on michael jackson's history
he is credited :guitar,bass ,keyboard,drums.
on history remix cd on track morphine he and slash are credited playing guitars,michael also have drums credit.

but on that song there are no real guitar and drums.
so if michael realy plays instruments give me some proff in which song he played instruments???

can't we just pull up one of the old threads? thebanishedone, you've been here long enough to have seen one of those old threads.

CinisterCee said:

f'real. *curses ben for not fixing the damned search engine on this site*

cinister cee i read earlier treads on this topic,but answers were based on speculations.

If we have any new information on this specific topic since the last thread, color me surprised.

She used to be SO beautiful back then

are we REALLY going THERE again?!

and yea, letoya used to be a KNOCKOUT!!

Mike can probably play but I never heard him play an intrument before.

I would love to hear him play instruments.

He was credited for playing a lot of them on invincible too. I hope a video of him making music like that leaks someday

http://www.youtube.com/wa...0DdhkmIXA4
someone dare tell me that doesnt count

TheBoyfromtheBand said:

good call

CinisterCee said:

TheBoyfromtheBand said:

Impressive.

But, no, that doesn't count.

ThreadBare said:

You are right..it is beyond.

oh i LOVE LOOOVE this thread!

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Nice pictures! Thanks for posting. I haven´t seen some of them before.

I'm pretty sure he is a competent drummer.

According to Teddy Riley he is also a competent keyboard player.

According to Slash he is also a competent guitar player.

According to me he IS an instrument. Check out his beatboxing. One day I want him to record a song where he beatboxes the entire arrangement. That'd be so cool.

DarlingDiana said:

Really? When did they say that?

What's funny and what changes my entire perspective on whether Michael can play instruments is:


Flava Flav can play piano.

FLA-VA FLAAAAAV???!?!@?@?!@??? WTF???

So, you never, ever know...

http://www.youtube.com/wa...ameI79_h1A
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DarlingDiana said:

I once heard of someone refer to him as a TOOL, never an INSTRUMENT, however.!

19 posts in and no one has mentioned the miniature skin flute. I guess that "joke" has finally died.

I'm sure a guy who's been in music as long as Mike can noodle on a few instruments (autoharp? anyone can play that), but in those guitar pics, he might as well be holding a tennis racket. It's obviously just a pose.

He does look like he's drumming though, and that's a more intuitive instrument, maybe he can play a little.

But I have no doubt that if he was really good at any instrument we'd all have seen it by now. It's not like he's a shy performer.

NDRU said:[quote]I'm sure a guy who's been in music as long as Mike can noodle on a few instruments (autoharp? anyone can play that), but in those guitar pics, he might as well be holding a tennis racket. It's obviously just a pose.

He does look like he's drumming though, and that's a more intuitive instrument, maybe he can play a little.

But I have no doubt that if he was really good at any instrument we'd all have seen it by now. It's not like he's a shy performer.[/quote]
Well, Mike´s much of a dancer. I guess that is too strong for him to change it for an intrument onstage.
Anyways, it´s hard to say how well he plays, but he sure does play "a little". I remember back in the Mexican deposition, he said he played keyboards on the demo.

Mike actually started out as the J5's percussionist (you can see him on the bongos in the far right of the picture below). When the group first started just the three oldest boys were the main performers until Marlon joined (after being a percussionist). Then Michael finaly joined after being a percussionist. They did the same for Randy years later.




From left to right; Papa Joe on lead guitar, Johnny Jackson on drums, Marlon on tambourine, Titi on rhythm guitar, Jackie with a shaker, Jermaine (when he was lead singer) and Mike on bongos.
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I should've known there'd be no actual audio or live video.

Adisa said:

To be fair, there just isn't any footage of this. Not even showing Quincy Jones doing all the work or something else contrary to the topic of this thread.

The only thing we have is those demos that got released on the remastered editions and ultimate boxset.

NDRU said:

They are both obviously poses, but he is holding proper chords. In the music & me cover pic he is holding an open A major chord (or maybe an A major, because it looks like his index finger isn't bent so as to cover just 3 strings, it look like he is covering 4 strings). In the Scream video pic he is holding a Bb major chord but he's not barring the other strings. So I think he can play guitar, but he was just posing for those pics.
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I remember. What about that tiny little clip of MJ behind piano in the studio in that The One documentary, where Beyonce, Pharell and others talk about him.

and how during the shoot of they don't care about us in brazil, he picked up one of their traditional instruments and started playing it