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Final Show - Madison Square Garden
by Pete Ashdown 01 Feb '09

01 Feb '09

The set-list changed with the addition of "Sunshine of Your Love" at the beginning and "Purple Haze" after the first encore. The highlights were the NYPD drum-corps after "Sunshine" kicking off "Message in a Bottle" and Sting's numerous daughters (and a few sons later?) dancing during "Everything She Does is Magic". The trio made a few minor tweaks and changes, the comedic end with a roadie dressed up as the "fat lady opera singer" and Looney Toones' "That's All Folks" was funny, but left this fan wanting just a bit more. Instead of two extra songs from other bands, I wish we could have heard some of the gems in the catalog. Synchronicity, Murder By Numbers, Spirits in the Material, Walking in Your Footsteps, Bring on the Night. They know how to play them, in fact, they played them this tour. Just not all in one place. Doesn't the "final" gig justify that? A couple decades ago, I watched "The Church" play what seemed like an infinite show. It was almost 3 1/2 hours long and most of the crowd had left by the end. Inexplicably, they just kept playing and playing to a small Utah audience. I wondered how long The Police could play before I left. If by some superhuman ability, they could play days, weeks, months, how long would the fans hold out? When would it become obnoxious and numbing? How much is too much? When would I be forced to get back to reality and my life? In many ways this tour was that. 18 year-old Pete pushing 41-year-old Pete back into the fan-seat for a band that in some years I had forgotten completely. A band whom I spent most of my savings on buying singles and rarities during my first trip to New York in 1985 yet left me conservatively hesitant about how much to spend ($10K for a meet & greet?) for this trip. Whether intentional or not, the band consistently gave off the aura of, "Yes this is fun, but we'd really rather be doing something else." I was at the premier of Stewart's documentary at Sundance, I saw them at the beginning and end of the reunion tour and four times in between, yet I never met any of them except for weird, uncomfortable run-ins with Stewart in 1985 and once on this tour. I don't know what I'd say if I did meet all three of them. Thanks? That is about it. I'm glad I was there for the end. Reading others wishing makes me realize how fortunate I am. When Sting said "This is the last time we'll ever do this," before the "Can't Stand Losing You" "deeeyaaaayoh" sing-along, I really felt it and sang it with 19,000 other lucky fans at the top of my lungs. It was great to be there. Sunshine of Your Love Message in a Bottle (with NYPD Drum Corps) Walking on the Moon Demolition Man Voices / When the World is Running Down Don't Stand So Close To Me Demolition Man Driven To Tears Hole in My Life Everything She Does is Magic (with Sting's daughters and other family members) Wrapped Around Your Finger De Do Do Do De Da Da Da (with "There She Was Just A Walking Down the Street" intro) Invisible Sun Can't Stand Losing You Purple Haze (Sting sings a bit of Younger Than Springtime) Roxanne King of Pain So Lonely (Been Down So Long finish) Every Breath You Take Next To You (The Fat Lady Sings) (Looney Toones "That's All Folks")

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Happy Birthday Andy Summers!!!
by johnny beane 01 Jan '09

01 Jan '09

Happy Birthday Andy Summers!!! You rock man!! Lets see a solo tour this year! JB http://www.myspace.com/johnnybeane My Andy Summers collection video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AASnMslPFHE Stewart Copeland In San Jose 3-3-07 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QjWwzFuTPs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jARZHNL3KxI Stewart Copeland In San Jose 3-3-07 Q&A mp3 http://www.flipdrive.com/file/6b74be0b558211b4c234ac701d4d.mp3

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R: Re: so this is Christmas...
by lydia.dicorato＠tin.it 26 Dec '08

26 Dec '08

buon Natale a tutti!!lydia ----Messaggio originale---- Da: giovanni. pollastri(a)libero.it Data: 24-dic-2008 12.25 AM A: "police" <police(a)mailman.xmission.com> Ogg: Re: [Police] so this is Christmas... Happy Christmas my friend from Milano, Italy! Ciao ciao Giovanni www.illegaltales.com www.stewartcopeland.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Jenny Dolan To: police Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 6:44 PM Subject: Re: [Police] so this is Christmas... Merry Christmas to all from a sunny but(t) cold SoCal!! SoCalJen! Jenny Dolan LIVE GREEN / THINK BLUE dolanbalin(a)yahoo.com AIM: MamaRocks62 Facebook ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: José Martín Ramallo López <ramallo(a)fisica.unlp.edu.ar> To: police <police(a)mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 7:39:11 AM Subject: Re: [Police] so this is Christmas... Merry Christmas to all of you from sunny and hot Argentina! Joe _______________________________________________ Police mailing list Police(a)mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi- bin/mailman/listinfo/police __________ Informazione NOD32 3668 (20081206) __________ Questo messaggio è stato controllato dal Sistema Antivirus NOD32 http://www.nod32.it ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Police mailing list Police(a)mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi- bin/mailman/listinfo/police __________ Informazione NOD32 3668 (20081206) __________ Questo messaggio h stato controllato dal Sistema Antivirus NOD32 http://www.nod32.it _______________________________________________ Police mailing list Police(a)mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi- bin/mailman/listinfo/police

