Well, the Montreal show was certainly a strange one. As expected, Sting was
really struggling with his voice. He was blowing his nose constantly. In
fact, he TALKED the opening lyrics to Message.I thought "Oh man, we're in
trouble!!!" He hit funny notes from time to time throughout the show that
clearly even surprised him (at times he obviously had no idea what sound was
going to come out of his throat). At other times, however, his voice was
great, if a bit raspy. He high the high notes in Truth, for example.
Crazily, they dropped BOTH Sync II and Roxanne - so we got 10% less show
last night - that was disappointing. Andy screwed up the opening cords to
Wrapped (jarringly so) and Sting looked up above him and searched around for
the offending noise and said, laughing, "What was that, Andy?".and a moment
or two later said "It sounded like a spaceship," and he looked above his
head again like the spaceship might still be coming down from above. Then
Sting said "Shall we start again?...OK, Andy, can I sing now?" Very funny -
a great moment. In summary, an interesting and weird night, for sure.
Cheers,
Bruce
