[CarylB]

* The email Patti referred to. Would not the termination of any contract need some final confirmation, whether by snail mail, telex, fax or email? I have not seen the email, so do not know who sent it, nor what precisely it contained. It may have been a final confirmation of an agreement for all I know, or come at the end of a series of discussions. Perhaps you have seen it? To me it's a fact that needs a lot more surrounding it before I make a judgement

* Meat stated here that the girls had one rehearsal. Whether there was any possibility for longer rehearsal time I could not judge without more of the facts. I suggested some of the issues. My own view is that recruiting the right singers would be the priority, and the right singers could deliver to standard with limited rehearsal. The two chosen proved this to be the case imo. It is also my opinion that Meat and Stacy and Lisa ARE all pros. They carried it off successfully. How caNn we know whether in the timeframe there could have been more rehearsal time? I do not know enough facts about the commitments of everyone concerned etc Do you?

*No announcement was made. Not disputed. I merely said I do not know enough about the entire situation to deliver a judgement that one could or should have been made. I am sure Meat expected the kinds of posts that would be made. His world is a bit bigger and more complex than this forum. I do not know what else he had to weigh. Do you?

I take exception Adje to your comment "But don't come 'boo-hooing' on here as if it's no big deal." I have stayed calm, clear and remember that we have very limited knowledge of what has happened. Why that should be dismissed as "boo=hooing" defeats me. I have repeatedly said I understand people's disappointment, and that they feel hurt. As to whether that excuses anger, blame and condemnation of Meat, .. we clearly have different views.


Given the response from the thousands in the audiences at the racecourses (I was at one. I have spoken to others who were at Newbury) I do not think it was as big a deal to large numbers, arguably most, of them. They came to see a Meat Loaf show .. they got a damn fine one.

I don't think we can reach any mutual understanding or agreement.