INTRODUCTION
ABOUT ME & MY FRIENDS
My name is Greg. I was born in Budapest,
Hungary, Central
Europe.
I'm a fan of The Police since 1986 and Sting is my all-time favourite
singer since I've heard the song 'Englishman In New York' for
the very first time on a Hungarian radio station in 1988. I saw Sting live in
the unforgettable Thursday evening of 23 May 1996 on his
Budapest gig. This picture was taken from the
concert video, where it is clearly seen that I stood in the middle of the crowd
in a white shirt and always kept clapping. So that was my first photo together
with Sting ;) "These are my hands..."(When The Angels Fall, 1991)
At first I met the Internet in June 1996 and it was a great experience because
I've never used it before. Since I've visited a lot of Sting pages and you can
find my favorites at my links. The idea of making an
own Sting-related website was popped up on 6 October 1996 and it was created
with the help of my friend, Chris and my younger brother, Daniel. I got my e-mail account at the college on 5 November 1996
and then a friend of mine, Dániel Marczisovszky, put the first edition
of SYNCHRONIsite to the server of the
Technical University of Budapest on 19
December 1996. My site was growing quickly and finally moved to
GeoCities on 4 March 1997.
I met Sting personally in front of the Hotel Corvinus Kempinski in Budapest
on 11 June 2000. It has been an amazing moment in my life when and I managed
to shake his hand and give him a very special present, a so called
Fanbook. The idea of making a Fanbook popped up
by a friend of mine when we received the first news about Sting’s concert in
February 2000 in Budapest, Hungary. Unfortunately the show was postponed
because the original venue, Budapest Sports Hall, was totally burnt down in
a devastating fire in December 1999, which truly depressed every Hungarian fan.
So we were really enthusiastic and looked forward to the re-scheduled gig at
Kisstadion in June 2000. All of the messages were sent to Sting via e-mail
between December 1999 and June 2000. The Fanbook contained several touching
stories, funny comments and short but lovely greetings, some of them in Italian,
Spanish, French and Hungarian too. Interestingly enough, the youngest fan who
wrote a message was 8 years old from Italy and the oldest one was 50 years old
from Australia. During our encounter, Sting was really nice, very friendly
and he gave us a lot of autographs. We also met trumpeter Chris Botti and
drummer Manu Katché. We really wanted Sting to find our Fanbook exciting
and enjoyable to read. We tried to make a pleasant surprise for him and sincerely
hoped that he would remember it for a long time. Two months later I received an
e-mail from Jen, who lives in the US and she also sent a message to Sting through
our Fanbook. I have never dreamt that Sting would send us a
feedback.
My other interests:
Besides Sting and The Police I also prefer the music of Genesis, Phil Collins,
Peter Gabriel, Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd, Donald Fagen, George Gershwin,
Keith Jarrett, Kenny Garrett, Branford Marsalis, Hiram Bullock, Mike Stern,
Pat Metheny, Richard Bona, John Scofield, John McLaughlin, Vinnie Colaiuta,
Frank Zappa, Yellowjackets, Jaco Pastorius, Joe Zawinul, Weather Report and
other great fusion jazz bands.
Unfortunately, I don't play any instrument but here you can listen to my very
first attempt as a drummer. I was so impressed by the virtuosic play of Vinnie
Colaiuta in Sting's version of 'Purple Haze' written
by Jimi Hendrix that I downloaded a MIDI file from the Net and re-recorded the
drum part by myself. Many thanks to the original composer. Enjoy it!
Special thanks to:
Krisztián Varga (uploadings & help), Dániel Nagy
(grammatical corrections), Attila Máté (MIDI files,
table & a lot of support), Dániel Marczisovszky (first uploading &
scanned pics), Mátyás Marczisovszky (scanned pics),
Kornél Osvárt (mini biography), Michael Gauldin (MIDI
files), Laurent Burgbacher (MIDI file), Moacir Moreira Gomes
(drawing & scanned pics), Luis Ramiro Lopez (concert review & pics),
Juan Manuel Santiago Méndez (additional data), Magda van Santen
(BOTN lyrics), Tomas Bjerkestrand (miscellaneous lyrics),
Ágoston Deim (Hungarian translations).
Greetings to:
Katalin Rita Bagossy (Hungary), Timothy J. Behary (USA), Antoni
Carbó (Spain), Adusa Chino (Japan), Darren Gray (UK),
Rogier van der Gugten (The Netherlands), Rüdiger Höckel
(Germany), Karel Van Isacker (Belgium), Martin Jaster (Germany),
Zsuzsa Kardos (Hungary), Erwin Kempen (The Netherlands),
Balázs Megyesi (Hungary), László Mozsár
(Slovakia), Timo Saajoranta (Finland), Javier Olaizola (Uruguay),
Andrea Rogers (USA), Magda van Santen (The Netherlands), Martin
Trenkler (Slovakia), Martin Vauchel (France), Benjamin Vincent
(France), Markus Vlasveld (The Netherlands), Radovan Wiecek (Czech
Republic) and all of my friends at the Police Mailing List
(police@xmission.com).
MINI STING BIOGRAPHY
Real name: Gordon Matthew Sumner
Date of birth and location: 2 October 1951, Wallsend, Northumberland, UK
He was born as Gordon Matthew Sumner in Wallsend, Northumberland. His mother
was Audrey, and his father was Ernest, both are now dead. He received his name
'Sting' from his striped sweater in which Gordon Solomon said that he
looked like a bee.
He is primarily a musician. He worked in band 'The Police' till 1984
after which he went solo. Before being lead singer in The Police, he was a
ditch digger, and a school-teacher who taught English and was also a soccer
coach. He played in many jazz bands too. He received an honorary Doctorate of
Music degree from Northumbria University in October 1992, and from Berkley
College of Music in May, 1994. He plays on guitar, bass guitar, mandolin,
piano, harmonica, saxophone and pan-flute, and he gave a name to his bass
'Brian'. He currently lives in Wiltshire with his wife and children in a
big house. He has his own studio in there. He and Trudie and a Brazilian Indian
started the Rainforest Foundation in 1989 to help save the rainforests.
Spouse: Frances Tomelty (1976 - 1982), Trudie Styler (1992 -)
Trivia: He has 6 children, two from his first wife, four from Trudie
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