Will we ever get a live vinyl boxset?

AndrewG · 16 Sep 2023, 22:51

With the upcoming release of The Dire Straits live 12 Vinyl & 8 CD boxset it had me wondering if we will ever see something similar done for Meat Loaf's vast live catalogue; where we see them going back and actually completely restoring a 40 year old show for example.

Quite interesting I think. There is obviously quite a bit of appetite for this for Dire Straits, certainly with Vinyl on a big comeback tour also. The CD release seems a bit of an afterthought.

There HAS to be some unreleased Meat Loaf live gems out there, right?

Perhaps the Melbourne show could be made complete again - in the order of how it was performed, closer to the DVD release (where is the fricking Blu Ray btw?!), perhaps Wembley 1987?

Was there ever an audio recording of Royal Albert Hall in 2006?

What has happened with all the recordings Meat claimed he had from the 2003-2004 tour? Given that we got so many recordings from Casa De Carne, was everything recorded and kept?

Etc.

So interestingly with the upcoming Dire Straits release where we see them not being afraid of publishing just two or even one (!) track per vinyl side (noting the approximate 20 minute side limit and also the long song lengths they had), it had me wondering what could a Meat Loaf live boxset release look like. Perhaps a show from all 5 decades when he was performing? Would this be possible?

So I was planning this and ended up with 18 vinyls (probably about 11 or 12 CDs). It's a lot, but surely not impossible.

Anyway, sharing this long list as you might find it interesting. Let me know your thoughts and what you would like to see released if we ever got something similar to the Dire Straits release. Perhaps the Melbourne show, restored on its own on vinyl captures enough?

(I used some of Adje's videos to help with timings and song order as I don't think setlist.fm is right in some cases)

Meat Loaf Legacy 5 Decades Live: 1978 - 2013
Remastered, Restored and Complete

Meat Loaf & Jim Steinman Live At Rockpalast 1978
June 11th 1978, Stadthalle, Offenbach am Main, Germany

Side One
1. Bolero
2. Bat Out Of Hell
3. You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)

Side Two
4. Love And Death And An American Guitar
5. All Revved Up With No Place To Go

Side Three
6. Paradise By The Dashboard Light (Part 1 - Intro)

Side Four
7. Paradise By The Dashboard Light (Part 2 - Song)

Side Five
8. Band Introductions
9. Johnny B. Goode
10. River Deep Mountain High
11. REPRISE: Johnny B. Goode

Side Six
12. Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad
13. REPRISE: All Revved Up

—————————————————————————————————————

Meat Loaf Live in 1987
March 2nd, 1987 Wembley Arena, London , UK

Side One
1. Execution Day
2. Blind Before I Stop
3. Masculine

Side Two
4. Rock ’n’ Roll Mercenaries
5. You Took The Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)
6. Dead Ringer For Love

Side Three
7. Burning Down
8. Midnight At The Lost And Found
9. Louie Louie

Side Four
10. All Revved Up With No Place To Go
11. Modern Girl

Side Five
12. Paradise By The Dashboard Light
13. Bat Out of Hell

Side Six
14. Rock ’n’ Roll Medley

—————————————————————————————————————

Meat Loaf Live Orlando 1993
November 14th 1993, Orlando, Florida, USA

Side One
1. I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)
2. You Took The Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)

Side Two
3. Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through
4. Life Is A Lemon (And I Want My Money Back)

Side Three
5. Heaven Can Wait
6. Objects In The Read View Mirror (May Appear Closer Than They Are)

Side Four
7. Bat Out Of Hell
8. Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad

Side Five
9. Paradise By The Dashboard Light
10. Roll Over Beethoven

Side Six: Bonus From 1993 Soundcheck in New York
10. Good Girls Go To Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere)
11. For Crying Out Loud

—————————————————————————————————————

Meat Loaf With The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
February 22nd 2004 Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Australia

Side One: Soundcheck
1. Heaven Can Wait
2. Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through
3. I’d Lie For You (And That’s The Truth)

Side Two: Show
4. Life is a Lemon (And I Want My Money Back)
5. Mercury Blues
6. Dead Ringer For Love

Side Three
7. Testify
8. All Revved Up With No Place To Go

Side Four
9. You Took The Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)
10. Couldn’t Have Said It Better

Side Five
11. Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad
12. Out of The Frying Pan (And Into The Fire)

Side Six
13. For Crying Out Loud

Side Seven
14. Paradise By The Dashboard Light

Side Eight: Encores
15. I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)

Side Nine: Encores
16: Bat Out Of Hell

Side Ten Exclusive Bonus
1. Did I Say That? (Recorded UK Tour 2003 - 2004)

