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FRANZONI
Double Platinum Member
Ireland
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 Posted - 10/07/2007 : 10:14:00
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hello all.....i went to see the police live last night and so did 80,000 others.... it was in a stadium called croke park in the middle of dublin and the gig was awesome...the sound was pretty good for a outdoor gig and the boys played great andy summers was amazing..... i couldn't see any of his pedalboard but on the big screen it looked like he was using a ..custom audio amp 100 watt head and a stack of mesa 2x12 cabs..the custom audio amp is made as far as i know by john suhr and bob bradshaw(famous L.A custom shop effects and guitar people)and it sounded very good,scott henderson uses one as well..but back to the gig,andy took a few solos and his overall rythmn playing was excellent,especially as there was only the three of them...no backing tracks or other musicians at all..stewart copelands drumming and percussion skills have lost none of their edge...his playing drove the band all night..he really is one of the powerhouse drummers in the style of keith moon,john bonham etc except with a more reggae influence for the offbeats..sting sounds exactly the same...brillant singer and imho a very underrated bass player..his bass lines really filled out with the drums when andy was taking a solo..and their re jiged versions of some of the songs was amazing...all in all one of the best gigs i've been to in a while...if i have a gripe it's the set list.... they finished on a song nobody really knew..which i think left the crowd a bit 'damp'..they had played 'every breath you take' just before it and they had the crowd eating out of their hands..i noticed this through the gig that even though they played all the hits they spaced them out with songs off the first few albums that unless you were a big fan you wouldn't know...personally i would of kept four or five of the 'big ones' till the end and rocked the house...but as i'm a fan it didn't really bother me...on the way home the taxi driver told me he had got a few conflicting reports about the gig but if i know my fellow dubliners..it wasn't the band or the sound..it was the running order of the songs..... |
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FRANZONI
Double Platinum Member
Ireland
3543 Posts |
Posted - 10/07/2007 : 10:57:47
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| B.T.W.....for all you fellow guitar players out there...andy summers only played the sunburst telecaster on one song...he played his red strat with the rosewood neck all night..if i remember him being interviewed a few years ago he said it was a '61 strat...sting played his 50's telecaster bass with the single pickup..... |
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Dr. Bob
Moderator
Australia
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Posted - 10/07/2007 : 12:05:15
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Hi Franzoni & guys
Thanks for the review.. although I am a bit jealous.
Regards Dr. Bob |
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StratoSphere
Double Platinum Member
Canada
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Posted - 10/07/2007 : 15:52:36
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sounds like a great show
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visserman
Platinum Member
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Posted - 10/21/2007 : 16:25:11
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Hi Franzoni,
Gosh, sorry for being late with my reactions, not on line all that much lately.
About Andy's guitars, in GuitarPlayer of June 2007 there is an interview with him, it tells you also about his gear, effects, amps and guitars.
For both his Tele and Strat he does have replicas build by FenderCustom shop, so he does not really take his real ones on the road.
I thihk his Tele is a 61 or near there, the Strat is much newer, an 80s one, he started using it after he had a fatal accident with the Tele which changed the sound forever. The story about that accident is in his book. It is something along the lines of the pick-ups changed their output due to being placed near very large transformers.
The Strat has been used since Ghost in the Machine, so on Every Little Thing it may well be the Strat we hear. Difficult to tell really as you can get a Strat to sound very very close to a Tele [just the feel of both guitars is very different, as we all know.........]
Yep I can believe it was a great gig, as all of the guys are great musicians.
Amazing to see that Andy does these kind of gigs at the age of 64, but then we all look younger these days, and the touring life will be much easier when your status is like that of the Police, nothing like sitting in an old transitvan and travelling for hours on one end on the motorway........................ |
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Dr. Bob
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Australia
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Posted - 10/21/2007 : 16:37:04
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Hey Franzoni
Forgot to ask... Did you get any pictures, or know of any that might have been posted elsewhere?
Regards Dr. Bob |
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FRANZONI
Double Platinum Member
Ireland
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Posted - 10/21/2007 : 18:09:32
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I forgot my digital camera... so i tried to get some with the camera in my phone but the quality is very bad.....i was up in the top of one of the stands too far away from the stage.... |
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The Police live in dublin........
