The Police Roll Call (7/20/07)

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by vansmack:
   

Originally posted by Hoya Paranoia:
  just got my rilo kiley tix, should be a good show

Which night? [/b]

i believe thurs, but i have to check with my gf about that

[vansmack]

Originally posted by Hoya Paranoia:
   

Originally posted by vansmack:
   

Originally posted by Hoya Paranoia:
  just got my rilo kiley tix, should be a good show

Which night? [/b]

i believe thurs, but i have to check with my gf about that [/b]

I'll probably have to fly back Thurs, but I plan to make Wednesday's show.

[TheREALHunter]

Just got back from NYC after catching them at the Garden last night, GREAT fucking show! From some of the reviews I read I was expecting some of the songs to be a real jam snoozefest and for Sting to play solo artist onstage but personally I thought the songs were pretty concise with minimal noodling (save "Roxanne" but I was kinda expecting that haha) and it was very much a team effort from my vantage point.  Great sound, stage setup, light show and crowd to boot (almost everyone remained standing for the entire 2 hour show).  So...no complaints on my end.

[ggw]

Buy Sting's NYC condo:

https://www.corcoran.com/nyc/Listings/Display/4707453

[vansmack]

This thread brings back so many emotions...I'm still upset about it!

[Justin Tonation]

$56M and you only get 3 measly bedrooms? At least it's "pet friendly". Also nice that they threw in a washer/dryer.

[Space Freely]

This thread brings back so many emotions...I'm still upset about it!

Disgust is my biggest emotion. I'm glad Sting has never gotten a dime of my money.

[hutch]

I kinda wish I'd seen the Police once.... I think they played Pimlico? I think that was the time to do it if you lived in this area and missed them in the 80s but for whatever reason when the Police reunited I had no interest in seeing them.......at the same time I have a visceral almost psychotic dislike for Sting.. usually disliking a musician's personality isn't really an issue for me but in his case I loathe him...I really wanted to see the Police more for Copeland and Summers I guess.... Sting's voice has lost so much range and the Police's music (the songs) hasn't aged that well...

back in the early to mid 80s the Police was one of my favorite bands....I suppose Sting broke my heart when he ended the band and that is rather immature of me...but nothing that has happened since has done anything other than make him seem like a bigger pompous ass than he was then....I should have known what an ass he was when I was reading about how he wrote Synchronicity on the same desk as Ian Fleming wrote 007 and he was reading Jung and blah blah blah...but I was 12!!!!

[StoneTheCrow]

Was a fan back in the day and agree the music hasn't aged well, but that can be said for a lot of the stuff from that time period.

The Pimlico show got good reviews, from what I recall, but I wasn't at all impressed. The wife and I ended up leaving early.

Bono is probably the musician I despise the most, tho.

[sweetcell]

Bono is probably the musician I despise the most, tho.

fyi, you get more ScenePoints(tm) if you hate thom yorke instead of bono.

[Hatch, guerrilla-poserll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

Bono is probably the musician I despise the most, tho.

fyi, you get more ScenePoints(tm) if you hate thom yorke instead of bono.

dunno...chris martin and Kanye really drive me to drink, hard
but those two come in right behind

I think a  ScenePoints(tm) thread should be in order

[Julian, White Poet WARLORD]

Bono is probably the musician I despise the most, tho.

Agreed.

[gavroche]

Bono is probably the musician I despise the most, tho.

Agreed.

Have we just decided that Ted Nugent isn't a musician?  Or Kid Rock?  Or Gene Simmons?  Sure Bono can be a bit preachy, and at time hypocritical, but I don't understand the ire.

[evilizac]

   It's tough, because, at least to me, this seems like it notes the current musical impact and general douchbaggery of the named artists. That unholy musical trifecta possibly fail to rank as musical entities for most on this board.
   Besides Rock, have any of those "artists" have released new work in the past ten years (I can think of Ted's time in that terrible reality show Damnocracy band and knowing that makes me sad)? Do/would people still buy a Ted Nugent or Kiss album?
 

[evilizac]

   In that I was meaning to say that those three might be worse people, but not many prescribe any level of musical weight to their legacy. They also have the Donal Trump "real" factor. The idea that they are what they are. Where as with someone like Bono and Chris Martin (and Sting), as adults can we really buy into their hippie or Christian or platitude spitting make the world a better place hogwash as they sit on gilded toilets (assumption) and shelter their wealth.