Oct. 11-12

Andy Summers admits that when the Police broke up "the memory of the group still felt like an open wound - something that would take years to heal... the only alternative was to live with it, do other work, and hope that maybe in time the wound would heal." That wound has at least partially healed, it would seem, from the guitarist's memoir of those days, "One Train Later." (He became a Policeman by meeting drummer Stewart Copeland on a train.) Summers's take on his rock life is an intelligent one. He's the type to question the path he's taken and reflect upon good times and bad. This is not one of those tawdry tell-alls. Heck, at the time some fans were behaving rudely - trying to score cocaine outside the hotel - Sting, Copeland and Summers were upstairs all reading Jane Austen. All of them? If you say so. One thing I always admired about the Police: I interviewed them at the Paradise way back and Sting admitted the Police were anything but punks, but punk was important to kick down the doors of the staid music establishment. You can see Summers speak at two places, the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline on Wednesday Oct. 11 at 6 p.m. and the Borders on School street in Boston the following day at 12:15 p.m. It'll cost you $2 in Brookline (tix at Brookline Booksmith across the street) and it's free at Borders.

CCT, 290 Harvard St., Brookline, 617-734-2500, coolidge.org Borders, 10-24 School St. 617-557-7188 bordersstores.com