Good Sunday Morning

[Simon]

Good morning world

From the last post in yesterday's morning thread, since Greenie & Mrs. Greenie were going to the show last night and we might get a report on it today:

Originally Posted by spookyx

The first time I saw the police was at the Agora Ballroom in atlanta GA. maybe 400 people there, they had a Roxanne contest where they picked a girl from the crowd. After the concert, the record store Wax n Fax had a party for them, I was there. good times..... the next year they were huge and played the omni in atlanta for 70,000 people. I didn't go to that one.

spooky is old (not as old as T pat though)

I went to almost all of the shows at the Agora Ballroom back then, but I don't remember most of them. My crew at the time were all punks and wavers and usually there was a personal altered state of consciousness which contributed to the lack of recall.

But I do remember The Police show at The Fox Theater in June of 1980. The Zenyatta Mondatta Tour. Sting's vocals so good you'd have thought it was Memorex. And there was one point during show (I forget which song they were doing) when Stu Copeland had thrown away or broken every drumstick he had, so he continued playing and finished the song using just his taped-up fingers and hands. Absolutely awesome performance that night.

(I'd seen Rush at The Fox the year (Hemispheres Tour) before and I remember thinking to myself that Copeland and Neil Peart must be the best drummers ever.)

The thing I remember most about The Police visiting Atlanta 28 years ago was Copeland being interviewed on WRAS or WREK (college stations, and yes, I can't remember which one he was on). Sting was getting all the media focus by then and at one point the interviewer asked Copeland if he was jealous of the attention Sting was getting. Copeland took a beat (no pun), and then said, "sure, I'm jealous of Sting...{small laugh}...but not for the attention he's getting." When the interviewer asked what he was jealous of then, he answered with perfect syncopated timing, "Have you heard his voice?"

I thought that was such a perfect way to answer a shitty question.

Okay, that about wraps up the history segment of today's post.

Wishing everyone a day full of pleasant memories.