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Originally Posted by letsgotoofar
roomster pretty much says it all. Frankly I'm surprised that, given the choice between the two, everybody's jumping on him being in the right 100% in this situation.
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I can see things from both sides. Most of us know Meat's venting and focusing on negative words in amongst 1000 nice comments quite well. It has bothered me over the years and I was at the receiving end of that as well. Not nice.
In person I'd imagine things get more heated, sure.
I can believe the abuse that Patti mentions. I had a longish chat with her during her 2014 tour.
It's a double edge sword. She seemed heartbroken to be fired but also revealing a lot of crap she had to endure since then.
Was/Is it best for her to continue to be a member of the band in that situation?
I think it's really hard for an outsider to judge.
Thus the question does become, what does she want to get out of revealing these messages? I'm not sure. Maybe it's venting also. Or trying to convince people not to look at things with rose tinted glasses.
I think the problem is the negativity perhaps gets more associated with Patti this way than with Meat himself, since Meat isn't even on Twitter anymore or responding regardless.
At the time in 2014 I really thought it was awesome to have seen Patti being able to spread her wings a bit and perform 2 hour shows.
She really was excellent. Also interesting to note is that Meat actually sent out a word of support for people to go see her, but it was very late during the tour.
The Meat Loaf Las Vegas stuff really didn't interest me. I don't like the constant retelling of the same stories. I know 99% of the audience is probably new at every show but still, I just don't like that approach at all.
Regardless, I never travelled beyond the UK and The Netherlands to see Meat so 2013 was the last time I saw him and that was thankfully WITH Patti.
It's really a shame Patti solo touring the UK didn't become more of a permanent thing.
In the absence of Meat touring here, I just think she could have filled that void to a certain extent quite well.
Perhaps with the lack of new things going on (like I said, the pandemic measurements forced this upon many people and especially entertainers) one is bound to look back more.
But say a yearly new album from Patti and some shows here and there? Even if it's lowkey.
I would have said "Let's have it!"