On June 17th (my birthday) I drove to Cali, on the 18th I went to Michaels house, noticed cars out there and asked if Michael was home.. they told me yes.. I then noticed Justin 'Waldo' (MJ fan that fallows MJ everywhere) for those who don't know it's this guy:
I walked up to him and asked him what's going on today.. and he said Michael will be leaving soon, he does everyday for rehearsal.. So I waited!! and waited!! and waited!! 4 hours go by.. waited!! I am not sure how long I waited in total, but finally we hear 2 SUV'S turn on.. we all line up, and the gates open.. My girlfriend takes a picture the flash is SO bright and the gates shut.. Justin told her not to take pictures or he'll just drive by.. 15 minutes later the the gates re open.. we go up to the open windo (front passenger side) and look in.. Michael is sitting in the back passenger side, as he puts his hand out of the car to shake peoples hand.. I got the vibe Michael was going to put his hand back in the car so I ask "Michael can I shake your hand?" he held his hand out a bit longer for me to reach it.. I shoke it. (he was wearing a fedora and glasses.. all black) I said "God Bless You." He responded with "God Bless You." I noticed my girl friend did not see him yet, so I pull her to the SUV and she stuck her hand in the car.. Michael reached for her hand.
I will tell you he smells amazing, it's crazy because with our hand shake our hands smelled wonderful!! we were smelling it all day.. infact we purposly ate with our left hand so the smell wouldn't go away..
Any way, Michaels car drove off, fans jumped in the car and fallowed.. in reaction and just shock. I fallowed aswell.. we fallowed them to the 'FORUM' where Michael was rehearsing at the time.. We knew he'd get out after midnight so we got a bight to eat etc.. once I got back I met this fan that was telling me all this music he heard from inside.. SO!! I told him I have to hear too.. So he took me to a place where we can get RIGHT near the walls where he's rehearsing on the other side..
I first hear 'Thriller' it had a different opening, and the ending OMG.. once thriller turnned into 'Ghosts' just the part where the gouls slowly come off the ceiling with those soft keys.. then it went into the beat of 'Threatened' then it ended with the Thriller laugh... I heard other songs,Billie Jean, We Are The WOrld, Dirty Diana, Heal The World, Beat It, Will You Be There, Dangerous, and honestly the other ones I cannot remember at this moment I'll have to check with the audio I recorded from the phone.. (quality not good though)
I am telling you guys the songs he sung live were increadable, it was almost identicle to the track.. the only way I knew Will You Be There was LIVE was he messed up the lyric.. instead of saying "skoled me" he said "mold me" and another part in the song he flupped up..
Dangerous was all different too.. It actually started with the first 19 seconds of Morphine.. the dance breaks were different aswell..
With Bille Jean he did not ad lib much though..
Heal the world, he skiped a verse..
We Are The World Micahael did not sing.. it was exactly the way they did it at the memorial.. infact I just figured the back up would sing it for intermission while MJ is changing or something.. I found that interesting.
Dirty Diana sounded simular to the way it was done on BAD tour
OK back to the story.. we got a phone call stating MJ was leaving.. But we responded with "no way, we hear him singing live." So we waited to the end of the song we were on and booked it to the front..
We shared what we heard with the fans outside, Justin told me he heard MJ the other night do Human Nature and wanna be startin somethin'.. We were sharing stories and moments then the SUV's come back out.. Michael was driving away all I saw this time was his fingers.. Since it was my first experience with this I did not position myself smartly.. there were fans that were waiting at the closest stop light.. which I wish I was there cuz when they stopped he talked to fans and shaked there hands etc.. I tried to run up there but was too far and gave up..
2 days later I went back to the house, Kenny Ortega and Travis showed up at the house (seperate times) we saw MJ's SUV leave without the second one.. it came back an hour later and it was getting late no sight of Michael... we saw his driver Fahad leave in his personal car and figured that Michael wont be leaving, so my girlfriend and I desided to drive back to arizona (home) since it was late..
That was my last MJ moment!! JUNE 18th, 2009 the day I MET Michael Jackson
The friend that listened to Michael with me (we are trying) to share each others audio and find the right time to share it.. I was going to share mine about a week ago, but he convinced me not to and wait til the smoke clears.. So you'll be hearing it.. I'll try to get it advanced as possible from a fellow MJ fan that pm'd me to do so.. I also have a small vid of driving back to his house that night as MJ's SUV was infront of us..