The Police
June 21, 2007
Honda Center, Anaheim
Better Than: Sting solo.
Sting and Stewart Copeland have aged as well as most of the Police’s back catalog; Andy Summers, not so much (he looked like a marathoner in his 25th mile by the third song). To my mild surprise, the trio, who have owned a sizable chunk of the radioscape since 1978, yet again have become a well-oiled hit machine a mere 21 years after their last concert together. The sold-out Honda Center crowd was, to paraphrase one espe
There's no reason anyone, especially a singer/songwriter type, should come to me for career advice. So please feel free to disregard this post. But given how many famous musicians changed their names becoming famous--think of Declan "Elvis Costello" McManus or Gordon "Sting" Sumner--that if any last name was worth changing, it would be "Hackbarth."