dag said:

This drives me crazy. I'd rather people say nothing than a few tidbits here and there but I knew the interview would be that way.

"can coon Mexico"

JackieBlue said:

Exactly, it´s very easy to twist their statements then. It´s what LMP used to do as well and then she was complaining that she didn´t mean it that way. I hated it so much.

And I hate the way these TV channles operate. I mean I saw a preview of this interview and then I was watching the whole thing on youtube and I was over a second part out of six and I haven´t learn anything new that wasn´t shown in the preview. They keep on repeating things thousands of times adding few seconds here and there and consider it a "new show".
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dag said:

This drives me crazy. I'd rather people say nothing than a few tidbits here and there but I knew the interview would be that way.

"can coon Mexico"

JackieBlue said:

Michael always had problems with grammar

Yet I'm still hating on the lyrics because I wish I wrote them

Stab Michael in the back? WTF?

Stab Michael in the back? WTF?

JackieBlue said:

I didn't write that. But, yes, thar's a bit ignorant.

Look, after the trial and during the trial, the family got the opportunity of doing it good, and doing it right. During Michael stay in Bahrein, Jermaine recomended him to go there, and he went with him. His family visited in many occasions. He was weak then, his will weaker, and easier to persuade, but where was the intervention?
After him coming back in the US - his ties with his family didn't severed, they visited him, and he visited them....

They even talked about doing the J5 concert all the time with Michael, trying to persuade him....

There were talks about the Jacksons 5 reunion, many many talks - even Janet, before the talks with AEG, and even after Michael signed with them, said that she WOULD BE PLEASED to OPEN the brothers concerts.


Now, if Michael would have been that ill, that addicted, that frail - WHY MAKE SUCH BUSINESS PLANS? Why, when he was in Bahrein, Jermaine and the Prince wanted to release albums with him? Why were they planing that J5 reunion, trying to persuade Michael to give in? Why making plans for touring, for reuniting, for collaborations? Even Janet was agreeing, last year. Where were the REAL CONCERNS, the real INTERVENTION?
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JackieBlue said:

Exactly, it´s very easy to twist their statements then. It´s what LMP used to do as well and then she was complaining that she didn´t mean it that way. I hated it so much.

And I hate the way these TV channles operate. I mean I saw a preview of this interview and then I was watching the whole thing on youtube and I was over a second part out of six and I haven´t learn anything new that wasn´t shown in the preview. They keep on repeating things thousands of times adding few seconds here and there and consider it a "new show".
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That's a lie at her stabbing MJ in the back, please.

Yeah I wished she went more into detail but that's ok, I still like the interview.

Who mad?

MOL said:

Yea, why did Jermaine take him to Bahrein? That sheik of Arabic ended up suing Michael.. Jermaine didn't help Michael he made more of a mess. Not to mention Tohme Tohme..

These fans I swear.....
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mimi07 said:

Poor Mickey. You can feel his pain.

As for the Janet interview, it´s hard to judge what she said about Mike cause she didn´t get into detail. I hate when peole touch on a subject like that. They should either get in detail and say exactly what happen and not just touch the subject. For me, it would have been better if she avoided talking about it completely. Well, hopefully, the police investigation reveals more.

babybugz said:

Yet, you are incapable of counter-argumenting me. You know that I've just posted facts.

MOL said:

Yea, why did Jermaine take him to Bahrein? That sheik of Arabic ended up suing Michael.. Jermaine didn't help Michael he made more of a mess. Not to mention Tohme Tohme..

Russ Terrana's "Message to Michael"

By Yoann, 13/11/2009



Engineer Russ Terrana’s “Message To Michael” On The Release Of The New Jackson 5 Album!

By Joe Klein

All of us at New Media Creative are very excited for our good friend RUSS TERRANA, the legendary Motown Records sound recording engineer who recorded and mixed no less than 92 NUMBER ONE RECORDS during his illustrious and decades-long career!

Yesterday marked the release of the first “new” JACKSON 5 album in decades! The album, called I WANT YOU BACK! UNRELEASED MASTERS is a collection of a dozen previously unreleased tracks recorded by The J5 back in their early years at Motown Records (1969-1970) at the same time they were recording their early smash hits at the label. The entire album was mixed down by Russ in this past September

Russ mixed all of the early Jackson 5 hits while still working for Motown in their Detroit studios. The first Motown Jackson 5 tracks were recorded in Detroit in the summer of 1969, with producer BOBBY TAYLOR. At that time, BERRY GORDY began to migrate Motown to Hollywood (where they ultimately totally relocated by 1972.) He moved his hot new “boy band” out to L.A. and finished recording the first Jackson 5 album in a small studio in the West Hollywood area of L.A. Taylor produced a few more songs, and a new production team, dubbed THE CORPORATION by Berry Gordy, which was comprised of Gordy, FREDDIE PERRIN, DEKE RICHARDS and ALPHONZO MIZELL, produced the final two songs for the album, one of which was the #1 smash I WANT YOU BACK, which propelled the group to instant stardom after its release.

