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Didn't the Estate also ask Brad to not play certain home videos? If it's true I think it's because they might be planning on using the footage for future documentaries one day.
 
Mr. Make Believe said:
I was wondering the same thing. If anyone can give some information about what the seminar is like after the theft, I would really appreciate it.
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I did. Here's a short summary.

“Can’t Help It” Demo
How Brad met Michael
Introduction to Westlake Studio (Studio A and Studio D video / Side entrance video)
(1986) Bad album segment:
Liberian Girl: “Building a Michael Jackson choir”
Smooth Criminal demo
“IJCSLY” The story of the intro, the bed and exploring the multitracks
“Streetwalker” demo
Preparing for the BAD tour in Pensacola
Recording the intro for the Grammys "The Way You Make Me Feel"
(1990) Dangerous album segment:
Intro video to Larabee Studios
Introduction to Record One
“Decade” with Bryan Loren
Footage of Teddy Riley working on “She Drives Me Wild”
Studio footage of vocal comping for “Jam”
Rob Disner stories
“Someone Put Your Hand Out” Demo
Bruce Swedien and the Scientific method
“Heal the World” Something is missing / Diving into the multitracks
Producing with Bill Bottrell
“Black or White”
Monkey Business” and the studio luau
Making “Give Into Me”
Re-recording “Keep The Faith”
Choosing the track listing for “Dangerous”
The Earthquakes in L.A. and moving to New York
HIStory album segments:
Introduction to Hit Factory
“Stranger in Moscow” with Brad Buxer and Daniel (boy in “Stranger in Moscow”)
“Blue Flames” with Rob Hoffman
“It’s all about Love” with Brian Vibberts
Joe Jackson visits the studio
Setting the stage for “Christmas Star”
Recording “Childhood”
Revisiting Dangerous: Studio footage of realizing “Will You Be There”
“Smile” Video Tribute
 
smoothvillain said:
I did. Here's a short summary.

“Can’t Help It” Demo
How Brad met Michael
Introduction to Westlake Studio (Studio A and Studio D video / Side entrance video)
(1986) Bad album segment:
Liberian Girl: “Building a Michael Jackson choir”
Smooth Criminal demo
“IJCSLY” The story of the intro, the bed and exploring the multitracks
“Streetwalker” demo
Preparing for the BAD tour in Pensacola
Recording the intro for the Grammys "The Way You Make Me Feel"
(1990) Dangerous album segment:
Intro video to Larabee Studios
Introduction to Record One
“Decade” with Bryan Loren
Footage of Teddy Riley working on “She Drives Me Wild”
Studio footage of vocal comping for “Jam”
Rob Disner stories
“Someone Put Your Hand Out” Demo
Bruce Swedien and the Scientific method
“Heal the World” Something is missing / Diving into the multitracks
Producing with Bill Bottrell
“Black or White”
Monkey Business” and the studio luau
Making “Give Into Me”
Re-recording “Keep The Faith”
Choosing the track listing for “Dangerous”
The Earthquakes in L.A. and moving to New York
HIStory album segments:
Introduction to Hit Factory
“Stranger in Moscow” with Brad Buxer and Daniel (boy in “Stranger in Moscow”)
“Blue Flames” with Rob Hoffman
“It’s all about Love” with Brian Vibberts
Joe Jackson visits the studio
Setting the stage for “Christmas Star”
Recording “Childhood”
Revisiting Dangerous: Studio footage of realizing “Will You Be There”
“Smile” Video Tribute
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Blue flames and it's all about love are names for unreleased songs ?
 
smoothvillain said:
I did. Here's a short summary.

