NY Post story with Stewart

[Bob from NJ]

http://www.nypost.com/seven/05202007/en ... ilante.htm

Sorry if I should have posted in the Links section...I'm never sure!

[DirtyMartini]

YES! HE SPEAKS!

Thank you, Stewart.

[sockii]

Getting more excited by the moment!

[GinaSuperCat]

OoooOooooOh! Precisely the difference DM's poetry referred to: how refreshing that an reunited band really gives a f about what they are doing...no less expected, but they really seem to be outdoing themselves...spending all their time and effort on the things that really matter....very happy supercat...reduced to sentence fragments <cheshire grin>

[/quote]And while they'll be visiting huge stadiums, Copeland says the shows will be stripped-down affairs. "We haven't got a floating pig," he says, referring to Pink Floyd's famous concert accessory. "The stage setup is really simple - it's the music that's complex." [quote]

Things that matter: 3 guys on a stage rocking asses off w/music <grin>

PS: sockii I was laughing for about 5 minutes about your avatar...what a hysterical pic...hahaha

[mardee]

Thanks for posting this Bob.

And thank you for breaking your silence Stewart.

[DirtyMartini]

[quote]"We haven't got a floating pig," he says, referring to Pink Floyd's famous concert accessory.[/quote]

Am I the only one who thinks a floating -- or really, a FLYING -- pig would be absolutely appropriate?


Although I think this is my fave quote:
"We're not ready for new songs, we don't even deserve new songs yet."

[Dietmar]

...needless to say that I want the real newspaper with this interview.
So if anybody out there can still buy it I'll pay for mag, expenses (not flying to New York actually) and postage to Germany

bye
dietmar

[giovanni]

Ops....Great article!

I knew about the fact that they wouldn't do any new songs, but couldn't tell about it...I've seen there was a nice thread and discussion about having new songs and sometimes it's not good to kill 'hopes' or good vibes!

Ciao
Giovanni

[kimmy]

Giovanni you are a minx...

I wonder what else you know but you keep from us......

You must smile to yourself when you read something.....'I know something you don't know...'

Kim

[GinaSuperCat]

heh, Gio it must be maddening to keep silent when you know the things you do, although you must <grin>...given the timeline and given how they have been taking their time to get back in the groove and re-arrange things, no new songs on this tour is not much of a surprise, at least as things have unfolded in the last few weeks, even though it was fun to hope...as I've said before, I still keep thinking about what Sting said at the rehearsals in terms of what songs of their catalog they've never played before, maybe Stewart's explaining that here: the 'new' songs are the re-Policified ones, but perhaps that's also besides the point...what they will play will be revealed soon enough...I'm mostly interested not in the set-list per se, but seeing Stewart play drums in his band once again...that cannot be topped, in my mind...but I do have to admit I was ecstatic about Andy's comments about the potentiality for new music in the future...sure you never know, but just the fact that's it's even remotely possible, enough for Andy to mention twice that I know of....that's intergalactic...but that's for a later time: the tour is almost here!!! <grin>

[visions]

Great article thanks Bob.

It is all coming together.

Keep on rocking Stew.

[Bob from NJ]

Glad you guys liked the story...this is my favorite quote from it:

"The difference between solo Sting and band Sting is noticeable," Copeland says. "He's a very different character when he's doing his own music than when he's doing Police songs. When he finally gives himself to the band and relinquishes total ownership of everything, he becomes loose, relaxed."

As I thrilled as I am this reunion is happening, it would suck if band compromise made Sting had any kind of second thoughts, etc. Doesn't sound like that's happening at all.

[Mrs. Gradenko]

Well I'm abit disapointed.

[giovanni]

Yes, I know something more but why reveal it?
I don't like to kill expectations, but most of all, I'm not absolutely allowed to spread any news until it won't be official.

You know what?
Since the days I started running, and I still run, the Police Italian fan club about 20 years ago (and it's the only one existing as POLICE fan club beyond the official one, most of the others are STING fan club), I got used to have everything before many others, not because I asked for it, but because I simply got involved in it, promotionally speaking or similar; I used to receive phone calls from the record company (and it still works like that) as they invited me 'to listen to the new Sting record called Soul Cages' weeks before its release, or things like that.
I like being in this situation of course, but sometimes I come back to the days when I was waiting to see Synchronicty appears in the nearby record shop windows; I remember it was a Saturday morning, I got it and came back immediately to home and listen to it, knowing just Every Breath You Take as it was the single (with its b/side 'Murders By Numbers').

Now there is a sort of a 'who's the first to have it' mission throught internet secret downloads, we got one track one day, another one two days later, and so on, even a couple of months before its release...that's sort of un-natural; I've changed probably.

If I tell you which is the set-list of the Police show, wouldn't you be disappointed if you were heading to Vancouver? I would be for sure (I don't have it anyway...). I know something about the show but that's it...and I know it might be even different from what I know.
The good thing is that I know I will stay on my computer up until the end of the show, considering at what time they should finish, and I know someone will send the setlist as soon as possible!

I can't deny of course that I love when I can get informations some time before its official press release, that's in my blood now and it's part of being me (???), but sometimes those ol' days when I didn't have this chance get back into my head...a different feeling, still fascinating anyway...

...but I'm sure there is no doubt I like the situation I find myself now!

Giovanni

[GinaSuperCat]

Expectations, guesses, and predictions are really just a way to pass the time while we wait for something we never thought we'd see to unfold, right before our eyes, in less than a week!! It's not like I really could be disappointed if things aren't as I guessed, things are different then they are rumored to be, etc. that's just as exciting...and little tidbits and hints released here and there are intruguing, and it's fun to guess what they mean and what's going to happen, but there is a reason that a "spoiler" is so named, since it does just that <grin>