Saw Sting last night....

[jongor]

As part of the Broken Music tour in beautiful Portland, Maine!

I really enjoyed the set, made up mostly of Police songs....bonus!

Bass, drums and two guitarists, one of whom was Dominic Miller.

This tour is being billed as a "stripped down" band, but it worked well.

He did use one of his beat-up old P basses. The sound wasn't too good, but of what I could hear he was getting a nice raspy/balsy tone with tremendous low end.

Before the show I was watching the bass tech get Stings gear ready, it looked like he had another old beater P and what looked like a new shiny one. I wonder if it's one of the Fender signature P's.....

[kobass]

I saw him in Boston about a year ago toward the end of the "Sacred Love" tour. He opened the show with "Walking On The Moon" playing DB! He's in Providence this week. I regret that I didn't get tix for that show. BTW, his son from his first wife is a bass player (in his early twenties) and is opening for dad on several stops on this tour. the name of the band escapes me, but I think it's something like "Function Plane" ??? Talk about having big shoes to fill!

[oldfclefer]

I saw him last summer in Cincinnati. Annie Lennox opened for him. It looked to me like he used the same cream colored P bass for the entire set. He was really on it both singing and playing. He had a great band. One of the finest bassists of our time.

Ron

[jongor]

Originally Posted by oldfclefer

I saw him last summer in Cincinnati. Annie Lennox opened for him. It looked to me like he used the same cream colored P bass for the entire set. He was really on it both singing and playing. He had a great band. One of the finest bassists of our time.

Ron

Ya, I was impressed with how well he sang, even the older songs were spot on.

Sting was definately one of my early influences. I still remember where I was when I first heard Roxanne.

There was a picture of him on the back of one of their first albums, with a fretless jazz, that made me buy my first fretless.

[MacheteJames]

Originally Posted by kobass

I saw him in Boston about a year ago toward the end of the "Sacred Love" tour. He opened the show with "Walking On The Moon" playing DB! He's in Providence this week. I regret that I didn't get tix for that show. BTW, his son from his first wife is a bass player (in his early twenties) and is opening for dad on several stops on this tour. the name of the band escapes me, but I think it's something like "Function Plane" ??? Talk about having big shoes to fill!

Fiction Plane.... I have their first album, it's great. They were doing pretty well, but their record label went under about 2 years ago and they were left high and dry. Sting's son Joe is the singer, but he doesn't play bass in the band.

[jongor]

He played bass and guitar at the show I went to.

He played an old beat up P similar to his dad's.