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7 short videos on this link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sk-S7OFLbg&feature=autoplay&list=ULkvQVd5hrfSk&playnext=4

and as for the military jackets, yes a lot of people have been wearing military jackets for years. but not many wear almost the exact same jacket

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Awww...that was great. Especially the first 2 minutes of 'Can you feel it', when they kicked off. How can that not make you smile?

WHOOOOOO.....Jacksons. GO!!!!!!!

(great choice to end with 'Shake your Body', btw).

Looking forward to see some more.
 
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ivy said:
7 short videos on this link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sk-S7OFLbg&feature=autoplay&list=ULkvQVd5hrfSk&playnext=4

and as for the military jackets, yes a lot of people have been wearing military jackets for years. but not many wear almost the exact same jacket

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You're right, it really is almost the same...:brow:

Same designer? Or maybe Jermaine showed it to some designer and said: "I want the same one". Who knows.

But I don't see anything suspicious behind it.
 
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ott-0622-the-jacksons-20120621,0,6708791.story
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By Steve Knopper, Special to the Tribune
10:48 a.m. CDT, June 21, 2012

In July 2009, Tito Jackson was grieving. His little brother, Michael, had just died. The lawyers were battling over the King of Pop's estate. The media wanted interviews. So Jackson did the most therapeutic thing he could think of — he traveled to Jamaica, where he stayed at the soothing Strawberry Hill resort, tried parasailing and, most importantly, performed old Jackson 5 hits and Chicago blues at a local festival.

"It's a way to take my mind to a happy place — a place of fond memory," says Jackson, 58, a founding member of the Jackson 5 along with brothers Michael, Jackie, Marlon and Jermaine. "Certain music of my brother's really brings me up, and certain music makes me very sad, only because of the situation of his death. Just performing is where I'm happiest, and gets me rid of my troubles and worries. ... And playing blues is very emotional. You have to feel that music. You just can't play it sterilely."

Famously, Michael Jackson's epic career and mythically erratic behavior have overshadowed the musical talents of his brothers since the late '60s, when the Jackson 5 first took off as the world's biggest boy band. The back story is well-known to rock and soul fans — in the Jacksons' hometown of Gary, their father, Joe, had played a little guitar in a R&B band. While he was at work, operating a crane at a steel mill, his sons were never, ever to touch his guitar. But Tito (and, in some accounts, Jackie and Jermaine) snuck into the closet to play it.

"Broke a string," Tito recalls. "He took care of me for it."

But the next day, Joe acknowledged Tito's enthusiasm and talent and bought him a guitar of his own.

Soon, Tito was sitting in with Joe and his uncle at local gigs. The three eldest Jackson brothers, along with a couple of cousins, were soon in a band and, in a fateful move in 1963, they replaced the cousins with Marlon and 5-year-old Michael. (The story, of course, gets complicated — after he became famous, grown-up Michael gave interviews alleging that his father, Joe, abused him and robbed him of his childhood.)

By the early '70s, with Motown classics such as "ABC," "The Love You Save," "I Want You Back" and "I'll Be There," the members of the Jackson 5 were the biggest pop stars in the world. It was an exciting time — of adoring fans, big Afros, wide collars and, for Tito, the occasional spotlight.

"I was always a closet blues player," he recalls, by phone from his Calabasas, Calif., home. "You know the history of the Jackson 5 — it was not blues, it was R&B and pop music. The only chance I had to play blues music was when there was a problem on stage. They would request me to play a song. I would kill the time playing the blues."

Although Tito has been an occasional punch line — David Letterman regularly used to make fun of his name — he's an underrated guitarist.

"Yeah, he can play," says Gary Graff, veteran Detroit music journalist and author of "Rock 'n' Roll Myths: The True Stories Behind the Most Infamous Legends." "No one's going to mistake this guy for Buddy Guy orB.B. King. But is he competent? Sure." Adds Chris Cadman, co-author of 2009's "Michael Jackson For the Record — Revised & Expanded": "He didn't play on the (Motown) studio albums, but he was a fundamental part of all the live gigs. His role was to drive the brothers on stage with some funky guitar playing."

It is an understatement to say that Michael Jackson in his solo career overshadowed all of his brothers. They joined him at a few crucial points, most famously on the massive 1984 "Victory" tour, although their famous brother moonwalked off with all the glory.

Jermaine, Jackie and Marlon put out their own albums with varying degrees of commercial success, while Tito occasionally recorded material and kept it to himself. An unknown number of his early tracks are apparently in Motown's vaults. "I did one song for that album and things fell apart between Michael and the Jackson 5," he says. "I didn't get to do my album — Jackie did his, Michael did his, Jermaine did his and I was next."

After years of false starts on his own album, he put out a solo EP in 2003, "I Gotta Play." After several delays, a full one, "So Far So Good," is due this summer, with help from his adult kids, Taj, Taryll and TJ, who make up the hit '90s R&B band 3T. The first single, the lightly funky "We Made It," just came out. "I always put myself on the back burner," Jackson says, "and I felt, when I was young, I'd always have time."

