I'm very sorry. This wasn't my first pick. It wasn't even in my top five. I wanted to play suitably Hallowe'eny tunes every week this October and this one really is the elephant (man's bones) in the room, but as has already been determined, a) it is not a great fit, and b) I can't sidestep the tragic and monstrous life of the late Michael Jackson. It might well be more entertaining looking at the (long) list of songs I considered recording before giving up after midnight and resigning myself to this one, because if I had the camera all set up I wasn't going to go to bed without recording *something*. It just represents a kind of surrender, a failure of imagination. The Hallowe'en series had been running well up to this point and I would have hated to pull the plug, or interrupt my now ten-month spree of weekly videos, but this is like an asterisk'd entry in a record book, a technical success marking simply a different kind of failure.
I believe the Creaking Planks performed this song twice -- first in our earliest trio configuration at Video In at the afterparty of Vancouver's first (2005) Zombiewalk, then once again spontaneously slipped into the set at Victoria's much-missed Solstice Cafe after learning of the pop star's death on the ferry ride kicking off our Flogged Round the Fleet CD launch tour in 2008, after which the band made me promise never to even suggest performing it again. So it's been fermenting for eleven years now and it's still no closer to viability, for which I must again apologise.
MJ CAN be pulled off on accordion -- Jason Webley successfully sells his arrangement of Billie Jean, and one could argue that Scott Dunbar's was the cornerstone of his career. But even if this sounded better, I'd still be discontent settling for it, due to the unsettling particulars of the man's life. Anyhow... Happy hallowe'en, everybody!
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