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Best wishes
by Ross Viner 25 Dec '08

25 Dec '08

to you all click here! http://rossviner.com/list2009.jpg

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Re: [Police] so this is Christmas...
by Haran Benjo 25 Dec '08

25 Dec '08

Buon Natale e tutti gli amici della lista!! Merry Christmas to all Police fans ! Max, from Volterra (PI) Italy!! From: José Martín Ramallo López <ramallo(a)fisica.unlp.edu.ar> To: police <police(a)mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 7:39:11 AM Subject: Re: [Police] so this is Christmas... Merry Christmas to all of you from sunny and hot Argentina! Joe _______________________________________________ Police mailing list <mailto:Police@mailman.xmission.com>Police(a)mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/police ---------- _______________________________________________ Police mailing list Police(a)mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/police _______________________________________________ Police mailing list Police(a)mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/police

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So this is Christmas...
by sweetmomb＠cs.com 25 Dec '08

25 Dec '08

>From central Pennsylvania, where it was so cold yesterday our kitchen water pipes froze and we had to put a space heater on a ladder in front of them to get them going again... who cares when there's a wonderful list like ours! (It worked, btw -- the water is flowing!) Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Joyous Kwanzaa, and everything else! And a happy, healthy, PEACEFUL 2009 to us all!! Hugs for everyone!! Holly ________________________________________________________________________ Email message sent from CompuServe - visit us today at http://www.cs.com

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merry christmas / the police wiki
by DtmrCls＠aol.com 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

hi everybody have a great christmas time ! I wanted to point out the "new" Police-wiki-pages to you Sockii from Philadelphia had the idea to collect all the information from magazines, books, internet, ... in one single place we want to illustrate all of this with photos and scans of tickets, flyers, ads, posters... what we DON'T want to do is to "steal" these pictures from the internet so we just show stuff where the owner of these items WANTS to show them on the Police-wiki we don't show photos unless the copyright owners gave their permission for it some samples: _http://www.policefans.org/Police_wiki/index.php?title=1977-05-29_ (http://www.policefans.org/Police_wiki/index.php?title=1977-05-29) _http://www.policefans.org/Police_wiki/index.php?title=1979-06-14_ (http://www.policefans.org/Police_wiki/index.php?title=1979-06-14) _http://www.policefans.org/Police_wiki/index.php?title=1983-11-24_ (http://www.policefans.org/Police_wiki/index.php?title=1983-11-24) _http://www.policefans.org/Police_wiki/index.php?title=1984-02-05_ (http://www.policefans.org/Police_wiki/index.php?title=1984-02-05) right now I'm writing a lot of solo concert pages (sting, andy, animal logic / oysterhead / ...) if you want to support this idea, it would be great if you sent scans of your tickets, flyers... photos of your posters or just every bit of information that you happen to know about the band - plus the source for this (if it's coming from a magazine for example) I'll do the dirty work and add all the stuff on the wiki eventually. If you took some photos let's say at a Sting concert we'd love to show one or two good ones and would give proper copyright credits and a link to your homepage --- as it's a non -commercial website there won't be a fee :( I hope you enjoy the website as it is - it's growing every day! and don't forget to make your loved ones happy ! bye, dietmar

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Re: [Police] so this is Christmas
by PandaBaby 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

Hello everyone! So love this time! You can kiss and hug everybody (that is just to wait few days till New Year eve)! LOL But before, peaceful Christmas friends! I wish everybody enjoy the time you like it - with your family, with friends but if you prefer, go and wonder around on your own in pa park or wherever you feel happy and think about miracle of Christmas! Love you all! Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus un Laimīgu, pārtikušu Jauno 2009.gadu! Pandababy from Latvia Message: 3 Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:59:49 -0500 From: captken3(a)aol.com Subject: [Police] so this is Christmas... To: police(a)mailman.xmission.com Message-ID: <8CB32B0E3EF4590-16D0-CA3(a)WEBMAIL-MB03.sysops.aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Just wanted to take a second and wish everyone?on the list?a happy holidays wherever you are! Ken - Orlando, FL -

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Re: [Police] so this is Christmas...
by LiSting Admin 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

Hi there I also wish a merry Xmas to all of you. Hope nice parcel will stand under your Xmas trees ! Bye Sebastien from France -- LiSting <http://listing.free.fr> LiSting - 2001-2008 listingweb(a)free.fr

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so this is Christmas...
by captken3＠aol.com 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

Just wanted to take a second and wish everyone?on the list?a happy holidays wherever you are! Ken - Orlando, FL -

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