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Just curious I was five years old and my uncle a geordie! got the hits out of hell cd and played it for me I absolutely Loved it.
It was over the top it was something I have never heard before.
We played it as loud as the volume let us and got told off by the neighbours!:lol:
I hope this hasn't been asked before never know what to write but I thought I'd give this question a try.
I will always be a fan of him and I like it when he sings a steinman song he's a genius songwriter.
Then Of course I got into the other singers that have been on meat Loaf records or like had Jim write some songs for other acts and I followed both their careers.
Some people have sports teams they follow I guess Meat Loaf is my sports team! If that makes any sense you know what I mean?
It's great fun being a fan of Meat Loaf I Love his stage shows, he has such wonderful stage presence!
The Neverland Express is an awesome band.
Share with us how you got bitten by the bat?
--Grace :D xx
wolfy35
28 Oct 2011, 12:03
I was given a copy of BOOH LP for my 7th birthday by an uncle who bought me it never having heard it but because he liked the artwork. After a couple of minutes listening I was hooked for life.
That made 1978 a good year for me because apart from that I only got toys, airfix models etc. Sadly the vinyl copy died some time ago.
Sebastian.
28 Oct 2011, 12:30
Last October my Mum was seriously ill in Hospital. I was browsing the M.E.N listings page to see what was coming on, I saw Meat Load. My Mum had always wanted to see him, she'd even asked for his Music to be played during her operation! So I got the tickets as a present. I was quite excited to see him as I'd just started to get into his Music. Anyway, the night came and we were sitting in the Arena and as soon as the Hot Patootie intro started I was hooked. Best night of my life. Best Concert I've ever seen. So much passion and energy and outstanding vocals.
As soon as I got home I listened to all of HCTB and then bought all him albums. I've been hooked ever since.
I find that there's is always as song for any mood/feeling. He's helped me through a lot.
TheDoode
28 Oct 2011, 13:12
Anything for Love came out, I was twelve, and I've been hooked ever since.
tess2002
28 Oct 2011, 13:16
'77, senior in high school and i remember Paradise. However Two Out Of Three is what I mostly have focused on over the years. In either late '06 or early '07 I check out Meat on YouTube and found the old promo vid for Two Out of Three. My interest pick up at that point and has only grown in intensity every sense.
The man rocks my world. And I'm not ashamed to admit to say that I listen to almost nothing but Meat. CD's in my car, music on my MP3 player.
Meat has a great talent as an actor, and, I think it comes across in his Live stage perfomances. I recall watching the Bat 2 picture show and my dad says ''he's an actor isn't he meat loaf?''
''You can tell'' and I was amazed that my mum and dad would watch it. they said' they wanted to know what all my fuss was about'.
Steinman can sure write a good song
Life is a lemon is my favourite Live song. Well having said that Bat out of hell is my ultimate favourite song. Its hard to pick favourite tracks because I like so many songs meat loaf and jim steinman have done.
I do Wish he'd work with Bonnie Tyler her and Loaf on a duet their voices are just for Me perfect.
I am also a big fan of patti she's mega talented and nice with it.
Rock 'n Roll Opera at it's finest meat loaf is!
Thanks Meat!
Ollie241189
28 Oct 2011, 13:23
I was 4 year old and my Dad used to rave about the beginning of You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth. You know with the wolf with the red roses bit and then then wall of sound you get when the music starts. And I saw what he meant when he said he got a chill down his spine. I felt it too!!! I've been hooked ever since!!!!
I was 13, it was in 1993, meat hit the charts with ''i'd do anything for love...'' Since then i was hooked for him !!! Do i need to say more... :D. what a coinscidence u ask, it's 18 years ago now... Time flies.
