mad dog in the fog

I saw The Police play at McAfee Coliseum (Oakland, CA) last night. The highlight of the show for me was ‘So Lonely’. Here’s a video of their performance of that song from last week’s Seattle show.

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“Well the movie never ends it goes on and on and on and on….”

I really liked the ending. Like the other Journey song on the jukebox said: “Any Way You Want It”. Personally, I think he was whacked.

6/12/07 Update:
From this exclusive interview with David Chase:

One detail about the final scene that he’ll discuss, however tentatively: the selection of Journey’s "Don’t Stop Believin’" as the song on the
jukebox.

"It didn’t take much time at all to pick it, but there was a lot of conversation after the fact. I did something I’d never done before: in the location van, with the crew, I was saying, ‘What do you think?’ When I said, ‘Don’t Stop Believin’,’ people went, ‘What? Oh my god!’ I said, ‘I know, I know, just give a listen,’ and little by little, people started coming around."

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