Latest on MJJC

BAD25 - The Announcement We Have All Been Waiting For [General Discussion]

Question: Those of you that have Pre-Ordered the Deluxe BAD 25 Box-Set; where you already changed for your purchase or will you be charged when the item ships?
 
Some information regarding the Wembley shows, and particulary July 16th, from member go flying who produced/recorded/mixed the audio of the July 16th show we are getting on the upcoming DVD and CD releases. This is from 2009 on the gearslutz forum.


"I can only speak for the Bad Tour period where I recorded and mixed two Wembley Concerts (July 14th & 16th 1988) to multitrack.

Yes, Mike SANG pretty much everything - even toward the end of the show on the 16th (which was the third-day-straight-in-a-row show).

I listened to those mixes again recently after having put them away for over 20 years - my first reaction was 'omg this is wonderful' as the hairs stood straight up on the back of my neck, 2nd thought was 'thank god I didn't screw up'

Mike's performance on the 16th was way so markedly way beyond that of the 14th, and any other concert of his that I've heard from around that period (Dangerous tour included) - perhaps it had something to do with Lady Diana being there that night - he was obviously very happy, laughing and playing with the audience - it seems like it was a very special event for Mike and he most certainly sang his heart out.

The Bad Wembley recordings were commissioned to record concert audio for the Around The World documentary which was scheduled to be simulcast (simultaneoulsy released to air) on NBC, BBC, NHK and other broadcasters later that month on July 29th (I think).

I was told that whilst video for the documentary had been shot at a number of concerts throughout the tour, Mike felt that the audio thusfar, for reasons never elaborated on, was not up to scratch, so I was asked to record, mix and then sync snippets of audio to the documentary video master. It's a longer story than I have time for at the moment unfortunately.

The audio is of very high quality indeed (but then of course I would say that lol), having been recorded to Mitsi 32's. The multitracks were mixed with great care and 'honesty' - you guys who have worked on live concert recordings will know exactly what I mean by this.

In answer to your question, I don't actually know whether video recordings (suitable for post-production) of Wembley exist.

In the realms of supposition, I'd imagine that the IMAG (nocturne prods) video produced each night was fed from video mixer output (used to feed the giant screen, and that the seperate camera feeds were likely not recorded discreetly however I may be completely wrong on this.

Patrick Kelley, who directed Around the World, did have a 7 man camera crew working on the 14th (this was in addition to the giant screen video crew) and some of that footage was used in both the 'Another Part of Me' video (which used footage from Wembley 14th and also Paris) and was also used in the Around the World Documentary.

Patrick's crew were using in-cam recorders but I seem to remember they only recorded the first part of the show on the 14th

Nevertheless, even if matching video does not exist, it would be a great pity if the wembley recordings were never released - the outstanding quality of Mike's performance on the 16th imho cries out to be heard - only the estate could tell you if and when " (Gearslutz 2009, one of the engineers from Wembley)
 
rsggamer123 said:
Some information regarding the Wembley shows, and particulary July 16th, from member go flying who produced/recorded/mixed the audio of the July 16th show we are getting on the upcoming DVD and CD releases. This is from 2009 on the gearslutz forum.


"I can only speak for the Bad Tour period where I recorded and mixed two Wembley Concerts (July 14th & 16th 1988) to multitrack.

Yes, Mike SANG pretty much everything - even toward the end of the show on the 16th (which was the third-day-straight-in-a-row show).

I listened to those mixes again recently after having put them away for over 20 years - my first reaction was 'omg this is wonderful' as the hairs stood straight up on the back of my neck, 2nd thought was 'thank god I didn't screw up'

Mike's performance on the 16th was way so markedly way beyond that of the 14th, and any other concert of his that I've heard from around that period (Dangerous tour included) - perhaps it had something to do with Lady Diana being there that night - he was obviously very happy, laughing and playing with the audience - it seems like it was a very special event for Mike and he most certainly sang his heart out.

The Bad Wembley recordings were commissioned to record concert audio for the Around The World documentary which was scheduled to be simulcast (simultaneoulsy released to air) on NBC, BBC, NHK and other broadcasters later that month on July 29th (I think).

I was told that whilst video for the documentary had been shot at a number of concerts throughout the tour, Mike felt that the audio thusfar, for reasons never elaborated on, was not up to scratch, so I was asked to record, mix and then sync snippets of audio to the documentary video master. It's a longer story than I have time for at the moment unfortunately.

