Meatloaf RIP

[Ken Gargett]

just heard the tragic news. what a voice. one of the greatest albums of all time. so sad. RIP. 

I still have the CD on rotation in the car and listen to it regularly. am deeply saddened by this. 

[Fuzz]

Same hear. I was only listening to Bat Out of Hell on Monday on my way to work. Absolute legend and fantastic voice.

Time to hit up Spotify and listen to all his songs again.

 

[NSXCIGAR]

I'm surprised anyone with the name Meat Loaf lived as long as he did. 

Anyone ever figure out what the thing was he wouldn't do for love?

[Fuzz]

8 hours ago, NSXCIGAR said:

Anyone ever figure out what the thing was he wouldn't do for love?

That.

[Chibearsv]

A unique classic for sure.  Meatloaf playlist will be on the Bose for cigar time tonight.  I remember I bought the Bat Out of Hell album when it came out only because of the album cover art.  I expected heavy metal so I was disappointed with it at first listen.  I skipped from song to song looking for "heavy" and didn't find it.  Then I just played it all and was wowed by the storytelling and lyrics.  A great album and a great singing talent.  RIP

[Akela3rd]

8 hours ago, NSXCIGAR said:

I'm surprised anyone with the name Meat Loaf lived as long as he did. 
Anyone ever figure out what the thing was he wouldn't do for love?

The last line of each verse is a statement such as 'I'll never forgive myself if we don't go all the way tonight' then 'I'll do anything for love, but I won't do that'. It annoyed him for years that people didn't get it.

 

8 hours ago, NSXCIGAR said:

I'm surprised anyone with the name Meat Loaf lived as long as he did. 
Anyone ever figure out what the thing was he wouldn't do for love?

And... he was a vegetarian.

Sent by spooky action at a distance
 

[MrBirdman]

Even as a kid I appreciated how brilliant his voice and artistry was, listening to my dad play that record over and over and over in the car. 

Rest In Peace. 

[riderpride]

RIP Meat. 

Time to crank some tunes

[SigmundChurchill]

Loved him in Rocky Horror Picture show.  RIP.

 

[alloy]

RIP Meatloaf. Remember listening to Paradise By The Dashboard Lights in my 64 Chevelle Malibu station wagon as my girlfriend and I were parking. Never got past third base. 😁

[BigGuns]

Sad news indeed. 

His name is Robert Paulsen…his name is Robert Paulsen

[FireDigger]

7 minutes ago, BigGuns said:

Sad news indeed. 

His name is Robert Paulsen…his name is Robert Paulsen

His name is Robert Paulson...

[Cigar Surgeon]

Growing up listening to Meaf Loaf I am saddened by his passing.

However I have read that he was quite publicly against vaccination, and that he passed away from COVID. I hope it isn't the case, but if it is then he's an idiot. 

[Islandboy]

So I guess we now know what “that” was.

[Ken Gargett]

1 hour ago, Islandboy said:

So I guess we now know what “that” was.

given that jim steinman wrote all the songs and loaf just sang them - brilliantly, of course - perhaps we should have asked him. 

 

9 hours ago, NSXCIGAR said:

I'm surprised anyone with the name Meat Loaf lived as long as he did.

a mate takes the opposite view. says t anyone who sang 'heaven can wait' should have been expected to be with us for a very long time. 

 

it is fascinating reading the history and inspirations for the album and how it all came about. younger members won't realise how things worked back then - no internet or spotify or any of that. it was before CDs were invented. you listened to the radio and if you liked something, you bought the record at the store and playeed it at home and with your friends and at parties. you had no control over what you heard on the radio. st hoped it was what you liked. 

i remember this came out in australia (often records would be released months apart in different markets so we might hear of something in the states or uk and have to wait or other times, they trialled them here and then later released them in the states). for some reason, it never took off the same way or at the same time in the states. a lot to do with what label they were on and how much they were promoted and whether a radio station picked them up. became huge here very quickly - would have been late 77 but mostly 78. it is still the highest selling album of all time in australia (surprises me given that this was where abba really took off in the most massive way). i'd just started at uni and you could not go to any party anywhere all year without that record playing half the night (rodriguez and also cold chisel with khe sanh were close, if memory serves). the folks then took us on the family european holiday over christmas/new year for 78/79 and there was not a city we went where that was not playing in almost every store you passed. 

that sort of thing is all in the past. but i'm glad i saw it. 

