Hey guys. For those of you in Montreal and Toronto thinking of going to The Police Re-union Concert when it comes back to Canada, I posted a few pics from when they were here in Edmonton on Saturday.

https://g35driver.com/forums/lounge-off-topic/160487-police.html

Great Concert!

 

Glad to hear the show went better than Vancouver. Even Stewart Copeland thought it was "Lame" but hey they haven't done this for a while and it takes time to sync up again.

http://entertainment1.sympatico.msn....etect=&abc=abc

 

^ I heard that they screwed up pretty good,
& then had a good laugh about it after.

LOL... In the "old" days they would have murdered each other, if that happened.

 

which show r u referring to, the first or second? i saw the second (weds) show and it was great. andy sommers did stumble a bit when he tried a leap, but everything else was bang on...

 

I believe it was during the second show that they did the screw-ups. Copeland was a bar off for an entire song, etc., and as you noted, virtually none of the fans noticed!

From the Daily News:

NEW YORK -- The crowds have been ecstatic, but Police drummer Stewart Copeland has been anything but impressed so far by the band's reunion concerts.

Copeland trashed Wednesday's concert in Vancouver, British Columbia, in a posting on his Web site the morning after. "This is ... lame. We are the mighty Police and we are totally at sea."

His recollection of events -- or, rather, band bloopers -- is both scathing and comical. For one thing, Copeland noted, he failed to strike a gong at the right time, ruining "the big pompous opening to the show."

The rock trio of Copeland, singer-bassist Sting and guitarist Andy Summers flubbed their performance of the song "Message in a Bottle," said Copeland, who didn't hear Summers' opening guitar riff. Sting then missed his cue from Copeland -- "so we are half a bar out of sync with each other. Andy is in Idaho," he wrote.
That misfortune extended into the second song, "Synchronicity II." They couldn't "get on the good foot," said Copeland, before going on to criticize Sting's footwork during the set.

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

The disorder continued "for song after song." But afterward, he said, they fell "into each other's arms laughing hysterically." "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.

 

yeah, he did screw up the gong. but as a musician myself, i know that the band, and in particular stuart, are their own worst critics.

to me "message in a bottle" was one of the better songs of the evening. the band always has the benefit of overloading the crowd's senses so that most mistakes go unnoticed.