COPELAND SLAMS POLICE

good for copeland

Well...he should know.

Police tickets - $100
Fuel for the drive - $75
Parking - $20
Beer, etc. - $100

Seeing Stewie fall on his ass - PRICELESS!

Who cares? Was Bono unavailable for an interview? This band is the opposite of fresh and exciting.

BRING BACK OYSTERHEAD...... STEWIE SHOULD OF KNEW BETTER OYSTERHEAD IS WHERE HE BELONGS

why would bono speak on behalf of the police?

the police were good 20 years ago. they shouldnt ruin the legacy by touring again. who do they think they r the stones?

i dont get it...what the fuck does this article mean??

This article means nothing. You have to go to the complete article and read it to make any sense of what the hell is going on. Even then, it really isn't worth reading unless you're extremely bored at work. The basic point is that even the band knows they suck and openly admit it. I'm sure this will make even more people buy overpriced tickets for these lousy shows.

Yeah that was taken totally out of context...garbarge

At least he's admitting that they suck, that is the first step to recovery...at least that what my counselor tells me.

Another step is making ammends. Are they going to pay everyone back and apologize? Right!

this site hasnt done anything for me lately...i'll still keep checkin it though...gettin you that advertising $$$

"Screw it, it's only music. What are you gonna do? But maybe it's time to get out of Vancouver." This came from Copeland himself. It's only music!......... That's really how you feel? I love music. Screw you Stew!

cuttyfives, you still remain an idiot. As for Copeland, I suppose he's entitled to think what he wants, I'm not a big fan either way but if a band I liked was trashing on each other, I'd be upset.

Haha. That Oysterhead set was sick, wasn't it?
I wonder how many people at Bonnaroo are just going to see the Police because thats the cheapest ticket on their tour. That would be funny if half the place cleared out.

wow.

I guess Oysterhead surprisingly spoiled him!

this article makes my doo doo smell worse

Hey Stewart: lower your ticket prices bitch

exactly what i was thinking tuffgong. Sting and Andy look like shit compared to Trey and Les.

"when all else has been done and said.......along comes Mr. Osyterhead"

this story is for all the brilliant kids that bought custyroo tickets. haha should have got tix for all good

in all honesty i planned on selling a lot of beer during the police set at bonnaroo. POLICE YOU ARE A FUCKING JOKE. Copeland, way to tell it how it is dude.

Copeland's the man, and Oysterhead is beast. Trey and Les must have spoiled Stew.

bnaylor, im with you man. if you need an extra hand, shout me a holler. now there is absolutely no way im checkin out their set. good thing saturday late night is the hot shit.

OK..they're badass musicians, but they are old. That's it the're just old. I'm old, but they're OLD. A least they can hug it out after they fuck up.

I guess the only thing you can do to make up for dissing on miles davis is to shit on The Police. Hey, its a fair trade in my book.
"Every breath you take"=one of the worst songs ever

The Police are lame, and Copeland's a douchebag.

Quote from the article.. "Screw it, it's only music." Shit y'all. Us as music lovers should be really pissed at a guy who is charging so much money for tix to see him and doesn't even really care about music. Fuck that. I always thought the Police sucked now I dislike the people in the band.

I got an idea... switch out Sting and Andy for Les and Trey...

Just sounds like they played a bad show, happens to everyone from time to time. I'm just curious as to why this is considered news....

I hardly think someone who's devoted their whole life to music is actually dismissing it. Think Copeland meant, "Well, not a great show but it's just one show," more than "screw music." The news aspect comes in when a) a legendary group reforms and begins playing their first shows in 20 years and b) when was the last time an established musician was this honest about playing badly? I've never heard anyone in a jam band fess up to being REALLY off and I've heard them suck it plenty of times. Honesty is rare and even more so with famous people. I give Stewart points for this. By saying they fell short early in the tour, by publicly demanding better of his bandmates, well, maybe the rest of the tour will be better.

glad you got your high priced roo tix now?

Yet another reason to be skipping their set on Sat night at the roo, conserve my energy so I can run between tents for Galactic/Lips/Mule then stay up late with Sasha.

