Your most-intense-goosebumps-Michael moment?

Bad live in '88
Dangerous live, especially the pop up
History live
Smooth Criminal video
Hearing following songs on day of release:
Who Is It
Jam
Earth Song
TDCAU
Smooth Criminal
Little Susie
Give In To Me
Buying Bad, Dangerous, History and Invincible on day of release
MTV 10
This Is It the film and getting tickets to...

Countless others...
 
There are a ton of goose-bump moments-but the most intense? I have 2-"Billie Jean at Motown 25" would be first-I hadn't seen Michael since the Diana Ross special and I hadn't even heard "Billie Jean" until that moment. I felt like I was electric shocked through the TV set-I grabbed my mother's arm and tried to scream, but I had no air. And I just about broke her arm too.

#2=Definitely the Grammy's 88-watched that one by myself-my mother had died-but again, hyperventilated in the middle of MITM and threw my arms around our big old 1967 console TV at the end, tried to hug and kiss it, and practically made love to it. Pretty crazy.
 
I felt like I was electric shocked through the TV set-I grabbed my mother's arm and tried to scream, but I had no air. And I just about broke her arm too.

"electric shocked through the TV set"--great description!! Yes, I saw that performance live too--what an impact it had. Today some people who didn't see it in 1983 may not understand how impactful it was b/c we had nver seen the moonalk or MJ on fire like that before.
 
* Hearing him breathe in the microphone at the end of Smooth Criminal in Bucharest 92. After "you've been hit by, you've been struck by a smooooth criminal". He sounds as if he spotted Mr Big and his men in the audience and he has to get f*ck outta there. Reminds me of when Mr Big tries to get him in the movie. Before he turns into a car you know ? I do not know if this sound I'm talking about is in all the versions but the one I'm referring/listening to now is the one I found in 2000 watts. Bukarest rarities or something. Anyway, I love this part it sounds like a movie.

* A part in the last "ooooh why" piece of Human Nature in the same concert. After the "ooooh whyyyy, oh whyyyyyyy". The "ooooooooh" he does after that sounds so pure. I cannot stop rewinding. It makes me feel like I'm levitating.

* That vibrating sound in the background in "Threatened" which makes me think of the vibrating water in the glass in the movie called "Jurassic Park". I think you can hear it more in "This Is It" (the rehearsal). I'm listening to the album version now and I can't hear it unless I kinda press my headphones in my ears. But then again, I don't have the best equipment.
 
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AAAAH I love Michael-moments!!1 Have em all the time. MITM will pretty much always cause one, especially live ones. Certain ad libs too, for all manor of his records!! The best thing about being an MJ fan is that feeling!!
 
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