How did you become a Meat Loaf Fan?

[CarylB]

Meat's first appearance on The Old Grey Whistle Test .. singing Paradise, with the red scarf and white cowboy boots .. OGWT was a favourite of my husband .. he called me in saying "You have to see this guy" .. I saw him .. I heard him .. I was hooked .. that was 26 years ago, and I have been ever since .. and he only gets better with each passing year :)

[[RDH]draconia]

i first got to like meatloaf through my mother
who in turn had liked him since the meatloaf and stoney album 1971 and i was just about to be born (oh dear showing my age)
and i could always remember her play meatloaf of for me a very,very long time

[Pixiedust]

my mom was allways playing him when i was little then i liked it as well.
i just loved the album with the bike on it.
now i have my own cds of him and i saw him in concert last year and
if he gets well enough i will see him this year as well he is far better
than any of the modern groups.
pixie

[Cpl Mickey]

I've always loved BOOH but it wasn't until about 15yrs ago that i became a fan of Meat Loaf and in the last 8yrs i have tried to collect as many vinyl's as i can lay my hands on. Since i first saw in live i have been inlove with the man behind the songs, his songs really do help when you are unhappy, lonely or when you just need a pick me up.

[meatfan]

Last March I watched his biography with W Earl Jones. I know some people critisise the film, but for me it was pure magic!

At the age of 55 I discovered Meat Loaf! Where had I been for the last 25 years?

Luckily, he was at Leeds and Liverpool a few months later. I went to both concerts, and bought everything I could lay my hands on on CD and Video!

Meat made me a teenager again. My son Brian (33) became a fan, and my Grandson Benjamin (3 at the time) had a twelve-month love affair with the Video's (his favourite "Bad Attitude") before switching to "Winnie The Pooh" and back to Meat loaf a few months ago. He knows all the words to all the songs!

AND I still love the film.

Heather.

[BostonCPA]

I first fell in love with Meat - I was ten and my family and I moved to the US from Denmark. My first concert was when I was 11 and It was Meatloaf. I then saw Meat several times after that. My dad pasted away when I was 21 and found out a few years after that we went to see him so many times because he knew someone who worked with the crew, not sure who but I know they had been friends, I believe he had left the crew a few years before my daddy pasted. I am now 30 (oh my god) and I still remember every word to songs. It's funny how things change, our lifes get very busy and yet we still fit a Meat song into our day. My last concert was Meat in Boston in Sept. I already miss him due to us only getting a 1 1/2. He was great and hope he will return. I travel so much that I will miss him again I am sure. I found this board and just felt so at home here, I can always post with no proble. Although I hope Meat is still reading from us, because if he is then I am sure he has big Meaty smile.

Most, BostonCPA

[kaz]

Ahhh these stories are sooo sweet *sniffs* ok so im just soppy- so sue!

[MLFAN17]

: I have been a fan of Meats since hte agoe 17. I was "introduced" to him through a girl I went to school with. I was at her place spending the night. We were in her room and she was getiting ready to go out She put a tape in her tape player and started playing it. I heard the music and was stunned to hear itd! Passionate powerful etc etc. My eyes fell out of my head! I asked her who it was and she told me. I spent a few months or so TTRYING to find the tape of Bat Out of hell with no luck.. finally after a long search i found it in the PX on the base overseas where I was living at the time. I tried after that too find whatever I couuld of his music or anything else. I even got the chance about a year ago to thank the girl over the phone for bringing Meat into my life he is such a blessing and a saviour to me! She seemed glad when i told her thank you even though she probably thinks i am nuts! LOL
:P

[Skeleton]

I remember when i was only a 6-year-old my mom played Piece of the action. I didn´t understand a word what meat was saying but I loved his voice and the music of course. Since then I´ve been listening Meat´s song a few times a day. My friend says that i´m hooked into his music and she is right. I don`t know why, but there´s something magical in his voice.

