OK, there's all this talk and excitement about these guys getting back together and playing the Grammy's, a tour, etc... And of course the hope is that they would possibly come up with some new material. I'm the first person to hope that new material is a possibility from these guys and at the same time I can play the pessimist and realize that it probably won't happen. But, thinking about all this, reading Giovanni's post about Stew telling him that they'll be practicing for some time, and what was it, something like 30 songs? or am I confusing that with another post? Anyways, I'm sure they don't want to sound like they did at the RnRHOF show, so they're gonna have to be spending a fair amount of time together. I would imagine, that at some point, after getting reacquainted musically, they are all gonna realize that the others have changed, ie. musically, stylistically, attitude-wise. Stewart even remarked in that Modern Drummer article how he no longer "rushes" when he plays and is more aware of keeping time. Andy has always been a great guitarist and probably hasn't needed to brush up on anything... Sting, well, I could imagine that his ego has even toned down a bit(call me crazy). SO, my point is, you gotta believe that through all this practicing and playing together again, at some point someone will say, "Hey, I got this great idea for a song", or "I've got these lyrics that I've been holding onto because they're so Police-like, what do you guys think?" You gotta believe that this is gonna happen and that they will start experimenting with new stuff. Of course, the flip-side to that is that it does happen like that, and all the old attitudes and egos come out again and it just all falls apart..... Don't want to get my hopes up, but it's hard not too. What's one more album anyways?! Well, just my thoughts. Mike Armistead <marmist@bellsouth.net> wrote: From: "Mike Armistead" <marmist@bellsouth.net> To: <police@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 13:46:49 -0600 Subject: [Police] Reunion set list.... Also speaking of set-lists, I would like to hear some new material come from the three. Not a live CD per se' but a new project altogether. Now I'm really dreaming. Should be fun. mike _______________________________________________ Police mailing list Police@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/police --------------------------------- Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. _______________________________________________ Police mailing list Police@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/police