Episode 052: Michael Prince Special If Using Any of the Below Text, Please
The MJCast – Episode 052: Michael Prince Special If using any of the below text, please reference The MJCast and display the following podcast URL. Thank-you. http://www.themjcast.com/episode-052-michael-prince-special/ The MJCast: Can you talk to us about how important that show would have been for Michael had he been well enough to perform it? Michael Prince: To a certain extent, I can. Remember, this was my first foray into working with Michael and in the beginning, much more working with Brad and the band, and making sure all the sounds were right, all the drum sounds that we wanted, sampled for certain songs, so that when the drummer hit a snare, you would hear the snare from Bad on the song "Bad". If we were gonna do "Jam", if he hit the snare, it was gonna trigger the snare sound of "Jam". Same thing with the kicks and stuff, and sometimes on the toms. And so we were using the best technology available at that time. Michael really wanted the live band to sound as much like the record as possible. And most of that's really easy. The guitar player's dialing the same guitar tone, background singers work on singing the exact same harmonies that Michael sang. So for the first several weeks, I was fairly insulated and isolated in, I think we were at SIR, I'm not sure, and it was just the band in a room rehearsing at first. No background singers, no nothing. Just the band, then they brought in the background singers.
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