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Big Poppa
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OKay I just watched some news coverage and it was full of the last ten years and his struggles and trials. I get to control this.....He was a gifted artist for many years. Lets focus on the art and the loss.
I am not being insensitive to some of the other stuff but he was never convicted of any of it.
The man is gone.
I talked to Luke already and it was very strange as he played on all of the big albums....All of thriller and he played bass and all the guitars except for the solo on Beat it.
I am not being insensitive to some of the other stuff but he was never convicted of any of it.
The man is gone.
I talked to Luke already and it was very strange as he played on all of the big albums....All of thriller and he played bass and all the guitars except for the solo on Beat it.
Spudmurphy
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Just posted a thread about this on the general discussion section. So the reports are true?
Very sad - I would like to remember MJ at his Zenith.
Very sad - I would like to remember MJ at his Zenith.
edrod
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This is quite sad. The man had so much talent. He's in a better place and his legacy will live on. He life story shows how awful and horrible the media can be at times.
RIP Michael
RIP Michael
brasco68
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An amazing performer...I still like "Rock with You"...used to hear it during summers on the jukebox all the time at the park my Dad and Uncle owned when I was a kid. A true one of a kind...R.I.P.
Sweat
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OK this is very sad, I think MJ wasted alot of years a the end trying to be something he could not.
I grew up on the Jackson 5 and I love Motown. MJ had all the talent in the world, plus we share a common thread a birthday I was born on August 29th just like MJ, though he was 2 years older than I am.
Many may not have liked his music but I do, and Thriller is one of the best albums ever, plus set off the MTV explosion and remember Luke is all over that album, plus the EVH solo.
Sad when someone goes before they should, puts a note on enjoy life while its in front of you, RIP MJ.
I grew up on the Jackson 5 and I love Motown. MJ had all the talent in the world, plus we share a common thread a birthday I was born on August 29th just like MJ, though he was 2 years older than I am.
Many may not have liked his music but I do, and Thriller is one of the best albums ever, plus set off the MTV explosion and remember Luke is all over that album, plus the EVH solo.
Sad when someone goes before they should, puts a note on enjoy life while its in front of you, RIP MJ.
mesavox
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Our culture has just changed in such a huge way... this is like Elvis in 77... It's really sad. His self esteem issues and health problems have robbed him, and us of more music for too long, and now for good. I for one am really sad and I don't know about any of that other stuff in courts and whatnot... I just know a great talent has been lost.. the kind of talent that makes other people want to take up singing, dancing, whatever... Fortunately the rest of his great music lives and people will continue to be inspired for decades and I hope that is his legacy, and the scandals are things we use to learn how to prevent these things in our music culture in the future.
Dante
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it's a fast changing world...
to me, this week is full of death already.
oh well
to me, this week is full of death already.
oh well
mesavox
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He played on several songs on the Thriller album.. both bass and guitars.. David Paich, Steve Porcarro (who wrote Human Nature), Greg Phillanganes, and Jeff Porcarro all played on a great deal of that album... David Hungate may have too but I don't immediately recall.
Luke is the reason EVH played the solo on Beat It. They were friends and the rest is history... very good history.
Ernieballplayer
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very sad, mj R.I.P.
robelinda2
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RIP. Give In To me just rocked.
Dizzy
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+1 ; awesome song.
RIP.
Thriller was actually the very first tape I ever bought with my own pocket money as a kid after I heard "Beat It"
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mikeller
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I'm in shock
Hendog
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I'm with you. The man was straight up talented.
Grand Wazoo
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let's not forget that on this same day also Farrah Fawcett died after losing a long battle with cancer
R.I.P. both.
R.I.P. both.
Big Poppa
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you know the media has been saying that he took the promoters money for the 02 shows and wasnt doing anything....We were working with his new band and the guitarist was using a 25th for beat it and all of that era stuff......you cannot believe everything in the media
