How did you get to like meat loaf?

[AndyK]

I was nothing but a lonely boy looking for something good.

Then I heard Paradise at a party, and bought Bat the next day, the day after that it was Deadringer and MATL&F purchased.

Then my friend told me Meat had announced a show in our home town, we got tickets, ended up standing front and centre, met Meat after the show and the rest is (expensive, yet worth it) history...

[ice]

I was 17 and loved ''Bat''.Over the yrs,Meat had became so much a part of my life.Back in 2002 while undergoing cancers treatment..I became attached to ''For Crying Out Loud'',''Alive'',''Heaven Can Wait''and ''Rock&Roll Dreams Come Thru''.I vowed to myself that if I ever got better and if Meat ever came my way again,I would see him.He gave me the strength to pull thru my darkest of hours.For that..I thank the man!!

[Gracie]

Really interesting where you all found or came across his music. Meat is a singer like no other he's an actor I can see why he's so passionate. Thanks Jim and meat loaf for all the happy memories you have given us
Hey! it's true Rock n roll dreams do come thru.
mlukfc thanks I like coming here and reading fans posts x

[chairboys]

It was the week Hits Out Of Hell was released. I was in the record section of the local toy shop and saw at number two on the album chart was Meat Loaf.
I only knew a few of his then recent chart hits - DRFL, MATLAF and Modern Girl. I was unfamiliar with Bat ( except I was aware of its longevity on the charts) and hadn't heard any album tracks.
So, instead of buying my usual pop stuff, I bought HOOH. The title sounded cool (and more adult) and as I was walking home I was becoming more and more excited just reading those long song titles and admiring the cover. By the the time I arrived home my stride pattern had increased to such an extent i think I would be disqualified from the Olympic 20k Walk.
I got inside my parents house and the rest they say is history!!
And the beauty is all these years later we still have a future. Bloody amazing if I may say so.

[robgomm]

Loving these stories, keep em coming!

[stretch37]

I was in a music rut.....that is, I had been bored of my current music, had over-listened to it and really, really badly needed something new.

Went searching the internet for artists, and I accidentally came across the music video for Couldn't Have Said It Better. Something about Meat captured me in that moment for the first time ever. I started playing the video over and over. I just loved everything about him, about how he'd aged and it had somehow made him THAT MUCH MORE cool. Because he exhibited eternally youthful and excited energy in that video.

And that's where it all started :)

[LucyK!]

In a very little nutshell...

Anything For Love came out when I was 7 and I hated it, my Dad said he hated it too and purely to disagree with him I decided to like it. So I had to listen to it over and over while I was faking liking it, and as far as I was aware I was faking it, then one Saturday morning I was watching The Chart Show and saw that Meat had been knocked off number 1...and I ran to my room and screamed the place down!

Asked my Mum for the album but she said no, we didn't have a lot of money and she certainly didn't have any to waste on "something I wouldn't like in a week", so she bought be a dodgy bootleg copy of Bat II from the market, and it's been a treasured possession since!

Saw my first show at 10 and as Andy says, the rest is incredibly expensive history!

[shanem1980]

Originally Posted by robgomm

I must have been 13 or 14 at the time, which was around 18-19 years ago, when I first heard Meat. My best friend was a huge fan of his and he had a huge number of his songs on his PC, I used to go round there a lot and he would play some of Meat songs among other things. Although I spent a good few years listening to his music round there, I don't think it was until 3 or 4 years later that I really got hooked, and again that was down to my best mate. He was getting some new CD's of Meats so he gave me his old tapes. The old tapes were Welcome To The Neighbourhood, Rock N Roll Heroes, and Bad Attitude. I listened to them a lot and became hooked. It snowballed from there and I listened to pretty much every album and song Meat ever recorded. I absolutely love it all and i'm not ashamed to admit that compared to all the other music I have in my collection Meat is and always will be No. 1. I must listen to him 95% of the time and everyone else 5%.

Hello im Shane, Robs best friend. Rob finally convinced me to come on here after nagging me for about 5 years lol

I stared to listen to Meat when I was 10 (1990). I received a £10 music voucher from my bank. Went to HMV with my dad and didnt have a clue what to buy. I used to like country music back then and I had all the tapes i wanted. My dad picked up HITS OUT OF HELL and said get that! you will like it! So I did!

