Hopefully all you kids know that playing the video game “Rock Band” will not teach you how to play a musical instrument…but for those of you who are holding out hope that you’ll be rippin’ like Hendrix in a few weeks…listen up.

One of the rock stars who help create the game has admitted that he sucks at it, so there is absolutely no correlation between playing the game and rocking out for real. Sting, the great tantric one, insists that playing the artificial instruments is no true measure of one’s musical ability.

Sting reveals, “I contributed to it. They used a few of my songs. It’s good for kids to get into music, but I do wonder if playing the game actually makes you want to play a real guitar. I don’t know if it correlates.
“I’ve tried it, and I can’t do it.”

Don’t even think about trying to buy a ticket for the final show of The Police’s 2008 reunion tour. The only way to get a seat for this historic concert is to make a heft donation to the New York state public television networks. Don’t worry though, the donation requirement isn’t much more than what he actual tickets would have cost through the evil-ness that is Ticketmaster.

The reformed rockers will close their 14-month-long reunion tour at Madison Square Garden on 7 August and the concert is set to become the biggest fundraising event in the history of public television. Tickets to the gig will only be available through a pledge to Thirteen/WNET or WLIW21, New York’s leading public TV networks, which will celebrate the trio by airing a day of interviews and live performances in the run up to the concert.
Pledges for tickets start at $150 (£75) and go up to $5,000 (£2,500) for seats, VIP access to the band’s soundcheck and dinner for two before the show.

Typical cool-ass/make-the-world-a-better-place Sting stuff. A statement from the band reads, “We are honoured to partner with public television and have a deep respect for their commitment to arts and culture.”

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