Tuesday, February 27, 2007

The Police Reunion!! (And a Little "Roxanne")



As anyone who came in contact with me today will say, I spent most of the day humming this song in my high, painfully pinched Sting voice. Alright, I wasn’t humming. I was singing. Loudly, and in a voice I usually reserve for Cheap Trick. Anyway, I thought I would let you guys hear the song the way it is meant to be heard: sung in Sting’s “my-spandex-is-too-tight” whine and backed by Stuart Copeland’s frantic, energetic drumming and Andy Summers’s subtle, tasteful guitar work. And, of course, played from a broad, well-lit stage to a crowd of cheering Grammy viewers.

Unfortunately, they only played this one song, following the No. 1 rule in show buisness and leaving their audience wanting more. Mercifully (to those few music fans who, like me, somehow managed to miss the Grammys), a world tour is now in the works. Copeland reportedly said to Rolling Stone, “We’re going to come out and burn down the world. We’re going to enslave your children, rape and pillage across the world.” Let me join Rolling Stone in saying “Yes!”