Subject: Re: (police) Sting not slated, again, as Lestat
Date: 01 Mar 2000 21:57:19 -0800 (PST)
I know who he is....Don't think he'll make quite as good a vampire as
Sting would've been, but certainly a better substitute than, say, Tom
Cruise. At least, I think. I recommend checking out American Beauty
anyways. It's a great movie!!!!!
Toodles
Robyn
"In the end, it is not the words of our enemies that we will remember.
It is the silence of our friends."
--Martin Luther King Jr.
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Diggie wrote:
> Perhaps off topic? If so, sorry, but for those of you who have an interest in the Sting Anne Rice connection, you may find this interesting.
>
> The Sting connection? Many of you might remember that Anne Rice was appalled at the casting of Tom Cruise as Lestat in the film adaptation of her book Interview With The Vampire.
>
> Anne Rice said, at that time, that she had modeled the Lestat character on Sting. Perhaps she would have preferred to see Sting in that role. I surely would have, or my other favorite for the role would have been Julian Sands...who makes the perfect vampire.
>
> So there's the Sting connection, and, per the article below, once more Sting has been passed over. And considering the Rock Star aspect of Lestat's career in Queen of The Damned, it really is a shame.
>
> Don't know who Wes Bently is though. Have to go check him out at the IMBD.
>
> From the latest Infobeat Movies:
>
> *** Update: Bentley negotiating for Rice role
>
> LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Six years after "Interview With the
> Vampire" flew into theaters, another Anne Rice novel is on its way to
> the big screen. Wes Bentley is in final negotiations to star as the
> Vampire Lestat in Warner Bros.' "Queen of the Damned," the third
> novel from Anne Rice's "Vampire Chronicles." Bentley, who received
> critical buzz for his performance in the Oscar-nominated "American
> Beauty," had been circling the project. The project is expected to go
> before the cameras this spring in Australia. Michael Rymer ("In Too
> Deep") will direct "Damned," which follows Lestat as he becomes a
> rock star whose music wakes up Akasha, the queen of all vampires. In
> the process, a young woman who works as a vampire hunter falls in
> love with him.
>
>
> Diggie
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Just want to let everyone know that "Dolphins" will begin showing this weekend at the Orlando Science Center, in Florida. Local news did a piece on the production, but only showed the actual filming, only mentioning at the end that it features music by Sting. It was made by the same production company that did "The Living Seas", and it looks just as impressive.
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I tried to order the lyrics book....when I got to the very end, where it says "order is processing", a dialog box popped up and said they couldn't connect to the server or something. So now I don't know if I should order again or if it went through. Anybody have any suggestions? For those of you who successfully placed an order, did you receive an email confirming the order?
Hey Maggie, better keep an eye on your credit card statement. lol
Teresa
In a message dated Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:36:46 AM Eastern Standard Time, whitepio@smbsd.k12.ca.us (White, Maggie) writes:
> OK, I just ordered some stuff from the Compaq store. I paid with a
> credit card. The text said it was secure, but the little "security lock"
> icon didn't pop up like it usually does when I order stuff. Did I just
> do something really STUPID like send my credit card number to thousands
> of hackers!!?!? Just a warning for anyone else who is planning to order
> to check the security.
>
> Maggie
>
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Does anyone know where I can find a list of TV appearances over the years (SNL, Arsenio, Letterman, Today Show, etc.[wow, he's very NBC-friendly, huh?])? Admittedly, the only site I've tried was Stingchronicity (how's that for a plug: "If you visit only one site this year...), but couldn't find anything other than the gig list.
Man, that's a lot of parentheses...
(thanks in advance -)
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Yeah, no kidding. This has been bugging me because Sting is such a bad ass bass player and a purist. It has to be double tracking. If you have read that article in Bass player mag it talks about how Sting really practiced hard to be able to do the bass playing and singing at the same time for after the rain. Besides, it probablly started with him wanting to play the guitar synth for A Thousand Years and needing DM on guitar (who usually plays bass for Fragile) and evolved into this.....
