Name: Bill Burr - Sting And Peter Gabriel Concert
Uploaded: 2016-07-22T12:43:07.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr - Sting And Peter Gabriel Concert' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-07-22. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr - Sting And Peter Gabriel Concert' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-07-22. Transcript available.

Then Monday, last second, a buddy of mine called me up and said,
hey, Sting and Peter Gabriel are playing at the fucking Hollywood Bowl, right?
So I said, you know what? I bet Vinnie Kaliuta's playing drums.
I gotta go see that. That's like a bucket list.
He's one of my favorite drummers of all fucking time,
and he's one of those guys who just keeps getting better.
He's an absolute monster. I mean, the guy's like pushing 60 years old,
and he could still, like, blow away young drummers in their teens.
You know what I mean? A lot of young drummers just think, you know,
all the young guys are the shit, and they're all fucking flashy,
and then as guys get older, you know, they stop practicing or whatever.
He's one of the few fucking guys, there was no drop-off.
He just kept getting better and better and better and better.
So I say, fuck this, right?
So I called up somebody, you know, who was in the know,
and I was like, hey, is Vinnie playing tonight?
And they were like, they got back to me, and I was like, fuck.
That was the game changer right there.
I was like, I gotta go fucking see it, right?
So I go on the hub of the stub there, the old stub hub,
and just pay through the fucking nose, get as close as I can.
So now I'm all fucking excited.
I'm all down low, right?
And I'm fucking going, oh, my God.
Look, they got two drum kits up there.
I'm guessing Peter Gabriel's gonna open, do a set,
then Sting's gonna do a fucking set,
and then in the end, they're gonna come out and sing fucking Hava Nagila,
whatever.
They're gonna do some sort of encore together, right?
The fucking show starts, okay?
And there was so many fucking people on stage,
I didn't know what was going on,
and Peter Gabriel, all of a sudden, is like,
you know, the guy's like right in front of us.
He sings one of his fucking, I don't know, world music songs.
It was amazing, and his voice sounded fucking incredible.
And I'm like, okay, Peter Gabriel and his giant band here,
his giant-ass fucking band with two drummers and shit,
is gonna fucking open, and then Sting's gonna come out,
and I'm gonna have to see Vinny, right?
He finishes the first fucking song, he walks offstage,
and then all of a sudden, Sting just walks out.
Everybody's like, what the fuck?
Right?
And he starts playing the,
If I ever lose my faith in you, right?
He starts singing that song, and I'm like,
wait a minute, where the fuck's Vinny?
And I realize, he's been playing the whole fucking time.
He's just behind these, this, I don't know what the fuck,
it was somebody's amps or some shit.
So all I could see was like the top of his head,
but there was like video screens and stuff.
So of course, I was standing on my tiptoes to watch it,
but what killed me about his playing is, you know,
every great musician has a voice, right?
I know this is like hacky to say that,
but that fucking guy, the bell of his ride cymbal,
and when he plays the cross stick on his snare,
it's just undeniably, like, that's fucking Vinny Cullio.
And the fact that he was making that noise that close to me,
and I was immediately hearing it,
and just all the times that I've listened to all the music
that he's made with Sting and everybody else,
the fact that they were actually reproducing it live right there,
it was fucking nuts to me.
You know, like, they're playing these songs for us.
This is fucking incredible, right?
So then the concert goes,
and they just keep flip-flopping back and forth.
So Sting finished his fucking song,
and then Peter Gabriel came back out,
but Sting stayed and fucking played bass on Peter's shit,
and then they just kept going back and forth,
and occasionally Peter did two,
and then Sting do a couple.
Occasionally, Sting would walk off,
and Peter would do his thing,
and then vice versa, whatever.
