I agree with Brian that it was a guitar effects issue that has stirred posts of Andy being "off." Three things differed in his performance vs. the original recordings. 1. He was using much more distortion - the original versions of Roxanne and EBYT (and also the way Andy usually played them live) used a clean guitar channel. 2. He was using the neck pickup which favors a bass sound. This is standard for jazz playing, but the Police guitar sound has always relied on heavy use of treble. 3. Where was his famous Telecaster? You know, that beat up black and orange beauty (there's a picture of it in the EBYT singles CD sleeve). This is his signature axe, it's a part of the Police as much as Andy is. All in all, Andy's playing was great. His abilty to improvise and keep you guessing has continued to improve over the years. I do think there were overbuds during the broadcast. Watch closely during EBYT: you can hear the plucking of a chord, but his hand is off the strings and turning a volume knob. Not seeing "Message" was a huge dissapointment. I will write VH1 as we all should, although I doubt it will accomplish anything besides easing my personal anger a bit. Stew proved yet again that he is the premier rock drummer of our time. He was so fluent and powerful. Overplaying.....please. If you want less drum, listen to Sting with Manu or Vinnie. I'll take Stew every day of the week and twice on Sunday. --Mark _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail