It cost a pretty penny (tickets started at $250) to see sting play Tampa’s newish Hard Rock Event Center at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, but least the 70-year-old rock icon was looking pretty as hell after his own son, Joe Sumner, opened the show on Saturday.

Joe Sumner Credit: Photo by Tracy May
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Credit: Photo by Tracy May
Credit: Photo by Tracy May
Credit: Photo by Tracy May
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Credit: Photo by Tracy May
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Credit: Photo by Tracy May
Credit: Photo by Tracy May
Credit: Photo by Tracy May
Credit: Photo by Tracy May
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Credit: Photo by Tracy May

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...