[This post goes out to Danny Gumport.]
My blog feels so lonely. As it should. It's been a long story to how I let things fall off here. I really miss blogging and resolve to get back to it. So here something that has me so excited I could burst.
The Police, a band I had loved since I was in 6th grade, is getting back together to tour. The inner child in me is screaming with delight and playing air guitar. I never got to see them live because the band had stopped touring by the time I was old enough to attempt to sneak out to a concert.
Like Sippey I was a bit worried that Sting's tendency for pretenious sophistication (he just released an album of middle-age lute music afterall) would mess with the Police legacy. When the band performed at the Grammy's Sunday I was ellated to see just Sting, Andy and Stewart on stage -- no back-up singers, string sections, multimedia explosions. Not even a lute! It was just The Police as I remembered them and loved them. OK they are older looking, but quite frankly have aged quite well. I can only hope to look half as good when I reach their age. Check it out in case you missed it:
As if seeing them together wasn't enough the band held a press conference where they told reporters of their long rumored world tour. The quote that made me happiest was Sting confirming that the tour would be more of what we saw at the Grammys. From the AP article:
"It's going to be three guys on stage, that's all," Sting said. "The show is going to look simple but spectacular."
I have to admit to I feeling like a school kid again when I met Stewart Copeland and he told me how he was considering a documentary made out of Super8 film he shot years ago during the band's rise to fame. (And he did. See Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out. It is marvelous.) I think I might start squealing like a little girl if I see them live. Despite that prospect, I'm already "in line" for tickets.
UPDATE: I GOT TICKETS!!! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! (faints)
