February 2004 - Police - mailman.xmission.com

Political Asylum Now
by Ross Viner 21 Feb '04

21 Feb '04

Hello all, As per my note last week, here is me effort to help this gentlemen and his boy. http://www.politicalasylumnow.com I initiated the site, but please keep that to yourselves. I'm telling you this since you know me and I hope you take the cause and site more serious than your typical forwarded email "cause de jour". Folks, Please visit the above link and lend your support. Canada has not condemned a man to death since the 60's. Yet that is exactly what they purpose to do to an innocent North Korean man who is seeking political asylum for him, and his 6 year old little boy. This is important and I beg you to lend your support, and pass along this website to anyone and everyone who will listen. Please, this is NOT the time for apathy. Ross

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Stewart and Andy same distribution in Italy
by Giovanni 20 Feb '04

20 Feb '04

Hello everybody from Giovanni in Milan, Italy. Andy Summers new release 'Earth & Sky' (already released last year in Australia) will come out in Italy in March on EDEL Distribution; as a coincidence, the new Stewart Copeland release 'Orchestrali', will be distributed next month on EDEL as well. And to cut a short story long, 'Emperor's New Groove' with Sting was released on EDEL. Can we say it's a matter of 'Synchronicitysm'? Makes you think, doesn't it? No release dates though, for both releases. Ciao ciao Giovanni Ps.: I'm now listening to 'Spring Session M' by Missing Persons, one of the greatest records form the early Eighties. -----Messaggio originale----- Da: StingUs [mailto:frotri@panafonet.gr] Inviato: venerdì 20 febbraio 2004 10.25 A: stingus(a)yahoogroups.com Oggetto: [stingus] Oakland review Sting keeps fans happy with old and new stuff By Mark Whittington Mercury News Maybe Sting was finally spent. The question Wednesday night at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland: How would Sting hold up at his first performance after canceling a week's worth of shows because of what he called ``a virus from God''? The bigger question: Does the former Police man have anything left at 52? Sting answered with a non-stop, two-hour, 22-song show. His energy never flagged. His new songs sounded as good as his old. He looked great. And his voice -- always tinged with vulnerability -- began to fray only in the encores. If you come to see Sting to relive your enthusiasm for the Police, you are missing the point. But some fans and critics continue to do just that. Sting has kept the bounce of his early band and informed his solo pop with jazz and world beats. That has allowed his fans to mature with him. On Wednesday, he infused his latest material with a spirit that is sometimes buried in slick production on his latest album. He also played enough of his catalog of hits to keep his fans happy. . The new stuff: He played nine of the 10 songs off ``Sacred Love.'' It was clear from the first electronic beats of ``Send Your Love'' that his touring band was going to make these songs come alive. Backup singer Joy Rose more than filled Mary J. Blige's shoes in the duet with Sting on the Grammy-winning ``Whenever I Say Your Name.'' . The sleeper: The band added a bouncy island feel to ``Stolen Car.'' Don't think the King of Pain has a sense of humor? His last hit was the soundtrack for a Jaguar commercial, a song about a psychic thief stealing an expensive car. . The old stuff: After a 20-year solo career, Sting has too many hits to perform them all, but he treated fans to ``Fragile,'' ``Fields of Gold,'' ``Desert Rose'' and ``If I Ever Lose My Faith in You.'' He started ``Englishman in New York'' leaning on his upright bass as if it were a city lamppost and ended with the crowd chanting, ``Be yourself, no matter what they say.'' . The really old stuff: Sting salted his set with four songs from the Police -- the opener ``Walking on the Moon,'' a surprising ``Hole in My Life'' and the crowd pleasers ``Roxanne'' and ``Every Breath You Take.'' . The lowlight: Perhaps Sting was so worn out that he needed the synthesizer doubling his voice on the lackluster final encore, ``A Thousand Years.'' . The scene: black leather coats were the uniform of the night, but with natural shoulders instead of yesteryear's motorcycle look. Maybe these folks care about Sting's causes and his humanitarian awards, his 15 Grammys and his Oscar nominations. his memoir and his tantric sex. Maybe they even bought Sting yoga pants in the lobby. Mostly they came to hear the soundtrack of their adult lives. And Sting delivered without missing a beat. Cheers, StingUs-team www.stingus.net ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Tired of hearing the same songs over and over? Listen to Internet Radio! Skip songs. Click to listen to LAUNCHcast! http://us.click.yahoo.com/Ykrq7C/HARHAA/n1hLAA/jGKolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Unsubscribe: stingus-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stingus/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: stingus-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

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Update on Italian Broken Music!
by Michele Piumini 18 Feb '04

18 Feb '04

Dear all, let me just share my joy with you. Due to copyright reasons I didn¹t manage to get the credit as co-translator, but they did promise that my name will appear as ³revisor²! It¹s the best I could get, so one way or another my name will be printed in a book not too far from Sting¹s... By the way, this is for whoever will get a copy of the Italian edition. I am currently working on page 134 of the book, where Sting¹s 1973 diary entry is. I¹m so sick of correcting the horrid work of the moron who translated the book in the first place, so I asked for a licence to re-translate it from now on. And I got it! So everyone, when you read the book remember that more than half of it is 100% mine ;-)! A happy ciao from Milan Michele

