The most recent show on The Police [ tickets ]'s reunion tour--which wrapped up its three-night run in Vancouver, British Columbia, Wednesday night (5/30)--got a poor review from the band's own drummer, Stewart Copeland.

"It usually takes about four or five shows in a tour before you get to the disaster gig," Copeland wrote in a post-show blog entry. "But we're The Police, so we are a little ahead of schedule."

According to Copeland's account, the show started with him tripping and falling as he took the stage, after which he, frontman/bassist Sting and guitarist Andy Summers apparently ran into trouble with the first song of the set.

"Andy has started the opening guitar riff to 'Message in a Bottle' and the crowd is going nuts," Copeland wrote. "Problem is, I missed hearing him start. Is he on the first time around or the second? I look over at Sting and he's not much help, his cue is me--and I'm lost. Never mind. 'Crack!' on the snare and I'm in, so Sting starts singing. Problem is, he heard my crack as two in the bar, but it was actually four--so we are half a bar out of sync with each other. Andy is in Idaho."

Things didn't get much better from there, according to Copeland.

"We crash through 'Message' and then go strait into 'Synchronicity," he wrote. "But there is just something wrong. We just can't get on the good foot. We shamble through the song and hit the big ending. Last night Sting did a big leap for the cut-off hit, and he makes the same move tonight, but he gets the footwork just a little bit wrong and doesn't quite achieve lift-off. The mighty Sting momentarily looks like a petulant pansy instead of the god of rock. Never mind. Next song is going to be great ...

"But it isn't. We get to the end of the first verse and I snap into the chorus groove--and Sting doesn't. He's still in the verse. We'll have to listen to the tapes tomorrow to see who screwed up, but we are so off kilter that Sting counts us in to begin the song again. This is ubeLIEVably lame. We are the mighty Police and we are totally at sea."

Despite all of the snafus, the threesome--which broke up over two decades ago due in part to infighting--remained in good spirits.

"When we meet up back-stage for the first time after the set and before the encores, we fall into each other's arms laughing hysterically," he wrote. "Above our heads, the crowd is making so much noise that we can't talk. We just shake our heads ruefully and head back up the stairs to the stage. Funny thing is, we are enjoying ourselves anyway. Screw it, it's only music. What are you gonna do? But maybe it's time to get out of Vancouver ... "

The Police [ tickets ]'s tour continues tomorrow night (6/2) in Edmonton, Alberta.