I've been listening to The Police since I was around 8 or 9, when Roxanne came out. I've never got to see them live. I've seen Sting several times, and he'll do a couple of Police songs, but its not the same. Since they broke up after the "Synchronicity" tour, the only time they performed together was during Live Aid in 1986 (a couple of songs) and during this year's Grammy's. After the Grammy's, I really felt (hoped) they would get together and tour or put out some new stuff.
Well, The Police is on tour for the first time in 23 years. The last time they toured, I was 13 or 14 and they didn't come anywhere near where I could get to go.
The concert was awesome! It was just Sting, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers; The Police. Since "Synchronicity" was such a produced album, they had background singers, other musicians, etc, during the 1983/84 tour. Not this time; this time it was just Sting, Stewart and Andy. And they sounded wonderful! And even if they messed up here and there, and they did, and we all knew it, we didn't care; we got to see The Police...live...and in concert.
Now they need to get back together and make a new record album...(I guess we say CD now-a-days, don't we...)
BTW, the band that opened was FictionPlane. They're pretty cool. They have an early Police mixed with U2 type of sound. My wife disagrees that they sound like The Police....at ALL...but I guess it because the lead singer is Joe Sumner, as in son of Gordon Sumner (aka Sting...)
