Lost in the ways of loaf

Nick · 09 Apr 2006, 04:18

It always makes me laugh when I wear my Meat Loaf T-shirt, and people come up to me saying , "Oh! Meatloaf! Thats a realy good band" Have any of you had an experience like that? haha they make me laugh! all should be taught in the ways of loaf

Bart · 09 Apr 2006, 10:55

Is he still alive?
Does he still sweat like a maniac?
Does he still need oxygen?
I thought it was a band?
He writes great songs!

**Ankie** · 09 Apr 2006, 12:14

Same here, but the thing that makes me smile, is the fact that everyone obviously knows him!! I can NOT recall someone asking me: Who??

**RadioMaster** · 09 Apr 2006, 12:16

Most time people think he is a band.
The best thing i heard was, when somebody called him "meet love" (very poetic

)

Keep Rocking · 09 Apr 2006, 12:18

"Meat Loaf? I remember this name, but which songs did they play?"

Me: "Bat out of hell"

??????

Me: "Anything for love"

"Ah, this was Meat Loaf?"

**Ankie** · 09 Apr 2006, 12:22

Quote:

Originally Posted by Radiomaster

Most time people think he is a band.
The best thing i heard was, when somebody called him "meet love" (very poetic

)

Correcting people is part of our ''job'', R(adiomaster)

Leah · 09 Apr 2006, 12:52

Yes i've often had the line where people have referred to Meat as a band

and then people who have pointed at my t-shirt and laughed/mocked amongst themselves and it leaves me to think what narrow minded people there are! Obviously they have no taste and haven't got a life!!

Long Live the Loaf!!!!

**RadioMaster** · 09 Apr 2006, 13:40

For people in germany (and all other non-english-speaking countries) Meat Loaf just sounds cool, but when they think about what it means, most of them are laughing for an nearly endless time. "What, he really calls himself so???" Why? Never! You´re kidding" and such things.
I have to add, that it sounds in german no so cool, it whould be Fleisch Klops or Hackbraten.

R.

meatloaf-unofficial · 09 Apr 2006, 14:03

Same here. I always get asked even at school, I thought Meat Loaf was dead. The answer from me is, You are a complete Moron ! He is still alive and if you listened he is is planning Bat 3. Plus they also make fun of him, ie fatty and shouts down the mic, all I say is nower days music isn't music, no one plays their instruments, its not like the past, Meat Loaf plays guitar and his band actually play. Its music.

They have now learned to keep a low profile whilst infront of Meat Fan

Ross · 09 Apr 2006, 14:23

I find the oppisite sometimes, when it comes to Queen. I will ask people do you like Queen? and they say, yeh he was really good. Hello, there were another 3 members of Queen you know.

But yeh I have came across people thinking Meat was a band, people who have never heard of him, and also a very strange case where someone had been led to believe Meat and Jim were one and the same person...

LOL now that would maybe stop all the BAT 3 problems.....

Ross

Heli · 09 Apr 2006, 15:08

Drives me mad when people do that!

I mean i love freddie to pieces, but that band would not be the same band without any of the other three! It's four different strong units, working together, making some excellent music...

Meat.....i sometimes get embarressed about being a meat fan (maybe because everything i do usually has something to do with meat) but when I say i've seen meat loaf in concert a couple of times, people are either suprised or impressed....or both! LOL. I also get alot of "Meat Loaf; they did Anything For Love didn't they??" LOL

**RadioMaster** · 09 Apr 2006, 17:05

But there is also one good thing:
Nearly everyone i talk with, even people of my age(17), know him, or have heard of him.
A girl, i´ve talked with (i never thought that she knews anything about Meat) even said, that she didn´t like his kind of music, because it´s too pathetic.

So, I think nearly everybody who is interessted a little bit in music knows Meat, that´s good for the success of Bat3!

R.

Paul191 · 09 Apr 2006, 19:04

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ross

I find the oppisite sometimes, when it comes to Queen. I will ask people do you like Queen? and they say, yeh he was really good. Hello, there were another 3 members of Queen you know.

But yeh I have came across people thinking Meat was a band, people who have never heard of him, and also a very strange case where someone had been led to believe Meat and Jim were one and the same person...

LOL now that would maybe stop all the BAT 3 problems.....

Ross

Haha, when i was about 13 years old, and a new fan of Meat Loaf, I asked my dad what Meat Loaf's real name was. He replied, Jim Steinman. Lol.

Ross · 09 Apr 2006, 19:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by Heli

Drives me mad when people do that!

I mean i love freddie to pieces, but that band would not be the same band without any of the other three! It's four different strong units, working together, making some excellent music...

Freddie's solo career wasn't exactly fantastic.... Some good songs, but it wasn't Queen was it?

