If you can get past the adjective-heavy writing, Stewart Copeland‘s book Strange Things Happen: A Life with The Police, Polo and Pygmies has a couple of core messages making it worth the read. CREATIVITY’S A BUFFET Copeland is known first and foremost as the drummer and founder of The Police. His drumming style was innovative [...]
I guess finally seeing The Police — twice — during their reunion tour and knowing that they finally achieved closure released me from my regular cravings for the band’s music. In fact, it wasn’t until So Lonely came up accidentally today that I realized it was three years ago this past Thursday that Sting, Andy [...]
Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland will take the stage tonight for the final date of their 30th anniversary tour. By all accounts, this will be the last time The Police play together as a band. While I’d like to believe that there will be the odd performance here and there in the coming years, [...]
I just read a great interview by Jim Harrington (Contra Costa Times) with Stewart Copeland, drummer of The Police. Stewart delivers a great response to a question on everyone’s mind to wrap up the interview… Q: Given that experience, do you really believe that this will be the Police’s final tour? A: I don’t know [...]
Notwithstanding how much of a fan I am, it was definitely worth the extra $110 to see The Police for a second time on their ‘reunion tour’. I took in their July 25, 2007 show at the Bell Centre in Montreal (click here for that blog post), and last night’s opener of the third and [...]
When The Police announced that they were reuniting for a reunion tour (almost exactly a year ago), I told my two daughters that if the band made it to Ottawa I’d dye my hair blonde. I forgot about that. My youngest daughter didn’t. So, when I told to her today that The Police have announced [...]
In an interview with Australia’s TV3 yesterday, Sting said that The Police reunion tour is the antidote that both the band and fans needed put closure to the disintegration of the band twenty-four years ago. I suppose the suggestion is that the tour fulfills Sting’s commitment to the band, and the band’s commitment to its [...]
Eavesdrop on some of the conversation as four high-school friends travel to see The Police perform at the Bell Centre in Montreal. Mark, Jay, Franc and Tom recall memories of The Police, being in bands, Loverboy on Good Rockin’ Tonight (with Terry David Mulligan), brushes with celebrity and going to concerts including Sting, Rolling Stones, [...]
I waited twenty-five years to see The Police and it was worth every minute of the wait (though, it would have been amazing to see them perform during their original run). I have the photos, memories and the $40 t-shirt (I know, I know) to prove I was there — the July 25th show at [...]
From STLtoday.com, the online version of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, comes this excerpt of an interview with Stewart Copeland in which he was asked about his candid review of the first full-length concert of The Police reunion tour. Q: Do you stand behind what you wrote on your blog about the band’s Vancouver show? A: [...]
There is a lot of excitement in the press and on the web about a forum post by Police drummer Stewart Copeland about the rough spots on the first gig of the Police reunion tour (see OUR FIRST DISASTER GIG!) Critics of the post — and there are MANY — have decided that the post [...]
On May 9, Ajay tagged me in a post he did about seven songs he’s into right now — or, at the time anyway. Here is my long overdue list: Soldier Machismo – Fiction Plane Waste Our Time – The Between Pump It Up – Elvis Costello Love Slip Up On Ya – The Funky [...]
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