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Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 6:30 PM
Subject: RE: [Police] Stew's comments
being carried by Reuters allover...with headline of "lame" concert
This really pisses me off...and, yes, it's pretty bad
compared to how and in what spirit Stewart wrote it...Stewart takes
the time to post for those of us on SCnet...on a day off during the middle of
the Biggest Tour Ever...and his comments are just lifted off his own website,
completely extracted from thie context of his sardonic humor and
self-depracating manner (pretty much the inverse of 'vitriol' as it
was charactertized here) in the usual vein of his Dinner Tales and
replicated this way...now Stewart's gonna get flak for giving his fans an
unexpected treat during this tour, reports from the scene, and probably from
Sting, too, given the way that the petulant pansy comment completely
removed from its specific context, a specific moment of a poorly executed
jump, and not an overall assessment or general comment like it's characterized
here...just to artificially construct tension where there need not be
any...f'in awesome, looks like that's the last thing we'll hear from Stewart
on his site for a while...thanks Reuters!
> Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 07:07:35 -0700
> From:
dlucky711@yahoo.com
> To: police@mailman.xmission.com
> Subject:
[Police] Stew's comments being carried by Reuters all over...with headline of
"lame" concert
>
> Article is not as bad as headline makes it
sound...
>
> 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.
> Reuters
>
>
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