Bad World Tour: US leg vs European leg

[Scjking22]

Sorry if anyone has already made a thread similar to this or has posted something about this topic coz I haven't seen any of those.

Anyways if we were to choose which leg of the bad Tour we wanted for release which leg would we go for, US leg or European leg? Personally I love the staging of the European leg and the fast pace tempo of the songs. The first US leg had 99% of live vocals but the slow pace dosent do it justice IMO. The second US leg at least was faster paced but I think Michael was tired of the tour by that point.

Anyways I wanna see who prefers what.

[analogue]

I really want to see Smooth Criminal sung live. So it's the US leg for me.

[Rocketeer]

Starting shows of second leg for sure, and that one Pittsburgh show later on looks pretty good too

[AlwaysThere]

Pretty much every show is the same, so there isn’t much of a difference. However, I guess MJ sang every song live during the US leg, which sounds amazing.

[Scjking22]

Pretty much every show is the same, so there isn’t much of a difference. However, I guess MJ sang every song live during the US leg, which sounds amazing.

Well first off I wouldn't say every show was the same. Don't get me wrong I would love to see Michael sing songs like SC,twymmf, Bad live but it's slower paced and seems less developed compared to the European leg. An example is the breakdown at APOM, it looks less developed in the first US leg compared to the European leg

[Galactus123]

US because we already have Wembley. New York or Kansas would be great. But I would be happy with any Bad Tour concert if it was Blu-Ray release in HD.

[Themidwestcowboy]

The first US leg! I really want to see the opening show from Kansas City.

[Zakk]

March 3rd 1988 The "Private" Concert would be perfect, and the fact we've seen a High Def snippet is just incredible. If that full show doesn't exist for whatever reason then I'd choose Aintree for the main feature with minute edits whilst the fans injuries are attended to during the first three songs and the blooper during IJCSLY.

[Nite Line]

Pretty much every show is the same, so there isn’t much of a difference. However, I guess MJ sang every song live during the US leg, which sounds amazing.

I don't think MJ ever sang MITM fully live, even during the US leg. And I'm not so sure if SC, TWYMMF and Bad were sung live at every US show either.

[Galactus123]

Pretty much every show is the same, so there isn’t much of a difference. However, I guess MJ sang every song live during the US leg, which sounds amazing.

I think the early US shows are very different. Compare Another Part of Me performance in Kansas to Wembley for example.

[Hess]

I think I would go with a US concert.

[Robbsaber01]

If the HD UK show is never found, MSG 88 is my second choice. MTV must have more than Dirty Diana in HQ...

[Zakk]

If the HD UK show is never found, MSG 88 is my second choice. MTV must have more than Dirty Diana in HQ...

Dirty Diana was officially released, must have been sourced from a Beta Tape Master in Michael's archive? 2003 I think it was first unveiled, not entirely certain on that though.

[Fuzball]

Dirty Diana was officially released, must have been sourced from a Beta Tape Master in Michael's archive? 2003 I think it was first unveiled, not entirely certain on that though.

It was released to selected tv stations (as part of an EPK) in 1988. In 2004 (or 2005?) it was made available for premium members of MJJSource.

[Scjking22]

There's been talk of a full UK concert shot on film. They said it's in a processing lab either in the US or the UK. The estate have no idea where the processing lab is located. Idk if this is true but judging by all the Wembley shows having film cameras, there's big chances.