And finally, in the middle of it,
or maybe towards the beginning,
I can't,
they talked to the crowd a couple times,
and they basically said that they were just,
that they both had bands,
and they're kind of competing with each other's band,
and Peter Gabriel's band was the red band,
and Sting's was the blue band,
and then I finally noticed,
oh, one drummer's got red,
the other Vinny's playing on blue drums,
and I, you know,
the way he told the story,
they were just, you know,
having a battle of the bands,
and they were like,
why don't we fucking go on tour?
All I can say is it was an incredible night.
They played, like, all the fucking hits.
Peter Gabriel played big time,
Sledgehammer, Shock the Monkey,
Red Rain,
Sting played fucking,
sending out an S.O.S.,
bunch of shit off,
Ten Summer's Tales,
some shit off of Soul Cages,
some police stuff,
it was fucking amazing.
It was fucking amazing,
but, you know,
definitely a bucket list night,
but, of course,
I was in the crowd,
and at the Hollywood Bowl,
they either drink wine,
which just gives me a brutal hangover,
or they had these giant fucking beers,
which, I gotta be honest with you,
just does nothing to me.
It's just this,
it's like,
it's like somebody just handed a job.
Hey, why don't you drink this?
Like, yeah, fuck,
and I get really nothing out of it.
That's why I like whiskey, you know?
Gives you the old right there, Fred,
and it's just a couple of swallows.
But anyways,
Jesus Christ,
the level of musicianship,
the backup singers,
one in particular,
was just,
they kept, you know,
giving her solos and stuff.
She was incredible.
Got to watch Sting play bass,
got to watch him up close.
The weird way,
he kind of comes from the side,
rather than,
a lot of bass players
that kind of have their hand up top,
rest their thumb on the low E,
or whatever the fuck that string is,
and he looks like he's coming at it from the side
like a fucking crab.
It was really interesting.
But anyways,
it was like,
some of the best musicians you're ever going to see.
So that's what I did.
Monday,
this is all drum nerd shit,
but I saw Steve Smith,
his playing with Journey again.
I'm going to have to go fucking see that.
You know,
I've never seen him when he played with Vital Information.
I've never seen that guy play live.
Got all his fucking DVDs and all of that shit.
There's another one I got to check off the fucking bucket list.
But if that Sting Peter Gabriel tour is coming to your neck of the woods,
do not sleep on it.
Like,
I've never seen like Sting having so much fucking fun.
And I never realized how like goofy and silly Peter Gabriel was.
He's got all these synchronized dances and shit.
It's fucking hilarious.
And he's funny as hell.
And like Sting was just like,
really just taking a back seat when letting Peter shine and all of that.
You know,
all that fucking drama that you always heard in that band,
the police.
It was great seeing Sting just fucking,
I mean,
granted the guy still,
he looks better than he looked when he was in the police.
It's fucking ridiculous.
Jesus Christ.
Clean living and fucking yoga.
And,
and whatever the fuck he does that tantric where you come for like fucking 50
minutes,
whatever that shit is,
it's unbelievable.
I mean,
the guy looks better than he did fucking 30 years ago.
His hair somehow grew back.
I don't know.
I don't know what the fuck this guy's doing.
He looks like it's a combination of like a teen idol.
And he,
he's in like Mad Max all at the same time.
He never kind of would like,
as far as like his wardrobe though,
I will say that guy is never sort of advanced past.
The synchronicity tour,
you know,
and when he yells,
he always has to put an O at the end of it.
You know,
when he did Roxanne.
And then when he had wanted to do a calm response with the crop,
with the crowd is going,
Roxanne.
Like where did the O come from?
He loves the O.
I bet he does that in his castle.
You know,
his wife yells up,
you know,
up the fucking goddamn stone stairway.
Stair,
stair,
stair.
What do you want for lunch?
Lunch,
lunch.
And he's up there,
a sandwich show.
He's fucking driving her nuts.
How the fuck does he put O at the end of everything?
Just fucking say his sandwich.
All right?
You fucking cunt.
What,
you get knighted and all of a sudden you can put an O at the end of everything?
I don't know.
Anyways,
what am I doing here?
It was a fucking great show.