Age of fans?
 

Hi Guys,

I was wondering what the age range of the fans that write on here was. I know that when i have been to Meat's concerts there are all ages from 10 to 60. Just wondered if that was the same on here?

Anyway Im 24 and from London.... how bout you? :)

I'm sure someone who's not as lazy as me will eventually point out the thread where this has already been discussed. But until then, I'm 15 (16 on the 14th of this month. Horrah for me!) and there are people as young as 12 here I believe. There are some older peeps as well. I forget the eldest. Someone's sure to post the thread though, so there we go. ^_^

Hi Joe, I'm 53 I think once upon a time there was another forum member maybe a year of so older than I..

Joe whereabouts in London are u from? I'm from Middlesex.

I'm 23 :D

I'm 29. It's the big 3-0 in September :cry:

I'm 21!

I am 35 years old/young (you deceide for yourself)

Love,

Mariella

I'm 24

Forever Young Mariella

Go to Off Topic , page 8, How old is everyone.

me? it's not polite to ask a lady or a bat her age, but if you search diligently you will find out. :lol:

19, been listining since i was around 12 or so.

22, been a fan as long as I can remember.

Apparently Dad always had BOOH on in the car when my mum went to pre-natal classes when pregnant with me - so I think I really can claim to be a life long fan!! :lol:

Nice story!
Yes, like Ellis you can claim to be a life-long-fan!!! (I LOVE that story!)

Great day to you,

Mariella

I'm 19, fan since about 10 yrs old.

Age
 

24, been a fan for about six years.

Also 19

Well,
actually as I remember from the last time this came up, Dottie is the most experienced of all here at life. I came in at second at 47, Jules is 46. Lordy, that sounds like we should be staying home and nursing our arthritis.

Heck with that, just got tickets tonight for our 4th concert of this tour. Woohoo, birthday party in Detroit...here we come!!! If Meat can keep on ROCKIN, we sure as hell can rock along with him.

And Dottie, we are relying on you to set a good example for these young whippersnappers! As you certainly did on GN, hope to see it here in the states sometime soon.

I think some of the great friends we have made here understand that age is no barrier to appreciating great music.

"Forever Young " just came on, that about sums it up,
T

I'm 25, based in Leeds

Tbuck right on there :D Lets all be proud and have a great time at the concerts we're going to - up on those seats and sing your heart out :!:

23, will be 24 in August. Fan for 11 years now

I'm 35, been a fan for as long as I can remember, probably about 20 years or so.

It's great to see a variety of all ages on this site 8) Meat's music has certainly stood the test of time and continues to go on from strength to strength! :D

I'm 17 and I've been a fan since I was 6! :D

Lucy, that is amazing. That is 2/3 of your life!

I have that with The BeeGees (wrong forum) :oops:

Great day to you,

Mariella

22!!!

56 year old bat!
 

I beat you all! 56 just gone - and I only "discovered" Meat last year in March - saw the biography film with W Earl Jones and was absolutely HOOKED! :D :D :D

Say him at Leeds (2nd from front row standing, got some GREAT photos) will copy for anyone, then saw him at Liverpool. MAGIC - he made me a teenager again.... :lol:

Heather (meatfan)[/quote]

Yes, well still 26 going on 25 :lol:

I'm not getting older I'm getting younger by the day

Heather - Meatfan - Congratulations you beat me I'm 53 1/2 been a fan since the early 70's

hellooooooooooo
 

I'm 25, and discovered Meat Loaf about 10 years ago when Bat II came out - had to borrow my Dad's CDs initially :)

36 years young, hey mousies my toyboy. :lmao: :lol: :lol: :lol: .
I got into Meat's music when i developed a massive crush on him in the eighties.Still think hes fit though :lol:

:lmao:

You are also coming to Wembley, right!? Think we are going to have so much fun at and Before the show!!

Love,

Mariella

how old is R.???

im curious

Yes Mariella, cant wait we will have a ball :lmao: ,cant wait to meet everyone whenever we can . :lol: You are a great bunch of guys :wink: , also come on R tell us your age we have all had to come clean about our age go on, i dare you :lol:

[quote="Mrs Mouse"] hey mousies my toyboy. quote]

Makes me sound like an action man 8O .
And before you ask,NO,I don't come with an assortment of uniforms :lol: .
Mariella,we're at Wembley 18th November.Hope to finally meet up with lots of the members there :D .

BTW,i'm 26.

But what about the little switch on the back of your head for wiggling your eyes!!!

I thought there was already a topic like this.

I'm 19.

8O Oh my goodness! lol I'd not worked that out!!! I feel old now!! :p

And good call on the Bee Gee's thing - I like them too!

