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The Bad Tour Discussion Thread
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Thriller_MJ
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Bad tour is cool, not my faveourite tour of Michaels but still cool non the less :smile:
Where did you see him?
OMG! you are so lucky!! If only I could attend at least one Bad concert. That is my fav era, my fav concert tour. Please tell us more about it! How was the Michaelmania? I've seen it in a lot of documentaries that people went extremely crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
benscarr
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I saw Michael Jackson's Bad Tour at Wembley in 1988. Those concerts sure were Michael Jackson at his peak as of his superhuman live singing and dancing powers. The whole time Michael spent in London was amazing. I have great memories of those Bad Tour concerts and waiting for Michael outside the Mayfair Hotel in 1988.
The whole of London was full of Michael Jackson Mainia, and this still seems very recent to me and I can't believe it will be 20yrs ago this July that I attended my first ever Michael Jackson concert at the age of 16yrs old.
In the UK there was a huge build up to Michael's concerts as soon as his European Tour started in Italy. The media were calling Michael, The Greatest Live Artist etc of all time. The world was knocked out pure his superhuman talent as a live singer and dancer, and I really mean the media as well as fans were in total awe of Michael's genius. I was expecting an to attend an amazing concert after seeing live footage of Michael's Bad Tour concerts in Rome, Italy. But nothing prepared me (or I guess every single fan) for how amazing Michael was live, because the Bad Tour was the first time Michael have toured Europe and outside the USA since 1979. After each Bad concert I went to I was in a complete daze, as Michael really did exceed expectations on the Bad Tour no matter how high you set them.
I love both the Dangerous and History concerts I attended, but neither come close to how amazing Michael was on the Bad Tour. The Bad Tour, at least in Europe (which had a different set design to the USA) is in my opinion the greatest tour of all time that no one will ever surpass.
The whole of London was full of Michael Jackson Mainia, and this still seems very recent to me and I can't believe it will be 20yrs ago this July that I attended my first ever Michael Jackson concert at the age of 16yrs old.
In the UK there was a huge build up to Michael's concerts as soon as his European Tour started in Italy. The media were calling Michael, The Greatest Live Artist etc of all time. The world was knocked out pure his superhuman talent as a live singer and dancer, and I really mean the media as well as fans were in total awe of Michael's genius. I was expecting an to attend an amazing concert after seeing live footage of Michael's Bad Tour concerts in Rome, Italy. But nothing prepared me (or I guess every single fan) for how amazing Michael was live, because the Bad Tour was the first time Michael have toured Europe and outside the USA since 1979. After each Bad concert I went to I was in a complete daze, as Michael really did exceed expectations on the Bad Tour no matter how high you set them.
I love both the Dangerous and History concerts I attended, but neither come close to how amazing Michael was on the Bad Tour. The Bad Tour, at least in Europe (which had a different set design to the USA) is in my opinion the greatest tour of all time that no one will ever surpass.
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OMG!
Thank you so much for your words. I really can't imagine it! I'm so jealous of you!!!!!!!! I have attended Dangerous and HIStory concerts, they were amazing, but I think nothing can come close to the Bad concerts.
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Michael was in his physical prime during the "Bad" tour. All of you who saw him then are lucky. I wish I could have.
His dancing was outragously good and so was his singing. He was so quick, clean, precise, pronounced, graceful, and theatrical with his dancing, and his vocals were perfect, always on key, even when he was moving like a maniac. The expression he had, through his body, on his face, through his voice, is unmatched. He made those songs live through him and he took the audience in to each emotion, to the point where they felt it too, whether joy, sadness, anger, excitment, fear, etc... Michael is the greatest performing artist to ever breath and the "Bad" tour proves it.
Fancy stages, etc... are only a distraction used by todays performers to take the focus off of their lack of talent. Michael never needed that, and he's never really had a fancy stage. He's used large stages, with great lighting, but none of this stuff like moving sections of the stage and giant affects, because he doesn't need it. The "Bad" tour especially had very sparse settings, but Michael lit up the stage and the arenas ulinke any other ever could.
I think Michael's dancing on the "Dangerous" tour was just as good and his excitement factor was all the way still there. But people never seem to understand how hard, I mean really hard, it is to sing and dance at the same time, especially at the fervor Michael did it. After a certain point, it becomes physically impossible, you can't keep it up anymore. So I wish people would cut the man some slack on his last two tours. He didn't even want to tour after "Bad", but he did, for charity, and he gave all the money from both those tours to charity. That takes a truly good heart. People were even saying that when he embarked on the "Bad" tour that he was too old to keep it up, even then. Obviously he wasn't, he killed that idea. I think Michael was more charged and more in to the "Bad" tour then any other. He really wanted to do that tour, and it showed, I think he wanted to prove something to the world. He was on the road for 16 months. That's insane, lol. But he killed it. Again, he's the greatest performing artist to ever live and that tour proved it. None of todays acts, in their late teens and early, mid and late 20s have ever been able to have that kind of energy or have had the ability to sing live, perfectly, while dancing like a whirling dervish. NONE of todays acts. They just don't have that kind of massive, massive talent.
