The Police - Don't You Look At Me demo (rare audio)

[afherrmann]

Sting's guitar playing has always been barely adequate. Respect the Summers.

[pumofer]

Totalmente de acuerdo The Police sin Stewart no hubiese sido lo mismo. Tributo a Copeland

[letsgo395]

Stewart Copeland is the REAL STAR in this Band. Sting was good but he's be nowhere if he hadn't met Copeland.

[unbelivableLP]

@letsgo395 You do realise that Copeland would have been nowhere without Sting or Andy. Team effort, all of them or nothing. I hate people like you that judge the success of The Police on One figure.

[letsgo395]

@unbelivableLP just tired of people always tootin their horn about sting. thats all

[countessbraley]

This song is mmm at best, however it proves who had all the influence over the controll board in the studio on recreational drugs and in deep thought out by the pool. In Montserat..no wonder why they wanted to slaughter each other....LOL

[BipolarBowler]

In the photo, they all look like they just did a line of cocaine.

[peterkvideo]

Too poor they didn't include this song into the album!!!

[LaPieinsky]

What was this one called?

[machmen1000]

This proves that Andy and Stewart were vital to the overall Police sound

[mozarkozark]

DAMNIT! Why is the audio so crappy??? :(

[ussrwrestling]

This song would sound if it was included into Ghost in the Machine album. Somewhere close to the end of the album , or actually the last song in the album!

[saiuron35]

My favorite of the Police Demos. It is cool to read about Demos like these existing and then being able to find them on the internet :D

[Adrianrulz]

Pretty funky for Sting!

[elevenstar]

Hello Sting: Need this on CD!!!

[chavezwashington]

trippy

[biderz5]

you can hear bob the drum machine:)

[Detroitstyle]

Where can I download an mp3 for this?

[NotOrdinaryInGames]

The band just after waking up...

[blackielawless101]

I like the stuff they recorded when they were high! LOL.

[elevenstar]

I guess that many songs and sounds like this from THE POLICE was an inspiration for WANG CHUNG...? Am i right?

[bman10030]

Where did you find this song

[Forestamtul]

I cant find the comment I made please let me know when I sent it and what this was about thanks. It must have been about the sharing of every day with the same people.

[LikeWiseLikeYou]

right, and you think "wow that album could have been so much more incredible if they had stuck some of these demos on it."

[konked]

Finding the demos here, I wish Sting and Copeland would both have been able to cope with their mushrooming egos for one more studio album of new material after Synchronisity tour.

[LikeWiseLikeYou]

yeah this song is GREAT. wow, just listen to where it goes. and then the chorus is all bluesy, but the rest is real jazzy.

so many great chord changes in this one though.

i really wish they'd thrown this on the record.

[shraggy67]

Hey folks...So Sting, nose job or no nose job?

I say HELL YES. But, I interviewed Miles Copeland (then Police Manager) in '88 and asked him. Couldn't get him to

tell me yes or no...really he denied it sayin "if Sting has had a nose job, he didn't tell any of us". Must dig that interview up. Thats all. Rock on now. Go. Rock on.

[stingfeyd]

This song is actually a Last Exit track! The Last Exit band performed this Live at shows in 1975. I have the studio track of this Last Exit song...The real name for this song is "Tongue in Cheek" not

"Don't You Look At Me"

So Sting borrowed one of his Last Exit songs to create a NEW Police song, much like Carrion Prince is Bring on the Night.

[keysersoze2k1]

That's some great insight there my friend. I did not know that Lats Exit had any studio work, I have always thought that they were mostly a pub band or something like that.

[bugmusk6]

so there is a real version of this song?

[fifanosaurio]

@stingfeyd Yes. Carrion Prince is a proto version of bring on the night.

[contactsunrice]

Great, great, great!

[fifanosaurio]

This was when police recorded ghost in the machine, (1981) in quebec, canada. The fights between sting and stewart were strong then and sting got machines and starts to play apart songs. Many of this results are in a disc called "ghost in the machine demos" where sting abuse of drums machines and keyboards and put some horrible saxs parts played by himself. andy and stewart didn't played here.

This was the begining of the end that came 4 years later.

[Forestamtul]

thats a shame I thought they always or mostly got on togeter. Maybe being together for long periods of time can put a toll on each other. but this tune sounds fine to me.

[peterkvideo]

@fifanosaurio >The fights between sting and stewart were strong then

Did they actually fist fight?!

