Hi Police Fans I must admit, it stinks that real fans can not go to see The Police next year. I too will be speaking to certain individuals in getting fan seats allocated for the event.. I will try my best.. Craig @ The Police File
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
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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Back from the front line.... HERE I AM AGAIN...alive.... THANK YOU EVERYBODY FOR ALL YOUR HAPPY BIRTHDAY MESSAGES! YOU'VE ALL BEEN SO KIND TO ME ! I'm so tired now, but these last five/six days represents some of the happiest time I have ever had! FIRST: THE POLICE The news everybody was waiting from me is that 'Stewart is working on it' (that's what he said)....he would like to play for 2 hours and still have to talk to Sting and Andy Summers about that. He called Sting these days to talk about it, and to say hi, given the fact they both were in Italy! I guess we have to wait some more to know more details. THE SHOW: STEWART COPELAND'S ORCHESTRALLI Incredible energy! Stewart plays exactly (even better) like the Police times! It's sad he's not touring the world with this show! I guess he should do more shows as it's a pity that such a great drummer and musician only played four shows like this. Completely white dressed at every show, Stewart played stuff from the Oklahoma Ballet(I guess it's called Baboo, very cool track), 'Rumblefish' and 'Equalizer', plus some compositions done for two of her daughters 'Eve' and 'Grace', and one for his wife. The show usually lasted 1 hour and 10 (the first composition played twice because of lack of material). In Bologna he came out for the third time to tell the audience he was sorry but he had no other compositions to play. At the end of the show in Milan, the first of the small tour, he shouted and jumped on stage just to prove himself HE MADE IT! He was so happy you could easily read it in his face! He was sort of trembling at the beginning, but he then gave himself completely and people loved it! PICS and MEMORABILIA: I am almost ready with some stuff and soon I'll update the site. I did some recordings but it will take me some time to work on it. CD AND DVD: There will probably be published a CD and a DVD of the shows, next year, but, please, keep this information just for yourself; I might be collaborate with the record company about this release, but nothing's sure yet and nothing precise has been decided; it's still early days, just wanted to let you know, and of course, I'll keep you all informed. I still have to read all your e-mails concerning the 'real fan' issue; my opinion is that ... I'LL BE IN NEW YORK CITY WITH OR WITHOUT THE TICKET JUST TO BREATH THE SAME AIR..... I'LL LOVE TO BE THERE, EVEN AROUND THE VENUE Let's all join to have the biggest Police, Sting, Andy & Stewart fan party, let's all go out of the venue, let's all do something; if some of us will have the chance to get in...good for them, I'm happy for them! Of course I want to get in, and I'll do my best (I still don't know what.....) to get as many tickets I can! Maybe there will be screen outside, who knows! Ciao ciao Giovanni
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