After all is said & done, I really remember & enjoyed MJ most from his 70’s era thru like ‘85. Honestly, I was not a fan of much after “Thriller”. I just wasn’t, I know, I know – he was now The King of Pop. We were all supposed to love it! But it was all just too much. Too “grandiose”, too “over the top”, too much “spectacle” – when all I really wanted to hear was great songs.

Of all of the (quite lengthy) catalog, I most enjoyed the perfect arrangements from the “Off the Wall” album. Goddamn, that is a good freaking record! In fact, my little brother was born to “Don’t Stop Till Ya Get Enough”. Thru studying this record, I learned about all of the masterminds behind it: Quincy Jones, Rod Temperton, Bruce Swedien, etc, etc, etc… & in hindsight (I kinda started my musical journey at this time). Well, that & the time my mom actually sat me down in her lazyboy & made me listen to “Money” by Pink Floyd with her headphones on over & over. She was trying to teach me about panning
Anyway, these songs helped get me started – THANK YOU for that gift of sound.

How fitting to hear what Prince had to say here…

The 3 of these guys together—WOW!

The end of this 1 is really kinda awkward—the 1st time I saw it, it tripped me out.

Here is a great set of technical questions & answers w/ Bruce Swedien on Gearslutz.

I am proud that I was born into the generation that got to live it in “real time”.