At first I wasn't that impressed. In fact i remeber putting the tape in the car on the way home and listening to bat for the first time. After just over a minute i turned to my dad and said "Who are these Meat Loaf people?? Doesn't any one ever sing?!" lol

My dad encouraged me first of all, he always had to clap at the end of YOU TOOK THE WORDS, and sing along to all of the songs. I remember the first song i really liked was razors edge, then I just started to like him more and more!

[robgomm]

Originally Posted by shanem1980

Hello im Shane, Robs best friend. Rob finally convinced me to come on here after nagging me for about 5 years lol

I stared to listen to Meat when I was 10 (1990). I received a £10 music voucher from my bank. Went to HMV with my dad and didnt have a clue what to buy. I used to like country music back then and I had all the tapes i wanted. My dad picked up HITS OUT OF HELL and said get that! you will like it! So I did!

At first I wasn't that impressed. In fact i remeber putting the tape in the car on the way home and listening to bat for the first time. After just over a minute i turned to my dad and said "Who are these Meat Loaf people?? Doesn't any one ever sing?!" lol

My dad encouraged me first of all, he always had to clap at the end of YOU TOOK THE WORDS, and sing along to all of the songs. I remember the first song i really liked was razors edge, then I just started to like him more and more!

Congrats mate and welcome. I can imagine that with listening to Bat lol because it's just so different from any other song you might have heard before.

[chairboys]

Originally Posted by shanem1980

Hello im Shane, Robs best friend. Rob finally convinced me to come on here after nagging me for about 5 years lol

I stared to listen to Meat when I was 10 (1990). I received a £10 music voucher from my bank. Went to HMV with my dad and didnt have a clue what to buy. I used to like country music back then and I had all the tapes i wanted. My dad picked up HITS OUT OF HELL and said get that! you will like it! So I did!

At first I wasn't that impressed. In fact i remeber putting the tape in the car on the way home and listening to bat for the first time. After just over a minute i turned to my dad and said "Who are these Meat Loaf people?? Doesn't any one ever sing?!" lol

My dad encouraged me first of all, he always had to clap at the end of YOU TOOK THE WORDS, and sing along to all of the songs. I remember the first song i really liked was razors edge, then I just started to like him more and more!

You and Rob teaming up on here. Sounds like trouble ahead !

[viewer]

I was about 14 when I saw his album couldn't have said it better myself advertised on TV so I cycled 6 miles into town and bought it from the music shop, I remember cycling extra fast to get home and when i listened to it well.... that was me in love with his voice and when I saw the music video on youtube well he was so lovely and a great voice to boot, I have been a mega fan ever since. Infact I remember the first time I met him I travelled from scotland to yorkshire for a meet and greet and I thought I would be cool about it, naw I went into shy mode and my knees almost buckled i remember when he enetered the tent and I jamp 10feet back to let him past and he double glanced me like he was wondering if there was something wrong with me lol, but when my turn came I couldn't even speak but he calmed me down was really nice gave me a kiss on the head, but I was too awestruck to register but my brother was next and he asked him if he was shy to which he replied a little and meat said - well am not kissing you too - lol, ha and just before the show some guy said to my brother awe it was cute how he kissed the kid lol. I was 23 short yes but not a kid.

p.s. sorry for long winded answer had a lot more to say than I thought

[chairboys]

Originally Posted by viewer

but when my turn came I couldn't even speak

I know the feeling!. I have never been lucky enough to do a M & G but I did attend a signing session once. It was the release of the Very Best Of album and he did a launch at Virgin Megastore in London (Oxford Circus maybe?). So I took myself up to town, had a nice pub lunch and then toddled up to the record store. I was really early but was astonished to find other people in front me. Come on who was it? I was about fourth in line ( whilst queuing I did have my picture taken with Patti - she's gorgeous!)
When the time came for me to approach Meat's table my mind just exploded.
I was in a panic. He said "Hello". How the hell do you respond to such a kind word as hello? With a responding hello? No. I just blurted out "thanks for everything".
I meet my hero and my opening salvo is "thanks for everything". What a plonker.
Every time my brother sees me he mockingly says "thanks for everything".
After 20 years you'd think he'd drop it.
I hope, maybe, one day I will get the opportunity to do a M & G and redeem myself. On second thoughts, it could be too high risk.

