The Police back in 2007 in Oakland. It was in the stadium the Oakland A's baseball team plays and the stage was really big, like over 100 feet... for three guys. They all pretty much stood at various points of the stage and did not interact with each other for the entire night. Sting also played a lot of his solo stuff, and then they did like... 10 minute long renditions of classics like "Roxanne" that just got boring around the 5 minute mark. Worst of all the tickets were like $80, when the night before we went to see Danko Jones at a crappy little bar in the industrial district of San Francisco we only paid $20 and had as good a time as anybody underage can have at a gig in a completely different city. I swore off stadium gigs after that show, I don't care who it is, I want the show to be in a sweaty room where I can actually fight my way to the front.
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