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The Stewart Copeland Anthology
by Jon & Susan 27 Jul '07

27 Jul '07

Just found this while scanning the internet: Stewart Copeland, drummer for the Police, will release his first-ever “best of” collection,” titled The Stewart Copeland Anthology on August 14th. The set includes compositions from his solo career including his Trey Anastasio/Les Claypool collaboration: Oysterhead, as well as key tracks from the Notte Della Taranta and GIZMO ensembles. Most noteworthy are Copeland’s soundtrack compositions. Back in 1983 Copeland was asked by legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppala to score his kids art-flick Rumble Fish. Copeland later received a Golden Globe nomination for his contribution to the film’s score. These, along with tracks from the product of his musical pilgrimage to Africa,The Rhythmatist are included on the anthology. All together 10 never before commercially released tracks make the cut. The Stewart Copeland Anthology Tracklisting: *denotes tracks never released before commercially 1. Too Kool to Kalypso – Klark Kent 2. Don’t Box Me In – Rumble Fish 3. Tulsa Tango – Rumble Fish 4. Koteja (O Bolilla) – The Rhythmatist 5. Serengeti Long Walk – The Rhythmatist 6. Theme from The Equalizer – Orchestralli 7. Anacott Steel – Wall Street 8. *Slither (demo) 9. *Night Drive Home – Very Bad Things 10. *Taxi Ride – West Beirut 11. Bill is Dead – The Pallbearer 12. Wield The Spade – Oysterhead (Trey Anastasio, Les Claypool, Stewart Copeland) 13. *Look Up – vocals by Martina Topley-Bird 14. *Rain – Spyro the Dragon 15. Childhood Friends – The Leopard Son 16. Mud Lions – The Leopard Son 17. *Pizzica Degli Ucci – La Notte Della Taranta Ensemble w/Stewart Copeland 18. *Chrystal/Drive Daisy – Dead Like Me 19. *George Trip/ End – Dead Like Me 20. *Big Drum Tribe – Gizmo (Vittorio Cosma, Stewart Copeland, Armand Sabal-Lecco, Phil X, Mauro Refosco, Dodo Nkishi) 21. *Regret – Metropolis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Check out the new book about The Police written by Jon Messier! An Investigation Into The Records of The Police, The Ultimate Discography Of The Police, Stewart Copeland, Sting, Andy Summers & Henry Padovani For more info: HYPERLINK "http://www.lulu.com/content/721840" \nhttp://www.lulu.com/content/721840 HYPERLINK "http://www.myspace.com/thepolicebook"http://www.myspace.com/thepolicebook HYPERLINK "http://s147016326.onlinehome.us/thepolice.html" \nhttp://s147016326.onlinehome.us/thepolice.html No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.19/917 - Release Date: 7/25/2007 1:16 AM

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Re: [Police] Best Buy Soundcheck at Fenway -- Anybody on the list win?
by hjusth＠knology.net 27 Jul '07

27 Jul '07

My understanding from talking with the Best Buy folks running the VIP area in Philly (they are travelling with the tour) was that there was only going to be a "Police Station VIP" area set up in Boston with the Morroccan appetizers and mint tea (same as what I won for the Philly show, no open soundcheck, no m&g with the Police, although I did meet Fiction Plane). So the band will be doing a soundcheck, but to my knowledge it is not open to the public....so we are all reduced to standing outside and listening. When they did the soundchecks that were open to contest winners those were typically at 4:30 or so. Hope this helps! Hilary On Fri Jul 27 8:45 , 'K. Carroll' <readnright(a)hotmail.com> sent: >Hello, >I'm wondering if anyone on the list entered and (hopefully) won entrance to >the Fenway Park Boston soundcheck this weekend? I didn't enter. But hvae >hopes of hearing the soundcheck from outside--any advice on soundcheck >times? >Thanks, >Katie > >_________________________________________________________________ >Need a brain boost? Recharge with a stimulating game. Play now! >http://club.live.com/home.aspx\?icid=club_hotmailtextlink1 > > >_______________________________________________ >Police mailing list >Police(a)mailman.xmission.com >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/police