Welcome to the Neighbourhood was the very first Meat Loaf album I ever heard, and this was 1995. I can remember it very well watching "The top 30 hits" on RTÉ, (fellow Irish fans like Nikox know what show I'm talking about I hope) and I remember watching the video for "I'd Lie for you (and that's the truth) and I didn't like it that much, because to be honest I was young, and didn't know anything about Meat Loaf until then. Having said that my brother liked Meat Loaf and he turned to my father in the kitchen after watching that video on the "The Top 30 hits" and said he wanted that album for Christmas, so my father who is also a Meat Loaf fan said no problem. So when Santa Claus landed on my rooftop on the Christmas of 1995, he brought my brother the album "Welcome to the Neighbourhood" and left it under the Christmas tree once he got down the chimney. Now I can't remember how it all unfolded, I can vividly recall being a brat always, and always doing the opposite of what I'm told, so I took my brothers tape and went into the sitting room, I remember putting the tape into the player which from memory was a JVC make I can't be sure. I clicked play, and I remember hearing someone saying.."45 seconds of ectasy" in a womans voice, and thinking to myself what the hell is this all about? so I played away with the settings, and I remember I landed on the song "Not a dry eye in the house" and can remember thinking to myself my god this stuff is actually quiet good. Now I was 7 years of age at the time, and the world was still a very new place to me, and I was only slowly getting into music. I will be honest I never became a big fan until 2003 when I was 15, but WTTN and in practicular the song "Not A Dry Eye in the house", was how I got to like Meat Loaf, and is actually my first memory of him. I was too young to remember Bat 2. Even though I can recall my first day in primary school very well in September 1992.
jcmoorehead
28 Oct 2011, 16:09
Parents raised me listening to the likes of Meat Loaf and Genesis from a very young age so there isn't one defining moment really just I've always had that Meat Loaf presence in my life.
While the other kids were into their pop music with dance routines and all that I was listening to Bat Out Of Hell.
I always liked all the older music etc, but I came across Storytellers with Meat on it on TV one day, mum & I watched it, I loved it, but didn't get fully into Meat until the MSO DVD came out. Now there is NO going back lol, I love his work!
I had heard of Meat (and BOOH), but never knew who he was until I found his Storytellers CD on sale at Best Buy. Something just told me to buy it :)) Then once I saw Meat and Patti singing Paradise on the Storytellers episode on VH1, I was hooked. I still remember yelling at the screen when they broke for commercial :lol:
Julie in the rv mirror
28 Oct 2011, 17:22
Back when I was about 14 or 15 (around 1980), my aunt (who is 87 now) used to like to buy disco records, :lol: and for some reason, she bought BOOH. Not surprisingly, she didn't like it, so she gave it to my older brother. I used to salivate over my brother's record collection, so I was in heaven when he went away to boot camp and I had free reign to grab whatever I wanted. :twisted: Having heard Two Out of Three... on the radio, I picked BOOH, and once I heard it, it was all over. :D
Of course, I had to buy my own copy once my brother came back home...:lol:
glamourgirl
28 Oct 2011, 17:34
I was just a little girl when I saw Meat & Patti performing Anything For Love on some tv show. I had never seen anyone perform with as much passion as they did. I've been a fan ever since.
A Slice Of English
28 Oct 2011, 17:44
Anything for Love came out, I was twelve, and I've been hooked ever since.
This.
My mate had Bat 2 and played it over and over again whenever I was over and the album was the musical accompaniment to my teenage years and was just f'n perfect for any given emotion or emotional turmoil I was suffering at the time! Love it.
Edit: Doode, I was twelve when it came out also. :-)
All Revved Up & Bat Out Of Hell blasting on a loud stereo. It was evening and the sky was dark blue. The year was 1992, I was four.
In fall of 2001, had to be a few weeks after the September 11th attacks, VH-1 aired a Meat Loaf Marathon. It consisted of his Behind the Music episode, the "To Hell And Back" Biopic, and his Storytellers episode. My late father was watching it and I just decided to watch it with him. Fate reared its head and I heard "You Took the Words Right Out Of My Mouth" play. Fell in love with the music right there and then.
The following day my dad took me to best buy and bought me Bat out of Hell and its sequel. I soon discovered other albums existed as well when I found Blind Before I Stop on a shelf in Huston. We didnt have a computer at the time and we went through catalogs and such trying to find the other studio albums by Meat.
It wasn't until I got "Live Around the World" that things really got going....
Read my entire story here:
http://warioloaf.webs.com/emailmeaboutme.htm
duke knooby
28 Oct 2011, 18:02
Anything for Love came out, I was twelve, and I've been hooked ever since.
that
Thanks for all these great replies and Yeah, I Can really remember getting into Meat Loaf's music. In so many years he has come so far. Now my only hope is Meat gets better soon.
