Incredible style, charisma...this has to be every lady´s dream man.

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Militant said:

I went to an MJ fan event once. It was at the Hammersmith Palais in London, about 5 years ago.

I seem to recall it was while the trial was ongoing or perhaps just afterward.

Jeffrey Daniel was there and Adrian Grant hosted the event.

It was.... a little strange to say the least. Most of the people there do not live in the real world, you could say.

Ive always said that Michael has the most... interesting fans. Michael himself made it difficult to be a fan and supporter because he did things that seemed to be right in his mind, but weren't always so easily explainable to regular folks.

But the fans sometimes take it to a whole new level. I've never understood impersonators because quite frankly you're IMPERSONATING. It's just straight up creepy.

And the fans. I get the devotion and all but I'ma need y'all to step into the REAL world okay. Neverland was just for Michael cause he was a mega superstar and could have his own universe if he wanted one. You? Not so much. The real word is calling.

dag said:

Incredible style, charisma...this has to be every lady´s dream man.

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Now that's a pimp stare!

But wow... just beautiful....

bboy87 said:

mozfonky said:

anyone see this yet?

I remember listening to that when back in July 09

They missed the part where he said when the first note of Human Nature came on, he gave birth

I always knew michael was one of the most charismatic humans ever but this account was one of the best I'd heard. For those of us who could never see him, we can only guess what it would have been like. Just like with Elvis, I watched some of Elvis' last concert films, and because they were bootleged, they had a very real, raw live feal to them and it felt like a giant was coming, only Michael has that in that league. A man working with Elvis said "people say discipline makes a star, bullshit, it's charisma" and that's true. Lots of talent out there whole never get anywhere.

Austin Brown(Rebbie's son) new song,prod. by Rodney Jerkins

http://www.popeater.com/2...-premiere/

A few Prince mentions aswell!

Militant said:

I went to an MJ fan event once. It was at the Hammersmith Palais in London, about 5 years ago.

I seem to recall it was while the trial was ongoing or perhaps just afterward.

Jeffrey Daniel was there and Adrian Grant hosted the event.

It was.... a little strange to say the least. Most of the people there do not live in the real world, you could say.

I'd consider going if it was people like "us" were the majority of the attendees

Ya know....people with an ounce of common sense

mozfonky said:

anyone see this yet?

jaybendy said:

And the fans. I get the devotion and all but I'ma need y'all to step into the REAL world okay. Neverland was just for Michael cause he was a mega superstar and could have his own universe if he wanted one. You? Not so much. The real word is calling.

I loved reading that!

Thank you for telling it how it is!

I remember video of one fan who had all these pretend

animals in his backyard and had like his dad filming him. I will have

to find it..but it was straight up creepy. I think the guy was a few

glittery costumes short of a MJ tour, if you ask me.

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Vanilli said:

jaybendy said:

And the fans. I get the devotion and all but I'ma need y'all to step into the REAL world okay. Neverland was just for Michael cause he was a mega superstar and could have his own universe if he wanted one. You? Not so much. The real word is calling.

I loved reading that!

Thank you for telling it how it is!

I remember video of one fan who had all these pretend

animals in his backyard and had like his dad filming him. I will have

to find it..but it was straight up creepy. I think the guy was a few

glittery costumes short of a MJ tour, if you ask me.

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bboy87 said:

Vanilli said:

I loved reading that!

Thank you for telling it how it is!

I remember video of one fan who had all these pretend

animals in his backyard and had like his dad filming him. I will have

to find it..but it was straight up creepy. I think the guy was a few

glittery costumes short of a MJ tour, if you ask me.

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FOUND IT!!! His name is Jason. What a shame! Oy vey! This is straight up weird. Sorry.

I admire his story and all..but it's hard to take him seriously with the concrete animals

"getting along" well bit, and then just the whole thing..something is really wrong. Get

a job dude.

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Vanilli said:

bboy87 said:

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FOUND IT!!! His name is Jason. What a shame! Oy vey! This is straight up weird. Sorry.

I admire his story and all..but it's hard to take him seriously with the concrete animals

"getting along" well bit, and then just the whole thing..something is really wrong. Get

a job dude.

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Vanilli said:

bboy87 said:

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FOUND IT!!! His name is Jason. What a shame! Oy vey! This is straight up weird. Sorry.

I admire his story and all..but it's hard to take him seriously with the concrete animals

"getting along" well bit, and then just the whole thing..something is really wrong. Get

a job dude.

[Edited 9/27/10 13:34pm]

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dag said:

Vanilli said:

FOUND IT!!! His name is Jason. What a shame! Oy vey! This is straight up weird. Sorry.

