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Things you liked about the HIStory Tour

wednesday said:
Being there, seeing him perform, his addresses to the audience (one time I saw him he was really chatty, he even sat on his briefcase shortly before his Billie Jean performance!) and knowing that with the purchase of the concert tickets I was actually going to see THE MAN!
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This!! It was so exciting
 
Nothing. I ain't gonna lie about it. If he only had sung a few more songs live, like Beat It and Billie Jean, I'd like this tour a lot.
 
dam2040 said:
At all? Not even the dancing?
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no, I don't like the History tour at all. Like I said, if he had only sung just two more songs live, it'd be more enjoyable. But that's my opinion, everyones got theirs and I respect them :)

Oh, and of course, I'm talking about the video experience. I would have been more than happy to actually attend a History tour show.
 
Hulkamaniac said:
no, I don't like the History tour at all. Like I said, if he had only sung just two more songs live, it'd be more enjoyable. But that's my opinion, everyones got theirs and I respect them :)

Oh, and of course, I'm talking about the video experience. I would have been more than happy to actually attend a History tour show.
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Damn, that’s crazy lol
 
144000 said:
You are not alone performance. I love how he recreates the recording on the album, because if it weren't for a Michael, we wouldn't know a catalogue of the greatest written songs of all time. His dancing and how he accomodated it. His singing. I heard singing. And his ability to configure things so he developed the maximum impact.(like the process of writing a song and how some people think that a person who can't play instruments is not a good songwriter, the configuration of a performance shouldn't be put in a box, either. Art's greatness is in it's ability to invent itself, over and over again. And Michael epitomized that better than anyone I have ever seen.) His Billie Jean dance. Dangerous performance. BOTDF. Basically, I loved everything about the tour.
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Though, he didn’t wrote YANA…
 
The live vocals. I know people dog on this tour for having more limited live vocals compared to others but the vocals on performances like Billie Jean and Beat It are far and away better than any vocals I've heard from previous tours, especially when it comes to the 1996 shows (although Wanna Be Startin' Somethin', You Are Not Alone and The Jackson 5 Medley is much better in 1997). They're so creative and catchy.

The instrumental. The band is much more tightly nit and powerful than other tours. The guitar work on In The Closet is especially great.

Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'. By slowing down the speed, it makes his dancing far more creative and graceful, infinitely superior to all the other tours and it's not even close. Unfortunately this does cause his vocals to strain on long notes.

Stranger In Moscow. My favourite live performance Michael does, and it's completely unique to this tour. Just magical.

Off The Wall Medley. Completely improvised, and it's great seeing Michael perform in such a happy mood. Something we don't see other than a few other performances.

Blood on the Dancefloor. I love, love, love the performance of this in Cologne, it's perfect in my eyes.

Michael's mood. Michael interacts with the audience a lot more than other tours and he just generally seems so happy throughout. Other tours are all business and while I can see the appeal, I like this more transparent Michael more.

Early full setlist 1997 concerts. At the very start of the second leg of this tour, he had The Way You Make Me Feel, The Off The Wall Medley and Blood on the Dancefloor, personally my favourite setlist of any of the concerts he's done. He's incredibly inspired throughout and the energy is lovely.

The spontaneity of it all. You never know what he's going to do next and it's very exciting (the other tours are much easier to predict). This applies to dancing, vocals, band and even the setlist. The Tokyo 1996 shows are probably the best example of this, absolutely impeccable.

The only thing I didn't really like about the HIStory Tour is that the dancing in Beat It isn't as good as the Dangerous Tour, but even then the vocals more than make up for it (which is why Bucharest 1996 is my favourite performance of Beat It ever).
 
ArchieSmash said:
Michael's mood. Michael interacts with the audience a lot more than other tours and he just generally seems so happy throughout. Other tours are all business and while I can see the appeal, I like this more transparent Michael more.
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Totally agree. There are so many precious Michael interacting with audience moments, with him smiling and shouting before WBSS, the little speech before Off The Wall Medley. There was some of that in Dangerous also, but so much more in HIStory.
Also love that Stranger in Moscow and Blood on the Dance floor were included in set list. Live dancing is so much better than the official videos.
My favourite would be Gothenburg, he is laughing lot more in that.
 
ArchieSmash said:
The live vocals. I know people dog on this tour for having more limited live vocals compared to others but the vocals on performances like Billie Jean and Beat It are far and away better than any vocals I've heard from previous tours, especially when it comes to the 1996 shows (although Wanna Be Startin' Somethin', You Are Not Alone and The Jackson 5 Medley is much better in 1997). They're so creative and catchy.
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Billie Jean and Beat it are almost completely lip-synced so I don't know how you can say the vocals are better. He starts singing live near the end but I don't think he sounds better than on previous tours.
 
I prefer some live performances more than the album versions (WBSS and TDCAU) and I also really like the adlibs he would do at the end of Billie Jean (Hockenheim 1997 is my favorite).
 
In my opinion, it’s very much my favorite concert tour from him. It’s a very enjoyable concert to watch.
The playback never bothered me and I know that’s an unpopular opinion. In my mind, his voice was just not in the condition to perform to a level he was satisfied with consistently. Some nights he probably was great underneath the playback but I think it cheats the fans to sing some nights and others playback so give a consistent show throughout which he did.
The set list is different which is great. Victory through Dangerous was very repetitive. Dangerous was a toned down version of Bad
 
Galactus123 said:
Billie Jean and Beat it are almost completely lip-synced so I don't know how you can say the vocals are better. He starts singing live near the end but I don't think he sounds better than on previous tours.
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Necro but I think it'd be hard to argue Brunei, Cologne and Ostend don't have cleaner vocals than any Bad Tour or Dangerous Tour performance of the song. His voice is far more powerful and rich and he's hitting higher notes because it's in the original key. The live vocals on Beat It are not just a little bit at the end, his mic is open for half the song. Billie Jean is arguably but the fact that he's so much more creative with the ad-libs makes it a lot more enjoyable to me than the other tours where he just recites the same vocals every time with minimal exceptions. Same goes for Beat It too, shows like Bucharest, Amsterdam, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Fukuoka and Gothenburg have excellent and creative ad-libs and I wish that same ingenuity was used for the other tours. To me, ad-libs like that are more valuable to me than the same song I've heard a million times sung in the same way he always does (although I enjoy both). There are exceptions of course, but I can always find interesting and unique vocals in essentially every Billie Jean performance whereas I can't for the other tours despite it having less live vocals.
 
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