Sting Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles July 27th, 1988 3CD
This was sort of a secret show to be played with very short notice in a very small venue. The show which included a lot of covers, such as Frank Zappa’s “The Idiot Bastard Son”. After the break Kenny and Branford performed Kenny’s instrumental “Blasphemy”. To introduce “Consider Me Gone”, Sting told the audience: “I was singing this next song, I think in San Francisco last week and while I was singing it I couldn’t help thinking of George Bush, so I want you to think about George as I sing this song.” Bush was running for President. Before Mackie Messer: “We just came from a tour of Europe. At this point of the show every night I come on and I do a song in the language of the country I was performing in. [..] It shows some kind of respect for the culture and the people you are playing to, and also they go fucking crazy when you do. So tonight, just for the fun of it I’m gonna do a song in German, a song in Italian, a song in French, and then I’m gonna play you what I play in the mid-west of America. You’ll be surprised.” Before “Caro Mio Ben”: “What I’m not gonna play here tonight is an awful version of the William Tell Ouverture which we fucked up in Switzerland. This song is Italian. You’ll like this if you like pizza.”
CD ONE (54:03min)
01) Someone To Watch Over Me (George & Ira Gershwin) ~
02) Sister Moon
03) Lazarus Heart ~
04) Too Much Information
05) Englishman In New York
06) Rock Steady
07) Straight To My Heart
08) Tempted (Tillbrook/Difford)
09) One World(Not Three)
10) If You Love Somebody(Set Them Free)
CD TWO (58:44min)
01) Bring On The Night ~
02) When The World Is Running Down(You Make The Best Of What’s Still Around)
03) Lonely House (Kurt Weill)
04) The Idiot Bastard Sond (FZ)
05) I Don’t Wanna Be (Dolette McDonald)
06) LA Promise (Delmar Brown)
07) Branford & Kenny Instrumental (Kenny Kirkland/Branford Marsalis)
08) They Dance Alone
09) Consider Me Gone
10) King Of Pain
CD THREE (58:54min)
01) Be Still My Beating Heart
02) Walking In your Footsteps
03) Fragile
04) Little Wing (Jimi Hendrix)
05) The Secret Marriage
06) Don’t Stand So Close To Me
07) Mack The Knife (Kurt Weill/Marc Blitzstein/Bertolt Brecht)
08) Cario Mie Bien (Giuseppe Giordani)
09) Ne Me Quitte Pas (Jacques Brel)
10) Home On The Ranch (Woody Guthrie)
11) Every Breath You Take
Length: 171:41min
Personal:
Gordon Matthew Sumner(a.k.a. Sting): Vocals, Guitar, Synclavier
Jeffrey Lee Campbell: Guitar
Delmar Brown: Keyboards, Vocals
Kenny Kirkland: Keyboards
Branford Marsalis: Tenor- and Alto-Saxophone
Tracy Ann Wormworth: Bass
Jean Paul Ceccarelli: Drums(note: some different info has it James Taylor ‘JT’ Lewis played drums)
Mino Cinelu: Percussion
Dolette McDonald: Vocals
