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.

Sting setlist 2025: What he sang at Phoenix concert These are the songs that made the setlist when Sting played Phoenix: “Message in a Bottle” (The Police) “If I Ever Lose My Faith in You” ...

Sting stood in the middle of the stage playing bass for most of the 20 song set, engaged the crowd and opened up with a few of his greatest hits.

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 performs at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on Saturday, October 7, 2023. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer) ...

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 ...