Name: Andy Summers Almost Fell Out Of An Airplane | Letterman
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Andy Summers Almost Fell Out Of An Airplane | Letterman' from Letterman on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-08-07. Transcript available.

my first guest tonight plays guitar with one of the leading rock bands in the
world today the
police he is also an accomplished photographer as we're going to prove here in
just a moment
and he has published this book a first collection of photos entitled yes throb
new from parker brothers we're delighted to have him with us tonight please
welcome andy summers
how are you i'm in shock in shock why is that i just got off the plane came
from i you know it's so
nice to walk on and see this book getting such a good laugh oh no we're that no
that's the intention
but the people just smile where did you come from london yeah did you come on
the uh the concord
yeah yeah now that's quite an experience isn't it yeah you gotta you kind of
feel it up here
something in the back yeah how long does it take from london to kennedy about
three and a half hours
wow uh and it flies about 60 000 feet yeah it was pretty high whatever it was
yeah
uh i gotta tell you this book is very entertaining uh just the ideal book for
leaf and through and you
also get a keen feel for what it must be like to be uh young successful rock
and roll musicians
on the road as we say how did you select what you're gonna say on something
else for a minute
no no how did you select uh or come by the title throb well it should have been
spelt with an f but
never mind throb should have been spelled with a frog frog yeah that's an
english interpretation
oh i see um well i like one word titles anyway because i think they are often
the most evocative
if you can find the right word you get a lot more edge into it and uh this is a
word that has more
than one meaning it has some innuendo yeah i think so
yeah i know what you're thinking um anyway the main use of the word for me is
satirical you know
it's like taking a bit of a laugh at the uh the rock scene generally yeah you
know because there is
humor in this book hopefully oh very definitely but it also of course does it
has throb means musical pulse
right and it also means sexual pulse i think there is that connotation uh now
how long have you been
taking photographs about four years so this is a very impressive collection did
you uh did you have
any kind of special training or just pick it up and go to work one day um i
sort of learned as i went
along really i'm more or less self-taught yeah and always when you're on tour
that's yeah i'm always on
tour so that's really when i do it yeah i have much alternative have you ever
run into a circumstance
anywhere that for one reason or another somebody would not let you take
pictures um yeah i got
into a lady's toilet in san francisco on halloween night about three years ago
i was there for about
five seconds see i thought it would be a great idea to try and get in there and
hide and sort of you
know i thought there would be some really there were some pretty weird people
going out yeah i didn't
last san francisco toilet on a halloween night that's right yeah i think that
could be pretty
i don't know quite how i got there but that's where i was have you have you
ever had any trouble
traveling to uh like third world countries or um no trouble getting to them but
a lot of trouble when
we get there as far as uh taking pictures and stuff well we went to india and i
wasn't allowed to
at much to my great horror i wasn't allowed to take the cameras into the
country no what for what
reason did they give you i don't know but they're strange fat men in very baggy
trousers
who take all your equipment at the uh airport no kidding yeah i'm absolutely i
was very upset about
that and uh no explanation no i actually did go back to um calcutta about two
years later
and i did get them in this time i had to you know i went through about a year
of filling out forms they're
very bureaucratic in india but i ran out of film there and then you have to try
and get indian film
and this is really something you know took me days to hunt it down and they
they have like little
rolls of black and white film that they kind of they put it in a little canister
like this
they get the film like in bulk from czechoslovakia somewhere and then they make
up their little tin cans
so it's not uh state of the art no not really yeah uh we're going to look at
some of these photos
in just a second let us do a commercial we'll get that out of the way we'll
come back and we'll take
a look at some of the pictures uh you'll see in the book called the throb by
indy summers let's uh get
right to some of these indy and explain what we're looking at and the the
circumstances and anything
else you care to add here yeah that was actually shot in new york this picture
well of course this one
is really a symbol of you know the feeling you can get most days on the road
which is climbing the wall
climbing the walls so here you see me testing the uh chandeliers at the plaza
hotel how are they do
they uh they're not as good as they were uh-huh all right swinging now how did
you take is that you
