By Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor Sting is notorious — or maybe renowned — for a certain hauteur, and it was on full display during his socially distanced performance of the currently-lockdown-themed 1980 Police hit “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” with Jimmy Fallon and the Roots on “The Tonight Show” Thursday.
Among other things, the performance showed that sheltering in place has led the Roots to become even more creative with their choice of instrumentation: Questlove played scissors and forks, Black Thought plucked a hair pick, Kamal Gray made Connect 4 into a percussion instrument and Dave Guy did the same with a pair of kicks.
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