he went toward the technilogy and the latest changes and he didn't want to be that cat having the KFC bucket band on stage.

he more than handled his business on stage and knows all the cues and licks, its just that he became a larger than life artist and he was never going to be that Hungry struggling MJ again period.

you had folks paying big money for him to do certain things and perform a certain way and big money was always their and he was not going to be the cat you saw pre thriller era and that is a fact.