—————————————————————————————————————

Meat Loaf Live Last at Bat
April 10th 2013: The O2 Arena, London, UK

Side One
1. Runnin’ For The Red Light (I gotta Life)
2. Life is a Lemon (And I Want My Money Back)
3. Dead Ringer For Love

Side Two
4. If it Ain’t Broke, Break it
5. Los Angeloser
6. The Giving Tree

Side Three
7. Objects In The Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are
8. Out of The Frying Pan (And Into The Fire)

Side Four
9. Bat Out Of Hell
10. You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth

Side Five
11. Heaven Can Wait
12. All Revved Up With No Place To Go

Side Six
13. Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad
14. Paradise By The Dashboard Light

Side Seven
15. For Crying Out Loud
16. I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)

Side Eight
17. Boneyard
18. Free Bird
19. All Revved Up With No Place To Go

Evil One · 17 Sep 2023, 18:52

For a start I don't know why you'd want the audio from the Rockpalast show as it's all in mono. There are much better shows rotting away in Sony's vaults to choose from.

rockfenris2005 · 18 Sep 2023, 12:56

We can't even get albums now (besides coloured vinyl of stuff we already have), so I don't see it happening myself.

proctorloaf · 18 Sep 2023, 15:57

I'm sorry to say and I have said it many times...
There is no legacy management for Meat Loaf or Jim Steinman. The record companies are not interested. It took an absolute age to get a decent CD release of the Stoney and Meat Loaf record.

We know Paul is working on another Live Around the World style live project.

There is shedloads of outtakes - we know Jim made Meat sing the opening line to Anything for Love 80 times!

I don't think there's anymore coming. It's sad but I think that's it for Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman. At least we have the work forever.

nowherefast · 21 Sep 2023, 16:21

Unfortunately, as much as I'd love it, I can't see a set of this scale ever coming out.

At best, perhaps we'd see a vinyl release of Live Around the World or else maybe some sort of Record Store Day vinyl release of a live show already released on CD. I hope to be proven wrong though!

duke knooby · 27 Sep 2023, 22:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by Evil One

For a start I don't know why you'd want the audio from the Rockpalast show as it's all in mono. There are much better shows rotting away in Sony's vaults to choose from.

What shows were recorded? Audio only or video?

