Exactly!
And I'll just reiterate that, while Meat's band has changed substantially over the years, John, Paul and Randy are the core band members for the last 20+ years. If that's not Meat's band, I don't know what is. If Meat was alive, he would be touring with them, would he not?
As far as the name changes go, I think we can all agree that none of the other names really fit. Celebrating Meat Loaf is perfect. Well done to whoever came up with that!
Regarding this being a 'Paul show' - to suggest that Celebrating Meat Loaf is just a Paul show is not only a bad take, it is inaccurate. The same core members of Meat's band are all here.
If you have a look here
https://bravewords.com/news/meat-loa...PexjaRknAr8a8I
You can see that the lineup of performers/musicians for this album contains several other familiar names:
- Justin Avery, (keyboard, vocals)
- Tom Brislin (orchestration)
- Steve Buslowe (bass)
- Paul Crook (guitar)
- Randy Flowers (guitar)
- David Luther (saxophone)
- Lyssa Lynne (“Stop Right There!”)
- John Miceli (drums)
As was previously noted, many of these names appear on the Celebrating Meat Loaf website as well. This is the NLE.
Lyssa Lynne was literally hand-chosen by Meat back in what, 2013? She is an official member of the NLE.
I don't buy all the negative takes, sorry
~~~~ the pandemic. Meat Loaf is dead because of it.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I'm with everyone else here, both lurkers and commenters, who want to try to keep some positive energy in the Meat Loaf camp. Let's enjoy it while we have the NLE and Paul's hard work to keep Meat's memory and life's work alive. We're very lucky to have him as a steward of Meat's vision.