Where's "Bring on the Night?" Here's your answer..

[sockii]

Short Stewart Q&A in the June 14 Rolling Stone...

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The Police - singer-bassist-songwriter Sting, drummer Stewart Copeland and guitarist Andy Summers - opened their first world tour in twenty-three years on May 27th in Vancouver. The set list is virtually all hits and crowd favorites, plus a dynamic version of the 1983 B side "Murder by Numbers." There is also a surprising omission, at least for now: "Bring on the Night," from 1979's Reggatta de Blanc. "I fucking love the way we're doing it," says Copeland. "But it ain't working for Sting."

RS: After not playing together for so long, how hard is it to avoid falling into old bad habits?

SC: We are totally full of bad habits that we've had to work hard to weed out. My worst is that I speed up. I have a complicated sense of rhythm and decoration. If I don't hear it, I fill it. I have to prune that. For other members of the band, similar sacrifices have to be made. And it's been difficult, harder than any of us thought, to do that - to give things up.

RS: Have you changed any arrangements substantially from the original records?

SC: There are songs where I have another drum set - timpany, bells, cool stuff - and I've programmed rhythms, created loops. We're playing live, but it's like a new version of the band. It really excites us. And I can sense that if Sting ends up writing a new song or gets to thinking about how to use this band to create new music, it will be this kind of thing that inspires him rather than rearranging "Roxanne."

RS: With Genesis, Crowded House and Smashing Pumpkins out there, the Police picked a crowded year to hit the road again.

SC: No, we picked a less crowded year. We're not thinking in terms of reunions. We're competing with the biggest acts in the world. Last year, it was the Rolling Stones and Madonna. We get to be the dinosaur of the this year.

- David Fricke

[Philip]

thanks

[DirtyMartini]

[quote="sockii"]"Bring on the Night," from 1979's Reggatta de Blanc. "I fucking love the way we're doing it," says Copeland. "But it ain't working for Sting."[/quote]

To Sting: GONNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGggggggggggggg!!!


Thanks for the info, sockii.

[GinaSuperCat]

Thanks for posting this...it's kinda been on many minds...this is both extremely exciting and frustrating at the same time...I wonder what Andy thinks of the way they are doing it since, honestly, it's really his moment in the light...

[kinetickid]

Stewart if you are reading this , you have to convince Sting to play "Bring on the Night" and "Shadows in the rain" ... These are epic songs and they need to be in a live Police set or else people would be missing something really special.

Big thanks ! Your biggest fan !

Michel

[samburusunset]

Thanks, sockii. That sucks! It's such an excellent song. Andy's in top form. He'd really blow people away. Perhaps Der Stingle will get over it and they'll work it into the set at some point.

*****

Catchphrase of the summer:

"GONNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGggggggggggggg!!!"



ie "Amy, review these reports and prepare a spreadshe..."

"GONNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGggggggggggggg!!!"

[Laz]

C'mon guys! Bring it on, bring it on, bring it on!!! I'm quite certain Sting can figure something out with that song (by June 23, hint hint!)

Laz

[Copelandous D'Amour]

[quote="GinaSuperCat"]Thanks for posting this...it's kinda been on many minds...this is both extremely exciting and frustrating at the same time...I wonder what Andy thinks of the way they are doing it since, honestly, it's really his moment in the light...[/quote]

Thanks for the post Sockii - I've been wondering about this also. From what I read somewhere, Andy was thrilled about the way the chorus was re-arranged... Sting not so much, I guess. But in a band democracy it's two against one!! Bring it On Stew along with One World, Demo Man and drop Murder, Spirits, Don't Stand or DeDoDoDo.

[samburusunset]

[quote="Copelandous D'Amour"][quote="GinaSuperCat"]Thanks for posting this...it's kinda been on many minds...this is both extremely exciting and frustrating at the same time...I wonder what Andy thinks of the way they are doing it since, honestly, it's really his moment in the light...[/quote]

Thanks for the post Sockii - I've been wondering about this also. From what I read somewhere, Andy was thrilled about the way the chorus was re-arranged... Sting not so much, I guess. But in a band democracy it's two against one!! Bring it On Stew along with One World, Demo Man and drop Murder, Spirits, Don't Stand or DeDoDoDo.[/quote]

I'm on the fence about Murder. Spirits and DeDoDoDO can go, although Stewart was doing some fine, "De do do do-ing" on the choruses. I know alot of people didn't like Don't Stand. I'd keep it. Adding Demo Man would rock. I could go for a wicked Omega Man, as well. They should put Truth Hits back in.

[conroy]

As I've been listening to the 28th show more and more, I've been finding that the re-worked Murder is growing on me. There's something about it that seems almost sexier to me, I think it's the combination of Sting's bass and Stewart's cymbal work coagulating into gelatinous...never mind ;)

[DirtyMartini]

[quote="conroy"]I think it's the combination of Sting's bass and Stewart's cymbal work coagulating into gelatinous...never mind [/quote]

Mmmmmm . . . nothing says sexy like gelatinous coagulation.

[Hannaha]

HAHAHA! I'm at work having a proper giggling fit now DM and Conroy!
Damn you and your gelatinous coagulations.

[zilboy]

Get a room, you two!