16 Sep 2023, 22:51	#1
AndrewG I hope your salmon sucks! Join Date: 18.01.2004 Location: Northamptonshire Posts: 7,072	Will we ever get a live vinyl boxset? With the upcoming release of The Dire Straits live 12 Vinyl & 8 CD boxset it had me wondering if we will ever see something similar done for Meat Loaf's vast live catalogue; where we see them going back and actually completely restoring a 40 year old show for example. Quite interesting I think. There is obviously quite a bit of appetite for this for Dire Straits, certainly with Vinyl on a big comeback tour also. The CD release seems a bit of an afterthought. There HAS to be some unreleased Meat Loaf live gems out there, right? Perhaps the Melbourne show could be made complete again - in the order of how it was performed, closer to the DVD release (where is the fricking Blu Ray btw?!), perhaps Wembley 1987? Was there ever an audio recording of Royal Albert Hall in 2006? What has happened with all the recordings Meat claimed he had from the 2003-2004 tour? Given that we got so many recordings from Casa De Carne, was everything recorded and kept? Etc. So interestingly with the upcoming Dire Straits release where we see them not being afraid of publishing just two or even one (!) track per vinyl side (noting the approximate 20 minute side limit and also the long song lengths they had), it had me wondering what could a Meat Loaf live boxset release look like. Perhaps a show from all 5 decades when he was performing? Would this be possible? So I was planning this and ended up with 18 vinyls (probably about 11 or 12 CDs). It's a lot, but surely not impossible. Anyway, sharing this long list as you might find it interesting. Let me know your thoughts and what you would like to see released if we ever got something similar to the Dire Straits release. Perhaps the Melbourne show, restored on its own on vinyl captures enough? (I used some of Adje's videos to help with timings and song order as I don't think setlist.fm is right in some cases) Meat Loaf Legacy 5 Decades Live: 1978 - 2013 Remastered, Restored and Complete Meat Loaf & Jim Steinman Live At Rockpalast 1978 June 11th 1978, Stadthalle, Offenbach am Main, Germany Side One 1. Bolero 2. Bat Out Of Hell 3. You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night) Side Two 4. Love And Death And An American Guitar 5. All Revved Up With No Place To Go Side Three 6. Paradise By The Dashboard Light (Part 1 - Intro) Side Four 7. Paradise By The Dashboard Light (Part 2 - Song) Side Five 8. Band Introductions 9. Johnny B. Goode 10. River Deep Mountain High 11. REPRISE: Johnny B. Goode Side Six 12. Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad 13. REPRISE: All Revved Up ————————————————————————————————————— Meat Loaf Live in 1987 March 2nd, 1987 Wembley Arena, London , UK Side One 1. Execution Day 2. Blind Before I Stop 3. Masculine Side Two 4. Rock ’n’ Roll Mercenaries 5. You Took The Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night) 6. Dead Ringer For Love Side Three 7. Burning Down 8. Midnight At The Lost And Found 9. Louie Louie Side Four 10. All Revved Up With No Place To Go 11. Modern Girl Side Five 12. Paradise By The Dashboard Light 13. Bat Out of Hell Side Six 14. Rock ’n’ Roll Medley ————————————————————————————————————— Meat Loaf Live Orlando 1993 November 14th 1993, Orlando, Florida, USA Side One 1. I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That) 2. You Took The Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night) Side Two 3. Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through 4. Life Is A Lemon (And I Want My Money Back) Side Three 5. Heaven Can Wait 6. Objects In The Read View Mirror (May Appear Closer Than They Are) Side Four 7. Bat Out Of Hell 8. Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad Side Five 9. Paradise By The Dashboard Light 10. Roll Over Beethoven Side Six: Bonus From 1993 Soundcheck in New York 10. Good Girls Go To Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere) 11. For Crying Out Loud ————————————————————————————————————— Meat Loaf With The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra February 22nd 2004 Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Australia Side One: Soundcheck 1. Heaven Can Wait 2. Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through 3. I’d Lie For You (And That’s The Truth) Side Two: Show 4. Life is a Lemon (And I Want My Money Back) 5. Mercury Blues 6. Dead Ringer For Love Side Three 7. Testify 8. All Revved Up With No Place To Go Side Four 9. You Took The Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night) 10. Couldn’t Have Said It Better Side Five 11. Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad 12. Out of The Frying Pan (And Into The Fire) Side Six 13. For Crying Out Loud Side Seven 14. Paradise By The Dashboard Light Side Eight: Encores 15. I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That) Side Nine: Encores 16: Bat Out Of Hell Side Ten Exclusive Bonus 1. Did I Say That? (Recorded UK Tour 2003 - 2004) ————————————————————————————————————— Meat Loaf Live Last at Bat April 10th 2013: The O2 Arena, London, UK Side One 1. Runnin’ For The Red Light (I gotta Life) 2. Life is a Lemon (And I Want My Money Back) 3. Dead Ringer For Love Side Two 4. If it Ain’t Broke, Break it 5. Los Angeloser 6. The Giving Tree Side Three 7. Objects In The Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are 8. Out of The Frying Pan (And Into The Fire) Side Four 9. Bat Out Of Hell 10. You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth Side Five 11. Heaven Can Wait 12. All Revved Up With No Place To Go Side Six 13. Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad 14. Paradise By The Dashboard Light Side Seven 15. For Crying Out Loud 16. I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That) Side Eight 17. Boneyard 18. Free Bird 19. All Revved Up With No Place To Go

17 Sep 2023, 18:52	#2
Evil One Mega Loafer Join Date: 15.01.2007 Posts: 5,190	For a start I don't know why you'd want the audio from the Rockpalast show as it's all in mono. There are much better shows rotting away in Sony's vaults to choose from.

18 Sep 2023, 12:56	#3
rockfenris2005 Mega Loafer Join Date: 16.02.2003 Location: Posts: 2,216	We can't even get albums now (besides coloured vinyl of stuff we already have), so I don't see it happening myself.

18 Sep 2023, 15:57	#4
proctorloaf Super Loafer Join Date: 28.02.2010 Location: Liverpool, UK Posts: 347	I'm sorry to say and I have said it many times... There is no legacy management for Meat Loaf or Jim Steinman. The record companies are not interested. It took an absolute age to get a decent CD release of the Stoney and Meat Loaf record. We know Paul is working on another Live Around the World style live project. There is shedloads of outtakes - we know Jim made Meat sing the opening line to Anything for Love 80 times! I don't think there's anymore coming. It's sad but I think that's it for Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman. At least we have the work forever.

21 Sep 2023, 16:21	#5
nowherefast Junior Loafer Join Date: 24.11.2003 Posts: 42	Unfortunately, as much as I'd love it, I can't see a set of this scale ever coming out. At best, perhaps we'd see a vinyl release of Live Around the World or else maybe some sort of Record Store Day vinyl release of a live show already released on CD. I hope to be proven wrong though!