His dancing was outragously good and so was his singing. He was so quick, clean, precise, pronounced, graceful, and theatrical with his dancing, and his vocals were perfect, always on key, even when he was moving like a maniac. The expression he had, through his body, on his face, through his voice, is unmatched. He made those songs live through him and he took the audience in to each emotion, to the point where they felt it too, whether joy, sadness, anger, excitment, fear, etc... Michael is the greatest performing artist to ever breath and the "Bad" tour proves it.
Fancy stages, etc... are only a distraction used by todays performers to take the focus off of their lack of talent. Michael never needed that, and he's never really had a fancy stage. He's used large stages, with great lighting, but none of this stuff like moving sections of the stage and giant affects, because he doesn't need it. The "Bad" tour especially had very sparse settings, but Michael lit up the stage and the arenas ulinke any other ever could.
I think Michael's dancing on the "Dangerous" tour was just as good and his excitement factor was all the way still there. But people never seem to understand how hard, I mean really hard, it is to sing and dance at the same time, especially at the fervor Michael did it. After a certain point, it becomes physically impossible, you can't keep it up anymore. So I wish people would cut the man some slack on his last two tours. He didn't even want to tour after "Bad", but he did, for charity, and he gave all the money from both those tours to charity. That takes a truly good heart. People were even saying that when he embarked on the "Bad" tour that he was too old to keep it up, even then. Obviously he wasn't, he killed that idea. I think Michael was more charged and more in to the "Bad" tour then any other. He really wanted to do that tour, and it showed, I think he wanted to prove something to the world. He was on the road for 16 months. That's insane, lol. But he killed it. Again, he's the greatest performing artist to ever live and that tour proved it. None of todays acts, in their late teens and early, mid and late 20s have ever been able to have that kind of energy or have had the ability to sing live, perfectly, while dancing like a whirling dervish. NONE of todays acts. They just don't have that kind of massive, massive talent.
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victorytour84
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I want to get this on Blu-ray lol,Anybody got any audio from the second leg that's good quailty?
BONGANI
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My favorite thing about the BAD TOUR is the facial expresions! Michael's face was at work just as much as his feet and voice were! The series of pouts and grimaces KILL me all the time!!
If an Alien came from outa space and it wanted to know who is the greatest entertainer to ever live and why, I would make it watch the BAD tour, but then again I gues that would never happen since E.T already told his mates that Michael Jackson is the one and only king on planet Earth.
If an Alien came from outa space and it wanted to know who is the greatest entertainer to ever live and why, I would make it watch the BAD tour, but then again I gues that would never happen since E.T already told his mates that Michael Jackson is the one and only king on planet Earth.
BONGANI
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People on brace yourself, I see a clip of Michael being escorted by the police on to the stage! I thought that was really cool him literally walking to the stage while the crowd is watching! Was that the official stage entrence for the 2nd leg? I've seen the first leg (Brisbane) and MJ just appears behind a cloud of smoke..
Can anyone shed some light? And do ya'l know what song he sang as soon as he reached the stage?
Can anyone shed some light? And do ya'l know what song he sang as soon as he reached the stage?
Bang! Right on the nail on that one. One of the things that made the Bad Tour and even the Victory Tour so great. It was LIVE!
I think you've seen a footage from Wembley, there was this marching with the police.
OMG!
What a great post!!!! Everyone should read it!!!! Sometimes I felt dissapointment about his lip-synching but later I've seen some talent shows where the people performed only one song with 2-3 dance moves and they were out of breath!!! And Michael did 2 hours shows every night with singing and dancing together!!! I agree with you with the "stage thing" as well!!! He didn't need anything to focus on but his body!
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I looove the Bad Tour. :wub: He had so much energy and it was completely live. I like how it was more about the music than special effects and he looked like he was having so much fun smiling every 6.3 seconds on the up tempo songs.
Baa-toe!
Baa-toe!
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Thanks for sharing your MJ experience and give us a taste of the MJ mania back then.
History used to be my favourite tour coz that's the first time i saw him live, but ever since i saw the live in bucharest on DVD, it became my favourite but now Bad tour is my favourite.