That being said, I am really suprised by this. Sting is such a purist and I always thought that when you saw him live you'd only hear stuff that is being played before you. Hope he never considers taking tapes of Branford Marsalis on the road with him.
Rich
Rich
arobinson@caci.com wrote:
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EGADS!!!! At long last a voice of reason emerges! Thank you David.
Anne
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I don't think the bass thing is faking as such. Its just double tracking
live. The live concert I've seen it seems more like two bass tracks going
which gives a fatness and a natural chorus effect.
I don't have a huge problem with that. Sting is obviously playing a lot of
the time albeit with another track that's playing the same thing.
David
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I've thrown this up here a couple of times, and never saw any sort of response, so I'll try again: Someone listen to the original "Bring on the Night" and "Edge of Seventeen" by Stevie Nicks. Is it me, or do those songs sound too similar: the chord progression, the bass drum on the up-beat, the cymbal crashes on the up-beat. If you took the vocals and Andy's guitar off, the backing tracks would be pretty close. And it's not just what's actually being played, but _how_ it's played, the overall airyness and openess of it, the arrangement. Am I nutty?
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> Someone listen to the original "Bring on the Night" and "Edge of Seventeen" > by Stevie Nicks. Is it me, or do those songs sound too similar: the chord > progression, the bass drum on the up-beat, the cymbal crashes on the > up-beat. If you took the vocals and Andy's guitar off, the backing tracks > would be pretty close. And it's not just what's actually being played, but > _how_ it's played, the overall airyness and openess of it, the arrangement. > Am I nutty?
No, you aren't nutty...I've always heard that the same way. Shame,
isn't it?! ;) I like Lindsey Buckingham, Fleetwood Mac, and Stevie's
songs with Fleetwood Mac, but I cannot STAND Stevie Nicks solo!
Try this one on! How about "It's Alright For You"? I always
thought Stewart sounded awfully alot like Guess Who vocalist Burton
Cummings on it!
Final note, regarding this "faking bass" issue that nobody really
seems interested in discussing, beyond defending poor ole Sting: Hey,
the Monkees laugh at Sting! ;)
Soapbox In The Foothills
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This song was available to us nutty Americans in the form of a b-side. It was indeed a track on the european releases of Mercury Falling. But we got it on the cd-single of You Still Touch Me - which I think you can still get on Amazon and cdnow. It is a great song and is worth the effort to track it down.
Good Luck,
Rich
The Ugly Sting Page
http://www.uglypage.com
Mary Robinson <Mary_Robinson@monterey.edu> wrote:
> I was just on the Stingmania site looking up some words to Mercury Falling
(why is stingchonicity down?) when I saw the words to the song "Twenty
Five to Midnight". I must have missed the boat on this, because I don't
know what it is.
What's up? Is this only a European release or something? Why can't us
Yanks ever get a good cut now and then...?
:-p
Mary
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> Unbelievable, I comment that Sting's faking his bass
> playing and I am told to stop listening, me, a huge
> fan for over 20 years. I guess there no longer is
> room for criticism, we must give the man non-stop
> praise.
Then, as the song goes..."Consider Me Gone"
> Look, some folks don't like to see people lip
> sync on stage, others don't like to see excessive
> machines or computerized music (if someone's acting
> out the part that's worse), it takes the soul away
> from the music.
Yeah, in much the same way that bellyaching Sting purists, who are
so high and mighty (read: Head Firmly Up Ass) that they have got the
gall to tell fellow listees to stop listening, take the soul out of
*everything*!
> You don't seem to care if your favorite performer does either or both then > good for you. People like myself that care about hearing *music* performed > by a musician and not a computer have a right to be upset, get off my back > for complaining about Sting faking his bass playing, I have every right to > voice my opinion.
Gerard...your initial post about "faking bass" prompted me to
respond to this list; I've been a member for months, but after some
initial involvement, I became disinterested and usually delete through
everything unless it has a compelling title to it: I began detecting
that asinine mentality, similar to the one that has attempted to
challenge you of late (btw, those sorts are on *every* list; there is no
killing them all off ;))and I saw it rear its ugly head whenever a
compelling, fair, and justifiably argument was introduced.
