November 2003 - Police - mailman.xmission.com

new sting pics
by amaryll 02 Nov '03

02 Nov '03

great pics stolen from the ng- notice anything missing??? ; > http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/031102/482/xlo10111020847 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/031102/482/xlo10211020824 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/031102/482/xlo10311020828

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Re: [Police] POLL: least favourite...
by Morgan Jolly 02 Nov '03

02 Nov '03

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Sting's New Drummer: Keith Carlock
by User12131415＠aol.com 02 Nov '03

02 Nov '03

Drummer Keith Carlock, just off tour with Steely Dan, will be joining Sting on his upcoming tour... [I believe I read somewhere that Keith was the first drummer to play on every track of a Dan album (Everything Must Go), but don't quote me on that...] Keith has a new mailing list and which folks can sign up for and get the latest tour dates, stories from the road, info for drummers, Q/A, etc. It's a low-volume list, only updated when there's something cool to report... He'll be opening a website later this year too, with lots of audio, video & images. [If you sign up for the list, you'll get a note when the site opens.] You can sign up at: http://www.keithcarlock.com [note: Your email address will *never* be shared with anyone, and you will only receive the occasional update from Keith.] Hope you can stop by!

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RE: [Police] Sting on Oprah
by sockii 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

You know, this whole Sting vs. Stewart & Andy debate is so old already. We each of us have our opinions on the matter and I highly doubt that's going to change no matter how much it gets rehashed and how many times the insults get hurled around. I know what I like. I know what cds are at the top of my rack and constantly getting played (these days that's mostly Stewart & Andy's solo work) and which ones I maybe liked one or two songs at most but then quickly resold to the half-price music store, if I bought them at all (that would be Sting's.) So it's clear to me what I personally enjoy the most when it comes to the Police's music & their solo careers; obviously other people get something different out of it. Someone telling me I need to accept their *opinion* as "reality and fact" is not going to do a single thing to change my mind, thanks anyway. sockii

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Re: [Police] Sting on Oprah
by Stingfan222＠aol.com 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

Does it really matter who sold more? We were lucky enough to have him in the world's best band, and then lucky enough to have him go solo and succeed. Can you imagine if all three of them just disappeared into the wordwork after dissolving the Police? If I can't have the Police, I'm happy having them solo. Call me the eternal optimist. Michelle in TX In a message dated 10/29/03 7:31:47 PM, sam(a)illuminated.co.uk writes: << Ross Viner wrote: > [Tara and Bruce wrote:] >> Yes, Oprah mentioned that Sting sold 40 million albums with The Police and >> another 45 million as a solo artist. Also, Sting played EBYT and Roxanne. > > I do think it noteworthy, that the Police sold most of their over the > span of 6 years. Sting as a solo artist, has had 18 years. The raw numbers in themselves mean relatively little. I'd like to see a proper graph of sales versus time progression, to see at which point Sting started selling more than the Police. I'd also be interested to see how the "Sting & the Police" compilations were counted. There's a whole bunch more stuff than can be said about Sting vs. The Police (I mean this in a comparative sense, and I don't mean to imply any sense of antagonism), but if people are going to compare Stings solo with The Police, then I'd like them to restrict to recent times. It would be genuinely interesting to work out which songs in a live set got the greatest audience reaction, Sting or Police songs; hell, I'd be interested in seeing the figures for back-catalogue sales, assuming we had a year where the figures weren't sullied by re-issues and other promotional gambits. Sam -- Home page: http://www.illuminated.co.uk/ _______________________________________________ Police mailing list Police(a)mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/police >>

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Review of "Broken Music" in latest Entertainment Weekly
by Teri Kronberg 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

I have subscription, and found a nice big pic of Sting. It's very nice. The Lincoln beard actually looks okay. :) However, the review suggests that he's being an egotist (surprise!). It also says that he describes the first time he masturbated. Huh? I don't have the book myself. TMI Sting. TMI. Maybe ten years ago I might have been interested in that. Teri ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!

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Re: [Police] Re: Sting on Oprah
by Teri Kronberg 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

Every time this Sting vs. The Police and what came first the chicken or the egg issue comes up...I always think of what Sting said when he first embarked on his solo career. He mentioned how he really wasn't going *solo* since he wasn't playing all the instruments and doing everything himself, etc. He was just writing the songs. I think this holds true for The Police and it's members perfectly. Sting may have wrote the songs and sang them, but he didn't play two bases and the drums himself. He didn't create the famous guitar riff for EBYT (unless I'm mistaken) himself, that was Andy. The drumming style was Stewart. My question is always why does anyone want to dismiss the importance of Andy and Stewart? Also, why is it so difficult to just accept that The Police were an entity upon themselves. Accept them for what they were and are on record. Other than there, on video and in the memories of those who saw them live, that's where The Police exists. Sting was a large part of them. However, now he is (and has been for years) apart from The Police. He sings Police songs, but they are his musicians and arrangements. They are essentially hybrid cover/remixes performed live. There is no difference between Sting singing Police songs solo--from any other singer who wrote the songs for a band and is singing them with a different group of musicians. What did come first, the chicken or the egg? I'll tell you. The soft-shelled embrio of an egg came first, then what would become the chicken, then it's hard-shelled egg. Used as metaphor for this: embrio as The Police raw faux punk stage, the chicken as The Police at peak, and the well formed egg as Sting (the by-product of the chicken). Happy Halloween all. It's apparently much too late for me. ;) Teri ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!

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(Kein Thema)
by DtmrCls＠aol.com 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

I can't stand it any more. I can't read any more sentences like "I hope I haven't insulted anyone" or how one has to express his opinion or his "two cents". What makes this list enjoyable is not the neutral discussion with all the elements of fairness and trying to see every aspect for a against something or another. It's the point of view of the single person, whether it's expressed as an insult or a somewhat better formulated mail. By the way: Yes, Sting has developed AND: Yes, his new CD sucks. Dietmar

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Re: Sting on Oprah
by Mr. Absolute Objectivity 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

>===== Original Message From mathew(a)wattobay.com ===== >Sting was the Police!!! Refusing to accept that fact is pure denial of >reality and fact! boy are you so stupid __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/

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