Ciao to everybody, we all said so many things about this reunion..... We said more and more when they breaked! Well i was so happy for the reunion, and i wanted to see them more and more..... I'd like to hear a new work from them, and i'd like to hear more from each one, as solo work..... I thing i understand the reason they do not a new album toghether...... It's alright so, i thing it's correct so.....They need to do different things, to express through different way Anyway, everything they do is magic........ and i hope to hear them again, again and again in my life. I need their music and sting's voice in my life, for more and more............... Bye, Vanja ---------- Initial Header -----------

From : police-bounces@mailman.xmission.com To : police@mailman.xmission.com Cc : Date : Sat, 15 Mar 2008 08:55:02 -0700 (PDT) Subject : Re: [Police] A few thoughts / Even the bad nights on this tour were magic to me

Hey!

Great posts by Chris and, of course, G. Thx guys!

Those hardcore fans are truly caught between the rock and the hard place aren't we? When the tour was announced...and I first heard scuttlebutt that a new record was being planned, I was VERY excited.

But as the months have passed, the more I thought about it...the more I think that I do NOT want it to happen.

And the reason is this...I don't believe that Sting can go back to writing songs in the Police style. And I am not talking about early-Police material...I am talking about "Ghost" and SYNCHRONICITYesque material. I believe not only is he disinterested in doing it...but that he couldn't do it if he tried...because he has been away from writing in that vein for so long.

Think of it...what benefit would Stewart give to "A Thousand Years"? What could Andy do with "Desert Rose"?

And that is not an attack on Sting's solo material. I love it...well, up to MERCURY FALLING anyway. (And BRAND NEW DAY has "loving" moments on it for me as well.)

But...BRAND NEW DAY and SACRED LOVE...THAT is the material that Sting is writing at present...do you think that those tunes are Police material, Police "worthy".

I don't.

As I mentioned before...I look at this reunion as as way for Sting to go on hiatus...to recharge the songwriter battery within him. And when the fruits of that hiatus bloom, nothing like "Driven To Tears" of "Secret Journey" is coming out.

Truth Hits Everybody, Truth Hits Everyone, Rich

----- Original Message ---- From: Giovanni Pollastri <giovanni.pollastri@libero.it> To: casimar@yahoo.com; police@mailman.xmission.com Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 5:56:27 AM Subject: Re: [Police] A few thoughts / Even the bad nights on this tour were magic to me

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Even the bad nights on this tour were magic to me.

I see your point Christopher, but we don't have to consider ouselves as the main element to take care of; WE are a minority, we hardcore fans see things in a different way than the rest of the world, the usual radio listener, the usual magazine reader, etc.. etc.. Dont'get me wrong when I say I don't believe in a new album; I am a great fan and I'd love to see a new album that would sound as great as the previous five albums, but if they won't release it, I'm afraid they have nothing in their hands that could top that sound and image. Nothing wrong with that; at least they haven't ruined their fame like too many other bands have done keeping working together for years and years releasing records that get out of catalogues in three years! If they have to release a new record they have to 'shock the world', not only the fans.

Giovanni

----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Simar" <casimar@yahoo.com> To: <police@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 9:55 PM Subject: Re: [Police] A few thoughts

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I was trying not to get in on this one, lol, but I just wanted to agree with Giovanni. I wouldn't want a "crap" Police album. But I don't think it's likely.

Even the bad nights on this tour were magic to me. I have filled my hard drive with mp3s of them despite the repetitiveness of the set, the lack of obvious experimentation, etc. The Police, playing ANYTHING, are magic. I would love to hear a new song or two.

'Solo Sting,' however, has made an increasingly high percentage of things that I can't really get behind, starting in the late 1990s and falling from there. I enjoy his later studio albums at first, then rarely re-listen. I don't always catch him on tour. The lute album and the 9/11 live album, I can't listen to.

I just feel like Sting should do something with The Police, or just retire. His "legacy" is important, too, right? And if he can't come up with material that Andy could do something with (Andy can do ANYTHING, is my opinion) then, well, he probably can't come up with good enough material to release under anyone's name, even his own solo name. That's just my two cents. I fear my hero has peaked. And I was hoping The Police would revive his old vitality.

I don't think I'm in this for nostalgia, at least not entirely.. I am in it for whatever "it" is that only those three guys can do, even just noodling around. I'd rather hear The Police play than hear session musicians hired by Sting, be that on old or new material. I respect his right to do that, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. (But I hope I do.)

Christopher

--- Giovanni Pollastri <giovanni.pollastri@libero.it> wrote:

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What if they will do a crap album?

----- Original Message ----- From: Mario To: police@mailman.xmission.com Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 4:43 AM Subject: Re: [Police] A few thoughts

bottom line they should do an new album just to surprise everyone and go through with the challenge

this solo stuff is just crap for now

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