[edscerbo]

It's hard to really judge with thepoor sound quality, but I think I can still safely say there was good reason for this to remain only a demo.

[amphibianTEEF]

any way to download these??

[pazzensutra]

This song is beautiful Such beautiful jazz. Man, if the Police did this, I would have eaten it up. Nice Wurlitzer. Ahhhhh. So-did Sting play everything on it, or is that Jean Russel playing the keys?

[amphibianTEEF]

damn stewart looks tired.

[nalgologo]

I´d say pissed-I guess Stingie can be a handful.

[jwhiteout]

Would also like to hear demo versions of songs which did make it...

[NotOrdinaryInGames]

Ehh...nothing can beat a real drummer.

[brittaamodt]

Incredible to hear a song that could have been a Police song but wasn't. Makes me wonder how many other songs were brought into recording sessions and also got the axe.

Others have commented that this demo sounds more like solo Sting than the Police. I agree. And I think it goes to show how all three members contributed to the sound of the Police.

[bangmycoconut]

I love this song in particular because it reminds me of an Annie-Hall-YogaChic/Rainbow-lo­ving girl I dated for a while.

[bangmycoconut]

Hello stranger!//Don't you know me well?//Well my ?????? have turned// Since that one day (?) //Don't leave me // I know you've heard my tale//I've travelled oceans//Sailed with out my sail// CHORUS

[bangmycoconut]

Why pretend now?// You've loved many times before//In every port I've sailed to// And every all aboard (?)//Why you wearing that same old shabby dress// Less ????????????? lady// Why's your hair in such a mess.

CHORUS

[Fenceman000]

Wow! Nice work lol!

[bangmycoconut]

I'm working on deciphering the lyrics that are from the unreleased demos names. Anyone know what Sting sings in harder-to-hear parts of the song(s)? I have some inkling and made some breakthroughs, but want to query the better ears out there.

The aloof sound of the rarities stuff reminds me a bit of Hall and Oates. It may not be pure

Police as we know it, but it's still got that New Wave quality.

[Fenceman000]

I'll try and help in a few days. Are you thinking of covering the song?

[bangmycoconut]

Thanks. But, oh no sir, I cannot sing! I'm just a lyric fanatic plus a long time Police fan.

"Sailed without my sail?" hmmm

When I first heard Roxanne, I was stuck on that line "It's a bad way." So simple. THat of course was wayyyyy before the internet.

[mtgiller]

Wasn't Sting known for coming into Police recording sessions with nearly complete demo recordings? These demos are most likely Sting demos.

[POLICEchout]

these are sting's demos.

[POLICEchout]

these are sting's demos...i stated that in the description.

[TheIntruders]

@mtgiller Duh.

[BearChazer5]

thanks for these trax see ghost in a different light now.

[Arjozof]

I wonder if this slapped bass is real bass played by Sting or rather from keyboards. Sting never used slap technique back then and hired Daryll Jones on TDOTBT for bass duties because of the latter's excellent slap technique.

[POLICEchout]

sounds like bass to me

[Arjozof]

yea, live bass sound after close examination. nice stuff, but rather very un-Police. I wonder if Sting considers recording these tracks now with reunited band.

[yardpl]

@Arjozof

If you didn't see it doesn't mean that he didn't use or he can't slap. For example here you can see how Sting play watch?v=3d_6gx-8PcM (first time from 2:09 to 2:25)

[Arjozof]

@yardpl During the recording of The Dream Of The Blue Turtles, Sting said that Darryl Jones could do things Sting couldn't, and that meant slap technique mostly. Later Sting learned how to slap, I've seen Jeremiah Blues live many times. But he doesn't use that technique nowadays at all. It just ain't his style.

[fabriziobarrera]

POLICEchout: Where do you get this stuff?

[zoedale77]

These are awesome!! Thanks for posting...

[burn4you]

Thanks for posting this. YOU RULE!

[xensboy]

interesting to see that this rather sounds more like solo sting than like the police. it is perhaps a bit unfocused and "muddy", but the voice is appealing and the song itself could probably have been successfully "policified"

[runefreek]

It's the demo-first cut like material prior to finishing it into a final piece.

thanks a lot for these Franny and POLICEchout!

[shore95]

i never heard most of these songs yet....

anyone know where i can get the albams i have the runighting relese but thats it

[2kl2klps]

Interesting version. Material for more Derangements...