The Police

[Rack Fu]

Anyone going to try and catch their tour this summer? They'll be in Houston on June 29th.

The tickets prices are wicked expensive ($100 to $250 per the ad I heard). Two tickets, service fees, parking, refreshments, dinner & babysitter = $600-$700.

I'll probably just listen to one of their CDs.

[BSmack]

I saw The Police in 1983. I paid 15 dollars for my ticket. It was festival seating and I was about 30 rows back on the field. My guess is that a reserved seat in the same location for this tour would run at least 100 dollars. Fuck that.

[War Wagon]

I'll probably just listen to one of their CDs.

You paid cash money for one of their CD's?

They peaked at Roxanne and it all was downhill from there.

[BSmack]

Just did a ticketmaster search for the show at Giants Stadium.
Obstructed view seating for 100 bucks.
What a joke.

[King Crimson]

there's some great early stuff on youtube and a lot of it. that's my price range.

[Dinsdale]

They peaked at Roxanne and it all was downhill from there.

Roxanne(ZM album, IIRC) was unlistenable, pretentious garbage.


Ghost In The Machine was fairly deece.

Regardless, those chumps haven't been anything but offensive to the eardrums in the last 20 years+.


But wait...the critics told people they were good, and to buy their garbage...as soon as they hit their rapid decline(SUP U2, REM, and bands too numerous to list in a "Sup" line).


And they did. Ponderous, and I'll never understand that thinking.

Then again, what am I thinking...I'm ranting about this in a forum where many posters take the word of Pitchfork Media as religion...which I will NEVER stop laughing about.

[King Crimson]

Dinsdale: last of the free thinkers, internet hero.

you know, "indie" music didn't start in the early 90's (in Portland)....you do know that don't you. doesn't seem like you do.

police and U2 were always major label creatures. REM, not so much. what they turned into after Fables is grotesque to be sure but you'd be having a hard time foisting your "the critics say" theory on people who bought Murmur after seeing REM at a club or hearing them on low watt college radio stations in the middle of the night. because there were a lot of them.

but you probably bought Document and now hate yourself for it. :wink:

[Cosmo Kramer]

I got my tix from an internet pre-sale and shelled out $481.00 for the wife and I.....good seats though!

[BSmack]

I got my tix from an internet pre-sale and shelled out $481.00 for the wife and I.....good seats though!

You got hosed.

[Cosmo Kramer]

I got my tix from an internet pre-sale and shelled out $481.00 for the wife and I.....good seats though!

You got hosed.

Standard price with Ticketmaster fees.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

You got raped.

[RadioFan]

Roxanne(ZM album, IIRC) was unlistenable, pretentious garbage.

Agree about Roxanne, which was on Outlandos d'Amour. One of the most overrated songs, ever. (The Dana Carvey elevator character comes to mind)

There are some gems on ZM -- Driven to Tears/When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still Around, Shadows in the Rain and especially Voices Inside My Head. The percussion in that song never, ever gets old.

There's also a few tunes on Reggatta de Blanc that are deece -- the title song and Deathwish.

I guess what I'm saying is that the Police should have done a lot more instrumentals instead of the crap that was played on the radio.

[RadioFan]

Oh, and I wouldn't pay more than $20-$50 to see them in concert, depending on the seats. $100-200? Fuck that.

[Mikey]

Roxanne(ZM album, IIRC) was unlistenable, pretentious garbage.

Agree about Roxanne, which was on Outlandos d'Amour. One of the most overrated songs, ever. (The Dana Carvey elevator character comes to mind)

The Reggie Hammond cover of Roxanne was cool.

[War Wagon]

(The Dana Carvey elevator character comes to mind)

Remember the SNL episode with Sting at the copier?

Frigging hilarious.

[BSmack]

I got my tix from an internet pre-sale and shelled out $481.00 for the wife and I.....good seats though!

You got hosed.

Standard price with Ticketmaster fees.

Your point being?

[Mike the Lab Rat]

Saw them for free (long boring story...) at the Carrier Dome back during their Synchronicity tour.

They were a pompous, bloated spectacle.

I wouldn't walk across the street to see them now.

[Cosmo Kramer]

You got hosed.

Standard price with Ticketmaster fees.

Your point being?

Unless you're going to Fucking Kenny Rogers concerts, you're going to pay some $$$$$$$$ to see good bands. I'm not worried about it, but I wouldn't see just anyone......I saw Sting open for the DEAD in Vegas several years ago and what the Fuck else are you going to do in June in Phoenix?

[PSUFAN]

I don't think I'll go out of my way to see this. IMO, the best part of the police is Copeland's drumming. Like KC said above, you can get your fill of that on YouTube.

Sting is just heinous.

[MuchoBulls]

I don't think I'll go out of my way to see this. IMO, the best part of the police is Copeland's drumming. Like KC said above, you can get your fill of that on YouTube.

Sting is just heinous.

RACK

[BSmack]

Your point being?

Unless you're going to Fucking Kenny Rogers concerts, you're going to pay some $$$$$$$$ to see good bands.

And for over the hill bands that haven't toured since 1984, you should get a fucking DISCOUNT, not a markup.

I'm not worried about it, but I wouldn't see just anyone......I saw Sting open for the DEAD in Vegas several years ago and what the Fuck else are you going to do in June in Phoenix?

