50 dates at 50 years old? that's a lot of dates. i was just thinking i hope he gets a physical trainer, someone to really work him out, make sure he's healthy and prepared. >> reporter: jermaine jackson says his little brother was ready. >> i mean he could have did 200 shows. >> reporter: i sat down with jermaine following band rehearsals for an upcoming tour to gambia. >> i felt that he could do it because of the way the shows were spaced out and it wasn't like every day. see, like when we first started we were doing one-nighters where every day you're in a different place, riding the bus and you're sleeping on top of each other. that's tough. but this was -- and you didn't have to take the stage now you www.you were in one location. i think that night he finally accepted down deep in whatever the inner reaches of an artist's soul are that he could do this.