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Police Boston concerts remembered
by K. Carroll 27 Jul '07

27 Jul '07

This article has a nice glimpse of humor in a 1983 show in Mass. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Police lineup In 1979 they played the Rat and the Paradise. Four years later they packed a stadium in Foxborough. On the eve of the band's reunion at Fenway this weekend, Steve Morse remembers the trio's live magic By Steve Morse, Globe Correspondent | July 27, 2007 When the Police played for 61,000 fans at Foxborough's Sullivan Stadium in 1983, they arrived by helicopter. Lead singer Sting described seeing that big a crowd from the air: "I was almost sick with fear." It was the last hint of fear he would exhibit, since he and bandmates Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland went on to perform a stadium show to rival anything that U2 and the Rolling Stones would later muster. The Police were godlike at the time. Their album "Synchronicity" was No. 1 on the charts and they were so huge that nervous Foxborough selectmen only approved the show in a split vote. Said Police guitarist Summers: "We're very lucky to get the Foxborough date. It was touch and go for a while." As a compromise gesture, the band had to go on early, at 7 p.m., and wasn't able to use its full lighting rig. The Police had stoked fans' passions with earlier gigs at the Rat in Kenmore Square, the Paradise, Orpheum Theatre, and Boston Garden. If half that excitement can be generated by the Police reunion tour at Fenway Park tomorrow and Sunday, then you'll have a sense of what it was like. (A limited number of tickets are still available for both 7 p.m. shows) The band was electric onstage -- three peroxide blonds who were musical maniacs (with Sting on fretless bass!) and who drove women into complete hysteria. Not every show was great -- they had a penchant for jamming that could be inconsistent and earned them the nickname of "the Grateful Dead of new-wave rock." But they were never less than magnetic; witness that Foxborough show where they mauled the crowd with the rock-reggae brilliance for which they were known, then surprised with a burst of comedy. That moment came when the Police left the stage and were followed by a video cameraman into the dressing room, where they took an English tea break beamed onto the stadium's Diamond Vision screen. The threesome donned stovepipe dunce caps, made faces at the camera, and sipped tea until the impish Sting grabbed the white tablecloth and upset all the cups as the crowd convulsed with laughter. It might be the single craziest move that I've seen at a stadium event. Then they returned to finish the show. My first taste of the Police live came when the band hit the Paradise in 1979. I had missed their Boston debut a few months before at the Rat, when Sting had throat trouble and did a sound check without singing. "They just did some jamming at the sound check, but it was intimidating. We had never seen anything like it," recalls Richie Parsons, whose Boston band Unnatural Axe opened up. Parsons also has a classic anecdote about being in the dressing room when Sting passed wind and tried to put the blame on him. Hard to believe this is the same Sting who is now viewed as a yoga-obsessed English gentleman and owner of a 20-room, 600-acre estate in Italy where the Police rehearsed for the new tour. At the Paradise, the Police were still so new that they didn't have enough material. In just a 50-minute set, they repeated the song "Can't Stand Losing You." After the show, Summers admitted they needed to rehearse more numbers. When I later told this to Sting's son, Joe Sumner, whose band Fiction Plane opens the Fenway shows, he laughed and said, "Gosh, Dad didn't tell me about that!" The Paradise gig left me a little unconvinced. Sting's vocals owed a lot to Burning Spear and Bob Marley -- and it was annoying to hear him periodically toss in the verse "daylight come and we want to go home" from Harry Belafonte's "Banana Boat Song." But I was fully on board when they shot up to the Boston Garden in 1982. The songs were tighter, a horn section had been added, and Summers and Copeland played with an almost metallic fury. It was a big night for new-wave rock, as the all-female Go-Go's opened up. It was a far different Garden experience from the norm in those days, with Styx, Jethro Tull, and Ted Nugent. I also appreciated an interview that Summers did with me before the Garden gig. He talked about being on a recent vacation in Nepal where he was walking up to a remote Buddhist temple when he heard a Police tape being played by a soft-drink vendor. "Hey, that's me on the tape!" Summers said. "No, no," the vendor replied. "Not you! Not you!" I guess MTV hadn't made its way to Nepal yet, so Summers wasn't known by sight. The last time I saw the Police was at the Providence Civic Center in 1984, six months after their sensational Foxborough triumph. Fatigue had overcome them and the show was often a mess, with Sting even botching lines on the hit "Every Breath You Take." By then it was no surprise that they had decided to take a year off. Then that year stretched to more than two decades, other than infrequent one-offs. When Sting headlined a bill with Annie Lennox of the Eurythmics in 2004, he still dismissed a Police reunion, noting, "I think there's more chance of me joining Eurythmics than the Police, to be honest." The Police haven't talked to the press much on this tour -- no doubt they don't want to become tabloid fodder -- but I'll be out there at Fenway, regardless. I'm not happy to see that top tickets cost $225 (and I bought mine), which is a long way from the few dollars they charged at the Rat. But the Police were always a command performance. They earned my loyalty and I want to enjoy every bit of magic they might have left. Steve Morse can be reached at spmorse(a)gmail.com. _________________________________________________________________ http://newlivehotmail.com