Gordy was not happy with the original mixes of the album made in L.A. and sent the tapes back to Detroit to have his resident “mix-master” Russ remix the the album

Berry loved Russ’ new mixes and released them as the debut Jackson 5 album, DIANA ROSS PRESENTS THE JACKSON 5 in December of 1969. The album quickly rocketed up the charts, hitting #1 on the R&B charts and #5 on the pop charts in the months to follow. The only single from that first album, I WANT YOU BACK, was itself a #1 smash that set the tone for a string of #1 hit singles and albums to follow (all of which were also mixed by Russ) and, the rest is, as they say “music history!”

Early this year, just as the celebration of Motown’s Fiftieth Anniversary had begun” and preparations for the fortieth anniversary of the first Jackson 5 releases were getting underway, Universal Music Enterprises started searching the Motown vaults and unearthed a stash of old Michael Jackson and Jackson 5 master tapes with the hopes of unearthing a few hidden gems to release this year.

They company hit pay dirt in the spring and started reviewing the newly-found masters to determine which were good candidates for a release late this year. Then came the sudden, tragic death of Michael in late in June which, naturally gave the “lost tracks” new historical significance.

HARRY WEINGER, vice president of A&R for UNIVERSAL MUSIC ENTERPRISES, the company responsible for the creation and packaging of the Motown Records catalog of hits, passed along this information to me last month. “I started looking through J5 and MJ Motown masters earlier this year in anticipation of the J5’s 40th anniversary. Obviously, when we heard the news of Michael’s death, what was there got a bigger spotlight.”

In August, Weinger contacted Russ and asked him he would be interested in mixing eleven newly discovered J5 tracks from 1970. It took Russ all of a few seconds to reply and, within a couple of weeks, the digital files of eleven old Jackson 5 multi-track masters were delivered to Russ. Russ then proceeded to meticulously mix down the old recordings in a state-of-the art digital recording facility located in Scots Valley, California called ROCKER STUDIOS, owned by his good friend, RICK VIERRA.

It took Russ and Rick about a month to complete the eleven mixes, finishing the project at the end of September. Working with my partner Brett Bumeter, I first released the story online online about this exciting new release in mid-September, and UME made the “official “ announcement about the new three weeks later.

In a blog story we posted last month, Russ described the project as one of the most rewarding experiences of his professional life, and was moved by the process of mixing the tracks. “It really was a labor of love,” he remarked in the article.

The tracks sound great! Russ managed to capture and perfectly emulate the sounds he first molded and blended decades ago that sold tens of millions of singles and albums for the label. Listening to the just-released J5 tracks is, as Russ himself described the mixing process, is “like stepping back in a time machine.”

The new J5 album, like all the projects Russ touched during his amazing career, is nothing short of a masterpiece, particularly from the standpoint of its impeccable vintage substance—and sound. It’s definitely worth a listen, and a purchase to complete any collection of early Jackson family classics!

I managed to reach Russ on the phone just as the album was becoming available yesterday and asked him about how he felt on this day of the release of the new Jackson 5 album

“It’s about time!” he quipped. “Seriously Joe, this really is exciting. I can’t remember the last time I was this excited about the release of an album I have mixed!”

I asked Russ if there were any other thoughts or feeling he’d like to share about the project.

“It really was a thrill to work on this album. Mixing those tracks stirred up so many memories and emotions about all the time I spent working with Michael and his brothers. It really was a rewarding experience I’ll never forget.”

Last night, Russ sent me an awesome and memorable photo he took at a Motown Records company picnic in the early seventies. It’s a photo of a beaming young MICHAEL JACKSON holding his baby niece, STACEE BROWN, the daughter of his oldest sister, MAUREEN REILETTE “REBBIE” JACKSON. This particular photo has never been published, and captures a rare moment with Michael and demonstrates just how much he always loved children, even as a young teenager himself!



Kudos to my long-time friend Russ Terrana for another job well done, and his own vital role in yet one more piece of pop music history……It’s great to see that those good old “ears” are still working great!

Next week, we’ll be posting an article that is an extensive and comprehensive look at the career, accomplishments and techniques of the humble genius with more number one records to his credit than any other sound engineer in music history. It’s a story you won’t want to miss!

Russ added one last comment at the end of our phone call yesterday, a heartfelt message from one of the people so responsible for the creation of the early Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson solo hits. “This one’s from me to Michael, and, now, for the world.”

Well said,old friend!





Source : newmediacreative.com / MJJVault.us

bboy87 said:

I've always felt he became friends with Liz because she shared the same experiences that he had. He always gravitated towards other child stars:

Liz Taylor
George "Spanky" McFarland
Emannuel Lewis
Donny Osmond
Brooke Shields
Shirley Temple

They had been through the same things

sag10 said:

Let's be honest here.....

The sheik was more than wonderful to MJ, when Mj was acquitted after the trial he needed some space and rest, the sheik gave MJ a home and everything you could imagine...it was a great hospitality....

They did an agreement and Mj wasn't capable to fulfill it, Im glad that this one ended peacefully…tho..

dag said:

This drives me crazy. I'd rather people say nothing than a few tidbits here and there but I knew the interview would be that way.

"can coon Mexico"

I can send you a pdf of the book with Schumley's commentary removed