The Police Get Off To A Slow Start
The reviews are in on The Police reunion tour, and apparently they suck. Well, at least they did in Vancouver the other night, and that’s according to their drummer, Stewart Copeland.
I have a feeling this was a one-time flub and they will get it together by the time the show comes to the bay area in a few weeks (my sister got me tickets to see them for my 40th birthday). When I was a teenager, the Police were my favorite band — I actually got to see them play when they were at the peak of their popularity back in 1982 (25 years ago!). I later became embittered when they broke up and Sting started playing elevator music.
The 1982 concert was terrific, though. They headlined the first night of the US Festival, the big shindig thrown by Steve Wozniak, which probably marks the first time I indirectly benefited from Silicon Valley’s largess. I saw the show from about ten feet away, which was an impressive feat since I had to squirm past tens of thousands of people to get there. Watching the show from the second row was worth having to stand in the dirt with no shoes on while a random beautiful yet inebriated girl in front of me would occasionally slump into my arms. I also got to camp out at the festival with my stepmom’s secretary, which was also fun, although not quite in the wink-wink-nudge-nudge sense that my embarrassingly randy father tried to imply at the time.
Sting quote of the evening: "I hate doing festival shows because everybody can see you pick your nose on stage." (He then picked his nose on stage.) A class act all the way!
