I took Rob to mean that others are keeping, and will keep, the songs alive in terms of the Steinman compositions, and he has a point. Tributes I guess arguably keep sound and feel of the original performer singing them going .. and even when Meat was touring people would say they liked tributes because they never got a chance to see the real thing (alhough I found that harder to accept on this small island
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Meat has said he can't think about whether or not he will tour again for some considerable time because of his back surgery. Whether he will or not is debatable .. but let's not write him off as a stage performer just yet