The Police - The Bed's Too Big Without You (live at Essen)

[MrRibs78]

Top music, top band, superlative Copeland in this truck

[ossy8114]

das waren zeiten.......

[MsJayney1]

Dreaming dreams of what used to be... oh yes...!!

[MsJayney1]

Fantastic. I watched this live on British TV in 1980. Dreamin dreams of what used to be...

[TheGalwayFarmer]

i made love to my teddy bear!!!

[triptowoodencreek]

It hooks me every time a bit more...

[greatstourp]

...by the way...Stewart speaks very highly of you cunts!

[greatstourp]

you buch of utter wankers!...fucking chin strokers you realise how fucking cuntinsh you all sound? pricks!

[AlGoreFan]

Fantastic. 3 Music geniuses

[PaulJuliusSokoloff]

This drumming is epic

[PaulJuliusSokoloff]

Stewart, the most precise timing and cleanest drummer ever, with the ability to change beats cleaner than any drummer ever.

[ThePale]

I hear the whole concert in 1980 at night and i love it. And today - i love it ^^

[rula42]

@ThePale same here^^ had to watch it secretly since i was only 12 ^^

[typsypyg]

I like how 6 1/2 minutes in, they tell you the song is "The Bed's Too Big Without You". Really? Thanks, I'm glad you cleared that up.

[prissel2011]

super!! Was there at the time...thanks a bunch for posting!!

[prissel2011]

I was at that concert!! Thanks a bunch for posting!!!

[1Gorch]

I love this tape all time in my live. I had recorded the tape in this night in October 1980. Radio WDR1. Rockpalast. We heared from the radio with a good sound and looked it in the television in the night . And I always a little bit frustrated that I was can not be there. The concert was only 15 km far away. For my opinion once of the best world tours from Police. It is a mix between rock and punk and this was my time.

[Campestral]

hehe sting trying to use the bass as a solo instrument and summers walking over to him saying ok texturalise it :0 wow copeland's beats are faster than neurons

[geoffreydlang]

As of today, 21 people still can't find the downbeat.....

[geraberl]

Awesome version. Thanks a bunch for the post mate!

[takidigits13]

WOW

[Auntkekebaby]

You MUST check all of the live stuff to hear the SICK breaks pp. Always different.

[BipolarBowler]

@Auntkekebaby I did that too!

[toastedtesticles]

I love how they can just fuckin' jam in the middle of a song and just jump right back into it.

[alexatm15]

at :22 - :24, as copeland is JAMMING too fast it looks like sting gets pissed at glared at him, turning his head slightly like "bitch! slow it down" I heard (and saw on Copeland's The Police: Everyone Stares, or something like that) they used to have to tell copeland to slow it down quite a bit on their concerts because he would just go too fast for them I guess. Plus, I think sting was kind of controlling them too much.

[kramerbassplayer]

@alexatm15 ...looks that way to me too...Sting and Copeland were notorious for always fighting, arguing, and disagreeing, Summers always kept out of it and tried to keep the peace.

[austin78993]

@alexatm15 but that sounds pretty on time to me. i think maybe he is telling him to chill with the complex rhthyms because the delay and stuff makes it sound a little much and covers up the rest of the music. there are times where he speeds up and they yell at him you are right.

[typsypyg]

@alexatm15 Stewart had tempo issues live for quite some time, always speeding up. Incredible drummer, but ya gotta be able to count to four, as a drummer I used to work with would say. Most of their songs sound better faster than record, and speeding up happens from time to time to almost every band, but Stewart was so hyper that he really had trouble with it. I have an old recording of them from Berkley, and within the first 32 measures of the 1st song, he's almost doubled the tempo.

[alexatm15]

@typsypyg Hahah shiit, that's a lot of speeding up.

[jrmarrero96]

@typsypyg I heard that even during the reunion tour a few years back, Sting was constantly riding Stewart for speeding up live.

[sevenbees]

incredible



[cyrussink]

Stewart Copeland is THE MAN!!!

[JesusChrist5000]

Wow!!!! Thanks for posting!

[ericenjulia1]

Helemaal te gek, mijn jeugd. Thanks for posting

Eric

Amsterdam

[freeadplanet]

what ... type something????

[sinterminator]

danke !