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CONTRIBUTE TO KEITH CARLOCK INTERVIEW
by StingUs 17 Feb '04

17 Feb '04

Keith Carlock is the excellent drummer who is accompanying Sting during the sacred Love tour. Apart from being an excellent drummer, Keith also informed StingUs that he agrees to have an interview with us. And what is even more special, we give you, the one and only hardcore fan, the chance to sumbit questions you would like us to ask Keith. To do so, visit www.StingUs.net and use the online form to provide us with your question(s). You can also mail them to us via info(a)stingus.net with in the subject line "Keith Carlock interview". Keep in mind to always mention your name and e-mail address, otherwise your question will not be considered for inclusion in the interview. (With thanks to Eric Szczerbinski @ ColdToastR New Media, LLC) Regards, StingUs-team www.stingus.net

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european tour dates
by Toni Carbó 17 Feb '04

17 Feb '04

Andy Summers has anounced EUROPEAN tour Dates 2004.Visist their WEB site. Italian,Spanish and elgium dates plus UK dates. Best Toni

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Broken Music's Italian translation
by Michele Piumini 15 Feb '04

15 Feb '04

Hi everyone, I have some news on Broken Music¹s Italian translation, a question for you and an opinion on the book to share. 1. As you may remember I am a translator and last year I tried hard to be assigned Sting¹s translation. I failed, because someone got the job only a few weeks before, so I told them I would be glad to help them check and review it once it was done anyway. Well, the translation has been done and, as well as being written in pedestrian Italian by someone whose knowledge of English is nowhere near as good enough, it¹s an awful mess of mistakes that even a non Sting-addict like myself would find out at once. So, I¹m currently working on it: it¹s extremely hard work, much harder than translating it myself, but I¹m very proud of being in charge of it. Tomorrow I¹m going to ask to at least appear as co-translator, so keep you fingers crossed! Anyway, this is for Italian fans: che il mio nome compaia o no, sappiate che il 90% di quello che leggerete è farina del mio sacco! 2. I may actually be able to correct an error by Sting himself. In the Miles Davis episode, he mentions the Blue Turtles¹ bass player as DARYL Jones. I¹d always thought it was DARRYL, two R¹s, and I checked out the cd booklet to find that I was right: Darryl. Con you confirm this? 3. I thoroughly enjoy Sting¹s prose and his style. He obviously has a natural talent for story-telling, irony and narrative rhythm, as we all know from his lyrics. Nevertheless, I find his writing to be a bit too refined and ³over-written². I mean, he seems committed to always use ³feign² instead of ³pretend², or to choose among a limited range of ³high-sounding² adjectives (sultry, sly, cantankerous, paltry, blasé, ludicrous, lugubrious...) which I find somehow give an affected feel to his narration. Anyone felt the same while reading the book? Ciao! Michele

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UK magazine Total Guitar
by DtmrCls＠aol.com 13 Feb '04

13 Feb '04

Hi everyone TOTAL GUITAR (UK magazine) had 7 pages about Andy Summers and Police guitar techniques in their February issue. And a CD with some backing tracks (not original). BUT the March issue already came out on February 11. You might still be able to pick up the February mag at some stores. I was lucky as the new one was not yet in the stores here in Germany. There are a few nice photos of Andy Summers and Sting in the magazine. And they reprinted an old interview where Andy comments on the POLICE's collaboration in songwriting (or the lack of it) and in the studio. Dietmar

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RE: [Police] What the???
by Teri Kronberg 13 Feb '04

13 Feb '04

>This "survey" is the final reason for me not to nenew my membership I've decided not to fill out the survey, myself. I had to laugh at Jason's comments about it. I don't take this stuff that seriously. However, I was surprised to find that the CD-ROM that Premium members received is now available to basically all who want to order it at the Sting.com store. Interesting. o_O 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] Survey
by Angeline Adams 13 Feb '04

13 Feb '04

I agree with Jason regarding the survey. Sadly, I don't see how this is going to be of much help in targeting promotions (specially the race stuff; that smacks very much of demographics research rather than fan-specific stuff). If they really wanted to know what would appeal to us most, wouldn't it have made more sense to ask specifically? The album cover question surprised me because it was so different from what had gone before and actually seemed like the sort of thing I'd originally expected; it made me wonder if they were thinking of putting out some merchandise based on one of the old designs. That might explain why they didn't include more recent album covers on the list... What are the odds that any merch that does come of this will be at a jacked-up price based on the "classic" design? *sigh* Funny thing about the premium membership CD being available in the shop now... of course it's a good thing for those members who didn't get it before, but doesn't it undermine the whole promise of an exclusive item which was such a great lure before? I suspect that a lot of people found the CD to be their main reason for choosing premium membership (since I'll be able to attend maybe one or two shows, assuming he does come to Belfast, I probably won't save a huge amount via the fanclub ticketing arrangements, so it wasn't such a big consideration for me - I know others out there must be in a similar position), so I wonder if the amount it's being sold for now equates to the proportion of the premium membership fee it represents... Angeline _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself with cool new emoticons http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/myemo

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San Diego and Phoenix canceled
by Maggie White 12 Feb '04

12 Feb '04

due to Sting's cold. Check the website. Sorry folks. I'm bummed about SD, but the man has to protect his voice and his health. M

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