[joeruby]

49 minutes ago, Ken Gargett said:

given that jim steinman wrote all the songs and loaf just sang them - brilliantly, of course - perhaps we should have asked him. 

 

a mate takes the opposite view. says t anyone who sang 'heaven can wait' should have been expected to be with us for a very long time. 

 

it is fascinating reading the history and inspirations for the album and how it all came about. younger members won't realise how things worked back then - no internet or spotify or any of that. it was before CDs were invented. you listened to the radio and if you liked something, you bought the record at the store and playeed it at home and with your friends and at parties. you had no control over what you heard on the radio. st hoped it was what you liked. 

i remember this came out in australia (often records would be released months apart in different markets so we might hear of something in the states or uk and have to wait or other times, they trialled them here and then later released them in the states). for some reason, it never took off the same way or at the same time in the states. a lot to do with what label they were on and how much they were promoted and whether a radio station picked them up. became huge here very quickly - would have been late 77 but mostly 78. it is still the highest selling album of all time in australia (surprises me given that this was where abba really took off in the most massive way). i'd just started at uni and you could not go to any party anywhere all year without that record playing half the night (rodriguez and also cold chisel with khe sanh were close, if memory serves). the folks then took us on the family european holiday over christmas/new year for 78/79 and there was not a city we went where that was not playing in almost every store you passed. 

that sort of thing is all in the past. but i'm glad i saw it. 

Well said Ken, exactly how it was back then. Bat out of Hell was unique a rock opera that stood the test of time. I was 18 in ‘78 and and the originality of the album at the time was something else. Heaven can wait, one of the best songs ever written and performed..

RIP Meatloaf - Heavens waiting for you-

[Chas.Alpha]

As a young aspiring songwriter, I could lay this wreath at the alter of my many influences: Lennon/McCartney for teaching me that there is life beyond a 1/4/5.

Bruce Springsteen for reminding me why a 1/4/5 works.

Meatloaf for pointing out, “What the hell is a 1/4/5!”
 

RIP. 

[MoeFOH]

So sad. Bat out of Hell is a constant in my vinyl rotation. Have loved it for so long. 

And his brief performance as Eddie in Rocky Horror is a classic. 

RIP big man. ❤️🙏

[99call]

So Leigh Francis is a comedian in the UK, and he had an awkward character names Avid Merion.  Quite often these skits are at the stars expense, but Meat goes with it, and you can tell.....in the end....Leigh thinks "Jesus, you're ace, there is no way i'm taking the piss out of you".

****Language warning*****

 

 

 

[Chibearsv]

Chills

 

[Ken Gargett]

7 hours ago, Cigar Surgeon said:

Growing up listening to Meaf Loaf I am saddened by his passing.

However I have read that he was quite publicly against vaccination, and that he passed away from COVID. I hope it isn't the case, but if it is then he's an idiot. 

seems he had bad covid and was struggling so looks like it. despite saying he was terrified of covid, he decoded he would not tolerate the mask mandates etc, some time ago. that worked out well. 

[Meesterjojo]

13 hours ago, SigmundChurchill said:

Loved him in Rocky Horror Picture show.  RIP.

I used to play Eddie back in the 80s at the Bellaire theater rhps. This hits home. 

[Fuzz]

 

[Fuzz]

You may recognise a teenage Angelina Jolie in this music vid

 

 

[Fosgate]

I was just a little kid when Bat out of Hell came out. My sister and the neighbor girl were all into him at the time and sort of grew on me. I really didn't appreciate the album much until high school and went to my first Rocky Horror Picture Show viewing on Halloween and I was hooked. About that time he was coming back in the MTV video era. Over the years after though he was always great to watch and the interviews and learning the many stories of how he earned the nick name "Meatloaf."