Last exit...

Shortly after finding those ghost in the machine demos of Sting's, it came to my attention that his pre-police band, Last Exit, had recorded a couple of demo tapes, and that those tapes were of excellent quality. I have yet to get my mitts on them, but apparently someone did, and has put a handful of tracks up on youtube. Here's one, called "Carrion prince".


It's funny seeing how sting recycled his existing material into songs he played with the Police. I also like the Steely Dan circa "Katie lied" vibe going on here.

Now, here's another Last exit track that became a Police tune. Embedding was disabled, boo for that, but check it out. You're back? Yeah, it was better as "So lonely".

For the love of obscure Police goodies, here's my favorite track from the Ghost demos, "Don't you believe me baby":



And here's another one from those same demos: It could have been on "dream of the blue turtles".


Finally, Sting channels Billy Joel, which I inexplicably enjoy:



Yeah.