Kylie Olsson’s Life in Six Strings series has built a strong track record of getting legendary guitarists to open up in their own spaces, and the Andy Summers episode delivers exactly that. The Police guitarist opens his Santa Monica home studio and walks through his photography collection, spanning his years with the band through to the present, before the conversation moves to his Venice Beach recording studio where guitars come out on the rooftop and Summers teaches Olsson to play “So Lonely” in the California sun. Summers has always been one of the most harmonically sophisticated guitarists in rock, his use of suspended chords and effects shaping a sound that defined an era, and hearing him talk through that approach in his own environment carries a different quality than a standard interview. The episode has already pulled over a million views, which reflects both the depth of the Police fanbase and the specific appeal of seeing where an artist actually lives and works.


