The Police are touring again and they have a new CD coming out June 5th. It is a 2 disc set that has a ton of my favorite Police songs. And I would really like to get this set to add to my collection, but I know someone who wants it more. That would be my sister Tara, she is a real huge fan of Sting and The Police so she would absolutely love to have the new police cd to add to her huge collection.

I know that she already has tickets to the concert when the Police Tour comes near us and she is very excited about this, but to have the new police cd with 28 tracks of your favorite Police songs. Here check out the list of what is on the discs.

Disc: 1 1. Fallout 2. Can’t Stand Losing You 3. Next to You 4. Roxanne 5. Truth Hits Everybody 6. Hole in My Life 7. So Lonely 8. Message in a Bottle 9. Reggatta de Blanc 10. Bring on the Night 11. Walking on the Moon 12. Don’t Stand So Close to Me 13. Driven to Tears 14. Canary in a Coalmine

Disc: 2 1. Do Do Do de da da Da 2. Voices Inside My Head 3. Invisible Sun 4. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic 5. Spirits in the Material World 6. Demolition Man 7. Every Breath You Take 8. Synchronicity I 9. Wrapped Around Your Finger 10. Walking in Your Footsteps 11. Synchronicity II 12. King of Pain 13. Murder by Numbers 14. Tea in the Sahara

These CDs are a must have for any Police fan out there but for a super fan of the Police like my sister these are an absolute must have, must play till they wear out set of CDs. I may have to borrow them to listen to them, if she would let me. I have lost count of how many times she has seen Sting, or recorded shows about The Police and Sting and how much she knows about the band. She even has a beautiful artists rendition of a portrait of Sting. So I am hoping to be lucky enough to be selected to get a copy of the CD so that I can give it to her.

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A New 2 Disc CD set from The Police!

Today Allison and I started the day with some bacon, egg and cheese English muffins that I made. They were very tasty. I felt like making breakfast this weekend so on Friday when I got home from my trip I stopped at the store and got the supplies needed. I also added to Allison’s reserves of Limeade. She loves the stuff. Simply Limeade is the best because there is no high fructose corn syrup.

In the afternoon I got an e-mail message from The Transformers Collector’s Club. The registration form and brochure for BotCon 2007 had just come out. I immediately filled out my Registration form and faxed it in. There is a great feature this year which is an early screening of the Transformers Live action movie. You know, the one I’ve been counting down to for over 2 years now. Well, I will get to see the movie 6 days early as long as my registration was one of the first ones to make it in. Also this year the collector’s set is an all Decepticon one which will include the rest of the seekers. That will be pretty sweet. And I signed up for the top package so I will be getting a bonus figure as well as admission to the awards dinner on Saturday night. I hope that my friends Ryan and Don can make it to the convention too. It will be nice to go to this thing with friends. This will also be the first Botcon I will have gone to since 2003.

Tonight Allison and I went with Jenn to see Ellis Paul at the Common Fence in Portsmouth, RI. We had never been to this venue before but were eager to check it out.

The Common Fence Point Community Hall was very close to Evelyn’s Drive In. I figured that we would have a nice dinner there before the show but they do not open until this coming Monday. Oh well, we drove a little ways further to the Stone Bridge Restaurant in Tiverton, RI. The food at the Stone Bridge was good. They had a selection of seafood and Italian dishes and the view was very nice. We watched the sunset through the windows. I went outside and across the street to get the Photo-A-Day picture and a couple other pictures.

Sunset in Tiverton.

A ship on th water in Tiverton, RI.

Then we headed over to the Common Fence Point Community Hall. The place was already packed at 7:20pm. A little inside knowledge that we will keep for next visit is that the doors open at 7:00pm and you can bring your own food and drinks to the hall. We will know for our next trip. The Common Fence Point Community Hall was a very nice little place, there were tables through the middle of the room and folding chairs all around the outer edges. We sat by the back wall. As we were waiting for the show to begin we saw a friend of mine from College, Stevie D and his wife Kristen. We had seen them at a previous Ellis Paul show back in January of 2004. It was nice to talk with them and catch up a bit. We’ll probably see them in another 3 years at some other Ellis Paul show.

The show was very good. Flynn opened the show and he was really on his game tonight. I really enjoyed his music this evening and his story about meeting Cher gets better and better. Flynn has a great way of storytelling and is very enjoyable to watch.

After Flynn was done there was a short intermission and Ellis took to the stage. He played many of the songs that we have come to know and love over the years and he introduced us to two new songs. I do not know the name of the songs but one was probably called Summertime and the other had to do with wabi sabi. Wabi Sabi basically means treasuring those things that change in our lifetime and grow old and become more wonderful. I am paraphrasing but I think that was the gist.

After the show we bought Essentials which is a two disc set of Ellis‘ music. Then we got in line and got that CD signed by Ellis and Jenn took our picture with Ellis.

I also took a few pictures during the show. Only once did I forget and let the flash go off. The rest of the time I tried to capture Ellis and Flynn when they were not moving, so I have tuning pictures.

Flynn tuning his guitar.

Ellis tuning his Guitar.

Ellis and Flynn singing “Let it Be”.

Allison and I with Ellis Paul

I linked to both Ellis and Flynn’s MySpace pages, there you can hear many of the songs from the show including Summertime from Ellis and White from Flynn.

and one of the biggest happy surprises from the show was that Ellis is writing a children’s album. We are very excited about that one.

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Photo-A-Day #722 03/31/07

Yesterday I placed an Order for THE KIERAN RIDGE BAND CD through CD Baby.com. If you go back through the archives you will remember that Kieran Ridge is a Boston Based Blues Rock singer who also happens to have gone to college with me. Yesterday when I was looking up folk singers and musicians I went to his site to check out the latest news and see if the band was performing near me at any time. They are actually in the studio now recording a new album.

Anyway, I placed an order for his debut album. And the following this the confirmation from CD Baby.com letting me know my CD was shipped.

Your CD has been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.

A team of 50 employees inspected your CD and polished it to make sure it was in the best possible condition before mailing.

Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over
the crowd as he put your CD into the finest gold-lined box that money can buy.

We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved ‘Bon Voyage!’ to your package, on its way to you, in our private CD Baby jet on this day, Wednesday, September 22nd.

I hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby. We sure did.
Your picture is on our wall as ‘Customer of the Year’. We’re all exhausted but can’t wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM!!

This of course is a much better message than the one I got from Action-HQ when they sent me a banged up Binaltech Silverstreak and basically told me “Too Bad, So Sad about our incompetence of shipping products.”

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CD Baby…

Allison gave me the Once more with Feeling Soundtrack to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical episode titled “Once more with Feeling” (obviously). I loved that episode and found it amazing that Joss Whedon wrote all the songs and also the music to each song. What I did not know was that the CD was produced and distributed by Rounder Records.

Who cares about Rounder Records well, if you are a folk fan like Allison and I are then we care a lot. Ellis Paul, Vance Gilbert, Allison Krauss, Natalie MacMaster and Slaid Cleaves are with Rounder. And Rounder is based in Cambridge, MA. Click the links above to check out the different CD’s from each artist.

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Once more with Feeling…