David Lucky wrote:

These reviews (along with some email fan additions) are not soo good. A lot of its was ok but not for how much they are charging, not enough oing on etc type stuff. I wonder if I am too blind as a police fanatic or what. I also wonder is that Stewart story has kind of set up this angle to the stories (unfortnuately). Hard to tell.

As I wrote previously, this tour is not 1978. The band playing now and the band that played Berkeley and Hatfield are quite different. Most of the criticism I've read is towards either the commercialism of the show or the straight forward recreation of the hits. On the other hand, I've read criticism about the rearrangements, so it appears it truly is difficult to satisfy everyone all the time. I've heard the bootlegs from the Synchronicity tour and this tour sounds better in my opinion. Yet, I firmly believe the live show was best before the Ghost in the Machine tour. When I exited Dodger Stadium last night, someone was playing "So Lonely" in their car and it jarred me a bit to hear it, because the pitch and the speed is so drastically different. My wife and I last saw Sting solo on the Mercury Falling tour. We left that show feeling utterly ripped off. She is not anywhere near the level of a fanatic that I am, so she was a good barometer of the show we saw last night. She enjoyed it and said it was a far cry from the prior time we saw Sting. I believe they _are_ playing a good show, but some people look at the $250 ticket price and expect to be transcended into a musical nirvana. I've seen better shows for less than $20 in a club. I think what is happening with these music critics is that they're comparing the modern Police to the old along with a lot of fresher and younger bands. Apples and oranges. That's my 2 cents.