[Fallen Angel]

I started listening fully 2 meat when i was 12 (only15now). Dad listend to meat yrs ago then switched to iron maidenetc. Mom and dad had went out and left me with my auntie in th house. Not knowing what their "Sweet,Quiet,Darling" daughter would get up to. . Raking around in the living room drawer i spotted a cool cover of a CD with Meat Loaf: Bat out of hell on it and down at the bottom jim steinmans name. So the cd got put in a listened to intently. I LOVED IT!!! Not untill recently did i realise that the songs have helped me and others. Also how magnificent meat is. His music is "banned" from the house... tough they cant stop me!!! Theres just something special about the songs but i dont know what except the voice of course. Cant wait till 27th!
NEVER STOP ROCKING!!1
hugs
F.A

[dawny]

I first became a fan when my sister bought the Bat out of Hell Album in about 1981. I got married in 1983 and my husband became hooked as well, we went to our first concert in Hammersmith in 1985ish when i was pregnant with my first daughter, the kids have all been brought up on Meatloaf (they are the only cd's we have in the car) and we all went to the concert last night, sadly the kids didn't see Meat at his best but they are still devoted fans and wish him all the best, get better soon big guy.

[KarenR]

Should be half way up the M3 now - so having my own concert - all cds in random order at full blast til I take pity on the neighbours.
Feeling maudlin, so on any website reading about Meat - no one will tell us how he is, so here I am...
I am also one of the older ones - when I was 15/16 got option of MeatLoaf 2 out of 3 (the single) for Birthday, or Dean Freidman - Lucky Stars - well it was close run thing but asked for meat.. loved the B Side.
Well a few weeks later, shopping for LPs when I saw this wonderful cover (BOOH) and just had to have it - sang it through university & just never looked back.

Hoping you are well again soon Meat.

[ChrissybabezNI]

I was going on holiday when i was about fourteen. I was allowed to bring a friend with me, and as you do we brought CD's along to listen to on the journey. I always knew she was a Meatloaf fan and she listened to the CD non stop. When I had exhausted all mine I asked to lend it and it was from that point on all I lsten to. I like other music but after a while i get tired of the songs. Meatloaf's music is not so, I could never tire of listening to him he is the absolute best artist I have ever come across and I am very much looking forward to my first concert this December

[Kitty Kat]

Another oldie here - I have been a fan since the 70's. My son has been brought up for the last 27 years on Meat Loaf music. His current girlfriend wasn't too happy when they came to visit and he asked me to play the video of the film Back into Hell. However after the fist 15 minutes she was jigging around on the sofa with the rest of us. She said that she had never actually listened to him before but was floored by his voice. There we go - another fan.
I have the original 1977 BOOH record and if I am ever lucky enough to get a meet and greet that record will be going with me for autographing.

[MattyBoyHaribo]

Hey everyone! New to the board and saw this topic and decided that it would be a great place to introduce myself and say how i became a Meatloaf fan, y names Matt and im 15, i first became a meatloaf fan only about a year and a bit ago when i first saw someone acting as Meat in the film MeatLoaf: To Hell And Back on one of the SKY Digital movie channels and i was hooked straight away so i decided to download some tracks and a few i had heard when i was younger, namely I Would Do Anything For Love (But i wont do that) and i loved them, i also downloaded Bat Out Of Hell which i knew was one of his hits. Me and my family were going to Florida that year (2002-03) so i checked up on Ticketmaster.com (Little Plug there lol) and there was a whole list of concerts. first i saw Jacksonville florida but then i noticed there was HARD ROCK LIVE, located in the UNIVERSAL area where there is Islands of Adveture and Universal Studios etc so when we arrived in america a few days later for JAN 2nd we booked my Meat Loaf ticket, i went to see him and he was EXCELLENT, one of the best preformers i have ever seen in my life and thats quite alot, i was also booked to see him Yesterday (18/11/03) but unfortunately he has fallen ill and thats scary too cos im also ILL lol! well hope he gets better soon and reshcedules the date. speak soon

Matt

[Loafy Meats]

Hi - I'm also new to the board, I kept coming on to read other posts and never registered for some reason!!. I flew down from Scotland to see the concert on Monday, I have tickets for Friday and next Thursday too, but at this moment I am more concerned for Meat Loaf's health and this has been the best place to get info. Where does my story start? I've been listening to Meat Loaf since I was about 7 or 8. I was looking through my Dad's LP collection and seemed to like the front cover of BOOH. I played it constantly after that and managed to learn the words (even though I had no idea of what they meant then!!) The first LP I ever bought from my own "pocket money" was Midnight at the Lost and Found and I've just went on from there (well for another 18 yrs really- oh my god is it really that long ago!?!?). I keep thinking that Meat Loaf songs just get better and better, especially when you grow up listening to him. All the new songs just seem to click into place. I've seen him live 4 times, and he's been amazing at all the concerts. There are so many songs I would still love to hear live - that's the problem when there are so many great ones to choose from....