In the meantime, Tito, Marlon, Jermaine and Jackie have started rehearsals for the Jacksons' "Unity" tour, their first since 1984. It hasn't exactly been a blockbuster — the band had to cancel its first few dates, due to scheduling conflicts while recording an album. (That may be true, but excellent seats remain available for several dates online.) Jackson attributes the cancellations to hasty routing, which "wasn't put together properly."

Ticket sales aside, he acknowledges the tour contains a conspicuous gap. "Losing Michael Jackson is a handicap. It's the Lakers trying to win a championship without Kobe Bryant," Tito Jackson says. "But it can be done. The brothers are talented in their own way, and we're going to show why we're the Jackson 5 and continue to do what we do."
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You guys are better people than me. I just can't handle them singing Michael's songs. Rock with you, Don't Stop. I just can't. And I swear I might storm the stage if they did Human nature, DD, BillieJean,ect. SECURITY lol :)
 
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I think they had a perfect set list. I love it.
 
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I did a small search online to find out why Randy isn't joining his brothers on tour.
(Marlon said Randy, who officially joined The Jacksons in 1975, elected not to join the tour
but noted that the youngest Jackson brother was welcome at any time.)
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http://enidnews.com/state/x439047648/Jackson-Five-set-to-go-on-tour-minus-the-1
The few articles I found are saying about the same thing....but they are not giving a reason.

I haven't search this entire thread either so....
 
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They seem to have gotten some good reviews. Did anyone see the family at opening night, like Joe, Katherine, Janet, Latoya?
 
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That military jacket is exactly the same. Different colour on front could be due to lights.
Did he take one of Michael's and had some alterations to fit for him?
I don't like it either that they are singing Michael's songs, hopefully they don't add any more of MJ's songs to their set list.
I'm curious why Jermaine has solo there but others don't? Didn't Jackie release quite good song last year, why his song wasn't there?
 
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Like a lot of fashions that are cool/trendy some people can pull it off effortlessly while other people can wear the exact same thing and it looks like they are trying too hard. No matter how flashy one of Michael's outfits were I always felt that they suited his stage persona.

Even though I've seen the other brothers with similar military styled clothing in past concerts, some of Jermaine's outfits just come off like he fighting for attention just for the sake of it. I guess the clothes don't really match his performance style to me. That look is really hard to pull off and still feel genuine, I think Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury are some of the elite few that could actually make that style work.
 
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ilmjj said:
I wish they had been doing these kinds of shows all along. Just feels like they are cashing in to me.
Sorry but that is how I feel.
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Considering how some of them have tried to cash in, them doing this just doesn't seem so bad, IMO. It's one of the few times where I don't find myself cringing at something they're doing.

And you can't say them doing this makes MJ look bad in anyway.
 
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Them performing is a very good thing. However I just can't get into Jermaine he is IMO trying to hard to be Michael. be yourself. The performing Michael song is no problem to me however if they start doing more of his songs and turn the whole show into a Michael show them that once again IMO will be a turn off
 
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The Brown Gangsta said:
Like a lot of fashions that are cool/trendy some people can pull it off effortlessly while other people can wear the exact same thing and it looks like they are trying too hard. No matter how flashy one of Michael's outfits were I always felt that they suited his stage persona.

Even though I've seen the other brothers with similar military styled clothing in past concerts, some of Jermaine's outfits just come off like he fighting for attention just for the sake of it. I guess the clothes don't really match his performance style to me. That look is really hard to pull off and still feel genuine, I think Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury are some of the elite few that could actually make that style work.
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I agree with you post. The bolded part, just perfect.
 
"Jermaine Jackson told The Associated Press that the rehearsals had been difficult. “The brothers don’t know this, but I’ve broken down several times and cried during rehearsals,” he said, during a recent rehearsal break on a soundstage in Burbank, Calif. “I’m so used to Michael being on the right and then Marlon, Jackie, on and on. It’s just something we never get used to.” He added that the group had rearranged their classic Jackson Five hits from the 1970s to suit their voices today, and that the show would include a medley tribute to Michael Jackson, ending with the tune “Gone Too Soon.”"

This was supposed to be comeback for all of them, why he has to turn everything about him? Why he even had to mention above statement, separate from other brothers.
The same thing about their Jackson dynasty thingy, there he was whinging and crying how brothers left him all alone to Motown. Once again he turned all the attention to himself.
Not to mention his big act on telly when Michael died, he was on some show crying wishing it had been him who died.

I'm no fan of them, but I'm starting to feel pity for them for having Jermaine as brother.
 
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Jackson brothers to perform Michael’s hits on ‘Unity’ tour: Is it a tribute or a rip-off?
Opinion
by Veronica Miller | June 21, 2012 at 8:53 AM
Would you to pay to see a Jackson who isn’t Michael perform all of Michael’s hits?

The Jackson brothers hope you will. They’re going on tour this summer and they’re taking their superstar brother’s catalog along with them.

