| Author | Message | ||
     Rick_a |
Meatloaf is dead. | ||
| Aesquire |
Dang. One of the greats. Personally, I'm afflicted with "earworms". The last song I hear on the radio tends to play in repeat until replaced. Meatloaf was a sure song switch. No matter what dubstep or commercial got stuck, 2 out of 3 aint bad was a fix. Paradise By The Dashboard Light wasn't just my generation 's Anthem. For my college sweetheart, it was Our Song. | ||
| Gregtonn |
His given name was Marvin Lee Aday. G | ||
| Aesquire |
Born Marvin Lee Aday. ( changed to Micheal ) Contrast the autotuned wimps of today to the full throated operatic power of I Would Do Anything For Love ( but I won't do that ) or You Took The Words... Would You offer your throat to the Wolf with the Red Roses? | ||
| 86129squids |
Wow... sad to hear of this. He made 74 years though, talk about a wild ride!! Very few performers of any generation could OWN the stage and the spotlight like Meatloaf. Might be time to revisit the Rocky Horror Picture Show... "Dammit, Janet, I wanna screw!"  The Bat Out of Hell has arisen. St. Peter and the other angels had better watch out! https://www.npr.org/2022/01/21/1074663950/meat-loaf-dead (Message edited by 86129squids on January 21, 2022) | ||
| Teeps |
Saw Meatloaf live on stage in the Rocky Horror Show, at the Roxy theater in '75. Man, that was a long time ago... RIP Meatloaf. | ||
| Zacks |
First Jim Steinman and now Meat. | ||
| Xbpete |
RIP Meat... Louis Anderson left us today also. | ||
| Xbpete |
National Anthem by Meat in 1995 All Star Game... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDSZxUlGZnA | ||
| 86129squids |
This is a favorite re-post... in memoriam of Meat. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/01/sus an-vass-remembering-louie-anderson.php | ||
| Oldog |
Thanks for posting that Pete,! Rip Meat Loaf. | ||
| 86129squids |
Yeah... Louis Anderson too. Dammit if we don't need ALL the comics we can find nowadays. RIP, brother Louie. | ||
| Mtjm2 |
Guess I was too old , or into other music at the time he made it big. Still sad to see the passing of the generation. There will be more unfortunately . Well maybe not keith Richards  | ||
| 86129squids |
Hah! Mt, you'll be in Bad Company like us old farts, once you lern of the Loaf. Meatloaf was nothing short of EPIC... his music, legacy, life, and not least of which his magic in making panties drop like flies. I highly recommend studying up on this feller.  | ||
| Ourdee |
Tracey and my song is "Paradise By The Dashboard Lights". | ||
| Tootal |
I went to a local radio station to get some Boston tickets. When I walked in there was this huge dude with a black leather jacket with a patch on the back that was two foot wide! It said Meatloaf! He was doing a pre interview before going live on the radio. I ordered my tickets and while they were getting them I looked behind me and saw this beautiful lady dressed in white fur with tall white leather boots. Next to her was a huge black man wearing a white tux. Obviously a body guard/chauffeur. I turned back to her and she looked up and handed me a new Kansas album. It was a double live album called Two for the Show. She asked if I'd seen it yet and I said no and took it from her and checked it out. I handed it back and said thanks. I then realized this was Ellen Foley, Meatloaf's partner on Paradise by the Dashboard Lights. At this point they had my tickets ready. Meatloaf had gone into the studio so I nodded at Miss Foley and her bodyguard and made it out to my car without saying something stupid. I switched on my radio and listened to the interview on the way home. So sorry to hear of his passing. I just saw him on an episode of Huckabee. He seemed like a real nice down to earth kind of guy. RIP | ||
| Aesquire |
Meat joked fans told him their first child was conceived during Paradise, and born by the ending. Disk jockies loved it, they could go to the can during. When they started out, none of the studios wanted to hear them, so they'd make an appointment and literally start the music, with agents trying to hide under their desks from the big sweaty lunatic screaming his songs. Then Todd Rundgren heard them. That's one version. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_Out_of_Hell Bat Out of Hell is one of the best-selling albums of all time, having sold over 43 million copies worldwide.[4] It is certified 14x Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[5] It is the best-selling album in Australia.[6] As of June 2019, it has spent 522 weeks in the UK Albums Chart, the second longest chart run by a studio album.[7] Rolling Stone ranked it at number 343 on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.[8][9] #1 album in over 28 counties, the 5th best seller in record history? Still a chart top listing, today. I've bought it multiple times. In 4 different formats. If you play Paradise backwards, it ruins your needle. I have close friends who married with the "Hot Summer Night" intro as their vows. | ||
| Aesquire |
Btw, that last is truth. And the generation gap may never have been so visual. Typical Catholic ceremony up to the "I now pronounce you..." then the ( young ) Priest announced the couple have their own brief vows, total silence in vast Cathedral with great acoustics, " On a Hot... " done nearly perfectly with great emotion, "I now pronounce..." Right on cue. All the Parent age were in stunned silence, their peers gave a standing ovation until the organ started. There was much clucking and tongue wagging for YEARS about that among the Mrs. Grundies. | ||
| 86129squids |
Greg... I always knew you were cool, but now THIS?!?!? Dammit man! Even the double-live Kansas album! Gitcheraiiss down to Suches for more cool stories, brother! Heyull. I'll see about bringing you more interesting beers.  | ||
| Tootal |
Cool? No, just a teenager buying concert tickets and showing up at the right time. A while later while leaving the same radio station after buying more concert tickets I met the band Angel as they were getting off the tour bus. Right place, right time but I had nothing to do with it. Was it Cool that I ran into them, yes. Did it make me Cool? Nope, just another kid wanting concert tickets! | ||
| 86129squids |
Yeah, me too. I've tried to keep ALL of my old concert tickets... somewhere in my chaossffice I have my FIRST concert ticket, from Rush at the Municipal Auditorium in Nashville. You're cool just for giving me that sausage a while back. Damn good, too. |