I have been a fan for so long now. He's always been in my life which is pretty cool!
Cherry.Loaf
28 Oct 2011, 19:29
Since the day I was born; my Dad played Bat, Hot summer night and 2/3 a lot and I love those songs and grew up listening to and loving Meat.
JaysScout
28 Oct 2011, 21:16
March 25, 1978....Saturday Night Live. The musical act comes on and I see this big guy with long hair in a frilly shirt......singing his ass off, and putting everything he had into what he was doing!!! I was hooked. Still am. Always will be.
Elijah's way
28 Oct 2011, 21:24
I was 8 when Anything For Love came out, I was hooked and that's one reason it's my favorite song.
robgomm
28 Oct 2011, 22:16
I must have been 13 or 14 at the time, which was around 18-19 years ago, when I first heard Meat. My best friend was a huge fan of his and he had a huge number of his songs on his PC, I used to go round there a lot and he would play some of Meat songs among other things. Although I spent a good few years listening to his music round there, I don't think it was until 3 or 4 years later that I really got hooked, and again that was down to my best mate. He was getting some new CD's of Meats so he gave me his old tapes. The old tapes were Welcome To The Neighbourhood, Rock N Roll Heroes, and Bad Attitude. I listened to them a lot and became hooked. It snowballed from there and I listened to pretty much every album and song Meat ever recorded. I absolutely love it all and i'm not ashamed to admit that compared to all the other music I have in my collection Meat is and always will be No. 1. I must listen to him 95% of the time and everyone else 5%.
I came to like Meat's music back when Bat Out Of Hell III: The Monsters Loose came out. I listened to it a bit, but at that stage in my life I was really into Bon Jovi. It wasn't until early this year that I was in hospital twice, for seven weeks all up, and that was when I really started to get into Meat BIG time :D Bon Jovi got the flick, and Meat was it! :-) I connected with his music, and seemed to connect in some way to the man himself. Complicated to describe, but in a nut shell that is how. :-D
My Meat Loaf roots stem back to when I was 4 years old. At the time, my 11 year old brother and sister brought home the LP BOOH in 1979. Funny story, they actually used to scare the death out of me when they played the beginning spoken part of YTTW. However, I couldn't get enough of "Paradise". I had NO idea what the song was actually about, being that young. HOWEVER, I loved baseball...I thought the song was about baseball THEN. Not sure when it was that I wised up about it. Regardless, I wanted to play it over and over again. It wasn't my album....so I had to sneak it!
Fandom, started and I didn't even know it!
My mom loved Engelbert Humperdinck (and still does), my sister loved Steve Perry, my other sister loved Prince, my brother loved Pat Benetar, and I, MEAT LOAF!!!! My dad was the only sane person in the house! lol.
But, yeah, that's how it began.
I was nothing but a lonely boy looking for something good.
Then I heard Paradise at a party, and bought Bat the next day, the day after that it was Deadringer and MATL&F purchased.
Then my friend told me Meat had announced a show in our home town, we got tickets, ended up standing front and centre, met Meat after the show and the rest is (expensive, yet worth it) history...
I was 17 and loved ''Bat''.Over the yrs,Meat had became so much a part of my life.Back in 2002 while undergoing cancers treatment..I became attached to ''For Crying Out Loud'',''Alive'',''Heaven Can Wait''and ''Rock&Roll Dreams Come Thru''.I vowed to myself that if I ever got better and if Meat ever came my way again,I would see him.He gave me the strength to pull thru my darkest of hours.For that..I thank the man!!
Really interesting where you all found or came across his music. Meat is a singer like no other he's an actor I can see why he's so passionate. Thanks Jim and meat loaf for all the happy memories you have given us
Hey! it's true Rock n roll dreams do come thru.
mlukfc thanks I like coming here and reading fans posts x
chairboys
31 Oct 2011, 14:00
It was the week Hits Out Of Hell was released. I was in the record section of the local toy shop and saw at number two on the album chart was Meat Loaf.
I only knew a few of his then recent chart hits - DRFL, MATLAF and Modern Girl. I was unfamiliar with Bat ( except I was aware of its longevity on the charts) and hadn't heard any album tracks.