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VIP tix location
by Agrita Panda 27 Jul '07

27 Jul '07

Hi guys, Just out of curiosity - if somebody of you got VIP tickets for any shows, have you any idea where they are located? I remember a gig in Riga my hometown, where tickets for VIP were like 3rd tier somewhere far from stage. Since this tour is basically all seated, could it be possible that they are in first 5 rows or something! Share your experience, friends!! Cheers, PandaBaby

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Re: [Police] tixs
by sockii＠earthlink.net 26 Jul '07

26 Jul '07

Well, I just sold a pair of MSG 8/3 tickets on Stubhub less than 24 hours after I listed them. But then, I was about the only seller on that site listing tickets for that show for just what I paid for them (taking into account stubhub and original ticketmaster fees). Almost everyone else seemed to be trying to double their money... -----Original Message----- >From: David Lucky <dlucky711(a)yahoo.com> >Sent: Jul 26, 2007 3:57 PM >To: police(a)mailman.xmission.com >Subject: [Police] tixs > >I see one fan club member was selling a tixs at MSG on ebay and couldnt sell a floor seat for $149 (at a list price os $254 plus). > >_______________________________________________ >Police mailing list >Police(a)mailman.xmission.com >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/police

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RE:[Police] AS Albums
by Bokulic, Colin 26 Jul '07

26 Jul '07

My fav AS albums (in no particular order); I advanced masked World gone strange Invisible Threads The Last Dance of Mr. X But I can honestly say you can't go wrong with Mr Summers, he's never done a bad album. Looking forward to 'First you build a cloud' -Colin ------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:09:59 +0000 (GMT) From: "simca(a)bluewin.ch" <simca(a)bluewin.ch> Subject: [Police] AS Albums To: undefined <dripdry(a)gmail.com>, Sting <police(a)mailman.xmission.com> Message-ID: <15236298.151221185462599366.JavaMail.webmail(a)ps16zhh.bluewin.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" ...only 1 Andy CD ? hmmm.....he has done about 14 or 15 Albums since 1982, difficult to say. Check the discography on his website. I personally like : - "i advance masked" (with Robert Fripp) from 1982. Weird + strange stuff. A cool, experimental + purely instrumental Guitar/- synthesizer Record. His first collaboration with RF, 1984 came "bewitched", more audiable. - "XYZ" : If you like to hear Andy Summers voice, this is the only album he sings. And i think he does a good job. Then he has done some "new age instrumental stuff" for the next 3 Albums, maybe - "the golden wire" ? Yes, i've seen him on the "Montreux Jazz Festival" (1990 ?) and i have a recording of that show. That was GREAT ! especially when Sting met him on Stage to perform "MIAB". ! Chad Wakerman was on Drums, an ANIMAL ! Later he went into what mostly people call "Jazz". My favourite : - "Green Chimneys" ...don't know why exactly...but i like it. well, you see, i's difficult : i like them all ! I like his Guitarplaying. He is the reason why i play a Telecaster ! I got every AS album since the day it was released (or maybe since it was available in Switzerland), so the new or current Album is always the favourite Album. Then a new one comes out -> you like the new one.....know what i mean ?!!? hope this helps, peace Simon ----UrsprÃ¼ngliche Nachricht---- Von: dripdry(a)gmail.com Datum: 26.07.2007 16:46 An: "The Police"<Police(a)mailman.xmission.com> Betreff: [Police] World Gone Strange I haven't seen much time given to Andy's solo stuff lately, so this: It's been a brain-rattling 24 hours. For whatever reason, I really needed to hear Andy's "World Gone Strange". I put the disc in the drive. Nothing. The PC wouldn't recognize anything in the drive. After fiddling around for ten minutes, suddenly the drive just starts acting as if nothing happened. Like a cat that tears up the drapes while you're away at work, then looks up at you quizzically as if to say,"This strange man came in while you were gone, and all he did was shred the drapes. Aren't I adorable?" A world gone strange, make no mistake about it. Anyway, World Gone Strange may be clothed in synthesizers and perhaps a touch dated, but it still feels nice to listen to. This is the only Andy CD I own. Any other suggestions? Last Dance of Mister X perhaps? Have a great one, everybody! David[MiaS] _____________________________________________________________________ The information contained in this e-mail communication may be confidential. You should only read, disclose, re-transmit, copy, distribute, act in reliance on or commercialise the information if you are authorised to do so. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail communication, please immediately notify the sender by e-mail and then destroy any electronic or paper copy of this message. Any views expressed in this e-mail communication are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of TIG. TIG does not represent, warrant or guarantee that the integrity of this communication has been maintained nor that the communication is free of errors, virus or interference.

