Tuesday, July 3, 2007
News / Chicagoland F*** tha Police?
Posted by Whet Moser on 07.03.07 at 03:09 PM
"The thing that struck me most wasn't [Stewart] Copeland's musicianship, though; it was the fact that he'd taken a marker and scrawled the vilest string of curse words imaginable in big black letters on each of the many drum heads atop his vast array of tom-toms."
Jim DeRogatis shares that memory, from his very first Police show at age 15, by way of explaining why the Police shows at Wrigley might suck. In short, they hate each other, hate that they're doing a cash-in tour, and hate that they're doing a tour they hate with people they hate.
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wtf with the bullshit frontpage head? the tix are sold out, the starting price is $270--what universe does that equal "easy to come by" in? let alone that at least HALF the ATTRACTION is their legendary hatred for one another, DUUUUUUUH. jesus, make some sense.
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There are reports from all over the tour route of how people are trying to unload their tickets for below face value and nobody's buying. Here's one from Crain's Chicago Business: http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=25497
a) that's very interesting, but nothing in initial post about that, not even a link. b) "For much of this month, Danielle Topping has been trying to unload two tickets for the July 5 concert by The Police at Wrigley Field, offering them at $40 below the $275 face value she paid for each in March." = still only "easy to come by" for certain income brackets. c) jimmy buffet comparison suggests that show was simply oversold, deflating whole "'cause police are bad" theory. makes more sense: wrigley field has been a speculators' market for years.
'still only "easy to come by" for certain income brackets' Weak. I liked your earlier stuff better.
The curse-word-on-the-drum recollection wasn't from a Police show. It was from a photo on the back of the Zenyatta Mondatta album. One of the photos in the collage shows Copeland sitting at his drums and the word "F*CK" is written on them, although it's upside down when you look at the photo the right way.