So, instead of buying my usual pop stuff, I bought HOOH. The title sounded cool (and more adult) and as I was walking home I was becoming more and more excited just reading those long song titles and admiring the cover. By the the time I arrived home my stride pattern had increased to such an extent i think I would be disqualified from the Olympic 20k Walk.
I got inside my parents house and the rest they say is history!!
And the beauty is all these years later we still have a future. Bloody amazing if I may say so.
robgomm
31 Oct 2011, 14:16
Loving these stories, keep em coming!
stretch37
31 Oct 2011, 15:27
I was in a music rut.....that is, I had been bored of my current music, had over-listened to it and really, really badly needed something new.
Went searching the internet for artists, and I accidentally came across the music video for Couldn't Have Said It Better. Something about Meat captured me in that moment for the first time ever. I started playing the video over and over. I just loved everything about him, about how he'd aged and it had somehow made him THAT MUCH MORE cool. Because he exhibited eternally youthful and excited energy in that video.
And that's where it all started :)
In a very little nutshell...
Anything For Love came out when I was 7 and I hated it, my Dad said he hated it too and purely to disagree with him I decided to like it. So I had to listen to it over and over while I was faking liking it, and as far as I was aware I was faking it, then one Saturday morning I was watching The Chart Show and saw that Meat had been knocked off number 1...and I ran to my room and screamed the place down!
Asked my Mum for the album but she said no, we didn't have a lot of money and she certainly didn't have any to waste on "something I wouldn't like in a week", so she bought be a dodgy bootleg copy of Bat II from the market, and it's been a treasured possession since!
Saw my first show at 10 and as Andy says, the rest is incredibly expensive history!
shanem1980
02 Nov 2011, 12:43
I must have been 13 or 14 at the time, which was around 18-19 years ago, when I first heard Meat. My best friend was a huge fan of his and he had a huge number of his songs on his PC, I used to go round there a lot and he would play some of Meat songs among other things. Although I spent a good few years listening to his music round there, I don't think it was until 3 or 4 years later that I really got hooked, and again that was down to my best mate. He was getting some new CD's of Meats so he gave me his old tapes. The old tapes were Welcome To The Neighbourhood, Rock N Roll Heroes, and Bad Attitude. I listened to them a lot and became hooked. It snowballed from there and I listened to pretty much every album and song Meat ever recorded. I absolutely love it all and i'm not ashamed to admit that compared to all the other music I have in my collection Meat is and always will be No. 1. I must listen to him 95% of the time and everyone else 5%.
Hello im Shane, Robs best friend. Rob finally convinced me to come on here after nagging me for about 5 years lol
I stared to listen to Meat when I was 10 (1990). I received a £10 music voucher from my bank. Went to HMV with my dad and didnt have a clue what to buy. I used to like country music back then and I had all the tapes i wanted. My dad picked up HITS OUT OF HELL and said get that! you will like it! So I did!
At first I wasn't that impressed. In fact i remeber putting the tape in the car on the way home and listening to bat for the first time. After just over a minute i turned to my dad and said "Who are these Meat Loaf people?? Doesn't any one ever sing?!" lol
My dad encouraged me first of all, he always had to clap at the end of YOU TOOK THE WORDS, and sing along to all of the songs. I remember the first song i really liked was razors edge, then I just started to like him more and more!
robgomm
02 Nov 2011, 20:05
Hello im Shane, Robs best friend. Rob finally convinced me to come on here after nagging me for about 5 years lol
I stared to listen to Meat when I was 10 (1990). I received a £10 music voucher from my bank. Went to HMV with my dad and didnt have a clue what to buy. I used to like country music back then and I had all the tapes i wanted. My dad picked up HITS OUT OF HELL and said get that! you will like it! So I did!
At first I wasn't that impressed. In fact i remeber putting the tape in the car on the way home and listening to bat for the first time. After just over a minute i turned to my dad and said "Who are these Meat Loaf people?? Doesn't any one ever sing?!" lol
My dad encouraged me first of all, he always had to clap at the end of YOU TOOK THE WORDS, and sing along to all of the songs. I remember the first song i really liked was razors edge, then I just started to like him more and more!