I admire his story and all..but it's hard to take him seriously with the concrete animals

"getting along" well bit, and then just the whole thing..something is really wrong. Get

a job dude.

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Idk....

Something about that is very touching, yet somehow very disturbing. I credited MJ with a lot of things in my life. And I try to immulate his example in many ways (NOT TOTALLY LIKE THIS!), but this is kinda...wow He seems like a nice kid though...but he has to learn to be himself first. He has to know his own identity instead of adopting one that's not even his.

I personally...know 5 different impersonators...this guy is tame compared to them. But I must say...all of them are very nice people. I just wish they'd be themselves. Learning the dances moves, sing the songs, and dressing up occasionally in a sparkly military jacket is one thing...to do it all the time and make it your identity is another. Be like Michael...DON'T BE MICHAEL!

Vanilli said:

bboy87 said:

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FOUND IT!!! His name is Jason. What a shame! Oy vey! This is straight up weird. Sorry.

I admire his story and all..but it's hard to take him seriously with the concrete animals

"getting along" well bit, and then just the whole thing..something is really wrong. Get

a job dude.

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Oh God , no, lord ha mercy that's so wrong

Im pissed that the convo in this board has gone that route we were talkin about the new album

......

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Some MJ fans are so damn greedy.

http://cgi.ebay.com/MICHAEL-JACKSON-MORE-CAN-GIVE-US-acetate-CD-/250699701243?pt=Music_CDs&hash=item3a5edddbfb#ht_1289wt_1117

Was Michael Jackson a genius?

No doubt about it, according to experts who convened over the weekend at the Harold Washington Library Center to explore the topic.

For more than three uninterrupted hours, the Jackson aficionados played audio tracks, showed video, traded anecdotes and otherwise analyzed one of the most prolific careers in American music – albeit one cut short by the singer-songwriter's tragic death last year, at age 50.

With a throng of Jackson admirers queuing up an hour in advance on Friday night, the connoisseurs were preaching to the choir – and they did not shy away from the "g" word.

"He IS a genius," proclaimed reissues producer Harry Weinger, refusing to revert to past tense.

By way of proof, Weinger played tracks from early Jackson recordings – many still unreleased – drawing from Weinger's work on forthcoming Motown and Jackson 5 catalog reissues. In one excerpt after another, listeners heard Jackson as a child, singing with remarkable prodigiousness.

The most shattering cut was an a cappella version of "Never Can Say Goodbye," a pre-teen Jackson phrasing like a master. Without the benefits of instrumental or rhythmic support, Jackson easily keeps time, but he also finds ways to stretch it. He unerringly holds his pitch, until he decides to bend it, for expressive purposes.

The yearning intensity of Jackson's tone, the disarming "oohs" and "aahs" he improvises at key moments in the song, the silvery clarity of his high-pitched voice simply defy rational explanation. No one under 12 can sing with such craft, ardor and musical wisdom without the benefit of extraordinary gifts.

Jackson's talents, of course, eventually made him an object of adoration around the globe, the crushing attention perhaps explaining some idiosyncracies of his personality.

"The guy was painfully shy," said keyboardist Greg Phillinganes, who recorded and toured prolifically with Jackson.

"You may wonder, 'How could he be so shy?'" asked Phillinganes, pointing to a performer who appeared fearless on stage.

"If you were chased (by fans), and you had to run for your life, if that's what you experience from 11, you would be a little different, too."

The real Michael Jackson, explained Phillinganes, was the man who stood before the microphone – particularly in the recording studio – and let all that glorious music flow out of him, without qualm or inhibition.

When Jackson was recording "She's Out of My Life," with Phillinganes on keyboard, they kept reworking and refining the performance, the pianist remembered.

"And at the end of every take, he'd cry," said Phillinganes. "And it was real."

All the panelists in the symposium, which was organized by the Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College Chicago, concurred that Jackson was thoroughly "hands-on" in recording sessions.

Though he didn't play instruments – with the exception of a rare turn on drums – he routinely "would sing percussion parts and bass lines" and other musical details, recalled singer Siedah Garrett, who wrote "Man in the Mirror" with Jackson and duetted with him on the single "I Just Can't Stop Loving You."

Yet for all Jackson's involvement with musical and production aspects of his recordings, he often would playfully wreak havoc in the midst of sessions.

"Michael would make it his business to make other artists mess up," recalled Garrett, with a laugh. "He would sing his part. Then when I would sing my part, he would throw peanuts or something at me.