I love the BeeGees.

I'm still not totaly over the sad news earlier this year... :(

Made me a year older on the spot

Asha

I'll be 41 next week (gulp!!) - can that be true?????? agghhh!!!! :wink:

Not being a mod any more.... but there was another topic like this.

Yes there was Tim (aged 24?),
I did a very unscientific compilation of ages on both threads. Sounds like I have WAY too much time on my hands, but...we are leaving tomorrow after work to see Fire Ball in WI on Fri. All is set, list made for tomorrow and I'm just in a Meaty mood, so I came here and did this exersize.

Results are *drum roll*-
under 20..7
20-29......16
30-39......5
40-49......6
50+........2

Keep in mind this is only the few who have the intestinal fortitude to post their age. I'm surprised 20somethings are so dominant. :o It's just great to see his wide appeal amongst different ages. Many "artists" are much more limited. :wink:

Maybe some older ones won't tell. I could care, I'm 47, will be 48 in Oct. If Meat can ROCK I can keep up, you bet your azz. Least I can do for all the years of joy he has given us!

On the road to nowhere soon... :D

T ( & for J, who is more wisely sleeping)

only 7 of us under 20 god we gotta spread the music 2 more of us :twisted:

Yes! Us teenyboppers must keep the faith! 8)

And I'm sorry. But after that post I have to say it. . .


We're on a road to nowhere,
Come on inside,
Taking that ride to nowhere,
We'll take that ride,

I'm feeling ok this morning,
And you know,
We're on a road to paradise,
Here we go, here we go.

Ok I'm done now.

8O my son "grassed me up" on the last topic! I aint letting him back near the computer til this ones gone :lol:

17, 18 August 12th, fan since, ????? cant rmeber, ages

im the same age as cathie. n a little older than eyeore

sorry only now found this im 20 (21 on the 5th of august) wooohoo ive been a fan since the age of 9

Indeed, i'm 24!!!

I turned 41 on January 7th :))

I've been a fan since 1999 ... after I watched him on VH1 Storytellers. Guess you can say I'm making up for lost time time now and enjoying every minute of it :))

Vicki

Well I am the oldest Bat - 56 - and it seems the LAST to find ML!

Saw his biography March last year and was hooked! Luckily, found this board (which I have not fully worked out how to use yet - discovered Internet about the same time I guess) and thus discovered Meat was due to come to UK.

Saw him at Leeds and only 1 row back (standing) and at Liverpool (seated). :D :D :D

I was in heaven! AND I knew all the words to the songs! Meat turned me into a teenager again....But would love to have seen big, bouncing long haired sweaty Meat - what a turn-on! Must be big guys - my second husband is 18 stone. (My first one of 32 years was as thin as a rake - had 6 affairs then ran off with the 7th at 50 ) :( New hubby is a Bat too! Oh, and he's 49 which does not help swell the number of Bats who are in their 50's! :lol:

Heather.

I'm 16 and doing my best to spread Meat's music to anybody who'll stand still long enough to listen. Got to get more teenagers on here!!

That is so great Cathie :)) And right you are about the teenagers !
Vicki

Don't go for only teenagers, go for the 20 odd too...!!!

Asha

I hope to be around for a long time still!

And 20 odd mostly have more spending power then teens..

Anyway, the more the merrier, is all I say

asha

I'm 8 years younger than Meat and been a fan for over 20 years.

Nice to see that his music appeals to such a wide age range.

Well mr JJ (43) and I (41) took our son (17) and his girlfriend (16) to see Meat in Plymouth....hows'a that? My daughter (14) also likes him, but didn't want to go see him (silly girl!) Think she still working on a bit more! :lol: Incidentally....ok......so I know they're not on this site, but I have friends who are also lifelong meat fans have have seen him in concert in the past, she is 42...and....wait for it......he is 51 !! (there..feel any better now? :wink: ) and their daughter is also a mad fan at 14 !! So the fans of the future are out there, of that there's no doubt....keep spreading the gospel according to Meat!!!!!

Bump me up! 16 baby! w00t!

*Eyeore does the Mick Jagger Cocksure Strut©*
8)

hahahaha!! :P

WELL! I am still the eldest BAT at 56! Unless a challenger appears!

I thin we also have the YOUNGEST BAT in our family - my Grandson Benjamin who was 4 years old in April!

He comes in from nursery and wants "bat out of hell" on. No matter how often we tell him he's Meat Loaf, Benjamin calls him "bat out of hell!

