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Originally Posted by letsgotoofar
Continuing from my previous thought in the thread...
Jim has occasionally speculated as to what might have gone differently if Meat wasn't the sole person in the spotlight -- if there might not have been all the shit that went down in that period popularly known as the Eighties where Meat lost his money, his house, his voice (briefly), and his mind (equally briefly).
I look at the name of his backing band The Neverland Express, which I feel might bear a tad more relation to Jim's ideas than to Meat's in its name, and wonder what it might have been like if Jim and Meat had just formed a band, done their thing with that band, and Meat had been able to put out non-Jim albums in his solo career and not needed to live up to any kind of "character" outside that band.
It's tempting to speculate whether or not life would have been easier...
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The whole story's just full of What if's for me.
What if Steinman had been more prominent in the advertising for Bat?
What if Meat hadn't lost his voice?
Would Meat Loaf "Bad for good" had been a massive hit?
Would "Dead ringer" have been the third album with a few different songs?
What if Meat and Jim had made "Bat 2" in the 80s?
What if Meat and Jim had done another album together in the 90s?
What if Meat and Jim had done "Bat 3" with songs like "Braver than we are" "Not allowed to love" "Body" "Still the children" etc. etc.?
Would THAT "Bat 3" have been more successful as well or the same? Because we live in different times? And why did people respond to "Bat 2" sixteen years after "Bat" but not to "Bat 3"?
It just goes on and on and on and on.... In the end, what ISN'T there just makes what IS there all the more powerful to me, and emotional too, making me think of that line Jim wrote too, "If only are the loneliest words you'll ever know."