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Thread started 03/03/23 10:08pm

AdamK	The Time synthesizer sounds on Thriller? Seems like MJ, like the rest of us, was digging the synthesizer sounds on The Time’s album. Anthony Marinelli tells the story a bit into this clip. https://www.instagram.com...MyMTA2M2Y=
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Reply #1 posted 03/04/23 6:21am

Vannormal

nice, but which Time abum, what song and what synth riff... wink

nice puzzle to figur out

i leave that up to others.

thing i wonder is, did Michael (or someone else back then) knew it was all Prince playing these sounds?

i mean Jamie starr...

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. And wiser people so full of doubts." (Bertrand Russell 1872-1972)

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Reply #2 posted 03/06/23 11:22am

JorisE73

Vannormal said:

nice, but which Time abum, what song and what synth riff...

nice puzzle to figur out

i leave that up to others.

thing i wonder is, did Michael (or someone else back then) knew it was all Prince playing these sounds?

i mean Jamie starr...

I think Quincy jones did. Quincy jones was the guy who said to rip and reverse the 1999 synth hook for Thriller. I guess we're slowly finding out that Prince was a major influence to Thriller.

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Reply #3 posted 03/06/23 2:38pm

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Those MJ records really were about coalescing/straight up jacking intriguing pop trends of the moment and streamlining them so they were even more pop.

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Reply #4 posted 03/06/23 4:56pm

LoveGalore	WhisperingDandelions said: Those MJ records really were about coalescing/straight up jacking intriguing pop trends of the moment and streamlining them so they were even more pop. [Edited 3/6/23 6:39am] Gotta love word salad.
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Reply #5 posted 03/06/23 5:14pm

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JorisE73 said:

Vannormal said:

nice, but which Time abum, what song and what synth riff...

nice puzzle to figur out

i leave that up to others.

thing i wonder is, did Michael (or someone else back then) knew it was all Prince playing these sounds?

i mean Jamie starr...

I think Quincy jones did. Quincy jones was the guy who said to rip and reverse the 1999 synth hook for Thriller. I guess we're slowly finding out that Prince was a major influence to Thriller.

The Michael Jackson die hards will not want to hear it.

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Reply #6 posted 03/06/23 7:04pm

JorisE73

paisleyparkgirl said:

JorisE73 said:

I think Quincy jones did. Quincy jones was the guy who said to rip and reverse the 1999 synth hook for Thriller. I guess we're slowly finding out that Prince was a major influence to Thriller.

The Michael Jackson die hards will not want to hear it.

I am a MJ die hard wink
And if other fans don't want to hear it when the people who were actually there creating the album say so I'd take there word over some fan's.

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Reply #7 posted 03/06/23 8:13pm

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JorisE73 said:

paisleyparkgirl said:

The Michael Jackson die hards will not want to hear it.

I am a MJ die hard
And if other fans don't want to hear it when the people who were actually there creating the album say so I'd take there word over some fan's.

But you're also a Prince fan, I forgot to specify that I was referring to the die hard MJ fans who hate Prince.

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Reply #8 posted 03/07/23 7:47am

JorisE73

paisleyparkgirl said:

JorisE73 said:

I am a MJ die hard
And if other fans don't want to hear it when the people who were actually there creating the album say so I'd take there word over some fan's.

But you're also a Prince fan, I forgot to specify that I was referring to the die hard MJ fans who hate Prince.

Nobody takes those creeps seriously.

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Reply #9 posted 03/07/23 3:33pm

BEAUGARDE	I thought it was the song 1999 https://prince.org/msg/8/312874
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Reply #10 posted 03/09/23 2:11pm

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This is similar to Rick James actually stealing Prince's(r.i.p.) programmed synthesizers using them on his own 1981 album Street Songs, and then sent them back to him “with a thank-you card.” SMH

Prince(r.i.p.) is low key responsible for some of the biggest albums in their careers.

"That mountain top situation is not really what it's all cracked up 2 B when eye