Hey all,

It's been nearly a day since the Polce concert ended and I'm still buzzing
about it.

Overall the performance was fantastic.  I wasn't sure what to expect since
the reviews have been mixed on here and the media links.  The seats for us
were eighth row just to Stewart's right - pretty much between him & Sting.
The audience around me on the floor and in the stands all around me stood
for the entire performance.  I don't know if it was sold-out but must have
been nearly so.

Various tidbits

My girlfriend & I walked around the arena a few times before the doors
opened.  We passed a group of people cutting through a parking garage
attached to the arena.  Turns out it was Fiction Plane but since we hadn't
had any previous exposure to them, we were both totally oblivious.

Andy used his strat for the first third of the show, the tele for the
middle third and the strat again for the final third.

Wrapped around your Finger worked really well.  Sting didn't sing the
"things they would not teach me in college" line but the audience sure
did.  There was also cheering in the pauses right before the chorus.

Stewart was a real highlight in the show.  He used his percussion set-up
more than I was expecting.  One funny thing was he went from the
percussion set to the drumset during King of Pain.  He picked up too many
drumsticks and played the second verse with two drumsticks in his right
hand before getting rid of one of them.  During the concert pieces of wood
were flying left and right from his sticks.

The whole concert went by in a blur.  It was hard to absorb everything.  I
left the concert feeling elated but also sad that it was over and also at
the decades past when the Police could have been a vital rock group.

My girlfriend took 260 pictures but most of them turned out blurry from
longer exposures in the dark.  We're going to try to clean them up.
Hopefully I'll find a place to post them for anyone interested.

Thanks for reading,

Pat

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