*waits for the MJ purists to walk into the thread and spontaneously explode*
I like metal, but MJ didn't.
I like metal, but MJ didn't.
Bubs;3894305 said:Yeah baby, eat s..t Gene Simmons
This must a a slap on Gene Simmons face (at least I hope Gene takes that way) as Bob played 3 of Kiss' album in the past, and now Bob is doing tribute to MJ :clapping:
Snippet from his interview with Metal rules:
Right and he do give a slightly different perspective to those songs. So “Sweeney Todd” and those songs, if you’re familiar with any of those songs, the attack mode of those songs totally works. It totally works. So he picked songs that all of that would, you know, he didn’t pick anything too wimpy. He basically just made them all heavier. Then after that, I’m starting to work the Michael Jackson tribute album thing, which I think is going to be really fun. We’re going to use mainly young, new metal singers for that album. So this is not the usual formula that I’ve usually used with the rest of tribute albums and it will be a challenge to get some of the newer guys to sing. They’re amazing songs. And again, any of the songs, “Beat It”, “Bad”, any of those songs that have built in riffs, played with some real heaviness there, tune down like we’re doing… It already sounds like it’s the Michael Jackson song, but it just sounds totally different because of the tune down. It sounds totally [growl].
Could you name any of the singers who will make it to the Michael Jackson tribute album?
We just started tracking. So I have nobody to name yet because in order to get anybody to sing any of these, they’re going to have to hear them first. I dare not call somebody and say, “So, you want to do a vocal on “Beat It” for us?” “What’s the track sound like? I’ll send it to you when I get it” No, the best thing to do is, “I heard the song, I want to sing”. Thank you, that’s all. So that’s what we do now. I don’t know if you guys are familiar with the Sinatra CD that we put out through Eagle Records. It was the same thing through that. It was very, very difficult to get people to volunteer to sing a Frank Sinatra song until they heard what we were doing. “Oh, you’re mangling them. You’re making them heavier. Oh, it’s like Frank would have never liked this. “Exactly” That’s what we did to them totally.
http://www.metal-rules.com/metalnews/2011/12/15/bob-kulick-producer-guitarist-part1/
Just like what you did for the Beatles classics on BUTCHERING THE BEATLES –album?
Exactly like that but there’s only more because, with the Sinatra thing and with Dee Snider’s thing, I’ve written pieces of music. The Beatles to me were… they’re gods. I didn’t want to try to stuff a piece of music into it. I couldn’t do that. I was just… extending a solo or something, that’s one thing. But to actually write a piece of music to sit in front of it like I did on these other records, I wouldn’t have the balls to do that to the Beatles. Sinatra, I didn’t care. Some of the publishers of the Broadway show tunes actually have heard some of the songs and they were like, “I can’t believe what you did with these songs!” I’m like, “Okay, okay. That’s encouraging.” But you know, at least nobody’s screaming and running in the other direction yelling, “blasphemy!”
Source? Some of his songs have metal elements, such as Dirty Diana. I also know he liked Led Zeppelin and Nine Inch Nails, according to people who worked with him. Not quite metal, but based on that I'm not sure there is evidence of him not liking metal.
No they don't. Dirty Diana was pop-rock at best and honestly to me it sounds more like a 'big rockstar' parody, with plenty of cliches in the lyrics and the video, none of which are in the spirit of metal, but rather in the spirit of glam-rock (ugh!).
Zeppelin were blues-rock and at times were hard-rock (at best), certainly not metal. And neither were NiN who are industrial/alternative-rock.
WTF? "Billy Jean"? What an amateur release. Billy is a guy!!!
I just hope that jerk Gene Simmons is not on it in any capacity. Gosh, they misspelled Billie Jean on the CD cover? And to be honest I don't like the fact the album is called Thriller - there is only one Thriller. But I'm interested to hear it.
Anyone seriously have a source saying MJ didn't like metal? I'd think with his vocals on Dirty Diana and how he chose the guitar version of Give In To Me over the simpler piano ersion he and Bill Botrell had (would love to hear that in 2016), I'd assume he'd like or at least appreciate metal. Think MJ liked most genres.
This is just one of those things I'll just have to wait and hear. I like a few metal MJ covers though usually other voices don't do it for me.
For anyone that wants metal MJ songs with his vocals still intact, YouTube user spierballs has Blood On the Dance Floor, Jam, They Don't Care About Us, Earth Song, and Leave Me Alone for download if you look him up.