The members of The Police are finally getting along after many years of unrest, but that doesn’t mean they’re all happy with their first round of performances. Drummer Stewart Copeland, who toured with Les Claypool and Trey Anastasio as Oysterhead in 2001, has been  openly critically about The Police’s first few reunion performances in Canada . "This is unbelievably lame," Copeland posted in his online forum. "“We’ll have to listen to the tapes tomorrow to see who screwed up, but we are so off kilter that Sting counts us in to begin the song again. This is ubeLIEVably lame. We are the mighty Police and we are totally at sea.”

A noted perfectionist, Copeland picked apart The Police’s new take on “Message in a Bottle,” admitting, “we are half a bar out of sync with each other. Andy is in Idaho." He went onto say that “the mighty Sting momentarily looks like a petulant pansy instead of the god of rock" and that he himself comes off as a "complete hash.” He continues: “We get to the end of the first verse and I snap into the chorus groove–and Sting doesn’t. He’s still in the verse.”

"And so it goes, for song after song," he says, "It usually takes about four or five shows in a tour before you get to the disaster gig. But we're The Police so we are a little ahead of schedule.”

Apparently, the trio are taking their early failures in stride, laughing about their mistakes backstage and bonding over their live flubs. “When we meet up backstage for the first time after the set and before the encores, we fall into each other’s arms laughing hysterically. Above our heads, the crowd is making so much noise that we can’t talk. We just shake our heads ruefully and head back up the stairs to the stage. Funny thing is, we are enjoying ourselves anyway. Screw it, it’s only music. What are you gonna do? But maybe it’s time to get out of Vancouver.”

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