imagine... a Deluxe Bat Trilogy Box Set
 

Surely this is something we all want to see happen!

Just Imagine:

DISK 1 & 2: Bat 1 Remastered / EL Macombo 1978 Remastered CD

DISK 3 & 4: Bat 2 Remastered / Rotterdam, 1994 DVD

DISK 5 & 6: Bat 3 / Atlantic City, 2006 CD

all in the dreams of one's mind, sadly.

Im hoping for a complete 20 Disk discography box-set. including the above three plus:

DISK 7 & 8: Dead Ringer Remastered / Rockpop Dortmund, 1981 DVD

DISK 9 & 10: Midnight Remastered + Lost Love / Wembley 1983 Radio Broadcast CD

DISK 11 & 12: BA Remastered + Take A Number, Stand By Me, and Clap Your Hands / Bad Attitude Live unedited DVD

DISK 13 & 14: BBIS Remastered / Meat Loaf Live Remastered

DISK 15 & 16: WTTN / In the Neighborhood DVD

DISK 17 & 18: CHSIB / HCTB

DISK 19: Stoney & Meatloaf

DISK 20: The Rare Recordings

Why in the name of all that's holy would you want such a thing? :nope:

There was almost a Bat box set a couple of years ago, but it never happened. :roll:

I wouldn't but since wembley 1982 is coming out on DVD there's nothing else left from that tour

Plus, according to an email I sent to miss Pam Moore the set that night was:

Come in the night
I'm Gonna Love Her For Both Of Us
American Guitar
Revved up
Ill Kill You If You Don't Come Back
DRFL
Bat
Two out of Three
The Promised Land
Gimme Shelter

She hated that gig.

That you know of.
I don't blame her.

Yeah it was going to be released on the 30th anniversary of Bat, but then it didn't happen, not sure why.

Carole

Record company politics probably.

Given the deluxe HCTB box set cost £60 - how much do you think a monster 20 disk discography is going to cost ?

If there's to be an end of career special edition perhaps it should focus on quality not quantity. Meat has released quality and dross in about equal measure, for every Dead Ringer there's A Blind Before I Stop.

What about a remastered Bat 1 / 2 / 3 (including the best songs from Dead Ringer) with some bonus tracks of unrecorded Steinman songs (ie Children / Body / Not Allowed / Wonderful Toys etc) to finish on a high ?

A 'Best Of' live CD had already been done (Live Around The World) so there doesn't seem much point in this. :shrug:

Actually on second thoughts they should just do a double disk of Meat & Jim's best collaborations remastered with the bonus tracks thrown in. That would leave space for songs like Surf's Up, No Matter What, or A Kiss Is A Terrible Thing To Waste.

There's so much other stuff out there. I'd like a CD/DVD from every tour, plus all the albums remastered (if necessary) along with all the B-sides. And all the music videos. That's worth paying a few quid for! :twisted:

I agree that you and I, and others on this board, probably would. I just can't see the general public buying it in huge numbers, so the record company probably wouldn't do it.

We can hope. I've seen stranger things released.

what was the 30th anniversary of bat supposed to contain?

Yeah I'd love something like that too, it would be fantastic.

Carole

I think it was just the 3 Bats on CD in a shiny box. Do some thread digging on here and you'll probably find it.

I agree that what we don't need is another ultimate collection, best of, very best of etc.

But the Three Bat Albums are a clear body of work, which would benefit from being bought together in one pack along with "Deluxe" type element (live tracks, b sides, covers etc)

I agree completely with this. As long as somewhere in there is included What Part of My Body and Still the Children. Maybe even Braver Than We Are. After so many years. No more terrible bootlegs or inferior demos. The best singer ever singing some of the best songs ever...

But I'm being greedy. A Three Bats box set would be cool anyway :D

:twisted: I don't think it's likely that there'd be much unreleased material (we all know how reluctant record companies can be on that score, so i'd hazard a guess at.............

Bat I album.
Rockpalatz DVD

Bat II album
Bat II Picture Show DVD

Bat III album
3 Bats Live

Perhaps with the classic albums documentry and Behind The Music.

They might also throw in a T shirt and a keyring.

There's the Amsterdam show from the Bat 2 tour as featured at the end of the Classic Albums DVD, and it's been said before that one of the Hudson Theater shows with Jim was also filmed.

There must be something else from the 3 Bats Tour that could be used. I'd be surprised if Meat didn't keep at least some of the footage that was used for the big screens. I would bet an item of my anatomy (:-P) that there is video of the Royal Albert Hall show locked away in someone's vault.

Wasnt it broadcast somewhere after the show? couldve sworn someone said RAH's bar was replaying it.

:twisted: All that stuff might be out there, in fact it's probably out there, but as I say, record companies for one reason or another don't want it released.

Which makes me wonder why. :shrug:

:twisted: You and everyone else on this forum.

My theory is this, that they have these unreleased items but do not have the confidence that they (on their own) are commercially viable.
But they won't let other people have access to, or release anything they have copyright over, because god forbid that someone somewhere should make $0.50 without them getting a sizeable cut :facepalm:

For instance, look at the promo vids owned by Arista.
They must have about 4/5 (off the top of my head) really rare promo vids.
Not enough for a DVD, but if they were put on a Hits Out Of Hell with the rest of the vids the fans would flock to buy it.

But Epic wouldn't want to pay too much for the rights because they have no faith, and Arista don't want to let them go cheap because they don't want to miss out on cashing in on 25 year old vids that are gathering dust in a store room.

So it's the fans that miss out.

You're probably spot on. Even a moron would realise a DVD called 'Meat Loaf Live At The Royal Albert Hall - Featuring all 3 Bat Out Of Hell albums' would turn in a tidy profit for all concerned. Sadly it seems those in charge aren't good enough to be called morons. :shrug:

:twisted: There's already a 3 Bats Live, why would the fans want THAT? :nuts:

That's the attitude and mentality we're up against.

See what i've just been editing in my last post about Epic and Arista too.