[Michel]

The first time I heard I'd Do Anything For Love made me a fan.

[kaz]

Originally Posted by Michel

The first time I heard I'd Do Anything For Love made me a fan.

its converted quite a few og my mates as well, so songs really can be powerful!
either that or they've finally realised meat is fantastic and his voice is to die for! (most of them being guys i'd hope they didn't think he was to die for!)

[A Slice Of English]

At the age of twelve struck up a friendship with an unlikely source in my local area and after visiting his house, I noticed he was often playing music in the background. It was BOOH2 and at the name Meat Loaf, I started to think of where I had seen it before at my home. I found the original BOOH on vinyl and played it over and over. I was officially hooked.

Since then I have made it my task to buy every Meat Loaf single ever released and every original album also. I have several compilation albums that I will buy if they have rare or new songs on them but generally, compilation cd's are a dime a dozen.

I saw Meat live in London in 1999 and I have never been so overawed in my life. I have never seen a concert that has topped that performance. I'll be seeing him again on December 22nd in Cardiff.

God Bless Meat Loaf.

[Lauren]

Around 15 years (!!!) ago when i was about 12 my science teacher decided he was bored of all that teaching stuff and instead got out his guitar and began to play bat out of hell. I was hooked from that moment, went out and bought the album on vinyl and have never looked back!

[needmoremeat]

It was AFL that got to me when I was 6 when it first came out. I just thought "Oh, I like this song!" but this was different, cos it was the only song I liekd at the time that I actually knew the title and artist of! My Mam got Bat 2 for Christmas, and I remember seeing the tape of it on top of the video cabinet beside the stereo and thinking "Oh, that looks interesting!" then I thought no more about it until about 4, 5 years later on the way to our caravan in the Lakes. Mam had suddenly decided it was about time to listen to the tape again, so one weekend on the way over we put it on. What can I say? I'd been wanting something else from the music I'd been listening to, cos it was all that pop crap coming out. I suddenly thought "This music isn't that good! I want something better!" I had no idea where to start, but Mam helped me there :) I loved it at once, whenever we put it on in the car, I'd never tell when it finished, so by the end of the weekend we'd have listened to it about ten times!!!!!! What I'd found was way beyond what I would have settled for. I may have settled for Bon Jovi, don#t get me wrong, I like a few of his songs! But this was just unbelievable!!! I absolutely love all Jim's songs now, apart from boyzon's NMW (can't believe I used to like tham !) and nikki french's TEOTH. After I've listened to one of Jim's I can't hear anything else, it just doesn't work for me Love Meat, love Jim....Dad said to me the other day "you might go off Meat Loaf soon" I said to him "Yeah, and you might go off cycling!" (His life long passion)

[Rottsnwings]

Hi i became a fan when i was about 13 or 14 and i saw meat in the rocky horror picture show and that was it a mate lent me booh and i have been stuck ever since. I was a member of the fan club and was front row when the fan club members where all invited down to London to see the man himself at the Brixton Acadamy what i night i got a bandana of him and i still have it and it goes every where with me.
I have had problems in my life and he has aleways been there in his music to help me through.
:P Gailx

[LostSoul]

I had never heard about Meat before Bat II (unfortunately!).

My sister told me about this really really really long video playing on MTV.
And then once I heard HIS voice, it was too late...
The next day I bought all of his albums (I mean really ALL!).

I was barely seventeen...

[DebGreaves]

I am a 22 year old student and got into Meat through anything for love. Saw the video on tv and fell in love with Meat and his music from then, that much that when I moved into my own place I took my stepdads copy of Bat Out Of Hell 2 with me and still have it, to do this day I dont think he knows I have got it.

Debs

[LostSoul]

Originally Posted by Lauren

Around 15 years (!!!) ago when i was about 12 my science teacher decided he was bored of all that teaching stuff and instead got out his guitar and began to play bat out of hell. I was hooked from that moment, went out and bought the album on vinyl and have never looked back!

It's a funny story.

In 1994, my english teacher (who was our philosophy teacher as well!) used to show us song lyrics in order to learn english and he knew I was addicted to Meat's music, he once asked me to bring the lyrics from one song as well as the video.

I asked him which one he would like me to bring.
He said: "Objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are".
I said: goooooooood choice!