Who really cares?
(WSP SUCKS!)

i'm not very impressed, whether he's joking around or actually pissed about the band, its pretty damn unprofessional. i've decided that i don't like this guy at all. they are charging a lot of money and they honestly shouldn't have bad shows. all they're doing is playing songs they've played a million times. shouldn't be that hard if your a professional musician or rock gods as they seem to think they still are. give me a break

Come on, can you really take them seriously when on their website they have icons that say "Best Buy Presents...The Police." check it out, its super lame

move govt mule to the what stage in place of the gay police. Bring the lips to this tent till around two or so and then have galactic end staurday from 230 on. its that simple superfly. The real police are lame the band is lame and they dont and never will be part of bonnaroo in my eyes. deftone if you want to party at the roo let me know i will give my email out and we can meet up. TOOL really is going to blow many minds away, cant wait. To all claypool fans i saw him in cleveland this past week and i signed his tour bus on the front bumber was that wrong of me?

Good for Stew for a bit of honesty. I would love to catch them when they pull through New England but its just a lot of mulah for a rusty machine. . . now Dan Im going to see!

It's really easy to dismiss The Police today but a LOT of bands, including JamBase faves like ALO and Umphrey's, owe a debt to The Police, who pioneered a mixture of pure pop music with high level musicianship and elements of jazz and reggae. From the distance of 20+ years they may not seem that important but as someone who was there when they were a new band I can testify to their greatness. Whether they're that good now remains to be seen. Respect is earned not given but given their history I'm inclined to listen with an open mind.

Copeland has said he'd like to do something really different at Bonnaroo if he can get Summers & Sting to play along. Even if they play it straight, I was surprisingly knocked out by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers last year and maybe The Police have the same potential.

sssshhhhh, cuttyfives! ....pay no attention to THE MAN pullin levers behind the curtain...lay down in the poppyfeild and keep your trap shut! you too stewie! we got a husstle going over here...just shut up and toe the company line.

I prepared a form you and others can use to post on the internet >> you will find it at the end of my profile. it deals with this problem we are having here in frisco with people being honest about music...

This story is a little misleading almost...in the article, he seems to be laughing off a terrible show, not taking pot shots at the band (as the headline kind of implies).

What is left out is more telling - he said that Sting "momentarily" looked like a petulant pansy INSTEAD OF THE GOD OF ROCK, which was notably left out of the "short" version of the article...also important is that after these comments, he and the band "hugged and laughed hysterically."

Doesn't seem like a real "slam" so much as it was him getting a few things off his chest after a poor show.

Bonnaroo really does need to follow Langerado's example and not waste peoples time with a crappy headliner. The tents should be bumpin while The Police are fumbling. The clusterfuck of Sat night needs to be resolved somehow. And Sasha needs to play the 3-6am set like he did at roo last year. Shouldnt interfere with the Galactic/J5 tag team.

Copeland should come out Friday night and do the drum jam with Danny during Lateralus. That would be the s!ht!

Stewart Copeland is a douche

at first i was kind of thinking along the lines of what runwawayfoam has said. the whole thing might be blown out of proportion, and he could be just getting a bad show off his chest. but it still strikes me as ridiculous. when is the last time you've heard a professional musician come out and say something like this. joking or not, i think its unbelievably unprofessonial considering the supposed level of magnitude of this band. it would have been one thing if he apologized to the fans for a bad show, but calling out the rest of your band? keep that to yourselves and fix it internally. your not a bunch of cocky 20 year olds just starting out. i've lost a lot of respect for these guys, or i should say copeland. guess they're making the money though

poorley titled article.... He was just admiting they fucked up a few times and was being funny about it.

ps... bonnaroo sucks and has for a few years now

There's already enough police at Bonnaroo

Copeland is a douche and doesn't deserve anyone's respect. Yes, he's a talented, established drummer (everyone knows Oysterhead's the shit). However the way he dismisses his own band but yet seems to have no problem with making money off his overpriced concert tickets shows what is really important to him. The purposefully inflammatory things he said about jazz and Coltrane in the Jambase interview he gave were immature and stupid. The Police suck and for the most part have always sucked. All Good is the place to be, not the nostalgia shit Copeland is pushing at Roo - who the fuck wants to relive the Reagan era?

The Police blows. He's just speaking the truth.

Come on, kids! Copeland is known for his irreverent commentary...just read the Jambase interview from Feb.
Copeland is the man, tho. Being able to be on page with the likes of Trey and Les, playing Roo last year with them while the other Police were doing...doing..what?

