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Fretted, fretless, double bass, eight-string – Sting is unstoppable on bass. Here’s how he developed his style
Sting vividly recalls the first time he played a fretless bass. He'd just arrived in America with guitarist Andy Summers and drummer Stewart Copeland to promote the first Police single ...
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The Police Drummer Recalls Thinking 'Roxanne' Was a 'Throwaway Song' When Sting First Wrote the Hit
“We were struggling and starving and going nowhere for about a year and a half, and [Sting] wrote it ... beat that was kind of bass-ackwards and made it into a Police song,” Copeland explained.