[Oh. My. God.]The Police to Reform for Reunion Tour??

trea · Mar 8, 2007

Kam said:

yeah, if you could, they usually send me crap.

fwd it to cuttino.mobley@gmail.com
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Email sent.

Kam · Mar 8, 2007

trea said:

Email sent.
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Thank you kind Sir.

ima_drummer2k · Mar 8, 2007

trea said:

No password just a direct link in the email. I can email you the link if you want.
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ima_drummer2k@yahoo.com

Kam · Mar 8, 2007

man, they limit it to four tickets. i need five.

emjohn · Mar 9, 2007

Good luck to everyone trying to get tickets tomm!

Evan

ima_drummer2k · Mar 9, 2007

trea said:

Email sent.
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Thanks, but that link is no longer working.

Guess I'm just going to have to chance it tomorrow morning.

Mr. Brightside · Mar 9, 2007

trea said:

No password just a direct link in the email. I can email you the link if you want.
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oh, nm. i just saw the above post.

trea · Mar 10, 2007

Did anyone have any luck this morning? I checked and they still had a few upper level seats available and some behind the stage, lol.

ima_drummer2k · Mar 10, 2007

trea said:

Did anyone have any luck this morning? I checked and they still had a few upper level seats available and some behind the stage, lol.
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And......BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE!

Me and my buddy both got online at 10 and were on the phone seeing who could get the best seats for us. He got some good $50 seats but couldn't get his email address in before the clock ran out on him.

So I ended up getting 4 $90 tickets in section 412. Kind of high up (row 13) but at least we're not behind the stage. The bottom line is....

I'm going to be there! What a load off my mind. I've seriously been stressing about this all week!

Jeff · Mar 10, 2007

I'm going. I managed my $90 seats in section 408 in a sort of backdoor way. Not sure the row yet (I think 5?). I could've bought $250 seats and I had my choice of $50 pretty much anywhere, but the $50 tickets weren't very good and the $250...well, they were $250.

ima_drummer2k · Mar 14, 2007

Looks like the boys have some rehearsing to do before launching this world tour. You know you're in trouble when the drummer is yelling out the key changes.

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ima_drummer2k · May 29, 2007

Tour started on Sunday and the reviews are starting to come in. Hopefully You Tube will have some stuff up pretty soon.

Police kick off reunion tour...

And they said it wouldn't happen.

The reunion tour that no one ever thought was going to materialize finally did on Monday night as '80s New Wave kingpins The Police opened their 30th anniversary trek with a sold-out show at GM Place in front of some 20,000 ecstatic fans.

Singer-bassist Sting, 55, the lone holdout all these years - 23 to be exact since The Police last toured for their last studio album, Synchronicity - seemed genuinely happy to be on stage again with his former bandmates - drummer Stewart Copeland, 54, and guitarist Andy Summers, 64 - who have patiently been waiting for him to return to the fold while he enjoyed a hugely successful solo career.

For God's sake, the trio of two Brits and one American even hugged each other in front of the cheering crowd after performing a two-hour, hit-heavy set from their seven year career (1977-1884) that saw them sell a staggering 50 million albums while infighting broke out towards the end.

"Tonight is our first official concert in 25 years, we chose Vancouver, 'cause you're Vancouver, alright?" said Sting, who had been rehearsing with Copeland and Summers most recently in a log house on the Squamish Indian reserve in North Vancouver. "I like this city very much."

Still, anyone expecting the fierce punk-tinged reggae rock of The Police at their prime when they split up in 1984, instead got a jazzier, more mellow version of the acclaimed trio of accomplished musicians.

Many songs got some serious retooling and not always for the better: Don't Stand So Close To Me, Truth Hits Everybody, and Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic were among the disappointments.

Still, The Police's show, a comparitively stripped down affair compared to the huge productions put on by the likes of The Rolling Stones and U2, opened strongly with Message In A Bottle, Synchronicity II, Spirits In The Material World and the combo of Voices In My Head/When The World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still Around.

But there was a serious lull in the middle portion of the show with plenty of slow songs or ballads - Driven To Tears, Walking On The Moon, Wrapped Around Your Finger, The Bed's Too Bit Without You, and Murder By Numbers.

At a press conference earlier this year to announce their reunion tour, Sting insisted it would be just "three guys on stage, that's all. Simple but spectacular."

Well, he was mostly right.

Their in-the-round stage saw the trio playing in a pit with steps up to a semi-circular catwalk behind them so they could play to audience members behind them whenever the mood struck.

There was also small steps up to ramps on either side of the stage which Sting used to the delight of the crowd.

