if a tour, mix some Solo tracks

[Porkusmag]

I will love to hear Englishman in NY performed by The Police, or All this time (classic Police sound), and off course, some bits from Andy and Stu. Just to mix a little and enjoy.

[Mister Gradenko]

I agree - It would be great to hear The Police play Fortress Around Your Heart, and for Sting to play Behind My Camel!

[Porkusmag]

mmmmmm... Fortress around your heart... I forget that one.... one of my fab from Sting´s solo work. Behind my camel is actually a Police song. Or I´m wrong?

Well, avoid all material from Andy and Fripp please!

[Mister Gradenko]

Behind My Camel is a Police song.. but I understand that not only did Sting refuse to play on it,, he also buried the master tape with it on in the garden!

[Porkusmag]

I´m not surprise, he refused to do vocals on Someone to talk yo, which I think is a great song. In fact, I love the arrangements of the three... Love tha bass, love the drum and love the like-a-saxophone guitar.

[matthewstr]

I would love to hear them play Love is the Seventh Wave, Englishman In New York, If I Ever Lose My Faith, Mad About You etc. Maybe one per night.

M

[Divemistress of the Dark]

I'd sure like to hear "Gong Rock." Or maybe "Genepool"...

[amaninasuitcase]

I would like Sting to keep his solo work seperate. This is a POLICE tour. I have seen Sting twice in concert as a solo artist and nothing compares to the music he created with the police.
I say no thanks to Stings solo work.

Just my opinion.

[Xavier]

I haven´t been waiting 27 years since the last time I saw them live, to listen to Sting songs now!

We all have seen Sting and Andy in concert many times, so I think now it´s time for the band. They have a lot of great songs to choose from and I hope they play some of the songs less played live before, not just a greatest hits set list.

Xavier.

[Jose]

[quote="Porkusmag"]
Well, avoid all material from Andy and Fripp please! :lol:[/quote]

I like Andy & Fripp albums... definetely is a different style, but great if you apreciate instrumental music... I really love "Bewitched" the same track that in "Police around the world-video" is called like "Light Changes" an amazing guitar and synth on it ( I also heard Sting voice on it...isn't it?)

[BEFAN]

"I will love to hear Englishman in NY performed by The Police, or All this time (classic Police sound)"

'All this Time' classic Police sound??? You must be kidding!

And of course THE POLICE should NOT play Sting solo songs in their concerts. What do they have to do with those songs? Oh pleaaase...

[Porkusmag]

When i said classic police sound regarding All this time, I was trying to say that, is a song that sounds like a Police one and have -by the fact that Sting was the main Police composer- trademarks of a Police song.

Some tracks from the albums of Andy and Fripp are cool, but I prefer other works from Andy... too much synthetizers on this two.

Certainly, if they´re going to engage in a tour, they can do other type of material.. They have just 5 albums, why they can´t mix songs from their solo works which, in many cases, have something of the Police on it? You can´t swept aside your past. Stu copy the Andy guitar style on many of his solo works, Sting, well, invited Andy in some works and some songs resemble The Police. I do not want to hear only songs from 25 years ago. Something different, fresh and positive could emerge if they decide to play a little with other´s work. As of Oysterhead tour.

[amaninasuitcase]

I completely and totally disaggree with you. Sting definitly was the master compser but I think stewart put his mark on it to place it in The Police file so to speak. My wife and I went for dinner tonight and I was playing klarkkent in the car. She had never heard that before but knew of The Police. She remarked to me if what she was listening too was early Police music. That was the answere I was looking for. Stewart I think was the major influence musically. If you listen to klarkkent and early Police songs it's hard to tell if its the same band, aside from the vocals. Sorry Stu but Sting definitly has one up on you in that category.
Sorry, but "All this Time" does not sound anything like The Police. In fact, I don't think any of Sting's solo material has any resemblance to The PoliceAside from the vocals.

If you want to see Sting, Go and see him play his Lute. If you want to see The Police then come and see the magic of three outstanding magical and chemistry making musicians.

Again, that is my opinion and would love to hear what others think.

Cheers everyone.

[BEFAN]

I agree with amaninasuitcase!

[Porkusmag]

Yes, off course Stu put a mark on it.. is one of the few drummers who is almost inmediately recognisable by the time you hear it. And is hard to achieve that -for a drummer. Nevertheless, Klark Kent have some songs that I think the others two were involved. Office Girls sounds too professional in every aspect to be performed entirely by Stewart (specially the guitar).

I´m a big fan from Police since 12. I´m 35 right now. After hearing their albums over and over, I started to collect bootlegs, b-sides (until the box) and rare material, but now, I´m a little tyred of hearing again and again Roxanne -for an example-, in every way they can play it. So, I think they have three choices for a tour:

1) Be a decadent copy of themselves by doing a greatest hit set list without the energy the years stole (an AC/DC tour for an example).
2) Come with a strange set list with songs they generally dispose, thing which I think they will not do.
3) Enjoy in their habilities to play more complex music by mixing different kinds of rythms... for sure mainly songs by The Police, but, without forgeting jazz (one of the fabs of Andy), songs from Stu and off-course, by the way, the first time I heard Englishman in NY, I wonder how cool that song will be in the hands of Stewart. Who´s who in the drum seat, so to speak.

There´s no need to be so hard-liner. What´s the problem if, in a concert, they play 2 or 3 songs which are not The Police songs? If not, they can compose 5 or 6 new tracks, right?

An All this time is a song that, I´m insist on that, Sting compose it with the trio in the head, the performers, is another thing. Anyway, I do not like that much.

But that´s my opinion either.