[The Flying Mouse]

Originally Posted by Wario

Early on, Rundgren appeared weary. He apologized for his voice, saying, "Just pretend you're at a Meatloaf show."

As I said at the time, i'm not going to slate the man for something that might have only been meant as a well meant bit of ribbing.
The article, like online forums, gives no indication how the joke was said. It's very hard to get the right inflection into the written word, and what might be said in the spirit of leg pulling can be taken as serious insult.
He might well have intended to be insulting, but as I wasn't there and didn't hear how it was said, i'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt.

I'd be happy to see him appear at a Meat Loaf concert.

Originally Posted by stretch37

What a piece of shit...I don't exactly love Todd's voice and his last album sucked balls. I'd pick Meat's voice on a bad day any day over Todd's.

His version of 2 Out Of 3 was interesting

Originally Posted by Evil One

I'd also pick Todd's guitar playing over Meat's any day.

I agree
But at the same time, i've never bought a concert ticket to watch someone play guitar before (although I did go and see violin player Vannessa Mae in concert ).


Back to the main topic of the thread though, I think it's really exciting that there will be special guests, and I only hope that they live up to expectation (people who are connected in some way to Bat).
Jim Steinman would be the ultimate, of course, and although I was at first sceptical that he might make an apperance, it occured to me that not so long ago Meat gave the speech at Jimmys induction into the SWHOF, so perhaps they have kept in contact since then and cooked up this idea between them. All it would take is for one of them so say "Hey, you know what would be cool.........."

I wonder if Ellen would be part of this?
From documentries i've seen she doesn't seem too fond of her ML days, and doesn't seem to have left under happy circumstances.

Another guess (from the non Bat world) would be Brian May.
Meat has worked with Brian twice now (A Time For Heroes and on Bat III) and Brian seems to have formed a really good relationship with Paul ever since Paul played the Las Vegas production of WWRY, so i'd not discount him.

Phil Spector was a big influence on Meat & Jim, do you think they'd let him out of chokey for the night?