Marlon, Tito, Jackie and Jermaine have reunited for what’s being called the “Unity” Tour, which kicked off yesterday with a concert at the Rama Casino in Ontario, Canada. It’s the first time they’ve joined together for a tour since their final “Victory” concert in 1984. The new tour’s set list includes not only the hits from the Jackson 5 in their heyday — “ABC” and “I Want You Back” — but also a smattering of hits by their late brother Michael, like “I Can’t Let Her Get Away” from the 1991 album Dangerous.

The brothers say they’re playing Michael’s hits as a tribute. And with the tour starting just a few days shy of the third anniversary of Michael’s sudden death, Tito tells the Associated Press, “There’s certain songs that make you feel the sorrow… Then again, there are other songs that bring so much joy and happiness. I just imagine how he used to walk and spin and do all these things. You can feel his presence here.”

But will the Jackson brothers be able to convince audience to come see them play a bunch of Michael’s hits, without Michael on the bill? It’s tough to call.

Let’s face it — Michael Jackson was indeed the star of his family. His record sales were unprecedented, his fanbase was global and his music videos premiered with ratings higher than some television shows. In fact, once Thriller became the juggernaut of 1983, Michaels’s fame so eclipsed that of his brothers that he started opting out of appearing with the Jacksons that next year. He recorded a couple songs for 1984’s Victory album and went on tour with the group, but quit the band soon thereafter. In fact, it’s widely known that Michael doesn’t even appear in the video for The Jacksons’ hit “Torture” — a wax figure stands in his place instead.

It’s understandable that the rest of the Jacksons would want to hold on to their brother’s memory and his musical legacy. But it’s hard to say that they’re not trying to capitalize off of it also. Just months after Michael’s death in August 2009, cable channel A&E premiered a reality series starring the four of the brothers, titled The Jacksons: A Family Dynasty. Filming had begun before Michael’s death, but after his passing, the show was spun to show the brothers grappling with it. It’s hard not to call the series “opportunistic,” and television critics had even less-flattering words.

In the Washington Post, Lisa de Moraes took both the brothers and the production company to task, saying the show oozed “desperation from both sides of the camera.” Mike Hale wrote in the New York Times that while it’s easy to see money as the motivator in such a program, it seemed that “ego, or a childlike need for affirmation, is the larger motivation and has been for a long time.” And Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly said no one would have been interested in the show if Michael hadn’t died just months before the premiere.

So if the Jacksons have trouble drawing an audience on television without their famous brother, what can they expect when it comes to concert sales? It’s telling, and unfortunately, almost comical, that tickets to Saturday’s show in Detroit are available on Groupon.

Still, the Jacksons may strike a chord with music fans hungry for nostalgia. The June 28th concert at the Apollo Theater is sold out. And it’s certain that their hits from the 60s and 70s will be the ones most likely to get the audience on its feet.

It’s hard not to say that the Jacksons are still trying to ride Michael’s sequined coattails to fame and success, years after his death, even after they’ve all past the age of 55. It’s understandable that they’d want to honor their brother’s legacy and keep his spirit alive. But even now, as they cue up Michael’s solo hits on their group tour, The Jacksons are still inadvertently playing second fiddle to a superstar.

http://thegrio.com/2012/06/21/jackso...-or-a-rip-off/
 
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6 out of 28 songs are Michael songs. The rest are J5 Motown songs, some of which are the ones that were Jermaine's leads, Jacksons songs from Epic and 3 of Jermaine's solo hits. In all seriousness, it must be pretty hard for them to be up there without Michael.
 
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That set list looks really good actually. Thankfully they did not focus on MJ's solo work. I have no interest in seeing Jermaine cover Michael's solo songs, but would enjoy seeing the brothers play songs from the J5 and Jacksons catalogue, and some of their solo work. There are so many great songs that have not been performed in years if at all, like Push Me Away, Good Times or Man of War.

Based on the few YouTube clips I have seen thus far, the band sounds very good. And I think the Michael songs that they played were also not a bad choice. Most of these are songs the brothers performed with MJ during the Triumph and Victory Tour. And Can't Let Her Get Away is actually an interesting and surprising choice - if they are going to perform MJ songs, it is much more interesting to see them perform underrated gems that Michael never got to perform himself instead of warhorses like Billie Jean or Man in the Mirror. It's nice to hear it played live (love the cowbell btw).
 
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What is groupon?

I think it's fine if they sing a few of Michael's songs. Nobody will ever sing them like Michael but I like when people sings his songs. It celebrates Michael and it's positive.
 
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Cant Let her Get Away was a good choice, it sounded good in the video
 
marebear;3660529 said:
What is groupon?

I think it's fine if they sing a few of Michael's songs. Nobody will ever sing them like Michael but I like when people sings his songs. It celebrates Michael and it's positive.
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Its a discount website most of the time 50%

Here is the example I search on google

[h=2]The Jacksons: Unity Tour 2012 – Fox Theatre[/h][h=3]The Jacksons: Unity Tour 2012 on Saturday, June 23 at 8 p.m. (Up to Half Off). Two Seating Options Available.[/h]
http://www.groupon.com/deals/gl-jackson-unity-tour-detroit?c=all&p=1


$33 a ticket - originally $66
 
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