[robgomm]

Originally Posted by chairboys

I know the feeling!. I have never been lucky enough to do a M & G but I did attend a signing session once. It was the release of the Very Best Of album and he did a launch at Virgin Megastore in London (Oxford Circus maybe?). So I took myself up to town, had a nice pub lunch and then toddled up to the record store. I was really early but was astonished to find other people in front me. Come on who was it? I was about fourth in line ( whilst queuing I did have my picture taken with Patti - she's gorgeous!)
When the time came for me to approach Meat's table my mind just exploded.
I was in a panic. He said "Hello". How the hell do you respond to such a kind word as hello? With a responding hello? No. I just blurted out "thanks for everything".
I meet my hero and my opening salvo is "thanks for everything". What a plonker.
Every time my brother sees me he mockingly says "thanks for everything".
After 20 years you'd think he'd drop it.
I hope, maybe, one day I will get the opportunity to do a M & G and redeem myself. On second thoughts, it could be too high risk.

Yeah I can't imagine meeting him, just have to try and remember he's a normal guy. I think I would probably just go blank trying to think what to say.

[shanem1980]

Originally Posted by chairboys

I know the feeling!. I have never been lucky enough to do a M & G but I did attend a signing session once. It was the release of the Very Best Of album and he did a launch at Virgin Megastore in London (Oxford Circus maybe?). So I took myself up to town, had a nice pub lunch and then toddled up to the record store. I was really early but was astonished to find other people in front me. Come on who was it? I was about fourth in line ( whilst queuing I did have my picture taken with Patti - she's gorgeous!)
When the time came for me to approach Meat's table my mind just exploded.
I was in a panic. He said "Hello". How the hell do you respond to such a kind word as hello? With a responding hello? No. I just blurted out "thanks for everything".
I meet my hero and my opening salvo is "thanks for everything". What a plonker.
Every time my brother sees me he mockingly says "thanks for everything".
After 20 years you'd think he'd drop it.
I hope, maybe, one day I will get the opportunity to do a M & G and redeem myself. On second thoughts, it could be too high risk.

lol, that is exactly what I would be like! I love the comment about it being "too high risk" hehe

I would love to meet him, but i really wouldnt know what to say. and i would be so nervous!

Does he read private messages on here? its probably better to send him a message. You can think about what you want to say then!

[amandanoa]

Originally Posted by chairboys

I know the feeling!. I have never been lucky enough to do a M & G but I did attend a signing session once. It was the release of the Very Best Of album and he did a launch at Virgin Megastore in London (Oxford Circus maybe?). So I took myself up to town, had a nice pub lunch and then toddled up to the record store. I was really early but was astonished to find other people in front me. Come on who was it? I was about fourth in line ( whilst queuing I did have my picture taken with Patti - she's gorgeous!)
When the time came for me to approach Meat's table my mind just exploded.
I was in a panic. He said "Hello". How the hell do you respond to such a kind word as hello? With a responding hello? No. I just blurted out "thanks for everything".
I meet my hero and my opening salvo is "thanks for everything". What a plonker.
Every time my brother sees me he mockingly says "thanks for everything".
After 20 years you'd think he'd drop it.
I hope, maybe, one day I will get the opportunity to do a M & G and redeem myself. On second thoughts, it could be too high risk.

I've never done a M & G either but I did manage to get back stage and meet the band after their last concert at Christchurch, NZ on the CHSIB tour. I went with a friend who was actually invited by Kasim and told he could bring someone so I was the lucky one. He had several programmes to be signed for some of our US friends but was super shy so he sat down and watched while I got them signed for him but after the "hi, will you sign this please" there was nothing else I could think of saying lol. I remember saying something silly to Patti about how awesome she was with ML - such that it might have been better if I'd kept my mouth shut. Paul was busy chatting up a couple of girls who didn't seem tongue tied at all, but I definitely was. The signed programme and CHSIB cd insert are really special to me though and it was really sad that we weren't allowed cameras, it being before the cell phone epidemic of today.

[melon]

Originally Posted by shanem1980

lol, that is exactly what I would be like! I love the comment about it being "too high risk" hehe

I would love to meet him, but i really wouldnt know what to say. and i would be so nervous!