“Can’t Help It” Demo
How Brad met Michael
Introduction to Westlake Studio (Studio A and Studio D video / Side entrance video)
(1986) Bad album segment:
Liberian Girl: “Building a Michael Jackson choir”
Smooth Criminal demo
“IJCSLY” The story of the intro, the bed and exploring the multitracks
“Streetwalker” demo
Preparing for the BAD tour in Pensacola
Recording the intro for the Grammys "The Way You Make Me Feel"
(1990) Dangerous album segment:
Intro video to Larabee Studios
Introduction to Record One
“Decade” with Bryan Loren
Footage of Teddy Riley working on “She Drives Me Wild”
Studio footage of vocal comping for “Jam”
Rob Disner stories
“Someone Put Your Hand Out” Demo
Bruce Swedien and the Scientific method
“Heal the World” Something is missing / Diving into the multitracks
Producing with Bill Bottrell
“Black or White”
Monkey Business” and the studio luau
Making “Give Into Me”
Re-recording “Keep The Faith”
Choosing the track listing for “Dangerous”
The Earthquakes in L.A. and moving to New York
HIStory album segments:
Introduction to Hit Factory
“Stranger in Moscow” with Brad Buxer and Daniel (boy in “Stranger in Moscow”)
“Blue Flames” with Rob Hoffman
“It’s all about Love” with Brian Vibberts
Joe Jackson visits the studio
Setting the stage for “Christmas Star”
Recording “Childhood”
Revisiting Dangerous: Studio footage of realizing “Will You Be There”
“Smile” Video Tribute
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Thanks for telling us! How's the security after the theft? Is there someone guarding during the seminar? Is the laptop kept locked somewhere during break? How did things change?

I'm also curious about Blue Flames and It's All About Love, are they new songs? If so, are you able to give us details about them? Everyone here would appreciate it.
 
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Blue flames is a story about how when recording a track, the speakers in the studio began to spark.

Instead of turning them off, Michael went to the deck and turned up every slider to max, causing blue flames to come out of the speakers, before the entire studio lost power.

Michael then supposedly said, "why did that happen?"
 
ChanceToDance said:
I'm also curious about Blue Flames and It's All About Love, are they new songs? If so, are you able to give us details about them? Everyone here would appreciate it.
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MJ fans try to stop thinking every thing is a song (impossible)

And yes I'm just giving a hard time for no reason.
 
ChanceToDance said:
Thanks for telling us! How's the security after the theft? Is there someone guarding during the seminar? Is the laptop kept locked somewhere during break? How did things change?

I'm also curious about Blue Flames and It's All About Love, are they new songs? If so, are you able to give us details about them? Everyone here would appreciate it.
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Pretty chill actually. You checked your phone into a room after they matched your ID with your ticket. One of his guys ran the wand around you and you took your seat.

Laptop was in a pretty vulnerable place in my opinion. The entrance to the event was right behind it and there was a time when I was about to go to lunch that it felt like he was guarding it. Maybe a little justified paranoia nothing too obvious. I did see a few people allowed near it when they wanted to talk to Brad during breaks.

After I returned from lunch, Brad and some folks were on the couches talking about the theft. I eavesdropped on the tail end of the conversation and I heard it was difficult for him to experience and he'd felt "gutted". The funny thing is I walked back in with my phone and pulled it out at my seat without even thinking about it. I got up and checked it in and the most Brad did was ask everyone once they were back in their seats if they put their phone up. Of course even if you had recorded it, everything is out there already. Felt a bit sad that he was still trying to safeguard it like he'd been in the past.

The other thing I'll say as it relates to his behavior after the theft was that he didn't seem to enjoy hearing his material as much now? I've never heard him cut SPYHO that short ever. May have been nothing but it seemed out of the ordinary of what I'm used to at his events. He could've thought I don't need to waste time on this, these people know where to find it. Could just be me overthinking it though. During the seminar, he answered a lot of questions and afterwards took pictures with everyone and signed autographs.
 
Fuzball said:
You wanna copycat @Lord Jackson?🤔
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I'm taking that ****** second laptop I was just curious as to what changed after the theft, surely they're gonna harden the security.
Mister_Jay_Tee said:
MJ fans try to stop thinking every thing is a song (impossible)

And yes I'm just giving a hard time for no reason.
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I'm not even being deranged they do sound like song titles lol.
 
smoothvillain said:
Pretty chill actually. You checked your phone into a room after they matched your ID with your ticket. One of his guys ran the wand around you and you took your seat.

Laptop was in a pretty vulnerable place in my opinion. The entrance to the event was right behind it and there was a time when I was about to go to lunch that it felt like he was guarding it. Maybe a little justified paranoia nothing too obvious. I did see a few people allowed near it when they wanted to talk to Brad during breaks.