It has to be said that Sting looked and sounded outstanding with his brilliant blue eyes offset by a nice tan, chiselled arms and a tight-fitting sleeveless white shirt and narrow black pants along with black combat boots.

Whenever he performed a scissor-kick at the end of song or stood on Copeland's drum riser and wigged his bum, the reaction from fans was palatable.

But other than genuinely slick lighting and a video scrim, on to which footage of a moving dinosaur skeleton was projected during Walking In Your Footsteps, it was a surprisingly simple affair.

Musically, the most interesting choices came from Copeland, who looked like a mad scientist behind his enormous drum kit with white gloves, glasses and a head band.

He often alternated with a second set of percussion instruments that were placed on a riser above his drum kit, including a gong that he struck to kick off the entire evening.

By the final third of the show, such highlights as Invisible Sun, during which warn-torn video of Iraq was shown, I Can't Stand Losing You, Roxanne, King Of Pain, So Lonely, Every Breath You Take and Next To You, saw that old Police magic return.

Opening Monday night was Fiction Plane, a rock trio fronted by Sting's 31 year old Joe Sumner whose upper register sounds uncannily like that of his father's. (Also seen in the audience was Sting's second wife, Trudie Styler and L.A Law alum Corbin Bernsen.)

Fiction Plane's 45-minute set was perfectly serviceable but hardly exceptional and given the circumstances, they can hardly be blamed for being a little overwhelmed.

With the passage of time, they are sure to become more relaxed, and hopefully, the headliners will pick up a little more steam in that troublesome middle section or just change the songs outright.

The Police return to the same Vancouver venue for a second show Wednesday night before heading to Edmonton's Commonwealth Stadium on Saturday where some tickets are available - a rarity on the otherwise mostly sold out tour. The trio don't arrive in Toronto until July 22-23 for shows at the Air Canada Centre followed by Montreal's Bell Centre on July 25-26 before a return to the ACC on Nov. 8.
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mc mark · May 29, 2007

Still, anyone expecting the fierce punk-tinged reggae rock of The Police at their prime when they split up in 1984, instead got a jazzier, more mellow version of the acclaimed trio of accomplished musicians.

Many songs got some serious retooling and not always for the better: Don't Stand So Close To Me, Truth Hits Everybody, and Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic were among the disappointments.
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uh oh....

emjohn · May 29, 2007

mc mark said:

uh oh....
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I'm not too surprised. This tour was going to be done strictly on Sting's terms, and he was always steering the band away from its original reggae thrash towards what we saw with his solo material. Not shocking at all that this is what we got. Sounds very much in line with the Sting solo renditions of the old songs.

Still, can't mess with So Lonely very much

Evan

ima_drummer2k · May 29, 2007

Here's the setlist from the first show:

"Message in a Bottle"
"Synchronicity II"
"Don't Stand So Close to Me"
"Voices Inside My Head"/"When the World Is Running Down, You Make the
Best of What's Still Around"
"Spirits in the Material World"
"Driven to Tears"
"Walking on the Moon"
"Truth Hits Everybody"
"Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic"
"Wrapped Around Your Finger"
"The Bed's Too Big Without You"
"Murder by Numbers"
"De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da"
"Invisible Sun"
"Walking in Your Footsteps"
"Can't Stand Losing You"
"Roxanne"
"King of Pain"
"So Lonely"
"Every Breath You Take"
"Next to You"
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Not bad. I could do without so much Synchronicity material, but that's a pretty good mix.

rimbaud · May 29, 2007

emjohn said:

I'm not too surprised. This tour was going to be done strictly on Sting's terms, and he was always steering the band away from its original reggae thrash towards what we saw with his solo material. Not shocking at all that this is what we got. Sounds very much in line with the Sting solo renditions of the old songs.
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That is what I was going to say - that is how he has done them and they are often quite weird (Don't Stand So Close to Me sounds ridiculous in his rearrangement that I have heard most).

ima_drummer2k · May 30, 2007

Looks like there are already plenty of You Tube videos up from the first 2 shows. Take your pick...

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=police+vancouver

EDIT: Not nearly as bad as that review made it out to be (except for that flaccid version of Every Little Thing She Does is Magic). What does the guy expect from them, the 1977 version? Yes, it would be nice, but that was 30 years ago.

swilkins · May 30, 2007

I was kinda hoping that they would play like the Police I remembered growing up.

I am ok to wait for the DVD. Hopefully it will get better.

peleincubus · May 30, 2007

are the firemen touring with these guys?

or the emt's?

sorry***

ima_drummer2k · May 31, 2007

Good 10 minute montage of the whole opening night show:

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