Thanks Janne,

I actually took a master class from Michael Jackson's guitar player Jennifer Batten once and she said that he was hands-down the most thoughtful, polite, kind and generous person she had ever met.

She was the biggest nerd in her high school class she said (nerdy glasses, big bulky sweaters and nerdy hair) but Michael watched her audition video and one night her parents called out to her while she was practicing and said she had a call. She asked who it was and they said:

"Michael Jackson. He wants you to go on tour or something."

Then she said, he personally gave her a make-over--clothes, hair, make-up, took her shopping, everything--and transformed her from biggest high school nerd to Rock Guitar Goddess playing Madison Square Garden.

She is a very down to earth lady herself and she said that in spite of the hype, Jackson was the most modest, thoughtful and hard-working person she ever met: but that there was not one note, riff, lighting cue, dance step or physical movement on stage by anyone that he did not create or approve of, down to the millisecond.

It was really eye-opening.

P.S. Just to show Michael Jackson's eye (or ear) for talent, Jennifer went on to become Jeff Beck's musical director, co-writer, album session player, touring player, etc.


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