"And Q (producer Quincy Jones) would say (to Garrett), 'You're wasting studio time!' "

The cumulative effect of all these insider recollections and newly unearthed recordings proved quite moving, especially to those in the audience who already revered Jackson.

"You gave me the soundtrack to my life," one observer told those on the stage, a lineup that included Jackson drummer Ricky Lawson and former record executive Ed Eckstein.

Toward the end of the evening, 79-year-old Oscar Walden Jr., a Chicago TV and radio producer, got up from his seat in the crowd and, leaning on his cane, prepared to read a poem he had written for Jackson.

"I love Michael," he told the crowd, which fell to a hush.

"He was a genius."

To read more from Howard Reich, go to chicagotribune.com/reich.

hreich@tribune.com

Here's a positive article from the Chicago Tribune re: the symposium. WIsh I could have gone.

Analyzing Michael Jackson: The genius behind the music

Howard Reich

Arts critic

12:51 PM CDT, September 27, 2010

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Was Michael Jackson a genius?

No doubt about it, according to experts who convened over the weekend at the Harold Washington Library Center to explore the topic.

For more than three uninterrupted hours, the Jackson aficionados played audio tracks, showed video, traded anecdotes and otherwise analyzed one of the most prolific careers in American music – albeit one cut short by the singer-songwriter's tragic death last year, at age 50.

With a throng of Jackson admirers queuing up an hour in advance on Friday night, the connoisseurs were preaching to the choir – and they did not shy away from the "g" word.

"He IS a genius," proclaimed reissues producer Harry Weinger, refusing to revert to past tense.

By way of proof, Weinger played tracks from early Jackson recordings – many still unreleased – drawing from Weinger's work on forthcoming Motown and Jackson 5 catalog reissues. In one excerpt after another, listeners heard Jackson as a child, singing with remarkable prodigiousness.

The most shattering cut was an a cappella version of "Never Can Say Goodbye," a pre-teen Jackson phrasing like a master. Without the benefits of instrumental or rhythmic support, Jackson easily keeps time, but he also finds ways to stretch it. He unerringly holds his pitch, until he decides to bend it, for expressive purposes.

The yearning intensity of Jackson's tone, the disarming "oohs" and "aahs" he improvises at key moments in the song, the silvery clarity of his high-pitched voice simply defy rational explanation. No one under 12 can sing with such craft, ardor and musical wisdom without the benefit of extraordinary gifts.

Jackson's talents, of course, eventually made him an object of adoration around the globe, the crushing attention perhaps explaining some idiosyncracies of his personality.

"The guy was painfully shy," said keyboardist Greg Phillinganes, who recorded and toured prolifically with Jackson.

"You may wonder, 'How could he be so shy?'" asked Phillinganes, pointing to a performer who appeared fearless on stage.

"If you were chased (by fans), and you had to run for your life, if that's what you experience from 11, you would be a little different, too."

The real Michael Jackson, explained Phillinganes, was the man who stood before the microphone – particularly in the recording studio – and let all that glorious music flow out of him, without qualm or inhibition.

When Jackson was recording "She's Out of My Life," with Phillinganes on keyboard, they kept reworking and refining the performance, the pianist remembered.

"And at the end of every take, he'd cry," said Phillinganes. "And it was real."

All the panelists in the symposium, which was organized by the Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College Chicago, concurred that Jackson was thoroughly "hands-on" in recording sessions.

Though he didn't play instruments – with the exception of a rare turn on drums – he routinely "would sing percussion parts and bass lines" and other musical details, recalled singer Siedah Garrett, who wrote "Man in the Mirror" with Jackson and duetted with him on the single "I Just Can't Stop Loving You."

Yet for all Jackson's involvement with musical and production aspects of his recordings, he often would playfully wreak havoc in the midst of sessions.

"Michael would make it his business to make other artists mess up," recalled Garrett, with a laugh. "He would sing his part. Then when I would sing my part, he would throw peanuts or something at me.

"And Q (producer Quincy Jones) would say (to Garrett), 'You're wasting studio time!' "

The cumulative effect of all these insider recollections and newly unearthed recordings proved quite moving, especially to those in the audience who already revered Jackson.

"You gave me the soundtrack to my life," one observer told those on the stage, a lineup that included Jackson drummer Ricky Lawson and former record executive Ed Eckstein.

Toward the end of the evening, 79-year-old Oscar Walden Jr., a Chicago TV and radio producer, got up from his seat in the crowd and, leaning on his cane, prepared to read a poem he had written for Jackson.

"I love Michael," he told the crowd, which fell to a hush.

