Never got to see Police or Sting live, but I traveled the same arc from love to disappointment. The Turtle album was so disappointing it even affected my enjoyment of the Police records -- can't recall the last time I gave one of them another spin. This review strangely wants me to give them another go, though. Do you know where the Police albums placed in the Pazz Jop polls of the time?
Off hand I don't know, but if you click on the link to Robert Christgau's site I provide in the italicized intro, it's pretty easy to find the other years Pazz and Jop results. I'd do it myself but I'm at work.
Yeah, I liked the Police all right. I remember seeing them in Granite City at the tiny Stages, right before they really broke out. But just Sting? Oh, he stung me all right, and just like with an insect, it wasn't pleasant
Ah, yes, I saw that show. Stages wasn't exactly tiny - it held something over 1000 people and I remember that night being barely able to move in the packed crowd on the dance floor. That was their second St. Louis area appearance - I missed the first one in, I think 1978, when they played Mississippi Nights in front of about fifty people. A friend told me in a class at UMSL how much he liked them, and I went out to Peaches and bought their first album that afternoon.
I sat up top for the Police looking down on top at them from the side. Other shows I saw there were Tom Petty, and front row next to the stage for a great Graham Parker show right after the release of "Another Grey Area"
Never got to see Police or Sting live, but I traveled the same arc from love to disappointment. The Turtle album was so disappointing it even affected my enjoyment of the Police records -- can't recall the last time I gave one of them another spin. This review strangely wants me to give them another go, though. Do you know where the Police albums placed in the Pazz Jop polls of the time?
Off hand I don't know, but if you click on the link to Robert Christgau's site I provide in the italicized intro, it's pretty easy to find the other years Pazz and Jop results. I'd do it myself but I'm at work.
Yeah, I liked the Police all right. I remember seeing them in Granite City at the tiny Stages, right before they really broke out. But just Sting? Oh, he stung me all right, and just like with an insect, it wasn't pleasant
Ah, yes, I saw that show. Stages wasn't exactly tiny - it held something over 1000 people and I remember that night being barely able to move in the packed crowd on the dance floor. That was their second St. Louis area appearance - I missed the first one in, I think 1978, when they played Mississippi Nights in front of about fifty people. A friend told me in a class at UMSL how much he liked them, and I went out to Peaches and bought their first album that afternoon.
Split Enz did a very memorable show there, on the Time & Tide tour!
I sat up top for the Police looking down on top at them from the side. Other shows I saw there were Tom Petty, and front row next to the stage for a great Graham Parker show right after the release of "Another Grey Area"
You actually listened to this again? Such vainglorious self sacrifice! Allow yourself to skip the dog shit, Steve!