Has Brad mentioned the situation? Wasn't Bill a special guest at ITSWMJ at some point or am I thinking of someone else?
Bill's accused Brad of taking the tapes. This is what he had posted on X (the tweet is now deleted).
Would explain why when the laptop was stolen at one of his seminars, nothing was really done about it.
God I'd love to hear the considered version of Man In Black. The song is so funky, I can only what it'd be like with killer prime Mike vocalsGoing to sequence the album in this order and see how it plays out
Yeah, I've always taken this as he was asked to go and collect them.
Had to be a direct order from Michael. He was probably asked to retrieve the material Michael was working on at Hayvenhurst and since Brad was new to the team, he sent him. Plus, if the studio at Hayvenhurst was locked, he had to get the key from someone
Correct, he said at ITSWMJ event that MJ wanted the tapes and Brad was hesitant to do it, bc he was employed by MJ but also felt it was wrong to take them. He ultimately decided to take them for MJ.
My impression is that MJ truly thrived and instigated the contention between his team. Just listen to MJ cast episode 142. Buxer said something along the lines of “mj definitely didn’t mind the contention, it made people compete, what do you get? The greatest albums of all time” MJ was a business man, he understood how competition between different entities brought out the best of products.
Agreed. Michael loved it but it didn't always end well for the collaborators because some of them ended up bitter about certain situations, with valid reasons I would hope.
No doubt about that.
I wonder if being on the list means there is a version with more vocals or that it was still just in his head..?
Ah I see. It's just so weird that he would consider so little for an album
it's interesting yes.. Sad also, I hoped there would be some more of 'Man In Black'..
Could be Nightline? (sp? Nite Line?)
Yeah that must be it! I wonder if there are any vocals on the dismissed stuff for Bad, by the way he talks about it I am afraid not though..
10 Glen Ballard songs! It would be awesome if Michael had done vocals on any of them but ...
... I agree. It doesn't seem likely, does it?
Pretty sure this is in the footage that leaked from Brad
It is
It does seem inspired by The Nutcracker or some Debussy so could be Michael allright!
It's so sweet how MJ was still in contact with Bobby Taylor as late as his final days.
www.songwritingmagazine.co.uk
"Rod Temperton was there". Yet none of his tracks made it on BAD. Groove of Midnight most definitely had to have been recorded. I wonder if there was anything else.
“So, Man In The Mirror… At the time that song was written, I was working for Quincy Jones as a staff producer for Qwest Records. So I was really intimate with Michael, I’d worked with him – we’d been making the Bad record, and I’d worked on Thriller. For Bad, I’d written at least 10 songs – all uptempo, driving tracks – and none of them [were recorded]. They just wanted the right songs and, you know, Michael was doing some great work, Rod Temperton was there… So I just thought, ‘Okay, the ship has sailed, I took my 10 shots, it isn’t going to work…’ because I’d been disappointed on Thriller [as well].
How we wrote Michael Jackson's 'Man In The Mirror' by Glen Ballard – Songwriting Magazine
The award-winning songwriter Glen Ballard had to be convinced to write one more ballad for Michael Jackson, which became 'Man In The Mirror'
Yeah, that tiny Groove of Midnight clip that exists, that can't be all there is. They have to have recorded the whole thing, surely? Drives me mad with frustration, that one!
I'd love to know.