After I returned from lunch, Brad and some folks were on the couches talking about the theft. I eavesdropped on the tail end of the conversation and I heard it was difficult for him to experience and he'd felt "gutted". The funny thing is I walked back in with my phone and pulled it out at my seat without even thinking about it. I got up and checked it in and the most Brad did was ask everyone once they were back in their seats if they put their phone up. Of course even if you had recorded it, everything is out there already. Felt a bit sad that he was still trying to safeguard it like he'd been in the past.

The other thing I'll say as it relates to his behavior after the theft was that he didn't seem to enjoy hearing his material as much now? I've never heard him cut SPYHO that short ever. May have been nothing but it seemed out of the ordinary of what I'm used to at his events. He could've thought I don't need to waste time on this, these people know where to find it. Could just be me overthinking it though. During the seminar, he answered a lot of questions and afterwards took pictures with everyone and signed autographs.
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Huh, so it didn't exactly change anything? I really expected that he'd hire bodyguards or something lol. He doesn't seem as enthusiastic for those things as he used to be though, I feel sorry for him... I respect him for still not stopping with the seminars.

Thank you for answering btw.
 
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Mister_Jay_Tee said:
MJ fans try to stop thinking every thing is a song (impossible)

And yes I'm just giving a hard time for no reason.
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Does anyone have more info on “impossible”? Does it have full vocals? Is it THE demo of BTM? I sure hope someone has the multitracks. One could only dream of studio footage of the recording process…. Hehehe
 
Bogdan said:
Does anyone have more info on “impossible”? Does it have full vocals? Is it THE demo of BTM? I sure hope someone has the multitracks. One could only dream of studio footage of the recording process…. Hehehe
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American singer-songwriter Michael Jackson wrote the song along with English songwriter Rod Temperton in 1981, it is the 78th known predecessor of the song Behind The Mask. A fully complete version is known to exist.

The song was worked on for Thriller, Bad, Dangerous and was going to be worked on during the This Is It concerts in London by the American singer-songwriter Michael Jackson.

The song was found on a tape inside a recording studio along with Sex Life and Spice Of Life, and was sold on an auction by a high-level collector known as Korgnex for 1.000.000 USD.
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Technical director Brad Sundberg hopes to one day see the song be officially released.
 
ChanceToDance said:
American singer-songwriter Michael Jackson wrote the song along with English songwriter Rod Temperton in 1981, it is the 78th known predecessor of the song Behind The Mask. A fully complete version is known to exist.

The song was worked on for Thriller, Bad, Dangerous and was going to be worked on during the This Is It concerts in London by the American singer-songwriter Michael Jackson.

The song was found on a tape inside a recording studio along with Sex Life and Spice Of Life, and was sold on an auction by a high-level collector known as Korgnex for 1.000.000 USD.
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Technical director Brad Sundberg hopes to one day see the song be officially released.
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Is the part with korgnex real or parody!?
 
ChanceToDance said:
American singer-songwriter Michael Jackson wrote the song along with English songwriter Rod Temperton in 1981, it is the 78th known predecessor of the song Behind The Mask. A fully complete version is known to exist.

The song was worked on for Thriller, Bad, Dangerous and was going to be worked on during the This Is It concerts in London by the American singer-songwriter Michael Jackson.

The song was found on a tape inside a recording studio along with Sex Life and Spice Of Life, and was sold on an auction by a high-level collector known as Korgnex for 1.000.000 USD.

Technical director Brad Sundberg hopes to one day see the song be officially released.
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This is a really good effort, but it needs some slight improvements:

American singer and songwriter Michael Jackson wrote the song along with English songwriter Rod Temperton in 1981.

It is considered to be the 78th known predecessor of the 'Behind The Mask' song, while some evidence suggests that a fully complete version of the song exists.

The song was worked on not only for the 'Thriller' album, but also for subsequent albums ('BAD', 'Dangerous'), and it was even going to be worked on during Michael Jackson's 'This Is It' residency concerts in London.

It was found on a tape inside a recording studio along with 'Sex Life' and 'Spice Of Life', and it was later sold on a high-profile auction by a high-level collector known as Korgnex for 1000000 U.S. dollars.

Technical director Brad Sundberg (who worked closely with the singer for many years) hopes that one day the song will be officially released.
 
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