Quote:
Originally Posted by strandinthewind
The whole ad lib thing IMO just fell flat on its face. If I were them, I would have done Roxanne just as on the single and maybe mixed in Message in a Bottle. People want peppy and that gig was not that.
|
I was impressed. I'd never thought the "doze away-musicman Sting" could find the energy again that made the Police great. A jazzy, offthewall instrumental base with punky pophooks all over. Coming back with this exact same approach - but decades later with a new arrangement in the basic track, but keeping the melodic lines intact, was great. They never tried to please masses of people, and I love it that they put the landmark at exact that place: You can expect Roxanne, but they presented it just not in the way you would expect. Still, the energy-typical for the Police- was there. And that is a lot more than
I expected.
Ha. It looks like shackin'up's defending LB against Strandinthewind!
