Oh wow. I would so love to hear that. Does he play the same songs at every seminar? Also, could someone with twitter maybe tweet Brad, ask if it is coming to the UK? Thank You.
I am not sure if he is active on Twitter. He does have a FB page.
The UK thing is something other fans who were at the seminar were talking about. They said he was planning to go there (specifically London) later this year, but nothing more concrete. Take that for what it's worth.
As for what he plays at the seminars, it's not the exact same at every seminar. He does have a script, but frequently strays from it and adjusts to what the audience wants to hear and the questions he gets. As time goes on, he also acquires new material to play at the seminars by going through his old tapes as well as getting in touch with former colleagues (e.g. Matt Forger, Steve Porcaro, etc). He does have a few staples that he plays at every seminar though (and rightfully so, amazing stuff), which you might have read about here or on other forums already.
Woow!
This along with other "first" demos of already released (selfpenned) MJ songs are urgently needed to be released.
A boxset full of demos that highlight the creative process of MJs songwriting. The Estate should really think about such a release.
I really hope we will get a box like this some day. It's tremendous to hear early demos or alternate takes of these songs and to get a glimpse of how they emerged and evolved. As the stuff Brad plays shows, some songs started out already sounding similar to their final versions (e.g., Earth Song), whereas others are almost unrecognizable (such as an early demo of Someone Put Your Hand Out which you cannot recognize until the chorus, and an early instrumental demo of Jam that was a cool but very different groove - it sounded like it did not get the Teddy Riley New Jack Swing treatment yet).
I'm not sure that's wholly accurate. Teddy Riley has said that Blood was, indeed, worked on around 1990, but was forgotten when Michael became enamored with tracks like In the Closet and She Drives Me Wild.
Hmm, interesting. I guess one possibility could be that Teddy worked out his basic idea for the track around that time, but that MJ did not touch it and work on it until later.
It is also possible either Teddy or Brad just misremembers. Brad seemed quite sure about this, but then again, he also told a story about For All Time which I had some doubts about. He played us what sounded like the writer's demo (Steve Porcaro was singing), but also featured MJ singing "that's for all time" in the chorus, and also an early MJ-only demo of the song. Anyway, he said Steve Porcaro told him that he wrote it for his daughter, and mentioned something about her and some girls at her school. Now, I have heard this exact same story before about Human Nature (more specifically, Steve Porcaro's daughter came home to tell him she was bullied at school). Lyrically, that song being Human Nature certainly makes a lot more sense, and I doubt Steve Porcaro wrote two songs for Michael Jackson that had to do with his daughter and what was going on at her school.
So, who knows... Would be interesting if we could establish more clearly when BOTDF was written though!
Hmm, interesting. I'll have to read up on that one. Guess the source I was jumping off of was wrong/misled. Thanks for the info.
Sure, no worries! With this one I think it is less likely that Brad could have misremembered, because he read us the filename and it had a date on it (which he presumably copied from whatever original source he digitized it from).
Why do so many forget the S? There is no release of it where it is titled as such. Remember; MJ = GhostS. Demi Moore = Ghost. Anyway, Ghosts is a rewrite of IIS and wasn;t done till the short film began production (first time).