Congrats mate and welcome. I can imagine that with listening to Bat lol because it's just so different from any other song you might have heard before.
chairboys
02 Nov 2011, 20:14
Hello im Shane, Robs best friend. Rob finally convinced me to come on here after nagging me for about 5 years lol
I stared to listen to Meat when I was 10 (1990). I received a £10 music voucher from my bank. Went to HMV with my dad and didnt have a clue what to buy. I used to like country music back then and I had all the tapes i wanted. My dad picked up HITS OUT OF HELL and said get that! you will like it! So I did!
At first I wasn't that impressed. In fact i remeber putting the tape in the car on the way home and listening to bat for the first time. After just over a minute i turned to my dad and said "Who are these Meat Loaf people?? Doesn't any one ever sing?!" lol
My dad encouraged me first of all, he always had to clap at the end of YOU TOOK THE WORDS, and sing along to all of the songs. I remember the first song i really liked was razors edge, then I just started to like him more and more!
You and Rob teaming up on here. Sounds like trouble ahead !
I was about 14 when I saw his album couldn't have said it better myself advertised on TV so I cycled 6 miles into town and bought it from the music shop, I remember cycling extra fast to get home and when i listened to it well.... that was me in love with his voice and when I saw the music video on youtube well he was so lovely and a great voice to boot, I have been a mega fan ever since. Infact I remember the first time I met him I travelled from scotland to yorkshire for a meet and greet and I thought I would be cool about it, naw I went into shy mode and my knees almost buckled i remember when he enetered the tent and I jamp 10feet back to let him past and he double glanced me like he was wondering if there was something wrong with me lol, but when my turn came I couldn't even speak but he calmed me down was really nice gave me a kiss on the head, but I was too awestruck to register but my brother was next and he asked him if he was shy to which he replied a little and meat said - well am not kissing you too - lol, ha and just before the show some guy said to my brother awe it was cute how he kissed the kid lol. I was 23 short yes but not a kid.
p.s. sorry for long winded answer had a lot more to say than I thought:oops:
chairboys
03 Nov 2011, 09:38
but when my turn came I couldn't even speak
I know the feeling!. I have never been lucky enough to do a M & G but I did attend a signing session once. It was the release of the Very Best Of album and he did a launch at Virgin Megastore in London (Oxford Circus maybe?). So I took myself up to town, had a nice pub lunch and then toddled up to the record store. I was really early but was astonished to find other people in front me. Come on who was it? I was about fourth in line ( whilst queuing I did have my picture taken with Patti - she's gorgeous!)
When the time came for me to approach Meat's table my mind just exploded.
I was in a panic. He said "Hello". How the hell do you respond to such a kind word as hello? With a responding hello? No. I just blurted out "thanks for everything".
I meet my hero and my opening salvo is "thanks for everything". What a plonker.
Every time my brother sees me he mockingly says "thanks for everything".
After 20 years you'd think he'd drop it.
I hope, maybe, one day I will get the opportunity to do a M & G and redeem myself. On second thoughts, it could be too high risk.
robgomm
03 Nov 2011, 09:54
I know the feeling!. I have never been lucky enough to do a M & G but I did attend a signing session once. It was the release of the Very Best Of album and he did a launch at Virgin Megastore in London (Oxford Circus maybe?). So I took myself up to town, had a nice pub lunch and then toddled up to the record store. I was really early but was astonished to find other people in front me. Come on who was it? I was about fourth in line ( whilst queuing I did have my picture taken with Patti - she's gorgeous!)
When the time came for me to approach Meat's table my mind just exploded.
I was in a panic. He said "Hello". How the hell do you respond to such a kind word as hello? With a responding hello? No. I just blurted out "thanks for everything".
I meet my hero and my opening salvo is "thanks for everything". What a plonker.
Every time my brother sees me he mockingly says "thanks for everything".
After 20 years you'd think he'd drop it.
I hope, maybe, one day I will get the opportunity to do a M & G and redeem myself. On second thoughts, it could be too high risk.
