hey! i will say it repeatedly from my last post this past weekend straight through until they step of the makeshift stage in the Waldorf after the HOF ceremony: keep the e-mails about the police reuniting coming. i work in the music industry and am fairly "plugged in". starting my quest this week to get tix for the HOF ceremony, someone higher up than me reduced me back down to size by saying the odds of "a lightweight like him" getting to go to ANY HOF ceremony were slim to none. working in the industry as i have over the years, i realized that personal access to an "event" - more on THAT in a sec - like this is very hard. i say "event" because that what the ceremony has turned into. a "event", just like the VH1 fashion awards, just like the mtv movie awards, just like the espy's. while they should be more, they really are nothing more than a place for people to be seen and heard, preferably walking down a carpet. it is an excuse for people like bono and eddie vedder - each of which will no doubt be on the shortlist to induct the police into the hall - to feel warm and fuzzy, telling stories of their youth and how much so-n-so's music means to them. very rarely are such shows, even portions of such shows, ever meaningful. tv scheduling does not allow for it. i say all this, again and not for the last, to remind us all that the HOF ceremony, while important, is small potatos. this entire exercise of getting into the HOF, with the inductees keeping up with custom and reforming to play a small set of songs - this MUST be parlayed into more than one show. it must be parlayed into a more than one-night reunion, like the last "reunion", the fabled 2-song set at sting's wedding. there has not been an opportunity like this for the three of them to play together since '86. my only hope is that we have the HOF to thank for further shows... rich --- "Deborah J. Gee" <debjgee@earthlink.net> wrote:
I am a real Police fan, I am going to the show, Deb is a real Police fan, she is going to the show. There will be others that are fans that will get to the show also. It just comes down to dedication, if you really want to be there, you will find a way of being there. This is the same as being front row for Tuscany, front row Central park, front row for the Albert Hall (albeit not 10 nights in a row like Mr Carter) and the other 50 odd shows per tour.
I always hear about how unfair it is, but if you want it bad enough, and are resourceful, then there is always a way to get to these things. There is a group of us that make it a priority to acheive these things, and that is why Fred, Andrea, Jeremy, Debs, Paul, Andy, Estelle, Fabian, Martin, Jutta, Rogier, Margie etc all manage to get to the good shows. It is not luck (although it certainly helps sometimes), it is just hard work, sometimes it is cash, sometimes it means sleeping in Central park overnight to get the front row.
I often hear the best of the best althletes say "You know it's funny, but the harder I practice, the luckier I seem to get" This is the same, we are all willing to do the hard work to get the shows, we are also around enough to get known, this results in being in the right place at the right time to be given a lucky ticket by a band member when all other resources fail.
Don't give up the faith
Jeremy
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