The Story of a Small Boy, and The Police
There once was a boy who long ago used to to listen to the radio, a small portable transistor radio with an antennea and all, that ran on a single 9 volt battery. He used to listen to it often but usually at night while forced to “go to sleep” he’d hide it under his pillow and listen quietly to the songs that would play through the feathers.
As time went on and he grew older, his parents graciously bought him a small beat-up drum kit in which he would learn to play, playing along to many songs from many bands but always coming back to a certain band for a challenge and inspiration. As this boy grew up, heading into juniour highschool The Police became the underlying soundtrack to his existance, “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic” still sends him back to his first crush on a girl, (Chrissy Bohmer was beautiful and never did show any interest in him). As time went on and the boy was at the age to go to concerts The Police had called it quits as a band and there was no chance for him to see them live.
As life went on and drumming became the forefront of his plans The Police and especially Stewart Copeland were always there to inspire and conspire within his mind. Collaborating with the likes of Zeppelin and the late great John Bonham to help this boy develop his own style of drumming (if you can call it that).
The boy grew into a man (okay almost) and over the years has had a little taste of the golden apple but as life moves on priorities change and this boy is presently doing other things other than drumming.
On the 27th and 30th of May somewhere in GM Place here in Vancouver there will be a small boy within a man with the biggest fucking smile on his face that you’ve ever seen. As The Police start off they’re reunion tour after 23 years of waiting there will be a rush of memories as this boys soundtrack starts to rewind. From highschool memories to drum chops he wished he could pull off there will be a solid constant in that every song will have it’s own place in this boy’s heart and mind. One thing you can be as sure as the sun will rise tomorrow is that when The Police break into “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic”, well….you get the picture.