His favourite video is "Bad Attitude". I bought him his own copy for his 4th birthday, but his dad (my son Brian, 33, also a BAT took it off him as Meat swears "F*** Y** on the video and Benjamin copied him)! :lol: Shame on daddy - he added it to HIS collection!

So there you are - the OLDEST BAT and the YOUNGEST BAT - unless you know different.....
Heather.

:twisted: I've been teaching my nephew Connor (2 yrs old) the gospel according to Bat 8) .
It was funny because when he'd cry,John (my brother) would hold him and try and calm him down,then Annie (My sister in law) would try,then my mum would take him,then my dad would take him but he'd still be crying :cry: .
I'd walk over,give him the Meat Loaf face and shout LIKE A BAT OUT OF HEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLL and he'd stop cryin straight away and grin :mrgreen: .
Connor also loves it when I headbang and play air guitar :lol: .
It drives John crazy :lol: .

I'm 22. I first became acquainted with Meat Loaf through The Rocky Horror Show. Then I remember seeing the VH1 movie "Meat Loaf To Hell And Back" and hearing the clips of songs they played as W. Earl Brown lip sang. I thougt they were the most bizarre songs I had ever heard before but I loved having that feeling. After buying "Bat" I immediately became hooked on the works of James Richard Steinman and after getting to know Jimmy pretty well through the years, now I know why I thought the "Bat" songs were so bizarre when I first heard them. "If you don't go over the top how are you supposed to see what's on the other side?" -Jim Steinman. On my list of the top male vocalists of all time Meat would be right up there along with Freddie Mercury, Luciano Pavirotti, Roy Orbison, and of course Elvis Presley. I love Meat!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hehehehe :lol: :lol:

Hi Evan - I also love Pavarotti and Roy Orbison.

I ran away from home to Londo at 16 as my mother used to beat the living daylights out of me! All I took were my Roy Orbison LP's. In 1970 I started writing to him and his new wife Barbara. This led to Roy Kelton Orbison 11 (Roy and Barbara's first son) staying with us for 2 days in 1990. Got it all on video, and lots of photo's.

Funnily enough, it was Meat who knocked Roy off my top spot - for a while - when I discovered Meat just last March! Now they are equal for different reasons and I love them both. And Andrea Bocelli and Medwyn Goodall (exceptional new-age musician).

Nice to see we Meat fans whatever our ages love other exceptional voices!

Heather.

Andrea Boccelli. Is he blind? Everytime I see him his eyes are closed. . .
But what a voice. . .
Morrissey tops my list of fav vocalists.

Yes Eyeore - Andrea is blind. I have his autobiography. Saw him live at one of only two concerts in UK last year - MAGIC!

Roy Orbison, however, was NOT blind, although his eyesight was poor.

What a concert THAT would be - Andrea Bocelli, Roy Orbison and Meat Loaf! Roy and Meat would attract youngsters through to old BAT's like me.....

Heather

Yeah I can't believe I forgot Morrissey, "Everyday Is Like Sunday" and "Sing Your Life" are some of my favorite of his vocal performances. I love his new song "The First Of The Gang To Die" it's very catchy.

I also am a huge fan of Roy and Freddie.

Although, one of my favourite songs is from a musical. in We Will Rock You, the gang all stand around and say "We remember the ones who died young...."

They then list all the great but sadly missed stars such as Freddie, Janis Joplin, Buddy etc etc before singing Only The Good Die Young. The audience was nearly in tears when I went to see it.

Kirsty Macoll, Mercury, Lennon, Harrison, Hendrix. They all died too soon.

And Morrissey's best performance is (IMHO) on "I Know It's Over". And what a song.
He's also a lyrical genius. He's outwritten Steinman lyrically on a number of occasions.

"Only the GOOD die young :!: "

i luv that song :P

even if it has a sad meaning

well..completely missed this topic :oops:

Im 25, been into meat since i was 13/14 or so. Although i'm 25, i do usually tell people im 24, as that was a good year for me, so i'm sticking with it... :wink:

As for the youngest meat fans - i do believe that my twins are the youngest, at 9 months - correct me if im wrong though. :P They have always listened to meat - with a mother like me, they stood no chance :lol: I was 4 months pregnant with them when i went to my first meat concert, last year, and they were born to BOOH, so they had a good start. They both love Objects - it quietens them down when they are grizzly...there has been many a night when i've thanked god for Meat, i can tell ya... :D

tbuck said:
I'm not sure it's about intestinal fortitude .. more that it concerns those young enough to be seeking to acquire it and is not something those who have acquired it choose to dwell on :)

They say you're as old as the man you're feeling .. and I'm as old as the man I felt after his concert in Clearwater last December :) ... and it's nice to have range :))