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This is Later with Lee Matthews The
Lee Matthews Podcast. More of what you

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hear weekday afternoons on the Drive.
Legendary guitar virtuoso, multiple Grammy winning artist

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and photographer Andy Summers, you know
a lot of his work from the Police

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among others, is about to embark
on a thirty city North American tour.

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He's calling the Cracked Lens plus a
Missing String, Andy Summers. The title

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of this show makes me go out. Yeah, it's a weird title.

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I came out with that. My
manager said, where did you get up

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from? Us said, well,
you know that's who I am. I

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like it because it gets your attension. And I also think that we go

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on forward regardless. You know all
these things, you know, and that

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means that you have to have it
in you to play through extenuanting extenuating circumstances.

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Yeah. As a person who dabbles
in photography myself, I can't think

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of anything worse than having a cracked
lens. Well, you know, you

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get a picture about here, it's
got that bit looks great. Oh that's

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the crack in the lens. Yeah, Or I go back so far,

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Oh that's the scratch on the negative. Yeah, yeah, well that's always

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I don't always see them as necessarily
false, but it's sort of battle scars

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enhancements that make it interesting. This
is more This is more of an intimate

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show because you're doing this in theaters
in fact, Saturday, August twelfth at

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the Dallas, Texas Kessler Theater,
So this is more intimate. Well,

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you know, an absolute decision,
you know, because you know, I

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talked to the audience a lot,
and I don't want to be in the

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state. Well I don't think this
could fill the stadium, but I think

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it's just the right venue. This
is the first time I've done this since

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my previous run that threw a pre
pandemic when we were just getting started with

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this. We've got a more sophisticated
version of it now. But yeah,

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I think not too big, intimate. Set it out. Everybody can see

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the screen, and I'm gonna I
talk, you know, I think it's

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really kind of the way to do
it this first run, and we'll see

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see how it goes. We're talking
to legendary virtuoso Andy Summers of the Police.

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Sorry, go ahead, And I
said, you know, I was

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excited when I you know, I've
got all the list of all the thesis

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I looked up on the internet.
They're also beautiful, these little bisu theaters

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that all over the US that people
forget about, so it's appropriate. Some

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of them still have the warlords or
organs in them. I think it's great

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all this stuff. Cracked lens plus
a Missing string is the name of the

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show, and Andy Summers of the
Police is putting it on. Closest location

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will be Sanity, August twelfth,
Dallas, Texas. Kessler. The this

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is multimedia, isn't it. Oh? Absolutely, it's I mean I'm playing

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that. We have a huge well
you know, sin Marsize screen. There

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you go, it will be up
on the screen. I'm literally playing to

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the screen. Well I'm playing to
the audience as well. But you'll hear

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me playing the guitar. You know, all these things. I've worked out,

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some solo guitars I'm with backing tracks. There's some blillion music I do

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in the middle of it. And
these are all accompanied by arresting villio videos.

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Yeah, it's multi media. A
lot of the material you took yourself.

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The video in the film, Oh, it's all all my photography.

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Yeah, and how much of the
police. Will we hear how many police

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titles will be well be hearing?
Yeah, that's done in there. It's

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not all all Police because I made
so many other albums. Sure it's a

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mix, but you know, I've
got a few well known police songs in

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there. And the show ends of
the fantastic photo collage of the band when

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we the early eighties, when we
were traveling all over the US, all

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inside the US, and it's pretty
gritty stuff, you know, and course

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the country look different, and so
it discussed great sort of antique feeling to

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uh, you know, mobs and
mobs of fans, you know, Arizona

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and Texas, you know, the
rockies, the deserts, you know,

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just a lot of stuff. It's
very very US. And that's done with

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a couple you know. It's like
I've got a special thing I do with

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some police songs there. Yeah,
Andy Summers is with us of the Police,

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the cracked lens and a missing string. Do you have a particular anecdote

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of the worst failure that may have
happened to you in the midst of a

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live performance? Something happened to me
in the middle of live performance? While

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that you mean, like your pants
falling down. The worst thing that's happened

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to you. I mean you've certainly
probably been you're enough broken strings or missing

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strings? Yeah, you know,
hardly enough. I don't break strings.

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I mean you know I'm called this
is a missing strings. Don't make the

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whole life of playing and beyond stage. I think I've only broken string maybe

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twice. But see this is the
challenge. Then you've got to go on

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and still like some I pull off
the guitar parts with one of the strings

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missing, or find your licks elsewhere, typically the G string or the B

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string that go for some reason.
Yeah, the cracked lens a missing string

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is the name of the show Andy
Summers of the Police. And you've been

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taking pictures long enough to see the
evolution of going from film photography to digital

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photography. Have you really delved into
digital more now? Yeah? Well I

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was always a like a camera user, and of course shot film like everybody

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else. But it's culminated to me
when I toured all over China in Asia

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I think twenty twelve, and I
shot ninety ye rolls of film and it

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was really quite a thing to carry
all that lot and you know, get

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wiped out through X ray machines.
As soon as I got back to the

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States from that or they came out
with the Laika Am not Digital? And

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I swapped over then and that same
body, same everything, same lenses,

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except now you've got the picture on
the back and we've gone digital. I've

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never looked back. I've really enjoyed
it. So it was a where have

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you been all my life? Movement
kind of Yeah, it really helped me.

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Actually no, I don't see any
going back at this point. See

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him Saturday, August twelfth, Dallas, Texas, Kessler Theater. It's Andy

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Summers and his new multimedia show,
The Cracked Lens. I'm Missing String.

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We look forward to the show and
thanks for joining us. Thank you very

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much, good to talk to you. Thank you. Thanks for listening to

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