Finally seeing it this week.
Thought I would be forced to go during the week but easy availability even for Saturday night.
Which probably isn't a good sign.
I'm expecting good performances but a bottom of the barrel show / plot. Probably on par with We Will Rock You or even worse.
After having seen the excellent Tina! show last year I wish this had just been a personal autobiographical show about Jim & Meat.
- Their meeting
- Funny stuff about struggling to get a record deal
- Funny stuff recording Bat (Todd Rundgren being a bit of a funny jackass)
- Rise to fame with Bat out of Hell,
- Meat meeting his first wife (Took the words right out of my mouth),
- Jim recording solo and it bombing and Meat recording Dead Ringer struggling with voice.
- Meat almost killing himself with drugs (ending with Bat out of Hell for Act 1 probably apt here)
- Jim recording with Bonnie Tyler, (open act 2 with rehearsal of Total Eclipse into the full song).
- Meat struggling in the 80s but touring his ass off
- Meat & Jim back together for their extraordinary comeback with Bat 2,
- falling out again somewhat over the Bat 3 and the naming etc
- and ending with their friendship rekindled for eternity with Braver Than We are as the finale. (Meat / Jim / Ellen / Karla)
What a missed opportunity in hindsight.
Their own story was far better than what anyone could have ever imagined!
Will post my thoughts after I see this carry on what we got though.