Tea in the Sahara
I first heard about the writer and composer Paul Bowles from a Police song. Bowles wrote The Sheltering Sky and many amazing short stories. An American, he lived in Morocco for most of his life. Read Paul Bowles’ Journey Through Morocco (1963). (I was a huge Police fan and still listen to their albums but I’m not interested in their concert tour. I find these reunion projects kind of sad. Senior citizens singing Roxanne.)
By the way there are cellphones in Morocco. So much for the American tourists’ troubles in the movie Babel. “I was told that even after riding three hours into open desert with nothing but rocks and sand, kids will appear if you stop,” says Scrat. “I thought the guide was overdoing the hashish and imagining things. We had a flat three hours into nothingness—and I mean nothingness—and what happens. In the shimmering distant horizon, barefoot kids start to run towards us from out of nowhere. A bit like the feral kid in Mad Max2. Don’t ask me where they popped out of, I assure you there was nothing out there. A mystery, although it may have been out of this. . .”
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February 21st, 2007 at 07:59
Say it ain’t so!
I’m sure Pearl Jam (especially Jeff Ament) is perhaps chomping at the bit to want to open for these guys on their tour.
Their mini-set televised on VH1 Classic announcing their tour last weekend actually showed all three itching to go. They played…
Voices Inside My Head
When The World Is Running Down, You’ve Got The Best of What’s Still Around
Can’t Stand Losing You
(and of course)
Roxanne
If anything, this has got to be Sting’s way of mending fences with Stewart and Andy. It’s also good to see a reinvigorated Sting laying down the bass (on his beaten old Fender P too!) and visibly feeling excited to do this ambitious tour which brings them to Europe, Asia, and Australia as well.
Part of the proceeds of the US tour will also go to Wateraid (http://www.wateraid.org.uk/usa/), so aside from making a killing at the box office, all ticket buyers will be helping out bringing potable water to unfortunate people the world over.
I guess the ripple hasn’t reached that corner of the world. The frenzy to get tickets for the New York show alone has reportedly reached $6,000+ for front row seats!
I’m still waiting for news about ticket sales for Seattle.
I’m just happy to see all three make nice with each other after all these years. I also just want to see Stewart kick all kinds of posterior behind the kit more than Sting, really.