John is on the album! On "Because of You" and "Forever Young".
If you analyze the credits, you can see a core of musicians who seem to be on most of the tracks -- you could say they did the 'basic tracks':
Meat Loaf: Lead Vocals
Michael Thompson: Guitars
Kasim Sulton: Bass
Tom Brislin: Piano, Hammond B3
Peter Mokran: Synthesizers, Programming, Guitars
Kenny Aronoff: Drums
then there are some additional musicians for over-dubs, additional little thingies, or maybe just 'better suited' for the track:
Tim Pierce: Guitars on "Couldn't Have Said It Better"
Aaron Zigman: Piano on "Couldn't Have Said It Better" and "Forever Young"
Mark Alexander: Hammond B3 on "Couldn't Have Said It Better", Piano on "Because of You"
John Miceli: Drums on "Because of You" and "Forever Young"
Luis Conte: Percussion on "Why Isn't That Enough?"
Daniel Higgins: Penny Whistle on "Intermezzo"
Stephen Erdody: Cello on "Forever Young"
And then you have the additional vocal squad:
Patti Russo: Female Lead Vocals on "Couldn't Have Said It Better"
Pearl Aday: Female Lead Vocals on "Man of Steel"
Tanja Reichert: Spoken Intro to "Man of Steel"
Giselda Vatcky: Spoken Breakdown in "Tear Me Down"
Backing vocals: Kasim Sulton, Eric Troyer, James Michael, Todd Rundgren, Maxi Anderson, Rose Stone, Alexandra Brown, Lynn Davis, Pearl Aday and Patti Russo
But this is just how I see it. Altough I must say it sure makes sense to me :-)
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