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RE: [Police] NYC shows
by Fred Berthelot 26 Jul '07

26 Jul '07

This is very frustrating. I tried so hard to get three tickets for the Giants Stadium show when it first went on sale. I managed, miraculously, to get three tickets, each one behind the other rather than side-by-side, because I could only get singles. I just checked Ticketmaster - not only can you get three together, they're in a better location. It's sad that as fans we all rushed to get tickets when they first came out, yet the casual fan has a chance of getting better seats... -----Original Message----- From: police-bounces+fredberthelot=earthlink.net(a)mailman.xmission.com [mailto:police-bounces+fredberthelot=earthlink.net@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of David Lucky Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 1:52 PM To: police(a)mailman.xmission.com Subject: [Police] NYC shows I should add that part of the problem, at least I am guessing, is that The Police are playing the huge Giants stadium and that show is still not sold out and its a week away. you can still get even the $250 level seats on the 100s on ticketmaster. Its tough to off load tickets on ebay etc if even at face value the show isnt sold out. I hope they selll it out as that has more buzz, press interest to it etc. David L. _______________________________________________ Police mailing list Police(a)mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/police --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information contained in this communication and any enclosures or attachments may be confidential and/or proprietary. It is intended only for the recipient or recipients named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication or its contents or attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately advise the sender and delete the original and any copies from your computer system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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tixs
by David Lucky 26 Jul '07

26 Jul '07

I see one fan club member was selling a tixs at MSG on ebay and couldnt sell a floor seat for $149 (at a list price os $254 plus).

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NYC shows
by David Lucky 26 Jul '07

26 Jul '07

I should add that part of the problem, at least I am guessing, is that The Police are playing the huge Giants stadium and that show is still not sold out and its a week away. you can still get even the $250 level seats on the 100s on ticketmaster. Its tough to off load tickets on ebay etc if even at face value the show isnt sold out. I hope they selll it out as that has more buzz, press interest to it etc. David L.

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Re: [Police] montreal first show
by TaoofKim＠aol.com 26 Jul '07

26 Jul '07

In a message dated 7/26/2007 12:29:39 P.M. Central Daylight Time, cetla(a)earthlink.net writes: back in time before everyone in america was an obese, thug-headed, incurious backwards baseball cap wearing neanderthal. well not everyone, but it seems the majority these days. Do you have any idea how offensive this is? How ignorant. Leave this trash on some other hateful list. Kim ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour

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