Multitracks of Bad World Tour Theory

[MJIB MJ In Black]

Brad Sundberg has claimed the entire '87 leg was multitracked (Japan and Australia).


It's pretty fair to say that's not the case, mate. We know from Warren Eagles that a concert film edited using footage from all July concerts at Wembley was done and that the same crew edited the APOM music video, which has July 15 multitrack audio. All things considered, I'd say the concert film also had/has July 15 multitrack audio.

Yep, you're absolutely right. Bad take on my part. In other news, I recently stumbled on a 3 hour documentary (on the Internet Archive) that aired in 1988 for MTV during the Bad tour and I believe that it can help us discover more concerts that were multi-tracked! The footage often does not correspond to the audio playing, I often recognized the audio as Wembley July 16th and Yokohama. The interesting part, however, is that the audio from Wembley came from a master tape source before the Estate ruined the OG sound mix for the DVD. Another time that a master tape source leaked was 4 years ago on Facebook, where someone posted a snippet from the tapes from July 15th, and it sounded heavenly. Yokohama, from this documentary, also sounded much better than previous releases (possibly from a multi-track, but this is just speculation at this point) where instruments had much more separation, and the sound-mix being widely different, but still having vocals which matched up perfectly to previous release of Yokohama. Also, some of the footage was identical to another special aired from the BBC and recently shared by shadowgamesmedia, but in the BBC special; the audio was almost always from Yokohama and sounded identical to previous releases and was also much shorter and less varied in footage. Will anybody help me try to uncover where each piece of audio comes from (which concert it corresponds to)?

 

[MJbr2]

Yep, you're absolutely right. Bad take on my part. In other news, I recently stumbled on a 3 hour documentary (on the Internet Archive) that aired in 1988 for MTV during the Bad tour and I believe that it can help us discover more concerts that were multi-tracked! The footage often does not correspond to the audio playing, I often recognized the audio as Wembley July 16th and Yokohama. The interesting part, however, is that the audio from Wembley came from a master tape source before the Estate ruined the OG sound mix for the DVD. Another time that a master tape source leaked was 4 years ago on Facebook, where someone posted a snippet from the tapes from July 15th, and it sounded heavenly. Yokohama, from this documentary, also sounded much better than previous releases (possibly from a multi-track, but this is just speculation at this point) where instruments had much more separation, and the sound-mix being widely different, but still having vocals which matched up perfectly to previous release of Yokohama. Also, some of the footage was identical to another special aired from the BBC and recently shared by shadowgamesmedia, but in the BBC special; the audio was almost always from Yokohama and sounded identical to previous releases and was also much shorter and less varied in footage. Will anybody help me try to uncover where each piece of audio comes from (which concert it corresponds to)?

This 3 hour long documentary you're referring to is the NBC edit of the "Bad Tour Around the World" MTV doc with bits and pieces from "From Motown to Your Town", which happens to be the original edit the BBC one stems from.

All of the audio is Wembley July 16, Yokohama and, iirc, there should be bits of Minneapolis SBD.