I wish that Les and Trey would play Oysterhead with Copeland at Roo this year so that Sting could see just how dated and pretentious he really is when it comes to music.

I'll see The Police at Roo this year, but I'm expecting it to be with zero improv and I know in my heart it is because the others just cannot hang with the likes of the Copeland. Let 'em say what he wants and take it with a smile!

Thanks Stu!

This tour is really heading in the right direction. Copeland is an ego maniac just like Sting. Copeland just struck first that's all. Enjoy the lackluster tour.

i really thought copeland was a better person than what his comments reveal. i enjoy the police and sting, but his comments are making me think twice about his musical attitude.

"Fortunately, no fists flew backstage as they did back in the Police's heyday. The threesome fell into each other's arms laughing hysterically, Copeland said."

Shit happens. Just don't charge $100+ for your tickets, bro.

this article is stupid

WOW!!! Thanks for bringing up Copeland's comments about jazz. I just went and read the Jambase interview. Horrible shit. His comments about Miles and Coltrane are so insane. Does he think he is anywhere near as good or important a musician as either of them. I bet he digs little miss Spears. What a loser!

Just read the jazz comments again. They are border-line racist also. He picks out Miles and Trane and then says.. Oh wait but I do have a jazz(black) friend... Stanley Clarke...

Mr. Copeland has played me for the last time. I have neither the time nor patience to buy into his persistent, condescending gamesmanship. Complete tool. Enjoy your trip to the bank, you empty soul. Kaiserbun, if your moniker honors the brothers Ween I salute you on bended knee.

suck it guys! The Police Rock! They might be a little rusty, give em a break.

Funny to think he was slamming other music styles only months ago... Now it appears as though he is the one that SUCKS. Their legacy, however, will only be slightly tarnished by throwing this tour together. They should have gotten a little bit MORE together.

I'd rather see Scrantonisicty!!!

Actually, Copeland's comments are fairly common. Most artists are critical of themselves and their performances. The thing that made this a bigger deal is that he made it public, including about another band member.(So I guess he kinda broke the rules/etiquette) Probably makes the Virgin people/all of the other Police Tour investors cringe!

"What The Police is doing [at] Bonnaroo, I don't know," Copeland said during a recent teleconference. "But I'm looking forward to it because I think it's going to be a completely different Police show from any of the other shows on the tour, because Bonnaroo is a very different kind of gig. We've been rehearsing for four months. The band is so tight you could open a bottle with it."

You have to read the whole article to see that he's poking fun at their own performance. Sting is extremely talented (I don't see where all the sting/claypool comparisons are coming from because they are completely different styles). I'd give the band a couple shows to work out the kinks. Their Bonnaroo performance should be monumental, and it may change a lot of your minds.

Yea, this is Copeland joking around. Really, 90% of this stuff is only noticed by the band themselves...

Misleading headlines are made just to get you to click on them.

Also after reading above comments, what the hell is with the hate on the police? They wrote some solid, original music. Its about the music, half of musicians are assholes anyway. Lighten up.

"Its only music..."
Its only $200 a fucking ticket

Next year at the Roo Deathmach Tool vs Police.

Wow... did all the jamband fans out there trade their senses of humor for douchebags? Seriously, you can't tell that Copeland is a sarcastic son-of-a-bitch?

I think that Copeland prefers playing with Claypool to playing with Sting. Who could blame him?

the red hot chili peppers shouldve headlined bonnaroo instead of the police! FUCK THE POLICE

haha just kidding i dont give a damn because i'm not going

I wish I could afford Bonnaroo, again. I'll have to buy the DVD (or rent) and pretend.

-As you were-

yeah guys I want oysterhead over the police anyday but we all know that copeland although is really good we all know that he is a whiny little selfish bitch which is why oysterhead only played once after their original tour in 2000/2001 he is the reason they barely player trey and les were cool it was just copeland that was the problem

Copeland says shit like this to get a rise out of people like the ones commenting/whining on this board. So he got what he wanted. Oysterhead had ONE average album with a few memorable songs. Just because the name "Trey" appears on an album doesn't mean it's gold. I would rather see Stew play with the Police anyday. Have any of you ever heard Police LIVE!?