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The Last Goodbye - EQ's Perspective
by irishrose1969 on 20 Aug 2008 04:33
This story gets more enjoyable as I read it. What an awesome take. I really wished I could have been there, instead of in spirit.
eagerly waiting for next installment EQ
eagerly waiting for next installment EQ
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by TheEqualizer on 20 Aug 2008 05:05
[quote="Spec A!"]How awesome is it that you got to do this all with your longtime friend? I have one (only) friend from high school that I'm still very close to, I can totally imagine how great that must have been for ya. 
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This really did make it extra special. I can't even tell you.
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This really did make it extra special. I can't even tell you.
There is no bigger gong.
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by policerule on 20 Aug 2008 12:47
yum.... semi-raw mystery meat with mystery sauce...
good stuff, EQ
good stuff, EQ
READY THE BLADE!
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by BongoBoy on 20 Aug 2008 14:42
HEY EQ !
Who took that picture of us outside Fat Annies ? I have not seen it posted.
It's a blur to me but I remember a picture with a few of us, Dietmar, Skaman.
Just wondering, I would like a out on the streets of New York pic.
Didn't you take some pics in the pit ? I know your camera was pissing you off.
I wish I had taken a camera.
Cheers.
BB.
Who took that picture of us outside Fat Annies ? I have not seen it posted.
It's a blur to me but I remember a picture with a few of us, Dietmar, Skaman.
Just wondering, I would like a out on the streets of New York pic.
Didn't you take some pics in the pit ? I know your camera was pissing you off.
I wish I had taken a camera.
Cheers.
BB.
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by TheEqualizer on 20 Aug 2008 15:45
Were there pics of us outside? Can't remember. I'll have to check my camera.
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by Krokodyle on 20 Aug 2008 20:45
Thanks for all of the continuing (past) adventures...quite a read!
Sounds stellar, wish I could have been there with y'all.
Sounds stellar, wish I could have been there with y'all.
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by TOWOS on 20 Aug 2008 20:59
[quote="Krokodyle"]Thanks for all of the continuing (past) adventures...quite a read!
Sounds stellar, wish I could have been there with y'all.
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Word. We San Franciscans suck.
Sounds stellar, wish I could have been there with y'all.
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Word. We San Franciscans suck.
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by TheEqualizer on 23 Aug 2008 22:09
Pt 24
I look at my phone, and I see I have gotten 2 text messages from the guy from Israel I met at the MSG box office when I picked up my ticket that morning. He wanted to know where the party was that I had mention where all the Police fans would be. So I call him back and tell him to meet at Fat Annie's. It seemed a bit odd as I had told him that was where the party was going to be that morning. I had even given him the address.
So Vermontfan and I headed back to Fat Annie's. The place was a bit less full but most everyone from TP.com and SC.net were still there. Things are a bit fuzzy but I think Tamadude, Skaman, and BongoBoy were still outside as was maybe Chatchka and a few others. I forget their names. but the people who are making the fan made documentary were there interviewing people about the show and their experiences. I stayed away from them as I had read one of their posts at TP.com about how their film was changing from being about the love of the band to how the various snafus along the way really fucked up this reunion tour in many ways. I wasn't really to hot on this. So I thought it be best not to be any part of it just in case this was how the film turned out.
Near there door was Nadev drinking a water. I approached him, and he seemed to happy to see me. I offered him a drink. but he told me that he was already very drunk so he could not take any more. I asked him what he thought of the show, and he said he was drunk for most of the show, so he couldn't remember a lot of him. However, he told me that he had wanted more. In particular, he had hoped that they would play the last three songs from GITM as those were his favorite. So he was disappointed that they didn't play Omegaman, Secret Journey, and Darkness.
Yeah, I would have loved to hear those three songs too, but given that of those three, only Secret Journey has ever been played live and only a few times at that, I can think you couldn't be disappointed in their last show because they were not played.
We then talk further, and Nadev mentions that he had actually seen the Police's first show in the US. I get really excited about this and want to talk to him about this, but then he mentions that the show was in Boston. I tell him that I don't think that was the very first show in the US, and he maintains that it was. I tell him that I was pretty sure the first show ever in the US was CBGBs, which I was sure of given the recent contest at TP.com. He still doesn't believe me so I call over SkaMan, who was not too far, charming a lady. I ask him where the Police's first show ever in the US was, and he says, "Easy, mon, CBGBs" and then goes back to charming the lady. Nadev kind of shakes his head and then pull his shirt up. He says that he's wearing the shirt he had gotten at the show, which showed Boston as the first date. Sure enough, the shirt does list Boston as the first date of the tour. But it was a shirt from the GITM tour.
