Well I attended the Sting Concert last night at the Orlando Arena. I paid $50 dollars each for my tickets, so I figured that I would have good seats. The seats were in the 9th row up the side stage right. The seats werent really bad but there was a REally big fat lady right in front of me and next to her was this bald headed black guy who kept getting up and dancing. The opening act was natalie merchant, she played about 8-10 songs. She was wearing a pink one piece dress/skirt that looked very psyhcedelic. Her guitarist is female and kinda cute. Her guitarists was wearing those shiny soccer/vollyball shorts Black converse tennis shoes with no socks and a muscle-T. Natalie Merchant likes to dance a lot and she danced with her back to the audience about half the show. After almost every song she would put the mike down run and get some water and run back to the mike while the applause was going down and peep "thank you".
Her guitarist was very good, I was surprised because I read in an article that her guitarist hasn't been playing very long. She wasn't very fast, but fast enough, reminded me of Santana a little in her playing/sound. She used an old marshall Head, i'm not sure what kind of guitar she used it was strat like, but with a sunburst finish, and the 3/3 neck, like on a gibson V.
Stings guitarist is Domnic Miller, he has been playing with Sting since the Soul Cages album 3 albums now. He is tall and lanky/skinny he has shoulder length hair. He had 4 guitars: a generic black strat with a maple neck and a Grateful dead sticker; an acoustic Electric telecaster hollow body plain woodgrain, very nice; a Neck through body dark wood/clear finish 12 string I think it was made here at Guitar Factory, Kirk Hammet and others have some of their guitars; another guitar I forget what it is. Sting played Bass on every song except Fragile, where Dominic played bass and Sting played a VERY nice Acoustic Electric Gibson Nylon wine finish. The started with the first song on the latest album Mercury falling song of the same name. They played at least one song from every album from Sting. The high points were "Synchronicity II" and "If you love somebody" they even busted into a rap song in the middle of one song. There was Sting on bass/vocals, Dominic Miller on Guitar, Kenny Kirkland on Keyboards (peavey), VERY good Vinnie Calluta on Drums, Butch Thompson on Sax/Rap, another guy played trombone he was good too.
Everyone but Sting played a solo - Kenny kirkland had the longest solo and he is amazing very jazzy/funky. The light/stage show kinda sucked they had these white sheets (6 of them) behind the stage and they showed little pics on them, not very neat. The show overall was amazing, it was the first time i have seen Sting live after owning almost all his live videos and owning all his CDs except for Bring on the Night. Sting is still quite a good singer/player. He tends to make the songs sound more jazzy than they were originally which was slightly unpleasent on some of the police songs. They did 2 encores and then he made sure we knew he wasn't coming back. I've been to a lot of concerts and I give that one a 8 1/2.
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