He was so full of energy and was electrifying. He's incredible!
Hopefully, Sony will release the bad concert held in Kansas city, that's my most favourite one.
benscarr
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Thanks for sharing your MJ experience and give us a taste of the MJ mania back then.
History used to be my favourite tour coz that's the first time i saw him live, but ever since i saw the live in bucharest on DVD, it became my favourite but now Bad tour is my favourite.
He was so full of energy and was electrifying. He's incredible!
Hopefully, Sony will release the bad concert held in Kansas city, that's my most favourite one.
Thank you, and thanks all of you for your kind words.
I'd just like to point out that the Dangerous Tour: Live In Bucharest DVD isn't a good representation of the Dangerous Tour. And that the DVD is not the original 1992 transmission, as it's the HBO transmission with clips from various European dates. The DVD version of the Bucharest concert is very contrived and badly edited. There are even clips of fans at the London concerts on the DVD version.
I tapped the original non contrived version of the Bucharest concert in November 1992, on BBC 1. The HBO version (which is the DVD version), was transmitted in the USA a month later in December 1992.
MTV's Dangerous Tour Diary's has same brilliant clips of Michael on the Dangerous Tour in 1992, and is a good representation of the Dangerous Tour. Michael was quite ill on the 1992 leg of the Dangerous Tour. A few concerts were canceled, and Michael's energy wasn't as high as it should be on a number of concerts. On the 3 Dangerous concerts I attended as Wembley Stadium Michael was amazing, though it did collapse at the end of Man In The Mirror on the first date I went to. I didn't believe the media reports about this until I listened to the concert on audio a few weeks later.
I hope Michael Jackson releases any of the Bad Tour dates in the USA or Europe from 1988. I think the European Tour dates are the best and most historic of all the Bad Tour. As that's when Michael's energy as a vocalist and dancer hit an all time high and shook up the world. The stage Michael used in the European dates was also different and better than the one in the USA. Plus the Bad Tour was in arena's in the USA, but in Europe it was in stadiums and Michael was breaking attendance records and playing in font of audiences from 50,000 to 100,000. The European dates also had a funky electronic keyboard sound that the 1988 USA didn't. The European dates were totally amazing.
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I believe he did 5 shows at Wembley Stadium during the Dangerous Tour.
Pity I wasn't around to witness it at the time
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ameliajayne
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I believe he did 5 shows at Wembley Stadium during the Dangerous Tour.
Pity I wasn't around to witness it at the time
he did do 5, some in july of 92 and some in august
benscarr
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What??? Did he collapsed or the song?
Man In The Mirror, right at the end of the song. It's not something a lot of people like myself will have noticed as the main part of the performance was finished.
I believe he did 5 shows at Wembley Stadium during the Dangerous Tour.
Pity I wasn't around to witness it at the time
That's right, Michael did 5 concerts at Wembley Stadium and I went to 3 of them.
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nice to know about this information. thanks.
The editing for Live in bucharest is indeed very bad, half the show was the audience shot.
What is collapse? exhausted? What happened after that?
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benscarr
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The original transmission of the Dangerous Tour: Live In Bucharest is very dull. And apart from Michael's brilliant performance of Working Day & Night, Michael has no energy in that concert. I was very disappointed when I video tapped the concert in BBC 1 in November 1992, because the Dangerous concerts I went to were amazing, and that Bucharest concert didn't have the energy of the Wembley concerts.
Michael canceled the rest of the 1992 European leg early after the Bucharest concert. Michael had an operation on his throat after the Bucharest concert. As Michael lip-synced most of the songs on the History Tour, I wouldn't be surprised if Michael's doctors have advised him not to sing live on tour again in case he loses his voice. But stars like Elton John have had operations on there throats before and still sing live on tour.
Collapse is often from exhaustion, and I can't remember exactly what happened after that specific concert. I think there was enough time between concerts for Michael to regain his health.
Michael was ill throughout the Dangerous Tour in 1992. Dates in various countries in Europe were canceled and rescheduled due to Michael's ill health. One concert that was canceled was at Wembley Statdium (I glad I wasn't there), and it was canceled not long (an hour or so) before Michael was due on stage. So fans were in the stadium and would have been waiting all day, some from 8am or earlier. I went to the rescheduled concert of this date.
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i like when he does the song shake your body to the ground i love how he gets hot on that song on stang
but i wish that they can make a release on dvd
but i wish that they can make a release on dvd
rockstar
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is lucky for lorraine :blush:
mistermaxxx
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his last tour that i truly dug from start to finish. he was on fire and in peak,Prime fashion.