MICHAEL JACKSON TRIBUTE THREAD

[Emperor Dragon ARX]

Do you have link for that....

The image was posted somewhere around here... gimme a few and I'll find it.

[AlleyKid76]

M.A.A.G. Did you write that Jimi sat in with Gary Puckett and the Union Gap. That is a bit of an odd pairing. I'm trying to imagine how "Young Girl" would sound with Jimi's strat providing lead. I can't.
As far as Michael Jackson...I would probably agree with most everyone here: supreme talent/twisted person. It shows how fame and fortune can not only destroy you, but can also protect you. If an average guy living next door to you made it a habit of having sleep-overs with young boys, he would be whisked away to jail. But when M.J. does it...well, he's just a bit eccentric.
It's all a shame because in '83, '84 this guy was was probably the most famous, admired guy on the planet. The people loved him, the critics loved him. He could have had his pick of A list Hollywood hotties. Instead he began his decline into weirdness...Sargent Pepper uniforms, chimps, serial plastic surgery, masks, odd, apparently sexless marriages and, of course the strange attraction to young boys.
I never bought a M.J. album...I was into blues and rockabilly...but if one of his songs came along on the radio, I would usually listen because it was usually pretty good.
Michael and Farrah...one of those end of an era moments if you're of a certain age.

[Emperor Dragon ARX]

Here it is.

[Melody All American Gal]

Aleykid76..thy didn't ply eg Gary Puckett stuff...mostlyblue...they did play hey Joe....Stormy Monday...and some others...songs like The Load from the Band...this was in late 68...I was just 21...some Big Brother....emember most o thse bads had been Garage bands and knew other groups stuff from playing in joints.

The Union Gap Bad was a really good group the songs that were hits were by no way the best of what I ever head them play....

[AlleyKid76]

M.A.A.G. I guess I didn't see it coming from the Hendrix side. A lot of these bands did do some great R&B, and blues stuff, but if you wanted to make it on the radio in the 60's, you had to go the "pop" formula. I think I remember reading that Hendrix's first major tour was with the Monkees...how bizarre is that, and wouldn't it have been great to be out in the audience when it happened?

[Melody All American Gal]

Well when they were all finding their water wings in the beginning of the flower children and later Hippies there was lot of fun to be had...I certainly enjoyed a misspent youth. Jimi Hendrix was a studio musician, and prior to the British revolution most of the music was recored in studios and groups mostl just did the vocals.


The Monterrey Pop Festival and San Francisco had a great deal to do with the big change, from top 4os rock to wat is now considered Classic Rock, and the advent of FM Radio.

I however would not recommend anyone follow in my footsteps, as I was petty reckless.

[SuddenImpact]

Sudden Impact, Me? Sorry not for a moment...if he truly did something so stupid as to take a drug cocktail...and he has kids...I am supposed to feel sorry because a foolish narcissistic crazy person who has had great success and fame earns well enough money to get well, but routinely engages in high risk behavior, and dies??

I feel very sorry for his children. They have about as much chance as he had for anything remotely resembling lives that are not toxic without a ton of help.

Michael Jackson chose to be that screwed up and sick. The state should have stepped in years ago and made those children wards of the state. We have become an enabling society...and there will be a great price to be paid for the tacit approval we as a culture have given for the spirit damaging corruption of appeasing libertine hedonism and the abandonment of moral absolutes.

The adult that may have overdosed was one very seriously off the charts deluded individual. That he even had those children around him at all speaks volumes to what people will enable others to do just to be near money and fame.

All these cult personalities, and the 24 hour celebrity cycle just add to the overall over amped up drug addicted alcohol compulsive disorder syndrome that is the hand maiden of libertine debauchery (his other problem) that awaits the enabling left to come courting, bringing relentless attacks on the core unit of what makes a culture strong...the family.

There is a full on assault of the aberrant behavior by the cosigning deceitful lying left, and look at the result of nearly 60 years of Godlessness in our Society.

We have who knows what sitting as President of the United States, who cannot even murmur a whisper of moral outrage over not just the elections in Iran, but the lack of any freedom for women in Islam, orthe wholesale assault on or Constitution.

And we have been witness to in the period of the last five months a silent coup, one piece of the Constitution dismantled at a time in quid pro quos to his constituency for winning the power of the Presidency.

And what is worse is these idiots are not finished yet.

Real infringements on our rights are being perpetrated on us by the hands of our elected officials. Now this... I am sad, and angry about and the effect it will have on the legacy our children and grand children will be left to bear. An America that is less...but Michael Jackson...a self destructive self absorbed spoiled narcissist who died as a result of his self indulgent libertine lifestyle ...not in the least.

I take it you see Michael Jackson as a symptom of a much bigger problem.

[Melody All American Gal]

Well gee SI...what was your first clue? And I do not man to be short with you.

Hs death is getting way more attention than his life merited.

[SuddenImpact]

Well gee SI...what was your first clue? And I do not man to be short with you.

Hs death is getting way more attention than his life merited.

I didn't want to say anything, so I decided to use my listening skills. =)

[Drummond]

I did not, nor would I, wish Michael Jackson dead. I regret his death. But I'm not much bothered by it, either, to be honest ..

Jackson's music was considerably popular. He was a good all-round entertainer, giving pleasure to millions. But that said .. this does NOT speak to the issue of him as a person .. what kind of a person he was, his worth or otherwise as a worthwhile human being.

So why there should be such outpourings of grief, as though he was some kind of saint .. I can't personally relate to that at all. I never have. Not when Elvis died, nor John Lennon, nor yet Princess Diana.

Jackson was suspected of paedophilia. Perhaps the accusation was true, or maybe not. I would've thought that the very suspicion of that would've done a lot to mitigate the adulation of his fans. Apparently not, though.

The simple - and disturbing - fact of it all is that Michael Jackson does a lot to illustrate the evil implicit in cult followings. A person, however good a performer, is ONLY that. But people are ultimately reacting to the extent they are, I believe, because of the selfishness of the significance Jackson had in their lives. They care about little else.

That is the real problem, I think. A loss of focus on real values, and instead the need to set false idols on pedestals they cannot possibly deserve.

I've never understood that myself. With the single possible exception of Margaret Thatcher - and then because she did so much to protect millions of my countrymen from the evil of Union militancy through the implementation of decent Conservatism - I can't think of a single person, EVER, I've ever wanted to regard as any sort of idol !! It offends my sensibilities, my beliefs, my values, to be reduced to such a level.

That so comparatively few people cannot break free of the empty shallowness of cult worship shows that we have great problems in the world today ... and that a lack of moral centre and anchorage is perhaps the greatest danger humanity faces.