The audio is of very high quality indeed (but then of course I would say that lol), having been recorded to Mitsi 32's. The multitracks were mixed with great care and 'honesty' - you guys who have worked on live concert recordings will know exactly what I mean by this.

In answer to your question, I don't actually know whether video recordings (suitable for post-production) of Wembley exist.

In the realms of supposition, I'd imagine that the IMAG (nocturne prods) video produced each night was fed from video mixer output (used to feed the giant screen, and that the seperate camera feeds were likely not recorded discreetly however I may be completely wrong on this.

Patrick Kelley, who directed Around the World, did have a 7 man camera crew working on the 14th (this was in addition to the giant screen video crew) and some of that footage was used in both the 'Another Part of Me' video (which used footage from Wembley 14th and also Paris) and was also used in the Around the World Documentary.

Patrick's crew were using in-cam recorders but I seem to remember they only recorded the first part of the show on the 14th

Nevertheless, even if matching video does not exist, it would be a great pity if the wembley recordings were never released - the outstanding quality of Mike's performance on the 16th imho cries out to be heard - only the estate could tell you if and when " (Gearslutz 2009, one of the engineers from Wembley)
Click to expand...

It's amazing he's able to remember the details of these shows 25 years later!
 
I'm hoping for the extended versions of Bad, The Way You Make Me Feel, Smooth Criminal as well as the original mixes of Bad, Dirty Diana, Smooth Criminal (No too keen on The Way You Make Me Feel original mix) to be included in the package.
 
rsggamer123 said:
Some information regarding the Wembley shows, and particulary July 16th, from member go flying who produced/recorded/mixed the audio of the July 16th show we are getting on the upcoming DVD and CD releases. This is from 2009 on the gearslutz forum.


"I can only speak for the Bad Tour period where I recorded and mixed two Wembley Concerts (July 14th & 16th 1988) to multitrack.
Click to expand...

I dont understand this, if he recorded and mixed the 14th & 16th concerts how come we have HQ (Multitrack) snippets of TWYMMF from the 15th?
 
I'm excited about bad 25 project that all mj fans have been waiting for!
 
Has the set list been confirmed? Or we just speculating what is gonna be on it?
 
I must say that I am superexcited for this release. This sounds like a proper release and the estate is doing great things with this bad25 release!
 
Themidwestcowboy said:
I dont understand this, if he recorded and mixed the 14th & 16th concerts how come we have HQ (Multitrack) snippets of TWYMMF from the 15th?
Click to expand...

There`s an direct mp3 version containing the same audio snippets, which is at higher bitrate than Youtube. TWYMMF is noticable of lower quality... it`s less noticable on Youtube.
 
Falcon said:
There`s an direct mp3 version containing the same audio snippets, which is at higher bitrate than Youtube. TWYMMF is noticable of lower quality... it`s less noticable on Youtube.
Click to expand...

No.There is no direct MP3 version.It only leaked at 128 kbps.I uploaded it on YouTube at 128 kbps also, so you can't really say it's lower bitrate.

Zack44 said:
Are these snippets actually leaked from the live album or were they previously leaked before?
Click to expand...

They were leaked before.But the catch is that the live album is a direct rip from the soundboard, which is also our audio source, only that we got it at the lowset possible quality, MP3 128 kbps. ( well, except the Cascio tracks which leaked at 64 kbps, ugh! )
 
To be honest, this release enough for me. Since the announcement came out, did anybody think that we gonna be gotten unrealeased songs, demo, live cd and live dvd ?!
THIS RELEASE IS JUST INCREDIBLE !!!
and no leak win it.
THANKS to the estate. :clapping:
 
MJFansOnlineNr8 said:
To be honest, this release enough for me. Since the announcement came out, did anybody think that we gonna be gotten unrealeased songs, demo, live cd and live dvd ?!
THIS RELEASE IS JUST INCREDIBLE !!!
and no leak win it.
THANKS to the estate. :clapping:
Click to expand...

I agree very much.

This is a perfect release. - And such a great way to honour BAD!!
 
hey guys..sorry I haven't posted in here in the past few days...I have been trying to keep up on the reading though. :) SSOOOOO.....have I said lately how absolutely excited I am about this release!!! :jump:. YEAH I AM REALLY EXCITED!!! Cannot wait..:D
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top