Does he read private messages on here? its probably better to send him a message. You can think about what you want to say then!

I was lucky enough to get a M&G on this tour, and trust me, I thought I was going to be a crying, babbling mess.... but I wasn't.

Sometimes you can suprise yourself

[robgomm]

Originally Posted by melon

I was lucky enough to get a M&G on this tour, and trust me, I thought I was going to be a crying, babbling mess.... but I wasn't.

Sometimes you can suprise yourself

I think I would be nervous but just try and remember he's a normal guy like anyone. If he decides to go ahead with the last tour in the US and UK I think I will have to get M & G tickets as it will be the only chance I will ever get. A lot of money I know but it's once in a lifetime.

[chairboys]

Originally Posted by robgomm

I think I would be nervous but just try and remember he's a normal guy like anyone. If he decides to go ahead with the last tour in the US and UK I think I will have to get M & G tickets as it will be the only chance I will ever get. A lot of money I know but it's once in a lifetime.

He is definitely NOT normal. Gods are not normal. How much do the M & G usually cost?

[robgomm]

Originally Posted by chairboys

He is definitely NOT normal. Gods are not normal. How much do the M & G usually cost?

Lol he's not a god but I know what you mean. Not sure but I think they are £200-£400! I know that's a bit of a range there lol

[chairboys]

Originally Posted by robgomm

Not sure but I think they are £200-£400!

Yeah. I could fluff my lines for £400!!

[comedian38]

This topic seemed to me, the best place to put first post. Well I have been a Meatloaf fan for 29 years, since i was about 10, I remember seeing Dead Ringer on some music show at the time. I thought to myself who the hell is this guy! Now this is my kind of music! I had never heard or seen anyhting like it before, well that was me hooked. I have been ever since, I listen to so many different kinds of music, but for me nothing compares with Meat. He and his music have so much heart and passion. I think,the fact that he wears his heart on his sleeve, and is not afraid to do things other musicians would not even dream of, makes him the legend his today. I will be a fan for as long as i live....

[chairboys]

Originally Posted by comedian38

This topic seemed to me, the best place to put first post. Well I have been a Meatloaf fan for 29 years, since i was about 10, I remember seeing Dead Ringer on some music show at the time. I thought to myself who the hell is this guy! Now this is my kind of music! I had never heard or seen anyhting like it before, well that was me hooked. I have been ever since, I listen to so many different kinds of music, but for me nothing compares with Meat. He and his music have so much heart and passion. I think,the fact that he wears his heart on his sleeve, and is not afraid to do things other musicians would not even dream of, makes him the legend his today. I will be a fan for as long as i live....

I think, subconsciously, Dead Ringer is also the one that did it for me as young lad!

[comedian38]

Originally Posted by chairboys

I think, subconsciously, Dead Ringer is also the one that did it for me as young lad!

I suppose, of all the songs that he has made,a duet with Cher is quite funny
for a 10 year old boy to sit up and take notice. But notice I did, and here I am today.

[Vickip]

I remember the first time I met Meat ... September 2011 in Atlantic City, NJ. It was also my very first Meat Loaf concert, so I was overwhelmed to say the least. Vee had told me to make sure I said something to him ... I admit I was cocky and told her that wouldn't be any problem But when he came in the room, my mind went completely blank and I just stood there completely awestruck. I honestly don't remember saying a word to him at that point, but I'll never forget him coming over and giving me a big bear hug I've met him several times since then .... even though I still get tongue-tied sometimes, he's always extremely sweet and just fun to be around And so are the rest of the band as well ... Meat truly has a great group of people (family) working with him.

[suzieq]

Originally Posted by Vickip

I remember the first time I met Meat ... September 2011 in Atlantic City, NJ. It was also my very first Meat Loaf concert, so I was overwhelmed to say the least. Vee had told me to make sure I said something to him ... I admit I was cocky and told her that wouldn't be any problem But when he came in the room, my mind went completely blank and I just stood there completely awestruck. I honestly don't remember saying a word to him at that point, but I'll never forget him coming over and giving me a big bear hug I've met him several times since then .... even though I still get tongue-tied sometimes, he's always extremely sweet and just fun to be around And so are the rest of the band as well ... Meat truly has a great group of people (family) working with him.

Me thinks your year is wrong