JAS acts wow the crowds at Snowmass Town Park...

...Sting was up next. One of the most extraordinary things about The Police is that the band’s recording career lasted around five years. They recorded their first album “Outlandos d'Amour" in 1978 and their last album “Synchronicity” in 1983.

Only a few bands/artists have left as big an imprint on rock ’n’ roll in such a short time. Think Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana and Derek and the Dominos.

Sting has essentially been a solo artist for almost 40 years. Saturday night’s show was roughly 60% to 70% tunes from Sting’s days with The Police and based upon the amount of enthusiastic “ay-ohs” the audience threw back at him, no one seemed to mind.

Sting had a three-piece band, the same configuration as the Police. He was joined by longtime collaborator Dominic Miller on guitar and drummer Chris Maas.

The band treated the crowd to the following Police tunes: “Every Little Thing She Does is Magic,” “King of Pain,” “Message in a Bottle,” “Driven to Tears,” “Can’t Stand Losing You,” “Walking on the Moon,” Feel So Lonely” and “Roxanne.”

I had forgotten about some of the incredible lines in the song “King of Pain,” such as, “There's a blind man looking for a shadow of a doubt.”

One of the reasons seeing Sting is so great is that The Police are incredibly underplayed. You rarely hear their music in bars, on the radio or out and about. If you do, it’s “Every Breath You Take,” “Roxanne” or “Message In A Bottle.” It’s incredibly exhilarating to hear “Feel So Lonely” and “Walking on The Moon.”

(c) Aspen Daily News by Geoff Hanson