STEWART COPELAND

Awesome new videos posted on www.thepolice.com one of which shows some of the opening night gig in Vancouver, and the other one shows how the stage setup is constructed, as explained by Charlie Hernandez the Tour Production Director, it's like a Cosmic Tetris. Brilliant description! ....and amazing time-lapse photography as well! 6 semi-trucks for fuck's sake!!

i wish i could watch it, but i have not given in to the $100 fee for the membership. it's sort of a hard headed thing of mine. i think it's fucked up that fans can't enjoy the site free when we pay a shitload of cash for programs, t-shirts, tickets, hats, drinks at venues, plane tickets, etc...

love the guys, but i hate the machine.

I agree wholeheartedly....I just don't have any scruples.

sell out.

IT'S TRUE. There was just no way I was takin' any chances on not geting any tix to that Seattle show....of course, they went and added a 2nd one but I didn't know that at the time.

yeah, i had no problem getting good seats when i bought and i bought shows before they announced my local (philadelphia) show just to make sure i didn't miss out. ah, the lengths we go to for our band...

I *still* haven't gotten my damned lithograph yet....anyone else who shelled out the $100 get theirs yet?

that litho is the only reason i even considered joining... i was this (pinch fingers) close to hitting the "register" button and resigning my credit card and i just couldn't do it. i hope that works out for you eventually!

The main reasons I ended up signing up for the fanclub were:

1. Chances for good prizes. Some of my friends who have had Sting.com memberships for a while in the past told me that eventually, you most likely WILL win something good that'll make it worth your while and

2. I wanted at least some chance of being able to get a block of 4 tickets together for a local show, for me and my friends, which I was able to do last night for Philly.

Now, I'd bitch a bit about the fact that for so-called "fanclub seats" they were really kind of shitty--at almost a 90 degree angle to the stage where you could only see the side jumbotron, while my friend who had Best Buy tickets in the same section was 20 rows in front of me and a much better view. But it was good to know I could at least get SOME kind of block of 4 together whereas otherwise it's so darn hard even to get 2 decent tickets together...

i see your point about the block of seats. i was wondering why it was that when i entered "4" into the ticket request, it was never available. i resorted to getting all single seats. it doesn't matter either way to me... i don't care about sitting together - i'm in my own world at concerts - especially this one. but like last night with my mother, it was nice to be together.

They really should've reversed the priority and given fan club members 1st crack and better sections...and yes, I was able to get 3 tix together for my friends and I in the 1st row of the $90 seats section....it was the 1st row of the nose-bleeds, but still. I just didn't have enough bank to do over $200/pop.

[quote="policerule"]i see your point about the block of seats. i was wondering why it was that when i entered "4" into the ticket request, it was never available. i resorted to getting all single seats. it doesn't matter either way to me... i don't care about sitting together - i'm in my own world at concerts - especially this one. but like last night with my mother, it was nice to be together.[/quote]

I don't normally care about sitting together all that much either, but I knew I'd have my mom with me last night, and I hate leaving her to fend for herself (actually, she's a tough cookie, but it doesn't feel right to me, ya know).

....still lovin' that avatar Sockii!!

[quote="Three over Four"]....still lovin' that avatar Sockii!![/quote]

that's exactly what it was like at the show last night! Poor vespapod could hardly speak a word this morning!

Mom says she doesn't know how we can scream so damned much...