STEWART COPELAND

Thus far we've learned that Sting brought in some new material that The Boys have been working on for the tour.

More recently Andy has mentioned (as Landlord witnessed) that the reunion thoughts had been slowly simmering for about a year.

Which has me wondering about the origins of the new songs that they've been working on: were they songs that Sting happened to have written and thought might work for the trio? or did Sting write them with The Police specifically in mind?

I won't even dare to speculate on any possible jams, group collaborations, or SC-/AS-penned tunes (all thoughts of which give me the vapors) since that's all way too theoretical at this point. (Notice all the new headlines starting to pop up? And Andy says that Stewart is the big mouth. ) But I am very curious to hear about the material that has been confirmed to exist.

I know we have no answers -- just something I was thinking about as the anticipation slowly drives me insane . . .

Probably his accountant and his chef.

Well, songs can develop in any number of ways. You could have one member of the band write it and bring it in, or you could just start out with a jam, an idea forms, and then Sting takes it and works out lyrics to it. It's a process that can take almost any form.

HA, Grant! Think he has his own beekeeper on staff?

W&S, of course you're correct. I'm hesitant to speculate on the collaborative bits, but since reports have suggested that (at the very least) Sting had brought in a couple of tunes to the other two (at least in their original form), I'm kinda curious to know if they were written as "Sting songs" or "Police songs," whether or not he had the band in mind for them during composition.

>I'm kinda curious to know if they were written as "Sting songs" or
>"Police songs," whether or not he had the band in mind for them during
>composition.

I swear there was a rumor on the AUI boards - way before the tour even was confirmed - that Sting had a whole album's worth of material written and demo'ed after the "Broken Music" tour that for whatever reason was scrapped or rejected by the record company or something.

So it does lead one to wonder if that may be some of the new songs, IF this rumor was true. Perhaps it just needed that Golden Touch of having Stewart & Andy involved in reworking the raw material...guess we'll have to simply wait and see, eh?

Since my hopes of POLICE reunion, some years before, I think "broken Music Tour" was a first and cleraly step of what nowadays we see them reunited... As Sting says, concerts gives them the chance and inspiration to get lot of new ideas to make music and write...

I think that from the end of "Broken Music Tour" Sting defined the style of a new POLICE look as a mature band who also rocks in high quality with their background and experience of each one of them...and not as a repition of band like "Rolling Stones" do, who imitates themselves every year they put on sale an album or making a tour...

In fact I strongly think Sting wrote this new couple of songs at the end of "Broken Music tour" and then he discover that these were perfect for THE POLICE...to reunite THE POLICE again,,,then the phone call came and the rest is the story we lives nowadays...

So, if Andy told press that a possible sixth album could come at the end of the reunion world tour (May 2008) dont surprised that concerts and travel will be enough for Sting to complete a new list for an album... the same as Andy and Stewart that could have new material wrote in the past that probably could fit in the new style of our "Blondies Fabs3"

I wanna hear a reworking of "Gong Rock".

That is all.