when Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre finishes its last season as Orange County’s haven for rock music.
Thirty-five years of concerts were chronicled by the rock critics of The Orange County Register. One of them Jim Washburn, told his story about a very interesting fact about The Bad Tour at Meadows:
Life in Orange County changed for the better when Irvine Meadows joined the landscape. For one thing, I got a nice checkerboard linoleum floor for my garage. When Michael Jackson played three nights there in 1988, he left his stage floor behind. Rather than discard it, a friend who worked as a Meadows stagehand rolled it up and took it. He couldn’t bring it home because his dad was racist, so he gave it to me.
I never felt that deifying artists did them any favors, so to me it was nothing precious, just a linoleum floor. Sometimes, though, while scraping the Total Gym or a leaking washing machine across the floor, I’d reflect, “Hey, Michael Jackson moonwalked on this thing!” When we moved we left it behind.
Looking closely to this venue, we found a very interesting video of 10min of fans waiting in the car park at the BAD Tour in 1988!!!!
Here it is! A piece of History!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0xXjSHmamw
Here also the set list for the show:
1. Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’
2. This Place Hotel (The Jacksons cover)
3. Another Part of Me
4. I Just Can’t Stop Loving You
5. She’s Out of My Life
6. I Want You Back / The Love You Save / I’ll Be There (The Jackson 5 song)
7. Rock With You
8. Human Nature
9. Smooth Criminal
10. Dirty Diana
11. Thriller
12. Bad Groove
13. Workin’ Day and Night
14. Beat It
15. Billie Jean
16. Bad
Encore:
17. The Way You Make Me Feel
18. Man in the Mirror
SOURCE: The Orange County Register, / Setlist