Of course you wouldn't see just "anyone". No, you're going to piss away nearly 500 dollars to see a band that hasn't produced a new album since 1983. You couldn't be more fucked if Sting went tantric on your sphincter.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

Unless you're going to Fucking Kenny Rogers concerts, you're going to pay some $$$$$$$$ to see good bands.

My wallet disagrees with you. I'll be seeing a lot of "good bands" this summer all for about $15-$20 per show.

WAR going out and finding fresh and good music. UNwar spending hundreds on over the hill classic rock dinosaur acts from 70s.

[patsy stone]

I saw four good acts last night for $7, and tomorrow night seeing another one for $10. :)

By the way, this line made me laugh:

You couldn't be more fucked if Sting went tantric on your sphincter.

[PSUFAN]

hahaha - rack BSmack, that's a funny one

[War Wagon]

classic rock

"Classic rock" and "The Police" don't belong in the same paragraph, much less sentence.

[BSmack]

I got my tix from an internet pre-sale and shelled out $481.00 for the wife and I.....good seats though!

You got hosed.

Standard price with Ticketmaster fees.

Here's a review of one of their openers by none other than Stewart Copeland.

“Whenever you’re ready Mr. Copeland” says Charlie, the production manager, as two crew members hold aside the giant gong, creating just enough space for me to slither onto my percussion stage, which is still down in its pit. I leap on board but my foot catches something and I sprawl into the arena in a jumble as the little stage starts to rise into view. Never mind. The audience is screaming with anticipation as I collect myself in the dark and start to warm, up the gong with a few gentle taps. But I’m overdoing it. It’s resonating and reaching it’s crescendo before the stage has fully reached its position. Sort of like a premature ejaculation. There’s nothing for it so I take a big swing for the big hit. Problem is, I’m just fractionally too far away and the beater misses the sweet spot and the big pompous opening to the show is a damp squib. Never mind.

I stride manfully to my drums. Andy has started the opening guitar riff to MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE and the crowd is going nuts. Problem is, I missed hearing him start. Is he on the first time around or the second? I look over at Sting and he’s not much help, his cue is me – and I’m lost. Never mind. “Crack!” on the snare and I’m in, so Sting starts singing. Problem is, he heard my crack as two in the bar, but it was actually four – so we are half a bar out of sync with each other. Andy is in Idaho.

Well we are professionals so we soon get sorted, but the groove is eluding us. We crash through MESSAGE and then go strait into SYNCHRONICITY. But there is just something wrong. We just can’t get on the good foot. We shamble through the song and hit the big ending. Last night Sting did a big leap for the cut-off hit, and he makes the same move tonight, but he gets the footwork just a little bit wrong and doesn’t quite achieve lift-off. The mighty Sting momentarily looks like a petulant pansy instead of the god of rock. Never Mind. Next song is going to be great…

But it isn’t. We get to the end of the first verse and I snap into the chorus groove – and Sting doesn’t. He’s still in the verse. We’ll have to listen to the tapes tomorrow to see who screwed up, but we are so off kilter that Sting counts us in to begin the song again. This is ubeLIEVably lame. We are the mighty Police and we are totally at sea.

And so it goes, for song after song. All I can think about is how Dietmar is going to string us up. In rehearsal this afternoon we changed the keys of EVERY LITTLE THING and DON’T STAND SO CLOSE so needless to say Andy and Sting are now on-stage in front of twenty thousand fans playing avant-garde twelve-tone hodgepodges of both tunes. Lost, lost, lost. I also changed my part for DON’T STAND and it’s actually working quite well but there is a dissonant noise coming from my two colleagues. In WALKING/FOOTSTEPS, I worked out a cool rhythm change for the rock-a-billy guitar solo, but now I make a complete hash of it – by playing it in the wrong part of the song. It’s not sounding so cool.

It usually takes about four or five shows in a tour before you get to the disaster gig. But we’re The Police so we are a little ahead of schedule. It’s only the second show (not counting the fan gig – 4,000 people doesn’t count as a gig in the Police scale of things).
When we meet up back-stage for the first time after the set and before the encores, we fall into each other’s arms laughing hysterically. Above our heads, the crowd is making so much noise that we can’t talk. We just shake our heads ruefully and head back up the stairs to the stage. Funny thing is, we are enjoying ourselves anyway. Screw it, it’s only music. What are you gonna do? But maybe it’s time to get out of Vancouver…

http://www.stewartcopeland.net/forum/vi ... 6795#26795

So even the drummer thinks they suck. But hey, at least they might be doing something original. Right? Maybe something new? Or at least different from their last tour 25 years ago?

Ah.... maybe not so much.


Here's their setlist...

• Message In A Bottle
• Synchronicity II
• Don't Stand So Close To Me
• Voices Inside My Head /
When The World Is Running Down
• 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

Yep, this is nothing more than the Synchronicity Tour Part Deux. Only Cosmo is paying 1600% more than I did for my original ducat back in 83.

[King Crimson]

[ The mighty Sting momentarily looks like a petulant pansy instead of the god of rock.

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[PSUFAN]

RACK Stu. Fuck yeah!!

[King Crimson]

andy is in idaho, is a good line.