The Police Arrest Norman Audience...
Cultures glided together and melded with smooth and joyous melodic ease on the Lloyd Noble stage Friday night.
A British trio of musicians who call themselves The Police arrested the attention of 11,498 fans and then enraptured them with beautifully liquid mid-tempo rockers like 'Message in a Bottle' and 'Every Little Thing She Does is Magic'.
They could easily be considered the male "blond bombshells of rock" with their dramatic visual appearances three tall, lean, yellow-haired musicians with nonchalant, yet imposing, visages.
Bassist, vocalist Sting, a youthful, hollow-cheeked and lanky Nordic figure, danced and strummed behind a stand-up bass through the two opening numbers.
Then he switched to one of those funny, unfrilly basses, with o tuning keys on the end (you know, it looks like a decorative 2-by-4 with strings on it) for the Latino-flavoured 'Spirits in the Material World' and the fiery 'Hungry For You', which was stoked by Andy Summers' liquid guitar harmonics.
The trio was backed by a brazen three-piece brass section, but mainly, the metallic fuel of Summers' guitar and the reggae-timed rhythms of Stewart Copeland's drums on the rousing stomper 'Demolition Man' and the anthemic 'One World (not Three)' and the infectious, haunting shuffler, 'Walkin' On the Moon'.
Then there was the rousing 'Roxanne', a cerebral and lusty epic about the emancipation of a prostitute from the seamy, defeatist side of life...
The show was opened by female rock'n'roll siren Joan Jett, who ripped through such rowdy tunes as 'Black Leather', and her own current hit, 'I Love Rock' Roll', and such classics, as Tommy James' 'Crimson and Clover' and the great Motown R&B opus, 'Shout'.
(c) The Daily Oklahoman by Gene Triplett
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