Sad Day

by **Eyeof** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 12:50 pm

Whether you liked them or not, we lost a couple of Amercian Icons today....Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. Couple that with Ed McMahon and that is three this week.

Who can forget that poster that Farrah was on in the last 70's....still the biggest selling poster ever. MJ was a weird dude, but anyone who claimes to have never tried to recreate that moon walk he did during that awards show is a liar!

Ed and Johnny Carson were on so much in my room growing up, it's like you lost a crazy uncle...

RIP guys...

by **Red13JoePa** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 1:29 pm

Hard to top the 3-album run that was Jackson's Off The Wall, Thriller and BAD.

by **Eyeof** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 2:14 pm

No kidding and people forget he teamed with Eddie Van Halen on Beat It and Slash on Dirty Diana I believe....

by **MarcelJordan** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:15 pm

Jackson's death is tragic to me. I always thought he was the greatest vocalist ever.

Justin

by **Tito** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 1:09 am

Red13JoePa wrote:Hard to top the 3-album run that was Jackson's Off The Wall, Thriller and BAD.

BAD was his Raised On Radio. It sold on the fumes of Thriller (and previous records). Although very successful, BAD was a medicore album. Just a couple of good songs on it.

by **Tito** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 1:10 am

Eyeof wrote:No kidding and people forget he teamed with Eddie Van Halen on Beat It and Slash on Dirty Diana I believe....

I think Steve Stevens did Dirty Diana.

by **Tito** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 1:11 am

MarcelJordan wrote:Jackson's death is tragic to me. I always thought he was the greatest vocalist ever.

Justin

Are you talking strictly vocal abilities? If so, I don't think I agree with that.

by **Eyeof** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 1:51 am

I think you are right...i think slash played it on the AMC show with him or something...

by **axecrew** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 1:58 am

Eyeof wrote:Whether you liked them or not, we lost a couple of Amercian Icons today....Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. Couple that with Ed McMahon and that is three this week.

Who can forget that poster that Farrah was on in the last 70's....still the biggest selling poster ever. MJ was a weird dude, but anyone who claimes to have never tried to recreate that moon walk he did during that awards show is a liar!

Ed and Johnny Carson were on so much in my room growing up, it's like you lost a crazy uncle...

RIP guys...

I was talking to my mom last night and we were talking about the two of them, I told her that Farrah had introduced a lot of young boys to puberty with that poster and Charile's Angels...myself included.
As for Michael Jackson.....Michael spent the first years of his life living about 15 minutes from where I did, and I told my mom last night that I'd bet things were crazy over at 2300 Jackson St........little did I know that there were several hundred people there at the time.
Ragardless of his personal choices, and we all know he was strange later on in life,one can't argue with the fact that as a performer and songwriter the man was a genius that may never be equaled. I wish he'd spent more of his later life creating instead of trying to rid himself both physically and mentally of his father's abuse.
My mom grew up on Elvis and is his age...she said last night that people were trying to say that he was bigger than Elvis(she said it like she didn't believe it). I told her "Mom, he was bigger than Elvis." She then said" People are still buying Elvis' record 30 years after his death." I told her..."we won't see it in our lifetimes, but Mom when Billy and Hannah( My nephew and niece who are 12 and 10) are my age people will still be buying Michael Jackson's records.
The man was a musical genius to likes that we may never again see. Elvis may have been the King of Rock and Roll, but Jackson was the King of Pop....Long Live the Kings!

Eye.. I to spent a lot of time watching the Tonight Show... used to love Karniak the Magnificent, so to lighten the mood my favorite one of all time.....
Johnny- (holds envelope to head).."Super Bowl"
Ed- " Super Bowl"
Johnny-( annoyed) 'That's right Super Bowl"
Rips open envelope......Johnny-" What do you find in Suprman's bathroom."

by **Tito** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 2:02 am

axecrew wrote:I was talking to my mom last night and we were talking about the two of them, I told her that Farrah had introduced a lot of young boys to puberty with that poster and Charile's Angels...myself included.

Should you have really told your mom that?

by **axecrew** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 3:29 am

Why not? I'm in my 40's and I can talk to my mom about anything....no big deal.

by **MarcelJordan** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 10:50 am

Tito wrote:
MarcelJordan wrote:Jackson's death is tragic to me. I always thought he was the greatest vocalist ever.

Justin

Are you talking strictly vocal abilities? If so, I don't think I agree with that.

Then who is better? Names please. :-)

by **Joe Vana** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 12:40 pm

MarcelJordan wrote:
Tito wrote:
MarcelJordan wrote:Jackson's death is tragic to me. I always thought he was the greatest vocalist ever.

Justin

Are you talking strictly vocal abilities? If so, I don't think I agree with that.
Then who is better? Names please.

His vocal ability was amazing....and he had near perfect pitch....JV

by **MarcelJordan** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 5:09 pm

Joe Vana wrote:
MarcelJordan wrote:
Tito wrote:
MarcelJordan wrote:Jackson's death is tragic to me. I always thought he was the greatest vocalist ever.

Justin

Are you talking strictly vocal abilities? If so, I don't think I agree with that.
Then who is better? Names please.

His vocal ability was amazing....and he had near perfect pitch....JV

If one hears even his "sub par" album Invincible, that was a vocal masterpiece IMO. Try the tune Speechless. From soft tones and falsettos, complete with incredible control. Not to mention an intense out of this earth vibrato.

by **slysystem** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 11:55 am

Glad you're talking about Michael.

No mather what are tastes in Music are, we all know that we lost someone unic.

To me, we lost a prophet and i'm serious.

The world seems empty since he's gone. Isn't it ?

by **Abitaman** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 2:00 am

Never was a big MJ fan. Had Thriller, Bad, and Dangerous. About 10 years ago got rid of them all, but a year or so bought is 2 cd hits collection. Will admit he had talent, he could write and sing. But I just didn't care for him. And this was before all the child stories starting coming out.

by **Perrydise** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 3:51 pm

slysystem wrote:Glad you're talking about Michael.

No mather what are tastes in Music are, we all know that we lost someone unic.

To me, we lost a prophet and i'm serious.

The world seems empty since he's gone. Isn't it ?

A prophet ....NO, that pedestal is too high.

He was gifted, talented, could sing and broke barriers.

He was a man and like all of us he was flawed.

No Prophet.

MR

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