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Originally Posted by misterfive
Because of Bat Out Of Hell they had to set a tempo of lets face it chart topping songs which set a false presidence for Meat and Jim to do better and to match it or fall under the weight of the success. That caused Meat to stress out and ruined our chances of getting Renegade Angel and a Meat and Jim style Bad For Good and instead he was in a emotionally but not entirely powerful Dead Ringer where his voice is haggard and worn. So far the success of Bat Out Of Hell the song which started this phenominon had brought down one record and destroy another. Giving instead Jim's Bad For Good who let's face it we all wish Meat would sing.
This caused a strained Jim and Meat relationship especially with the record company which led Meat bankrupt and forced to force out albums with not the detail he had with Bat but the drive for the same success.
Let Bat 2, a loving project with Meat and Jim sold well and brought him more notice but it didn't top Bat out of Hell which frustrated Meat enough to start to resent his prior success enough so that he blames Jim for taking more money than him from that record cause he of course wrote them all. So suing Jim for unpaid residuals with Bat Out Of Hell he decided to try himself to top Bat now resenting Jim for putting him in the shadow all his life.
Now haggard now he starts suffering from intense asthma attacks and his after producing a less than Bat worthy end to the "trilogy" he preforms a shadow of himself in 3 Bats Live and all live preformances after that have had Meat with his now weakening and wheezing voice.
You can't deny he doesn't sound as good as he did a little before Bat 3 as he did before. It was a steady decline brought on by stress, critic flaming, and a urge to get another hit.
However if he didn't record Bat Out Of Hell later the first album with Paradise by the dashboard light as its highlight renaming the record "Paradise" that would have sold plenty and allowed Meat from straining his voice on a 12 minute opera like song throughout his tour. It would be more widely received due to its shorten name and a more chatchy intro being Paradise by the dashboard light. He most likely wouldn't be all horsed and worn and would've don Renegade Angel and make these songs way better and sooner
Bad for Good
Stark Raving Love
Out Of the Frying Pan
and practically everything on the album.
Then Jim could've replace Midnight at the lost and found with Dead Ringer to help pass with his 3 record contract.
So, so far we have 3 fairly good records with an unstrained Meat voice preforming on top par in return for one song.
The other two would be similar to Welcome to the Neighbourhood and Bad Attiude due to the rush. Then Bat Out Of Hell 2 with all the songs from Pandora's Box.
Meanwhile Jim would have to write new songs for his own album which would fail and be reused in Bat 3, which would be produced by Steinman due to Meat's and Jim's combined success and make it a hell of alot better with Bat Out Of Hell as the intro. Thus making him a hit the world over, since Bat Out Of Hell was ahead for its time anyway it would have made both out lives and theirs so much more fullfilled if they only waited on Bat Out Of Hell.
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There's so much in here worthy of comment its untrue ! Let's just say you can't unpick one part of Meat's history and then rewrite everything that followed. That way pure speculation lies
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The fact is Meat, Jim and Todd produced the masterpiece which is BOOH, the song and the album. Every artist would kill for that kind of success at ANY time during their career.
I actually believe that Meat's history is the both most heroic and tragic of careers, but I wouldn't change any of the highs or lows, because that is what makes him so compelling as an artist.