Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Amazing Day Part Two (THE JACKSONS!!!!!)

The lights dim and a movie starts playing on one of the display monitors.  However there is no sound.  A few seconds later the movie plays again with loud & very clear sound (This was opening night of the tour so a few technical glitches are to be expected).  Then the four brothers come out and the launch right in to "Can You Feel It" with each brother taking their turn at the chorus so you got to hear all four of their voices right off.  Tito was on the left, then Jackie, Marlon and Jermaine (for most of the show anyways) but for some reason Tito was not wearing his trademark bowler hat.  They kept on going through "Blame It On The Boogie", "Wanna Be Where You Are" then launched into Michael's popular single "Rock With You".  Pictures on the display screen alternated between the live concert, pictures of all the brothers on the Victory Tour and pictures of the four remaining Jackson's walking on a beach playing around.  "Show Me The Way To Go" was next and then into one of my favourites "Lovely One".  This is when it starts to get sad :(

A video montage of the Jackson family when they were young as in just starting out all the way to current images then started with "Where Here To Entertain You" accompanying it.  After a brief costume change they came back on and went through "Looking Through The Window", "Time Waits For No One", and "Push Me Away".  At this point you could tell that there were starting in on a tribute to their brother.  For the most part through the show Jermaine handled doing Michael's lyrics but Marlon then came forward and went right into "Man Of War" and then ended the song off by saying that we all need to study peace.  Jermaine then came forward and went in to Micheal's song "Gone Too Soon".  I don't think there were many dry eyes in the entire theatre and even Jermaine struggled to control his emotions and couldn't get the last few words out.  During this song there were many pictures of Micheal shown and surprisingly there even was a picture of him with his two oldest children (Prince & Paris).

After a respectful minute of quiet reflection, they started talking about the Motown days and Marlon went into a story about how when they first went to Detroit to audition for Berry Gordy at his house, Marlon and Micheal were too young to really understand how serious the moment was and instead of rehearsing, the two would sneak out onto Berry Gordy's personal golf course and that there were bet's of $100 for who ever could get a hole in one.  But that no matter how much goofing around they did, once they hit that stage they were pure business.  The got talking about some of the songs and joking around and then Tito went into "They want to hear 'I want you back', they want to hear 'ABC', so let's give it to them!" and they all went right into the positions that they used to stand in and dance like as kids.  They did a really good medley of all their early hits.  I completely enjoyed this part because I had seen 3T (Tito's sons) doing this medley on YouTube and thought it was neat that they used the exact same montage.  The songs in it were: "I Want You Back" / "ABC" / "The Love You Save" / "Never Can Say Goodbye" / "All I Do Is Think of You" / "I'll Be There"

At this point Tito, Jackie and Marlon left the stage and Jermaine stayed out to do a few of his solo songs.  I thought it was funny after when dad told me that they must be pushing 'that other one' out front now since Micheal was gone.  Had to explain to him that Jermaine actually pursued solo work before the others (besides Micheal's work when he was younger).  It was funny because I sat next to this older lady who got so majorly excited just to hear Jermaine.  He did "Dynamite", "Let's Get Serious" and "Do What You Do".  I never had really listened to the different brother's older solo material but did know these songs as they are on a few J5 compilation albums.  I did get back to the room though and download "Do What You Do" so I could listen to it (and a few other songs so I had them right on my iPod instead of having to search through my MP3 player for them).

The brother's returned for the last set of songs and launched straight in to Micheal's "Can't Let Her Get Away" before taking a break from singing and introducted all of the band members.  One of which they said had worked and gone on tour with Michael and The Jackson's before.  The then started in on the last set of songs including  "This Place Hotel (Heartbreak Hotel)" before surprisingly going into "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" which was one of Michael's bigger hits but is commonly known to actually be a song about the brother's wives getting involved in their music and messing things up so I was kinda shocked by that.  They finished the show off with one last Michael song "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" and ended off the night with "Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)"

Dad and I made our way out of the theatre and I was very disappointed to discover they were not selling any merchandise and the only way to have gotten a tour program was to be in the VIP seats (which I would have LOVED to do but just was not financially possible).  We headed out of the casino and eventually found our truck only to confirm dad's suspecion that yes, we had one very flat tire.  Add to this we couldn't even get in the passenger side door because the car next to ours was so close.  Thankfully the neighbouring cars all seemed to be people from the concert so it wasn't long until we had a large area to work with.  Very long story short is that an hour and a half later we were back on the road heading to our hotel.  I got my PJ's on, made a few facebook posts about the amazing concert we had just witnessed and then found out that it most likely wasn't the milk products that had upset my stomach the day before because I had the same problem again that night.

We got up early the next morning and since dad just wanted to get home and get the tire fixed we just headed to Timmy's and got some drinks and headed home.  Made a few pitstops on the way home for drinks and bathroom breaks but got home at a decent time.  I of course went straight to bed and stayed there pretty much straight through til Friday afternoon when we were holding my nephew's 10.5th birthday (he is a Christmas baby like me so mom hates through parties at that time so we do half party's with K, we used to do Easter time parties with me because that was my supposed-to-be birthday).  We ended up with 5 kids who got to play two games of lazer tag, do two climbs on the rock wall (only 3 attempted it, and only 1 of those did it more than once), pizza, cake, ice cream and playing in the 'ball room' (a netted off room with a soccer ball - not sure why it is so exciting lol).  We then headed home and I crashed for a good couple of days.  Finally by monday my stomach had finally settled down - just in time for my doctor's appointment wednesday (that will be another post!).

So All In All:
  • 2 days
  • 959.7 km
  • 4 Jacksons
  • 5 days to recover
  • 1 amazing night that I will never forget!!!

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