Yeah I can't imagine meeting him, just have to try and remember he's a normal guy. I think I would probably just go blank trying to think what to say.
shanem1980
03 Nov 2011, 10:15
I know the feeling!. I have never been lucky enough to do a M & G but I did attend a signing session once. It was the release of the Very Best Of album and he did a launch at Virgin Megastore in London (Oxford Circus maybe?). So I took myself up to town, had a nice pub lunch and then toddled up to the record store. I was really early but was astonished to find other people in front me. Come on who was it? I was about fourth in line ( whilst queuing I did have my picture taken with Patti - she's gorgeous!)
When the time came for me to approach Meat's table my mind just exploded.
I was in a panic. He said "Hello". How the hell do you respond to such a kind word as hello? With a responding hello? No. I just blurted out "thanks for everything".
I meet my hero and my opening salvo is "thanks for everything". What a plonker.
Every time my brother sees me he mockingly says "thanks for everything".
After 20 years you'd think he'd drop it.
I hope, maybe, one day I will get the opportunity to do a M & G and redeem myself. On second thoughts, it could be too high risk.
lol, that is exactly what I would be like! I love the comment about it being "too high risk" hehe
I would love to meet him, but i really wouldnt know what to say. and i would be so nervous!
Does he read private messages on here? its probably better to send him a message. You can think about what you want to say then!
amandanoa
03 Nov 2011, 10:30
I know the feeling!. I have never been lucky enough to do a M & G but I did attend a signing session once. It was the release of the Very Best Of album and he did a launch at Virgin Megastore in London (Oxford Circus maybe?). So I took myself up to town, had a nice pub lunch and then toddled up to the record store. I was really early but was astonished to find other people in front me. Come on who was it? I was about fourth in line ( whilst queuing I did have my picture taken with Patti - she's gorgeous!)
When the time came for me to approach Meat's table my mind just exploded.
I was in a panic. He said "Hello". How the hell do you respond to such a kind word as hello? With a responding hello? No. I just blurted out "thanks for everything".
I meet my hero and my opening salvo is "thanks for everything". What a plonker.
Every time my brother sees me he mockingly says "thanks for everything".
After 20 years you'd think he'd drop it.
I hope, maybe, one day I will get the opportunity to do a M & G and redeem myself. On second thoughts, it could be too high risk.
I've never done a M & G either but I did manage to get back stage and meet the band after their last concert at Christchurch, NZ on the CHSIB tour. I went with a friend who was actually invited by Kasim and told he could bring someone so I was the lucky one. He had several programmes to be signed for some of our US friends but was super shy so he sat down and watched while I got them signed for him but after the "hi, will you sign this please" there was nothing else I could think of saying lol. I remember saying something silly to Patti about how awesome she was with ML - such that it might have been better if I'd kept my mouth shut. Paul was busy chatting up a couple of girls who didn't seem tongue tied at all, but I definitely was. The signed programme and CHSIB cd insert are really special to me though and it was really sad that we weren't allowed cameras, it being before the cell phone epidemic of today.
lol, that is exactly what I would be like! I love the comment about it being "too high risk" hehe
I would love to meet him, but i really wouldnt know what to say. and i would be so nervous!
Does he read private messages on here? its probably better to send him a message. You can think about what you want to say then!
I was lucky enough to get a M&G on this tour, and trust me, I thought I was going to be a crying, babbling mess.... but I wasn't.
Sometimes you can suprise yourself ;)
robgomm
03 Nov 2011, 14:35
I was lucky enough to get a M&G on this tour, and trust me, I thought I was going to be a crying, babbling mess.... but I wasn't.
Sometimes you can suprise yourself ;)
I think I would be nervous but just try and remember he's a normal guy like anyone. If he decides to go ahead with the last tour in the US and UK I think I will have to get M & G tickets as it will be the only chance I will ever get. A lot of money I know but it's once in a lifetime.
chairboys
03 Nov 2011, 15:25
I think I would be nervous but just try and remember he's a normal guy like anyone. If he decides to go ahead with the last tour in the US and UK I think I will have to get M & G tickets as it will be the only chance I will ever get. A lot of money I know but it's once in a lifetime.
He is definitely NOT normal. Gods are not normal. How much do the M & G usually cost?
robgomm
03 Nov 2011, 15:28
He is definitely NOT normal. Gods are not normal. How much do the M & G usually cost?
Lol he's not a god but I know what you mean. Not sure but I think they are £200-£400! I know that's a bit of a range there lol
chairboys
03 Nov 2011, 15:43
Not sure but I think they are £200-£400!
