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Meat Loaf dead at 74

ZantennaG1 said:
As always, it's dissolving into debating whether Meatloaf was vaccinated or not, and no one thinks to consult his doctor or anything. By the way, I do thank you for the two links so I could see the debate as a whole, I appreciate that.
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Legally, the doctor can not release medical information without legal consent.
 
Anybody at that age and apparent wealth who doesn't vax is really pretty stupid. Nobody is saying you won't get COVID. Just that you likely won't have to be hospitalized should you come down with it. I have no idea what ML's weight
was and if that was considered a comorbidity. Make better choices guys...
 
Someone I went to church with as a teenager posted on Facebook that he sneaked backstage, said he was security, and got close to Meat Loaf before someone called the real security. He got out of there.

His brother legitimately met AC/DC and other musicians working as a roadie.
 
Greg Strickland said:
Todd Rundgren interview about production of Bat out of Hell
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For some reason, I thought Jim Steinman produced this album. But I looked it up, and sure enough there's Rundgren's name as producer. Amazing. He recorded it at Bearsville Studio in Woodstock, where he also recorded his own music. Rundgren himself recorded the Phil Rizzuto play by play segment of Paradise. They did it at NY's Hit Factory. So many labels passed on this album, and it somehow ended up on Cleveland International, partly with the help of Steve Van Zant of Springsteen's band. Steinman had the arrangements in his head, and explained them to Rundgren, who was able to translate it into the album.
 
in the Classic Albums video about Bat Out Of Hell, Meatloaf talks about how many record labels turned BOH down, and one of his lines was something like 'they opened record labels just so they could shoot us down' ... it was a pretty funny line.
 
The success and sales longevity of Bat Out of Hell is unusual in the entertainment industry. What is not unusual is a back story of rejection, chance meetings, and things left in limbo for a long time. Not a place for those easily discouraged, or without a commitment to their craft. I love the entertainment business. It is the intersection of talent, performance, audience, business and production/distribution logistics.

As I recall, in an interview original Heartbreakers member Stan Lynch said that between periods of success, there were many grim times, wondering what was going to happen and where it would go. Hanging out in modest places, little money, driving modest cars. It's always great when an artist or band hits, they beat the odds.
 
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MRBIboredop said:
in the Classic Albums video about Bat Out Of Hell, Meatloaf talks about how many record labels turned BOH down, and one of his lines was something like 'they opened record labels just so they could shoot us down' ... it was a pretty funny line.
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That's kind of the story behind Cleveland International. This was one of their first releases. It sold 40 million! They're still fighting with Sony over back royalties. So many crazy stories.

Rundgren is one of the under-rated people in rock.
 
vchimpanzee said:
Someone I went to church with as a teenager posted on Facebook that he sneaked backstage, said he was security, and got close to Meat Loaf before someone called the real security. He got out of there.
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I went back and read his post more carefully. He handed Meat Loaf a copy of his band's music.

One of his latest posts is recruiting people for a Meat Loaf cover band.
 
Greg Strickland said:
As I recall, in an interview original Heartbreakers member Stan Lynch said that between periods of success, there were many grim times, wondering what was going to happen and where it would go. Hanging out in modest places, little money, driving modest cars. It's always great when an artist or band hits, they beat the odds.
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Jimmy Buffett wrote a song, "Peanut Butter Conspiracy", about how he and his band buddies dealt with the "grim times":

"Who's gonna steal the peanut butter?
I'll get the can of sardines
Runnin' up and down the aisle of the Mini-Mart
Stickin' food in our jeans"

On-topic: I met Mr. Loaf years ago when he participated in a charity softball game against our station "team". He seemed to be a really personable and approachable guy, and he wanted everyone to call him just "Meat".
 
I was just starting my radio career when Meat Loaf came on the scene. I remember being quite skeptical because it was a new unusual sound. As I got older I realized this new sound was what made him/them stand out. Though his career was great, he could have done much more but didn’t. I think health or other issues slowed him down, but he was a remarkable performer for sure.
 
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OOF? if this is the case now Meat Loaf's death is being politicized here.

The singer challenged COVID mandates in an August 2021 interview with The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, saying, “I hug people in the middle of COVID. I understood stopping life for a little while, but they cannot continue to stop life because of politics. And right now they’re stopping because of politics.”

When the interviewer replied, “Oh, God. We’re being controlled by everybody,” Meat Loaf responded, “Yeah, I know. But not me. If I die, I die, but I’m not going to be controlled Stern has used his SiriusXM radio show over the last several months to condemn anti-vaxxers. Speaking out about Meat Loaf’s death, Stern said this week (via Uproxx), “Poor Meat Loaf got sucked into some weird ****ing cult. And somehow really believed that — he made a statement, ‘I’d rather die a free man than take that vaccine.’ And now he’s dead!”
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Howard Stern is as relevant to me as Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and Nils Lofgren are.

I don't want to politicize this thread but I really don't give a rats backside what they think, we are adults and can take all the available information available to us and make our own decisions... and live or die by the consequences.

YMMV
 
TheBigA said:
That's exactly what Meat said. Now he's dead. The bad news about death is it's not reversable.
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Room Temperature Meat Loaf.

Some people don't like having to wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle. They can take the consequences of death or brain damage without affecting the rest of society too much. A global pandemic is different. It requires self sacrifice and cooperation from everyone. People like Loaf aren't(or in his case weren't) interested...
 
The Charlotte Observer now prints a summary of the big stories of the past week. I just saw last Sunday's paper yesterday afternoon and his death was the biggest of the big stories., taking up much of the page. Ironically, for those who only see the print newspaper, that was the only obit for him. I saw his obit (I think) in the eEdition that is the only Saturday paper. I wish they had done this for Betty White too but the only print version of her obit was a relatively small single column on a new weekly page of deaths.
 
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