Message in a Bottle. Acoustic Police Cover

[ODH]

It's not my first go at this song, however this one is very different.

Yesterday I was playing another song I'm working on which requires drop-D tuning and I found myself playing this instead. The main riff is hard for me in standard tuning but easier in drop-D.

Here are three acoustic guitar tracks and two vocals. I toyed with adding percussion or bass parts but in the end liked it best with only the live tracks.

[the physics teacher]

Nice cover and a nice interpretation.

[Jean Pierre]

Yesterday I was playing another song I'm working on which requires drop-D tuning and I found myself playing this instead.

ah ah I think we get that a lot...

 Surprising in terms of rhythm and tone, but a really great version 

...and the mythical arpeggio of this song is well rendered

[SteveB]

Well Nick this is certainly an interesting take on this song. Overall I think it works well, which is quite an achievement on such a long piece, so well done to you. Originally I found Sting to be a bit insufferable, but some years later having read his autobiography and replayed my couple of Police albums over and over for a few months, and also caught up with some of his solo stuff, I came to realise and appreciate the sophisticated level of his song writing, wherein his pieces could be whittled down to sparse interpretations like the one you've produced here, and still be sonorous enough to hold the listener's attention. Well done again. 

[TPB]

Very nice tried this a couple times and it always ends up in the bin
Love this version
Tim

[StephenM]

Actually the Police or perhaps Sting seemed to get bored with their songs at times and reimagined them big time.
This wouldn't be a stretch to hear one of them do this.

Cool...i do really love this song... i don't know why but I am hearing Roxanne!
This works for me... sounds like the desperate being the song describes...

[Blooby]

I always dug the Sting's Secret Policeman's ball version. Could never get my left pinky to cooperate fully on this tune.

Cool version here. Dark...even when his situation is shared, the melancholy is palpable. A very cool approach.

Blooby

[T.C. Elliott]

That guitar part is so melancholic when played at this speed. And the strummed chorus is very effective as a result. I love it. And it's amazing how the lyric feels with the vocal pace slowed down. Very interesting take.

[Mike_S]

Great version Nick. It takes on an eerie quality here which gives the words an even more haunting feel. It's very sparse and yes... very haunting. Those guitars are recorded very well.

I think I tried this song many years ago. I still have some trauma somewhere recollecting my poor attempts

Loved this

Mike

[BerryPatch]

Very cool version! I think I've seen a video where Sting does the sing stripped back like this, it totally works! Great job!