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Poll Question: Which member of the Police's solo work do you enjoy the most?
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    Posted: 17 Oct 2013 at 3:09pm
I am currently listening to Andy Summers' solo albums and was curious as to which member of the Police's solo output you enjoy the most. 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote js Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Oct 2013 at 3:14pm
Three very talented blokes for a bunch of long haired hippie rock musicians.
Copeland is my favorite musician of the bunch, his drumming is excellent, but I probably have listened more to Summers two albums with Fripp, so I gave him the vote.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote rushfan4 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Oct 2013 at 3:21pm
I listened to those two albums for the first time today.  The first was better than the second but both were pretty good.  I'd say that Copeland is probably my favorite musician out of them as well.  I probably enjoy Sting's solo albums the most though his last couple have not been that good in my opinion.  May have something to do with me not having much interest in Celtic music in more than small doses.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote snobb Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Oct 2013 at 3:28pm
I prefer all of them in one place - The Police, from solo albums I would stay with early Sting solo works
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote rushfan4 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Oct 2013 at 3:54pm
All 3 as The Police is the real correct answer to the poll.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote snobb Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Oct 2013 at 3:59pm
too late  Shocked already voted for Sting
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Sting for me too
I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again ...
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote rushfan4 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Oct 2013 at 8:49am
Originally posted by js js wrote:

Three very talented blokes for a bunch of long haired hippie rock musicians.
Copeland is my favorite musician of the bunch, his drumming is excellent, but I probably have listened more to Summers two albums with Fripp, so I gave him the vote.
Have you heard the album that he did with John Etheridge "Invisible Threads"?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote js Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Oct 2013 at 10:03am
^ No I haven't, I also haven't heard a lot of Copeland's solo albums too.
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Not a fan of Sting

Copeland is probably the one I appreciate most
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Argonaught Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 Oct 2013 at 8:04pm
I almost voted 'none of the above', but then I remembered that Sting did have a pretty decent solo album, 'Nothing Like the Sun' (one of the better symph-pop albums out there). After which the things went progressively downhill. I tried to befriend the after-Police Summers and Copeland as well, but to me it looks like they had'd reached their prime in the Police configuration, so no point in chasing after the wind. 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Slartibartfast Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30 Oct 2013 at 11:50am
I don't have any solo Copeland albums but I do have several of Sting's and Summer's, all of which I like and most of which I have gotten used a year or more after they were released.  On the whole I have to go with Summers.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Sean Trane Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Nov 2013 at 9:31am
Definitely Andy for me... Saw him twice in the 90's...
 
Sting never gave me the will to see him live.  (outside seeing The Police for the Regatta tour)


Edited by Sean Trane - 13 Nov 2013 at 9:32am
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicted musicians to crazy ones....

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By far, Andy Summers.

Mysterious Barricades, Charming Snakes, and Synaesthesia are all masterpieces!
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