Yeah. I could fluff my lines for £400!!
comedian38
03 Nov 2011, 18:21
This topic seemed to me, the best place to put first post. Well I have been a Meatloaf fan for 29 years, since i was about 10, I remember seeing Dead Ringer on some music show at the time. I thought to myself who the hell is this guy! Now this is my kind of music! I had never heard or seen anyhting like it before, well that was me hooked. I have been ever since, I listen to so many different kinds of music, but for me nothing compares with Meat. He and his music have so much heart and passion. I think,the fact that he wears his heart on his sleeve, and is not afraid to do things other musicians would not even dream of, makes him the legend his today. I will be a fan for as long as i live....
chairboys
03 Nov 2011, 19:32
This topic seemed to me, the best place to put first post. Well I have been a Meatloaf fan for 29 years, since i was about 10, I remember seeing Dead Ringer on some music show at the time. I thought to myself who the hell is this guy! Now this is my kind of music! I had never heard or seen anyhting like it before, well that was me hooked. I have been ever since, I listen to so many different kinds of music, but for me nothing compares with Meat. He and his music have so much heart and passion. I think,the fact that he wears his heart on his sleeve, and is not afraid to do things other musicians would not even dream of, makes him the legend his today. I will be a fan for as long as i live....
I think, subconsciously, Dead Ringer is also the one that did it for me as young lad!
comedian38
03 Nov 2011, 22:51
I think, subconsciously, Dead Ringer is also the one that did it for me as young lad!
I suppose, of all the songs that he has made,a duet with Cher is quite funny
for a 10 year old boy to sit up and take notice. But notice I did, and here I am today. :D
I remember the first time I met Meat ... September 2011 in Atlantic City, NJ. It was also my very first Meat Loaf concert, so I was overwhelmed to say the least. Vee had told me to make sure I said something to him ... I admit I was cocky and told her that wouldn't be any problem :lol: But when he came in the room, my mind went completely blank and I just stood there completely awestruck. I honestly don't remember saying a word to him at that point, but I'll never forget him coming over and giving me a big bear hug :)) I've met him several times since then .... even though I still get tongue-tied sometimes, he's always extremely sweet and just fun to be around :-) And so are the rest of the band as well ... Meat truly has a great group of people (family) working with him.
I remember the first time I met Meat ... September 2011 in Atlantic City, NJ. It was also my very first Meat Loaf concert, so I was overwhelmed to say the least. Vee had told me to make sure I said something to him ... I admit I was cocky and told her that wouldn't be any problem :lol: But when he came in the room, my mind went completely blank and I just stood there completely awestruck. I honestly don't remember saying a word to him at that point, but I'll never forget him coming over and giving me a big bear hug :)) I've met him several times since then .... even though I still get tongue-tied sometimes, he's always extremely sweet and just fun to be around :-) And so are the rest of the band as well ... Meat truly has a great group of people (family) working with him.
Me thinks your year is wrong ;)
Me thinks your year is wrong ;)
I can't see even with my glasses on :oops: Yep, that should have read 2001, not 2011 ;)
Dragonflydreamer1972
04 Nov 2011, 04:41
Just curious I was five years old and my uncle a geordie! got the hits out of hell cd and played it for me I absolutely Loved it.
It was over the top it was something I have never heard before.
We played it as loud as the volume let us and got told off by the neighbours!:lol:
I hope this hasn't been asked before never know what to write but I thought I'd give this question a try.
I will always be a fan of him and I like it when he sings a steinman song he's a genius songwriter.
Then Of course I got into the other singers that have been on meat Loaf records or like had Jim write some songs for other acts and I followed both their careers.
Some people have sports teams they follow I guess Meat Loaf is my sports team! If that makes any sense you know what I mean?
It's great fun being a fan of Meat Loaf I Love his stage shows, he has such wonderful stage presence!
The Neverland Express is an awesome band.
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--Grace :D xx
I was introduced to Meatloaf Bat out of Hell when I was about 21 through my ex brother inlaw. I fell in love with is music then and the man himself and have been a quite follower since then. Well not so quiet now since I have seen him in concert in Brisbane!
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