In 1977, guitarist Andy Summers joined a young band sprouting from London's punk scene called The Police—a band that quickly rose to international success with hits like "Roxanne," "Message in a Bottle," and "Don't Stand So Close to Me" and albums like Reggatta de Blanc, Zenyatta Mondatta, and Synchronicity.
In fact, though not given a songwriting credit, Summers was responsible for writing the riff for "Every Breath You Take" and recording it with his '61 Fender Strat in one take. That song remained at number one for eight weeks, earned The Police the '83 Grammy for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal, and Sting the Grammy for Song of the Year.
Summers himself won the Best Rock Instrumental Performance Grammy Award twice during his time with The Police, once in '79 for "Reggatta de Blanc" (which Copeland and Sting co-authored) and the following year for "Behind My Camel."
Summers was known for playing vintage '60s Fenders and vintage late-'50s Gibsons, usually through a Marshall stack or Roland Jazz Chorus combo. In the video above, Joe uses a Fender American Performer Telecaster Hum, with a humbucker in the neck position, and a Fender Vintera '70s Stratocaster. For amps, Joe is using a Tone King Royalist MKIII and a Roland JC-120 Jazz Chorus.
Pedal-wise, we used a vintage EHX Deluxe Electric Mistress, an MXR Dyna Comp, a vintage Roland RE-201 Space Echo, a Catalinbread Belle Epoch Deluxe CB3, a vintage MXR MX-118 Analog Delay, a Boss CE-3 Chorus.
Check out the full video above to watch Joe recreate tones from songs like "Message in a Bottle," "Walking On the Moon," and "Every Breath You Take."