The Police opened with Bring On the Night, Sting singing it an octave lower than the original. "I hope his voice isn't broken," I said to Karla.
It wasn't.
Nice light show this time. At Madison Square Garden it kind of looked like they just showed up and started playing. Here there was some nice stuff happening around the stage and a better jumbo screen. During Roxanne the lights all went red (clever), including this band of lights above and in front of the stage in the shape of Geordi's visor. Nice of them to bring in the Cylon.
ITEMS OF NOTE:
- Andy Summers had a South Park guitar strap. He also took a Buffalo wings hat from someone in the crowd, which made him smiley like a little wizard in Honeydukes!
- Sting sung Wrapped Around Your Finger in a lower key/a little slower; sounds like maybe he can't hit the notes like he used to. It's nice like that, though.
- Sting announced that they hadn't been to Buffalo since 1979. He later had to correct himself; I think about 2/3 of the audience (those old enough) knew it had been 1983/84. (And he himself was there in 1996, sez Karla.) It's OK. He's too pretty for us to care.
Your May 3/HSBC Arena Set List:
Bring On the Night
Demolition Man
Walking on [yes I know, editrixes] the Moon/jazz odyssey
Synchronicity II
Voices Inside My Head merging into When the World Is Running Down, featuring an awesome guitar jam
Don't Stand So Close to Me
Driven to Tears
There's a Hole in My Life
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic**
Wrapper Around Your Finger
De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
Invisible Sun**
Message in a Bottle
Can't Stand Losing You (this time with a little ee-yo, ee-yay, but no call and response, which is too bad), with a little "This ain't no Albany/This ain't no Poughkeepsie" thrown in for good measure
ENCORE #1
Roxanne (with a little jazz odyssey)
King of Pain
So Lonely
Every Breath You Take
ENCORE #2/FINALE
Next to You
In general, they were WAY better musically, really tight and together and TOGETHER. Yet there was a sense of Just-Doing-This-Every-Nightness. They still did lot of cool call-and-response, but not the Regatta de Blanc/Can't Stand Losing You mishmash that sent me to the moon last August. The show overall was GREAT, but not quite the awesome event MSG was. Which I kind of expected. That night was once in a lifetime. Electricity in the air. A different kind of synchronicity.
*I know I probably don't have the titles exactly right, but I don't feel like looking them all up, so you'll just have to live with it.
**Cree favorites
3 comments:
Sounds awesome! I can't wait to see them in a week and two days! Even though I have the crappiest seats possible!! It will be great!
Your expectations will be so low it can't be anything but amazing!
Concert was awesome!! We didn't have the best sound, but the view was actually great -- especially of SC and his amazing percussion pit. That man was running aroud like a demon all night!
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