I'm pretty sure the Police toured for Outlandos, RDB, and ZM.
TO BE CONTINUED . . .
I look at my phone, and I see I have gotten 2 text messages from the guy from Israel I met at the MSG box office when I picked up my ticket that morning. He wanted to know where the party was that I had mention where all the Police fans would be. So I call him back and tell him to meet at Fat Annie's. It seemed a bit odd as I had told him that was where the party was going to be that morning. I had even given him the address.
So Vermontfan and I headed back to Fat Annie's. The place was a bit less full but most everyone from TP.com and SC.net were still there. Things are a bit fuzzy but I think Tamadude, Skaman, and BongoBoy were still outside as was maybe Chatchka and a few others. I forget their names. but the people who are making the fan made documentary were there interviewing people about the show and their experiences. I stayed away from them as I had read one of their posts at TP.com about how their film was changing from being about the love of the band to how the various snafus along the way really fucked up this reunion tour in many ways. I wasn't really to hot on this. So I thought it be best not to be any part of it just in case this was how the film turned out.
Near there door was Nadev drinking a water. I approached him, and he seemed to happy to see me. I offered him a drink. but he told me that he was already very drunk so he could not take any more. I asked him what he thought of the show, and he said he was drunk for most of the show, so he couldn't remember a lot of him. However, he told me that he had wanted more. In particular, he had hoped that they would play the last three songs from GITM as those were his favorite. So he was disappointed that they didn't play Omegaman, Secret Journey, and Darkness.
Yeah, I would have loved to hear those three songs too, but given that of those three, only Secret Journey has ever been played live and only a few times at that, I can think you couldn't be disappointed in their last show because they were not played.
We then talk further, and Nadev mentions that he had actually seen the Police's first show in the US. I get really excited about this and want to talk to him about this, but then he mentions that the show was in Boston. I tell him that I don't think that was the very first show in the US, and he maintains that it was. I tell him that I was pretty sure the first show ever in the US was CBGBs, which I was sure of given the recent contest at TP.com. He still doesn't believe me so I call over SkaMan, who was not too far, charming a lady. I ask him where the Police's first show ever in the US was, and he says, "Easy, mon, CBGBs" and then goes back to charming the lady. Nadev kind of shakes his head and then pull his shirt up. He says that he's wearing the shirt he had gotten at the show, which showed Boston as the first date. Sure enough, the shirt does list Boston as the first date of the tour. But it was a shirt from the GITM tour.
I'm pretty sure the Police toured for Outlandos, RDB, and ZM.
TO BE CONTINUED . . .
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by Jose on 24 Aug 2008 04:56
:shock: my God!! Hey EQ! You need to write a book... instead you have a great wrtitten style...Why not you publish your own view of "The Reunion Tour" Inside-out like a Police fan for the posterity?
Thinks on it! You also have tons of pics...also use maps, draws, etc.
Thinks on it! You also have tons of pics...also use maps, draws, etc.
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by vermontfan on 26 Aug 2008 03:35
[quote="TheEqualizer"]
So there on the barren street, Vermontfan and I finally had a second to drink it all in. Everything we had experienced over the last maybe ten hours or so. So much had happened but now we had a chance to savor the moment. This was a time we would never forget. A time we would cherish forever. this was pure bliss. It was perfect.
So I get 2 more skewers of meat cuz I am such a pig. I then see that I have a text on my phone.
TO BE CONTINUED . . .[/quote]
I have to admit, the best part of the whole amazing experience (for which I'm so not worthy) was hanging out on that grimy New York City sidewalk and drinking it all in with mystery coated tasty meat. It was like drinking Squirt and vodka in the car at Edgewater Park.
By the way, it was eyeing Skaman's middle-eastern steet meal that really got me going on our quest for street food.
So there on the barren street, Vermontfan and I finally had a second to drink it all in. Everything we had experienced over the last maybe ten hours or so. So much had happened but now we had a chance to savor the moment. This was a time we would never forget. A time we would cherish forever. this was pure bliss. It was perfect.
So I get 2 more skewers of meat cuz I am such a pig. I then see that I have a text on my phone.
TO BE CONTINUED . . .[/quote]
I have to admit, the best part of the whole amazing experience (for which I'm so not worthy) was hanging out on that grimy New York City sidewalk and drinking it all in with mystery coated tasty meat. It was like drinking Squirt and vodka in the car at Edgewater Park.
By the way, it was eyeing Skaman's middle-eastern steet meal that really got me going on our quest for street food.
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you'll know this blackboard lacks a piece of chalk.
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