Going to see the Police tonight!

[Shaun Sullivan]

OK, I am probably dating myself here, but I am in Vancouver on business and it just so happens that I was able to score Tix for The Police! This is the second night of their tour, so I am sure to see them before Sting pisses them all off and they break up again :)

I haven't been excited about a concert like this for a long time. Should be fun -- and this is a great city to boot.

I am under strict orders from my wife to buy 6 tee shirts (we have 4 kids) so that will likely leave me with an empty money clip :)

Looking forward to it. I hope they play "Canary in a Coal Mine."

[lynchjm24]

I'm going in August and only have to go one exit down the highway :).

[dawgfan]

I'd love to see them, but not for the prices they're charging.

[Shaun Sullivan]

I'm going in August and only have to go one exit down the highway :).

They'll be broken up by then.

[lynchjm24]

They'll be broken up by then.

True. But then at least they won't kill the grass at the stadium like the Stones did.

[Vinatieri for Prez]

I already saw them on Monday on the debut at GM Place (although they did a very small venue show for Police Fan Club members a week or so ago, I think. The show was 2 hours and two encores going for 20 songs. There was alot of rearrangements of songs, most were very good like Wrapped Around Your Finger and Roxanne (same as Grammy performance but longer) (but Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic's rearrangement didn't work out very well). It was a pretty stripped down concert, just the 3 of them on stage (no background singers, and no other musicians). Some lighting, but no pyrotechnics, gimmicks or anything. Basically 3 really good musicians doing their thing. Summers sure can rip it up on the guitar. He had alot of solos and was awesome, and Copeland was all energy, even with grey hair.

They all looked like they were having a blast. They got good camera work and lot's of video screens so no matter where you are sitting, you'll get to see them that way for sure. It also was pretty much nonstop music. Not even that much talking with the audience, and the encore applause was not dragged out at all.

They came out with Message in a Bottle and ended up with Roxanne to end the main show. They then went to King of Pain and Every Breath You Take for the first encore, and Next to You for the last encore.

All in all, not the best concert I have been to, but pretty decent and since I like the Police it was a big thumbs up, especially since I wasn't really old enough to catch them in 1983 on the Synchronicity Tour. If you really like the Police and know the the songs, you'll like it a lot. If you're more of a casual fan, maybe not so much. They went the whole gamut from old way back to the last album. If you're under 30, you will be very young there. If you're over 40, you'll fit in perfectly.

[headtrauma]

Heh, the Police were my first concert. 1983 at Reunion Arena. I was 13. The tickets were $14, if I recall correctly.

[Dr. Sak]

Were you at this concert?

Police drummer rips band's "lame" concert
Fri Jun 1, 2007 7:09AM EDT

By Dean Goodman

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The singer in the Police jumps like a "petulant pansy," the drummer is making a "complete hash," and who knows what the guitarist is doing?

Notes from a bitter critic? Actually, it's a disarmingly frank concert review from the aforementioned drummer of the newly reunited rock trio.

A philosophical Stewart Copeland unleashed his vitriol in a posting on his Web site on Thursday, a day after the band played its second show in Vancouver, the Canadian city where it began its first world tour in more than 20 years on Monday.

"This is unbelievably lame," Copeland wrote of Wednesday's show at the GM Place arena. "We are the mighty Police and we are totally at sea."

Most of the 20,000 fans at the venue might not have noticed a series of small flubs, but Copeland, singer/bassist Sting, and guitarist were painfully aware of them.

Copeland started the show off on the wrong foot, literally. He tripped as he took to the stage, and then banged his gong at the wrong time so that "the big pompous opening to the show is a damp squib."

He did not hear Summers' opening riff to "Message In a Bottle," and Sting in turn misheard Copeland's drum intro -- "so we are half a bar out of sync with each other. Andy is in Idaho."

They quickly recovered, but then Sting got his footwork wrong as he leapt into the air to signal the end to a shambolic version of their rat-race rant "Synchronicity II."

"The mighty Sting momentarily looks like a petulant pansy instead of the god of rock," Copeland reported.

"And so it goes, for song after song," he wrote, with tunes such as "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic" and "Don't Stand So Close To Me" reduced to ruin.

"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," he said.

Fortunately, no fists flew backstage as they did back in the Police's heyday. The threesome fell into each other's arms laughing hysterically, Copeland said.

"Screw it, it's only music. What are you gonna do? But maybe it's time to get out of Vancouver."

The band's next show is set for Saturday in Edmonton.

http://www.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=USN2247412520070601

[Shaun Sullivan]

That shows how clueless we fans are :) I noticed a few little mistakes but on balance I loved it.

When you are at a concert and you know every word to every song it's hard not to have a good time :)

[Yellow5]

I saw them in 1983 at the Tacoma Dome, I was in Jr. High at the time and it was an awesome show. The only downer was the Thompson Twins opened for them (ugh).

[Warhammer]

I saw them in 1983 at the Tacoma Dome, I was in Jr. High at the time and it was an awesome show. The only downer was the Thompson Twins opened for them (ugh). I need someone to Hold Me Now.

Fixed that for you.

[RendeR]

Dude, wtf is so grande about seeing teh police? I mean hell thy drive by the house every other hour here, just hang out on a street long enough, yer BOUND to see one.....









;)

[headtrauma]

I saw them in 1983 at the Tacoma Dome, I was in Jr. High at the time and it was an awesome show. The only downer was the Thompson Twins opened for them (ugh).

You think that's bad? Friggn' UB40 opened for them in Dallas. Ugh.

[Buccaneer]

I was there at the Aztec Bowl in 1983 (I believe it was Labor Day weekend). Oingo Boingo opened.