Sorry to interrupt anyone's morning "rub up against anything Sting"
moment: I've got a reasonable facsimile of an asshole over on another
mailing list I must go confront. Thanks for deigning to be interesting
Gerard; it was good fun! Christ, I actually played REGATTA DE BLANC and
GHOST IN THE MACHINE because I was momentarily inspired to hear the
Police.
Alas, now the thrill is gone...
Soapbox In The Foothills
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Sting is on the Chieftans album The Long Black Veil. On the Song Mo Ghile Mear ( Our Hero). I do not know if this is the only time or if he has done something with them more recently. The date on the disk is 1995. Hope this helps.
This song was available to us nutty Americans in the form of a b-side. It was indeed a track on the european releases of Mercury Falling. But we got it on the cd-single of You Still Touch Me - which I think you can still get on Amazon and cdnow. It is a great song and is worth the effort to track it down.
Good Luck,
Rich
The Ugly Sting Page
http://www.uglypage.com
Mary Robinson <Mary_Robinson@monterey.edu> wrote:
> I was just on the Stingmania site looking up some words to Mercury Falling
(why is stingchonicity down?) when I saw the words to the song "Twenty
Five to Midnight". I must have missed the boat on this, because I don't
know what it is.
What's up? Is this only a European release or something? Why can't us
Yanks ever get a good cut now and then...?
:-p
Mary
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Like so many great Sting songs, 25 To Midnight tells a story. You have to listen to the lyrics. I can vividly picture what the song is about every time I hear it. That is why it is a great song. But, to each his own.
Well, that's it - more or less.
Rich
Juan Manuel Galie <jmgalie@arnet.com.ar> wrote:
> Are you sure it's a great song? What's so great about it?
I traded my international version of Mercury Falling for an American
version just so I wouldn't have to hear that song, it just sort of ruined
the album.
It's not the case with Everybody laughed but me which is an interesting
song and is worth having on Ten Summoner's Tales.
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I know I'm in the vast minority, but...I actually like the video.
I've seen two versions of the video: the one using an editted album version and the dance remix.
I loved the editted album version of the video. The mood that the images creates is absolutely perfect for the song. When I finished watching that video, it made me very sad and lonely. Since the song is about desire, I thought it was appropriate. Or maybe I ws just susceptible...
The dance version didn't do as much for me. The song remix was a bit unimaginative, but enjoyable. They also cut out some of my favorite images from the album-version video.
And as to it being a giant Jaguar commercial, well, they paid for it, didn't they? According to Stingchronicity's latest news page, Sting waived his fee and Jaguar paid for the filming of the video. So of course the car will be an important part.
Julliette
In a message dated 3/21/00 3:30:55 PM, arobinson@caci.com writes:
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>I was hoping someone could lend some insight into what that video is
>about......I don't get it.
>
>Anne
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Okay, maybe somebody can help me. I'm trying to get info on DTS...whether or not I can play it on my CD player. Also, I've run across Every Breath You Take 2000 at several places but they don't say it's DTS. But the price is high and the release date is Jan 2000. Is this the same CD? Is De Do Do 86 only on a DTS version? Help somebody!
Teresa
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I hadn't realized that Spectrum was actually a significant band (or whatever)
I also wasn't aware of that many *instrumental* covers of Sting (I know, there's been an orchestral disc or two(?) )
So... now I know.
A couple people didn't seem to like it (ie they said it's about as bad as getting fake flowers for your girlfriend) .... so... I still like it. Although, I have nothing to compare it to, so maybe that's the problem. Anyway, (speaking of cheap... they're playing the Star Wars theme over the "Fake Bell Intercom System" here at the university.[instead of a real bell tower] Well, we college peepz take what we can get....)
Til Again (and Cheers!) Dave "Man in a Suitcase"
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