Hello
everybody from Giovanni.
I'm
completely shocked as watching Stewart playing in front of me for seven hours
drove me mad (4 hours yesterday and 3 hours today). Incredible
energy!
He did
excercises, he played alone, with the orchestra, tried thousands of
patterns.....
As for the second Police show everybody is
mentioning, THIS IS WHAT STEWART SAID:
"We were asked to play in South-Africa at the
show called 'Sending Out An S.O.S.', and for some reason the
organizers decided it was 'Message In A Bottle' the symbolic song,
then they asked us to perform; there will be U2 and some other big
names.
Sting
didn't say yes.....(precise words said by Stewart)"
He
then continued, laughing, telling the following like a joke:
"Andy
and I were thinking about calling Bono instead of
Sting....ahahahahah!"
As you
can read, this is a little different from what is written in the news; it seems
like Andy and Stewart would really call Bono to perform with them instead of
Sting! No other things were said about this.
The
show in Italy will be fantastic! The orchestra today sounded much better than
yesterday, and Stewart is in great shape! He loves to play drums, he can't
stand without, and never get too far from his drumset! He does cool excercises
before playing, then he starts playing everything very fast and heavily! I never
saw him like this! I can't really explain...well, just remember the Police
live and you get the image and the sound! The drumset is more or less the same,
apart he has no ro-to-tom set on his left, and added one more tom on his
left!
The
show has one track from Rumblefish ('Our Mother Is Alive') and one from The
Equalizer ('Lurking Solo'), then some compositions written for her wife and
daughters, some others used for the Oklahoma Ballet; everything has more or
less the same vibe of the 'Equalizer' stuff.
IMPORTANT THING: I will tell Stewart about the fact
that REAL fans want to go to the show in New York City, and that WE ALL KNOW
it's so difficult as everything is on sponsors hands, and that at the end many
people who don't even care about them will be there (we all know how sometimes
this works)! I hope each one of you will have the chance to get an invitation in
a way or another, I hope this for me too of course, BUT I WILL TELL HIM THAT
REAL FANS NEED TO SEE THEM, and that we deserve it after years of waiting, even
for a single show! I don't know if that may lead them to plan a show just for
us, maybe the day before, but that will be my request! I'll talk to him on
behalf of all of you POLICE FANS! We need it, we deserve it and it wouldn't be
right if only a few of us will get in; of course I'll be happy for everyone
who get the chance to get in, even if a few of us, but I really hope that my
request may lead them to think about it! I know for sure that Stewart will call
Sting one of these days to talk about the Police show (Stewart told me that) and
maybe he will pass our request! Maybe they have already planned
it, then our request will give them more 'push'!
I'll
keep you up-dated!
Stewart also said he would love to play 2 hours instead
of three single songs....and is working on it!
Ciao
ciao
Giovanni
I
don't know if I have the time to write tomorrow or the other following days, but
stay tuned!
Ciao
ciao
Giovanni