I've been lurking here for a year, and was on the list for a few years in the early 1990s. A few thoughts: It was fun to see the band play together again (I saw them in Vancouver). However, without new material it really was a one-off event for me, and I can't say that I've really thought or listened to the band much more since than in the years before. I'm not one of those fans who obsessively listens to "classic rock," be in The Police or any other band from when I was young. I'm almost certainly atypical in this respect, for my age group. I think there's a lot of great new music out there; it's just a bit more difficult to find it now (try pitchforkmedia.com). Despite Copeland's subsequent comments, I thought the band was better rehearsed than when I saw them (also in Vancouver) in August of 1983. But there was a different excitement in the air back then; they had a number on album. The commercial success of a new Police album would, I believe, depend largely on whether it had any hits. I think a lot of people forget that the band wasn't particularly "hip" during their initial run: they sold incredibly well but a rock aficionado would probably not admit to listening to them. Their strength seemed to be in transcending this to dominate the airwaves like more fashionable (from a "serious rock fan" perspective) contemporaries from The Clash to Talking Heads didn't to the same extent. They'd have to do so again with some irresistible recordings with a modern twist. I haven't seen sales figures for Sting's later albums; one could probably track this down on the web. However, I remember seeing something like this at one point: DOTBT: 4 million NLTS: 7 million Soul Cages: 2 million My perception in '93 was that "Ten Summoner's Tales" sold better than "Soul Cages." After that, I would not be surprised to find that sales dropped off dramatically, though I did hear that "Brand New Day" was something of a recovery. I would be shocked and amazed if that album, which was the first Sting CD I really couldn't listen to, and the last I bought, got anywhere near even the sales figures for DOTBT. Chris