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Originally Posted by renegadeangel
So I went to the dutch forum to see for myself. Meat is right. Very nasty stuff. Why are they so intent on tearing the guy down?
Whatever decisions the man makes are his and his alone. I don't really understand why they get so picked apart.
I thought fans supported their favourite artist and talked about the music.
Not the rest of this stuff that really is no ones business
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I agree. As far as his character and his business decisions are concerned, they do not know his character, nor what went into any business decision, which as you say are none of our business
As far as tearing his performances apart is concerned, perhaps these are people who see Meat just as a voice?
If so they are wrong in my view. Meat designs a night of musical theatre .. and that's what you get. Every single aspect of the show is planned down to the last and final detail .. stage positions, acting, lighting, screen images etc. It's what makes his shows unique, what has made me follow him for 36 years. When I go to his shows I am going for more than hearing him sing songs from an album live .. I am going for the whole spectacular package he puts together, because the whole is so much greater than the simple sum of the parts. The timing is meticulous, the lighting effects perfect .. every move is choreographed and orchestrated to add maximum impact, every sequence on the screen designed to enhance the lines of every song.
Just to see the images on the screen, to see how perfectly each piece meshes with a line or a few words of a song, and how the lighting varies .. it is superb. At a first show on a tour I will just take in the whole .. at subsequent shows I see how carefully everything works together and realise just WHY the show is so fantastic. One doesn't have to actually notice this at the front of one's consciousness to be swept away by the total delivery .. you might miss seeing what he puts into every minute of his time on stage, it may be subliminal, pass you by .. but I think you'd notice it's absence in some way .. the show would seem not to be quite what you have come to expect. Talk to anybody involved in the staging of a Meat Loaf show .. they will say the same. His show is all of him, all of his creative thinking and planning .. it starts way before he even begins rehearsals. It may culminate in him giving every ounce of energy he has when delivering it .. but the hard work started way before that.
That is what he gives you. He does not, and never will, simply come on stage and deliver a number of songs. He is creator, choreographer, producer, director and deliverer of a night of entertainment, and that night contains a number of carefully planned and executed mini-plays. Both Meat and Jim have their roots in musical theatre. If Jim is more than a composer .. one needs to bear in mind also that Meat is more than a voice.