Michael Jackson RIP

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A few hours after his death, wikipedia brought to its knees.
Michael Jackson 1958-2009 RIP
 
Heard of this while I was in the car. 2 entertainment Icons in 1 day, Rip Michael and Farrah.

Here's an interesting tidbit: Thriller is still the highest selling album by a solo artist, and highest selling studio album (as opposed to a compilation), and Farrah's swimsuit poster is still the highest selling poster of all time.
 
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Its a sad day for music

Also rumoured that Jeff Goldblum has fallen off a cliff in New Zealand.
 
RIP Michael

...I wouldn't want to upset Doog...:roll:
 
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PB you've been kicked off here once for being a butthead, why are you trying to make it happen a second time?
 
My first ever lp was thriller! That was about 25 years ago and i still have to play billie jean every gig..such a classic record by a classic artist.
 
Still unbelievable. Very sad for family and friends, but for him maybe better with 50 shows coming up and lots of court cases? I dunno. Tragic.
 
At least he left his mark. Thanks for the music MJ! R.I.P.
 
one of my childhood icons... and clearly one of the very few that make songs that would be played forever.
 
Looking back, MJ was far and away the biggest
celebrity/musician to have risen to popularity in
my lifetime (since 1982).

I still have my original VHS copy of Moonwalker....
Regardless of all his publicized follies, the man was
the greatest pop star EVER.

A few years ago I remember reading that Michael Jackson,
Coca Cola and Muhammad Ali were the 3 most recognizable
names in the recent history of the world.

In the words of Ali G: Respect.

[video=youtube;ex30DYwQlHU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex30DYwQlHU[/video]
 
What he may or may not have done personally can never take away from what he done professionally. My gawd, he started as a little kid and was still going. I remember as a little kid listening to the Jackson 5. I think the Jackson 5 definately helped build Motown, and throughout his carear MJ was able to take the very heart of that Motown vibe and adapt it and made him the king of pop music. And it wasn't just his vocal abilities, the man was an all around entertainer and they are getting rarer and rarer thses days.
 
Motown had power of attourney over every member of the Jackson 5 as well as many other stifling conditions as part of their contracts,particularly financial.Apparently with Motown,it was par for the course to take complete control over their artists.It took many years before the Jacksons were even allowed to write any of their own music or perform any of their own coreography.
 
That is very true. Berry Gordy was known as a bit of a tyrant when it came to controling his artists persona's; both on and off the stage. But he was also a man with a keen eye for talent and as a producer does, molds the talent into being a very commercialy profitable asset.

But the same can be said for most labels back then. The label had the control and owned the material; even if the artist wrote it. It wasn't until probably the 80's and the 90's before the individual artist really started getting any real control over their product. Zappa talked about the battles he had with WB all the time. Its also the reason MJ owned the copyrights to so many of the Beatles songs. The label controlled everything back then.

But as bass players, I think we can see the impact of the Motown sound and how it affected our roles within a band. Bass was no longer just a background instrument, but really started to shine as the instrument responsible for the groove. I often said, drums make people tap their feet. The vocals and the guitars are what people are actually listening to. But whether they know it or not, its the bass that gets the bodies moving. The Bass is the groove their dancing too. And it was labels like motown that helped make that possible, and it was artist like the Jackson 5 that made motown what it was. Michael Jackson basically just took those same things he was doing under Motowns control and took it to a whole new level.

But even to this day, unless you are doing it yourself or are signed to a smaller indie type label, you will find the label still retains quite a bit of control over the actual music being produced. At least until you reach that level of success where you can tell the label where to go.
 
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Yep, sad day indeed. Despite all the strange things & accusations, he was and still is the king of pop music & always will. RIP MJ.

Rusty
 
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