The Police's Charlotte, North Carolina concert

November 15, 2007

Review by Joe from Charlotte.

I never was a HUGE police fan and was more a fan of Stings solo work. I do like a lot of Police songs and saw this concert just to say I saw him live and also had an inkling of hope that he'd play some Sting stuff. I've been to about 70 concerts in my life and that only one's I've been able to say I was truly dissappointed in were Dave Matthews in MSG a few years back and any recent Sabbath reunion tour / Ozzfest. This show unfortunately will fall under that category. While they did perform well, it felt like I was listening to the CD. I read a review of their show from the Garden in NY and it was mentioned they were very energetic... This was not the case here. Aside from the drummer running up and down between his standard drum set and a special set with different percussions, they were pretty much in the same place the whole time.

I won't say they were BAD because like I said, I never was a huge Police fan. But for people that go to see them because they just want to be able to say they saw him, or that they are bigger fans of his solo work, they didn't leave a great feeling for me after it ended. Granted, he had the Flu the nite before and maybe that contributed to it. I went to the hotdog vendor outside after the show and when asked how the show was and I told him, he suprisingly said he's heard the same thing by about 10 other people. Maybe it wasn't just me...