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Does anyone know the reason why bad wasn't performed with dancers?
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Does anyone know the reason why bad wasn't performed with dancers?
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Time constraints. After shooting the video he went straight to Japan to begin the tour. By the time it was released as a single he was probably just happy doing it straight as he'd been doing it to that point.
But I thought they were shooting BAD, TWYMMF and Smooth Criminal AND finishing the album practically up to the minute he left for tour. He barely had time to hire the musicians and the dancers and the backup singers, rehearse what they already had before they left for Japan. They probably put the BAD tour together on off days-and then did the rehearsals when they hit the states.Uh, Bad was shot in November/December 1986, so it was 9 months before the Bad Tour.
I know you have alot of information but that still doesn't explain why after the 1st leg he didn't perform with dancers for that song or maybe i read it so fast to get to the answer of my question. Still thank you for this info. Could've sworn i read it on moonwalker but i haven't read that in about 4yearsTess66;4209215 said:Continued again .....
After fourteen hugely successful dates in Japan, where Michael received favourable press coverage, the tour moved to Australia for a further six concerts. The leg finished in Brisbane in November, and Michael flew back to Los Angeles as the tour took a three-month break.
On February 10, 1988 Michael arrived in the small city of Pensacola on Florida’s Gulf Coast, where he chose to base rehearsals ahead of the next leg of the tour, which was due to start in Kansas City two weeks later. The set-list would include five more songs from Bad than the previous leg, for a total of seven. Michael loved Christopher Currell’s tour version of ‘Smooth Criminal’ so much, that he told the musician they had to record the album version again with the Synclavier as soon as possible.
After only two concerts, Michael took a short break to rehearse for special performances of ‘The Way You Make Me Feel’ and ‘Man in the Mirror’ at the 30th Annual Grammy Awards at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall on March 2. It was his first televised performance since Motown 25 five years earlier. Engineer Brad Sundberg said Michael wanted to do something special for his performance, so they decided to record a new slow intro for ‘The Way You Make Me Feel’. Michael’s background vocals for this intro were recorded in his hotel room in Pensacola, with engineers running microphone cables up to his room from a recording truck below. “We put it all together in the truck, and jumped in the Hit Factory studio in New York a few days before the Grammy show for some final touches to the mix,” Sundberg said. “The performance was amazing, and our little hotel studio worked like a charm.”
After his performance Michael took his seat in the front row, and waited for the winners to be announced. But despite being nominated in four categories, including Album of the Year, he failed to win a single award. He was devastated and humiliated, but had to pick himself up quickly as the Bad Tour’s three New York dates took place at Madison Square Garden in the days following the awards.
When the Bad Tour took a two-week break in May 1988 after a concert in Minneapolis, twenty-nine-year-old Michael finally moved out of Hayvenhurst to Sycamore Valley Ranch, his newly purchased estate near the small town of Los Olivos in Santa Barbara County, a two-and-a-half hour drive north of Los Angeles.
Michael may not have won Album of the Year at the Grammys, but he made history in July 1988 when Bad became the first album to have five number-one singles in America; ‘I Just Can’t Stop Loving You’, ‘Bad’, ‘The Way You Make Me Feel’, ‘Man in the Mirror’ and ‘Dirty Diana’. The record wasn’t equalled until 23 years later by Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream.
The Bad Tour ended with five concerts at the Memorial Sports Arena in Los Angeles in January 1989. The tour grossed $125 million at the box office, of which Michael reportedly netted $40 million, making it the largest grossing tour in history. It also had the largest audience in history, with 4.4 million people attending the 123 shows.
& did he not go to the grammys to win it? Did they do a "michael couldnt be here to accept this award" kinda thing?Doggone;4209227 said:To this day, I still can’t understand why Bad did not win any Grammys on that day. Leave Me Alone got a Grammy, but the Bad album deserved every Grammy that night!
& did he not go to the grammys to win it? Did they do a "michael couldnt be here to accept this award" kinda thing?
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No i think it was 86,i just saw an interview with wesley snipes & he said it took a month & a half to shoot it. But as Michael stated in his book, the video & the tour was already in motion while the album wasn't even done yet & thats why during the dance part is different from the album version from what jimmie & greg playedthe dance part was filmed in 1987 no?
No i think it was 86,i just saw an interview with wesley snipes & he said it took a month & a half to shoot it. But as Michael stated in his book, the video & the tour was already in motion while the album wasn't even done yet & thats why during the dance part is different from the album version from what jimmie & greg played
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I guess he didn't wanna change it up but i would love to see that but history is done nowI see. But I think had the time to include the dance part during the second leg of the Tour. I think he chose to perform it without the dancers like he decided to not perform Remember the time in 92
I prefer solo numbers as the focus is on Michael only. He was flexible in the way he performed 'Bad'.
I liked how he went down into the audience, and climbed the netting during the first leg. Don't forget when Stevie Wonder joined him onstage to perform the song. Seeing the pictures, I'd always assumed it was 'Just Good Friends'. The audio makes me wish for the visual!
I also loved when he brought the children out to dance with him on the second leg. It was a loose and happy moment
I prefer solo numbers as the focus is on Michael only. He was flexible in the way he performed 'Bad'.
I liked how he went down into the audience, and climbed the netting during the first leg. Don't forget when Stevie Wonder joined him onstage to perform the song. Seeing the pictures, I'd always assumed it was 'Just Good Friends'. The audio makes me wish for the visual!
I also loved when he brought the children out to dance with him on the second leg. It was a loose and happy moment
I didnt know ricky died. I knew about paulOh yeah. And let's not forget he introduced the crew like Sheryl Crow, Greg Phillinganes, Jennifer Batten, Chris Currell, Don Boyette and Ricky Lawson (god bless his sould).