Just another fan

[coreclak]

Im just a humble fan of stewart and his unique musical style. Heck i haven't even met the guy and due to my age, location and status i doubt i ever will, very sad. However his music has always played a big part in my life in respect to identifying myself. What i mean is i find it nice to know that in a world of crap pop music i can find listening refuge in esoteric tunes written by a guy that nobody of my generation (that i've met atleast) knows.
My introduction to this music came about by playing the spyro games, infact i should say two thirds the reason i liked the games was because of the atmospheric musical score, the invigorating metalhead with it's smooth transition from lighthearted and whisical to ominous still whirls around in my head. After 5 years of wondering where to find more music like this i finally wizened up and read the credits. There it was the name "Stewart Copeland". I looked him up and this is where i found out about his association with the police. I started listening to them and they grew on me however, i must admit i turn the station every time "Every Breath You Take" comes on, sorry folks, can't win em all. I also found out about Orchestralli and love “The Gene Pool”, “Birds of Prey” and “The Equalizer busy Equalizing” as it is on both Orchestralli and The Equalizer & Other Cliff Hangers.
I'm not sure why people seem to have this need to come together in groups and express their love of something with other people who share similar affection but this post is a prime example.

Also some questions

1.Where can i see the equalizer on television still?
2.Is Stewart Copeland making the score for the equalizer movie set to come out in 2009 & if so is it the same song?
3. Have any of you younger music buffs thought about making music in a style similar to Mr. Copelands?
4. Is Stewart going to make another solo album of instrumental music like Orchestralli or The Equalizer and Other Cliffhangers?

and by the way i missed the boat to get tickets to the concert very dissilusioning indeed.
and I know my user name is stupid, its just my name carelessly typed with three characters missing, it seems i can never think of good ones though.

[sockii]

Hi, welcome to the forum, coreclak!

You asked...

>1.Where can i see the equalizer on television still?

I believe Universal HD is airing them, which sadly I don't get (and I've been trying to get copies of The Equilizer myself for years, which is frustrating indeed.) But if they're making a movie (which I didn't know about!) perhaps they'll finally get around to releasing the show on DVD? One can only hope!

Sorry to hear you missed the general ticket sales, but maybe you could try the secondary market? Lots of folks here are selling extras in the Tickets section of the board. I've also been hearing reports that scalpers/brokers are now scrambling to unload a lot of the tickets they grabbed up because they weren't able to get the obscene markups over the already high prices that they anticipated they would.

Stubhub might be a good place to go. I just recommended this to a friend of mine who'd missed the Seattle ticket sale, and he was able to get a good single for less than facevalue just yesterday!

[DirtyMartini]

Welcome, coreclak.

Ticket-wise, sockii is absolutely correct: the secondary market is definitely the way to go for sold out shows. Ebay can be good for getting something cheap if you're careful; otherwise, I've both sold and bought on StubHub with no problems. The main annoyance is that you have to figure in commissions.

And of course, new dates are still being added for the fall.


[quote="coreclak"] i can find listening refuge in esoteric tunes written by a guy that nobody of my generation (that i've met atleast) knows.[/quote]

Heh. Many of us remember the good ol' days when Stewart was Ours Alone. From the look of things, that's not going to last long, so enjoy it while you can!