Then, switching from bass to acoustic guitar for the only time of the night, Sting sang “Fragile,” a gentle, Latin-influenced number that almost always closes out his shows.

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, Roxanne.

Fretted, fretless, double bass, eight-string – Sting was unstoppable on bass, filling up the empty spaces within the trio format of the Police with a variety of lines, from the simple to the ...

Clad in an all-black cargo jumpsuit, his collar popped as he effortlessly feathered the strings of his bass, Sting was accompanied by Dominic Miller on guitar and Chris Maas in a power-trio lineup ...

1. Sting The lead singer of the British-born band The Police also had a major solo career, all the while plunking away on his bass guitar as he took the microphone to sing about “Fields of Gold.” ...