Byline: Penny Parker, Rocky Mountain News
You don't have to turn on the red light to hear The Police before the band's reunion tour arrives June 9 at the Pepsi Center.
Instead, hop on down Friday to The Toad Tavern in Littleton to catch Message In a Bottle, a Denver-based Police tribute band that sounds like the real deal.
Band founders and childhood friends Corey Stopperan (drums and vocals) and Peter Henriksen (bass) formed the band in 2002 as Murder by Numbers, playing to college crowds in Greeley and Fort Collins. After a year's hiatus and several personnel changes, Stopperan and Henriksen resurrected the band as an all-Police, all-the-time group with guitarist Mike Forberg and, more recently, lead vocalist Alton King.
King, a mid-40s pharmacy intern at the CU Health Sciences Center, answered an Internet ad looking for a Sting- esque singer. "My voice lends itself to sound like Sting's," he said. "I have his range."
Or at least his old range. Did you notice how Sting skirted the high notes during Roxanne, which The Police played Sunday night to open the Grammys?
King hadn't heard that The Police had a Pepsi Center stop but vowed to see the singer he sounds like but has never seen live. "I'll have to save for my ticket, because I'm on a starving student budget."
Check out Message in a Bottle at policerockreggae.com.
BIG TICKET: While we're cooling our heels (and wallets) awaiting an on-sale date and final ticket price for The Police here, the price for a chance to see the band in The Big Apple is soaring - or at least the asking price is.
A seller on ticket stubhub.com is asking $14,112 for a ticket to the Aug. 1 Madison Square Garden show.
Pepsi Center peeps should expect to pay $225, $90 and $50 for tickets.
AMOR: Alejandra Garza, former Colorado Springs TV reporter and communications director for Denver Public Schools, and Juan Marcos Gutierrez, former general consul of Mexico in Denver, tied the knot Feb. 3 at the Phipps Mansion. Roughly 130 guests - including Mayor John Hickenlooper, DPS honcho -Michael Bennet and KBNO mogul Zee Ferrufino - witnessed the marital merger.
"The joke that several of our good friends told us is that usually when a Mexican citizen comes to the U.S. and marries, that person usually stays here," Garza said. "Instead, he's taking me back to Mexico."
Gutierrez has been appointed to a high-ranking position with the Ministry of Public Administration in Mexico City, where he'll direct the anti-corruption efforts in the Mexican government. Garza will volunteer for an animal welfare campaign to educate people about pet overpopulation.
THE SEEN: Delicious Dynasty diva Joan Collins dining late at Prime 121 in Cherry Creek North on Saturday night. Madame Collins also was spotted dining Monday night at Ocean with local bigwigs Arlene and Barry Hirschfeld and Steve Farber.
EAVESDROPPING on a woman talking to her soon-to-be ex-husband about their "mutual" friends: "While you were kicking everyone off of your little island, we were making our own island."
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The Police: coming to the Pepsi Center
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