"He was a genius."

mozfonky said:

anyone see this yet?

Similar when he hosted the BET Awards ... "that sum'ma bitch ..."

dag said:

Incredible style, charisma...this has to be every lady´s dream man.

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I LOVE that picture!

dag said:

Incredible style, charisma...this has to be every lady´s dream man.

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LOL! Check out the hunnit dollar bill popping out of his pocket. We get it, Mike... you get paid!

dag said:

Incredible style, charisma...this has to be every lady´s dream man.

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So smooth.

Vanilli said:

bboy87 said:

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FOUND IT!!! His name is Jason. What a shame! Oy vey! This is straight up weird. Sorry.

I admire his story and all..but it's hard to take him seriously with the concrete animals

"getting along" well bit, and then just the whole thing..something is really wrong. Get

a job dude.

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And his parents facilitated this?! I can definitely see the emotional impact that Michael had on his life, but since he survived cancer, I think he should live life and enjoy who HE is rather than become someone else. Man, that was too much to take in....

ali23 said:

Austin Brown(Rebbie's son) new song,prod. by Rodney Jerkins

http://www.popeater.com/2...-premiere/

A few Prince mentions aswell!

Hmmm... not bad. He doesn't have the strongest voice but he could get by on it.

I remembered first looking at the Jason Jackson video going like "dude... really? "

Vanilli said:

bboy87 said:

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FOUND IT!!! His name is Jason. What a shame! Oy vey! This is straight up weird. Sorry.

I admire his story and all..but it's hard to take him seriously with the concrete animals

"getting along" well bit, and then just the whole thing..something is really wrong. Get

a job dude.

[Edited 9/27/10 13:34pm]

See? THIS is exactly the stuff I'm talking about. Its like you don't wanna believe it like this CANNOT be real. This cannot be a real person dressing like Michael with concrete animals in his backyard and having his mom make his costumes. In WHAT WORLD is this okay?

WildStyle said:

ali23 said:

Austin Brown(Rebbie's son) new song,prod. by Rodney Jerkins

http://www.popeater.com/2...-premiere/

A few Prince mentions aswell!

Hmmm... not bad. He doesn't have the strongest voice but he could get by on it.

It's oookay. I was hoping for something different from him. It reminds me of a Rodney Jerkins/RayJ song, the way he's got Austin singing in that weak falsetto.

I hate Darkchild tracks, I really do. I can't for the life of me figure out why artists still want to use him for songs on their albums.

When I see Austin I keep thinking he's my age, because he looks so much older, but he's only 24, so of course he wants to sound like the other young men that are on the radio. But the track isn't memorable.

jaybendy said:

WildStyle said:

Hmmm... not bad. He doesn't have the strongest voice but he could get by on it.

It's oookay. I was hoping for something different from him. It reminds me of a Rodney Jerkins/RayJ song, the way he's got Austin singing in that weak falsetto.

I hate Darkchild tracks, I really do. I can't for the life of me figure out why artists still want to use him for songs on their albums.

When I see Austin I keep thinking he's my age, because he looks so much older, but he's only 24, so of course he wants to sound like the other young men that are on the radio. But the track isn't memorable.

Is he really 24? I could've sworn he was 30. I guess I'm confusing him with Tito's boys. They're in their 30s, but look younger.

MyLuv229 said:

jaybendy said:

It's oookay. I was hoping for something different from him. It reminds me of a Rodney Jerkins/RayJ song, the way he's got Austin singing in that weak falsetto.

I hate Darkchild tracks, I really do. I can't for the life of me figure out why artists still want to use him for songs on their albums.

When I see Austin I keep thinking he's my age, because he looks so much older, but he's only 24, so of course he wants to sound like the other young men that are on the radio. But the track isn't memorable.

Is he really 24? I could've sworn he was 30. I guess I'm confusing him with Tito's boys. They're in their 30s, but look younger.

He's young, yeah, but he just has this look to him that makes him seem older. I like his look...

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That doesn't look like any 24 year old I ever dated when I was 24.

Michael Jackson's Son -- ... the World

9/27/2010 10:03 AM PDT by TMZ Staff

Michael Jackson's son Prince is taking after his father -- TMZ has learned the 13-year-old went on a field trip last Thursday ... but instead of going to a museum or an aquarium, dude packed food for starving children.



It was all part of a charity event organized by The Buckley School -- we're told Prince and his classmates stopped by an L.A. warehouse owned by the Children's Hunger Fund ... and assembled over 500 20-pound boxes for children in Peru.

According to sources, the boxes contained all kinds of food -- including canned goods, beans, rice, and pasta.