating that the album was still so awesome.
To find out why, let's welcome Andy Summers.
It's good to be [G] here.
Welcome.
So how is it that a band that's going through such discourse, and you're prelude to a divorce
[Bb] there, you can't even record in the same room, how could you come together and still make
a [Ab] great album?
And you're not the first band to go through it, but you lived through that, so how does
a band come up with great music when you guys don't [Eb] like each other anymore?
Well, you know, it's a complex question, because [Abm] I think A, you need that confrontation and
spark.
That's what makes all the great bands, I think.
I think it provides a sort of a chemistry that's more volatile and more sparking.
I think that connects with an audience.
And hopefully you're going to get it into the music as well.
So it wasn't despite the tension, it was actually in part because of that.
_ _ _ _ It's so complicated.
It's like, you end up with that thing, one of the Beatles said, the only way you really
understand this is to [Ab] be in the band itself.
In [E] our case, there's only three people who know what that experience is.
Is it because it makes you all a little competitive?
Oh, yes, no.
It's rivalry, competitiveness.
[Eb] _ _ It's all these things.
You know, there's a sort of a necessary friction that occurs.
You kind of want that chemistry.
I mean, OK, if you go the other way, so you've got three really mellow guys, they're going really well.
Where's the emotion?
It sounds [Ab] a little like the Beatles, though, for the most part, before Yoko comes along,
they kind of got along pretty well.
But you lay all the blame in this [C] at the feet of Sting, his egotism, his [N] selfishness
when he's stealing the tape of the great song that you recorded.
Keep putting it on him in the film.
Is he the reason why this great band broke apart?
That's all right.
You're going to make the film.
Well, I think that's true, you know, but, you know, I'm not going to sit here and _ [Ab] demonize Sting.
I don't want [Gb] to do that because, you know, he is a great [N] musician, a great singer, as
I am a great guitar player and Stuart's a great drummer.
So we need all these things, you see, and we're getting [Gb] into it now.
You're getting me going now.
[B] It was the truth, you know, and I, you know, when I wrote the book and, you know, subsequently
[Bb] made this [G] film, I wasn't interested in [N] sanitizing anything.
I know, let's just, because you've got to present an honest story that shows, you know,
warts and all, because I think that's what's really compelling for people.
And of course, it's a story that's full of all the, you know, the troubles that go with it.
But, you know, like probably for any band or [Abm] any great success story, it doesn't matter
who it is, you know, whether it's Judy Garland, the police, the Beatles, the Rollins, whoever
it [Ab] is, there's going to be a shadow [N] side that, you know, and particularly in today's world,
people are really interested in.
It's not all just shine.
Yeah, but it wasn't a one man problem.
There was, it was one man causing the problem.
Okay, you say that.
Okay, you go with that.
You go.
Let me ask you.
I'll sit around later.
Let me ask you about that darker side and not [F] just about the police, but, you know,
we hear all these stories of people who achieve great success, great fame, and they're miserable,
depressed, addicted to [N] drugs, suicidal.
You know, does fame change a person or is it that people who are attracted to seek fame
have some sort [F] of, they're sort of damaged in a [Abm] way?
I think it's both those things, but I think that, [Gb] you know, okay, you get into being famous
and you probably [Bm] usually power goes along with it and money also.
These things [D] do change you.
There's no question about it.
You know, some people don't handle it well and break early and then they go away from it.
Some people are able to handle it, but they probably lose sight of a lot of things in life.
[Eb] So they don't treat people right.
You know, you, you know, and then maybe [Eb] to sustain that kind of being on [N] all the time,
you know, you take to using [Gbm] drugs or whatever.
[B] Yeah.
I mean, we all know these stories, but having lived through it somewhat, [N] um, I say it's
all true and you know, you've got to find a way to get through it.
Uh, you know, you don't want to sort of talk [D] about, so I'm suffering because I'm famous.
Right.
Nobody wants to hear that.
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