actually took that of yourself yeah well there are a lot of pictures of me in
the book and they're all
taken with the self-time and with a camera and a tripod see i notice there's a
lot of interesting
photographs of women in in this book very nice yeah and also uh a lot of this
guy yeah he seems to have
trouble keeping his clothing on but but here this is a sting in the shower yeah
well he does have a
nice body i mean i don't blame him for showing it off you know it's helped us
all along in our careers
all right that's just a guy taking a shower now there must be there must be a
story behind this yeah
well this actually was shot in mexico city about two years ago we went down
there to play near christmas
in a hotel which seemed to be totally there was nothing no floors except an
elevator which went up to
the 20th floor brand new hotel brand new well brand new they'd been building
for 15 years they were
missing about 20 floors there yeah kind of slow anyway we got trapped in the
hotel for about five days and we
were surrounded by girls uh rather they were running the hotel see so it's like
that's terrible so what
we have here is uh your plea for help to be extricated from this ugly
circumstance yes that's right
the walls were closing in now this is interesting uh if it's what i think it is
what do you think well it looks like uh the sheet by which you use to determine
the order of a show
absolutely right this is about about two years ago looking at that sheet okay
now let me ask you
about the uh the little stars or asterisks under roxanne what does that that
means uh go off stage
for some refreshment come back if they still like us we'll come back and play
these so these these are your
encore designations that's exactly oh that's neat okay and who who decides the
order well we kind of
well we decide between us at the beginning of the um tour but it often changes
you know we start off
with one thing and then we kind of make changes as we go along ever any
difficulty in deciding what
order i mean it's getting harder and harder actually because we've got five
albums out now and you
know a lot of hits so uh it's definitely difficult to know what to put in what
to leave out another nasty
problem a lot of hits a lot of girls in mexico a lot of hits it's a it's an
ugly life who is this
what are we looking this is um stuart copeland there's some other interesting
pictures regarding
stuart in this book also that we can't show that's right yeah okay obviously on
an aircraft here this
one was uh shot on the on route to uh venezuela from montserrat the story that
goes with this one is
that the true story is that um we had to hire a very old plane to uh get our
equipment to venezuela and
we were in the plane with it there was just a few seats and then the kind of
gear was slopping around
the back but we uh run into a hurricane and just before we really got into the
thick of it and the
plane was really getting bad i i moved my seat and sat down without the safety
belt on it was sort of
hanging on my knuckles the whites of my knuckles were showing and the uh a
great hole appeared in
the side of the plane the emergency exit blew straight out the plane was sort
of flapping like
this you know i mean it was i can't tell you how bad it was except my life
passed before me did you
were you in danger of going out oh absolutely it wasn't a jet so i wasn't going
to get sucked out but
i mean you know the wind and the rain and everything and then we had a whole
chain of people sort of
hanging me and we sort of onto me and we sort of crawled back down the plane
away from the the our
manager's hair went white you know you could see did you were you able to talk
to the the crew or
the pilot after the flight and ask about this i wasn't able to speak for about
a month
after that all righty so we nearly lost you for that photograph didn't we
almost okay
well actually this was an interesting um thing this was a mask it was done of
my face um there's an
artist in new york called richard royce who actually made an art piece of me he
did my face in plaster
my hands and my feet and and my guitar it's hanging up somewhere in new york
all right let's take a look
look at those right here andy this is a very nice picture oh yeah this was this
wiz this is with uh
josephine in uh monserrat she uh she was the maid that brought me breakfast
every morning and uh
washed my socks at sarah and kept me company between the hours of eight and ten
every morning
so that's you josephine and and unknown person on cornflake box fernando valenzuela
is that right
right yeah picture for the dodgers yeah that's a great photograph it's a
terrific uh it's a terrific
book also thank you very much it's called throb this of course is andy summer's
continued success
andy thank you very much for coming by i know you're a little bit from your
face
welcome back folks to jeff greenfield after station identification
boy honey i'm starved what's for dinner tonight i have no idea what i hope
everyone's real and
hungry wow mr larry's mystery dinners surprised hon i'll say i am not as half
as surprised as i am
he knows but he's not telling mr larry's mystery dinners because there's such a
thing as too much information
Thank you.