Ross

**RadioMaster** · 09 Apr 2006, 19:42

I think Meat should cover a Queen song for Bat 3, that whould be great. Maybe the bohemian rhapsody

R.

Ross · 09 Apr 2006, 19:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by Radiomaster

I think Meat should cover a Queen song for Bat 3, that whould be great. Maybe the bohemian rhapsody

R.

Is this sarcasm or not? Lol - I don't think that would work to be honest.

**RadioMaster** · 09 Apr 2006, 19:52

no, im honest!
Ok, it doesnt has to be Its a kind of magic or fat bottomed girls, but a version of bohemian rhapsody whould be great, and maybe (although it´s Freddie Mercury and not Queen) Who wants to live forever? (That whould fit to the scheme Bat1-Young guy, Bat2-middle-age guy, Bat3 old guy

)
But honestly these two songs were great!

R.

Ross · 09 Apr 2006, 19:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by Radiomaster

no, im honest!
Ok, it doesnt has to be Its a kind of magic or fat bottomed girls, but a version of bohemian rhapsody whould be great, and maybe (although it´s Freddie Mercury and not Queen) Who wants to live forever? (That whould fit to the scheme Bat1-Young guy, Bat2-middle-age guy, Bat3 old guy

)
But honestly these two songs were great!

R.

Who wants to live forever is a Queen song - a Brian May composition. Perhaps this more so than Bo Rap. But I don't think a Bat album should have a "recognisable" cover on it - such as a song by Queen. Maybe for a B-Side or another album, but not BAT.

Ross

**RadioMaster** · 09 Apr 2006, 20:02

Ok, that´s true, a baat album, should be something special.

You´re right, that´s Queen, i mixed up, because it fits to these im-dieing,-lets-do-some-songs,-but-fast Freddy Mercury songs.

Vickip · 09 Apr 2006, 20:19

My Dad put a picture of Meat and I from the M&G at Mohegan Sun on the counter at our store. He knows how big a fan I am ... and every once in a while, he'll ask our customers if they know who Meat is

So far everybody I've talked to knows who Meat is ... some are great fans who really like Paradise By The Dashboard Light and Anything For Love

But my favorite one was this young guy who had been a fan for years, saying how he went to one of Meat's concerts back in the 1980's .... and how much he enjoyed Meat's performance in Fight Club and Crazy in Alabama. It's great when people recognize Meat for both his singing and acting here in the U.S.

Vicki

L96 · 09 Apr 2006, 20:26

I was talking to my now-ex-workmates one day, and one young lad said "who is Meat Loaf?". After I revived, we got it sorted. Turns out he didn't know any of Meat's movies, but knew every song word perfect from BOOH and Bat II without knowing the artist name!

I love mentioning he acts as well, and people say "no, he doesn't".
"Um yes, he does"
The best ever was "did you see Fight Club?"
"yeah, I love that film".
Meat was in that.
"no, he wasn't".
Yes, he was. You remember the big guy Bob with the bitch tits?
"yeah"
That was Meat.
"No it wasn't" etc etc.

And a week later they come crawling back "yeah, it is Meat, I had no idea, he's really good".

**RadioMaster** · 09 Apr 2006, 20:40

Yeah, i know such talks, but that shows, how good he´s acting. people see just the role of Bob, and dont see Meat! Else it whould be like: "What, now he´s acting, too? Oooh, he´d better stay just singing"

I think it good so like it is with his acting

R.

Cult Of Byron · 10 Apr 2006, 02:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by Radiomaster

I think Meat should cover a Queen song for Bat 3, that whould be great. Maybe the bohemian rhapsody

R.

Could work - Bruce Dickinson (one of the best voices in Rock music ever - Official) tried his hand at it with Monserat Caballe (sp) and the result was a shi-ite cake. Sometimes these things work, sometimes they land face-down in the mud.

Just like to point out tho, that Bat 3 shouldn't really contain anything non-Steinman, and I don't think Steinman wrote anything for Queen, sadly.

amethyst · 10 Apr 2006, 16:33

Along with the "oh yeah they're a great band" remark, I also get asked, time and time again.... "what is it that he won't do for love?". I have tried explaining it to a few people, but in the end I just give up.

ames xx

PanicLord · 10 Apr 2006, 22:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by amethyst

Along with the "oh yeah they're a great band" remark, I also get asked, time and time again.... "what is it that he won't do for love?". I have tried explaining it to a few people, but in the end I just give up.

ames xx

I really do not understand why people have such difficulty understanding this - the "that" appears in the previous line in each case

09 Apr 2006, 04:18	#1
Nick Super Loafer Join Date: 17.08.2005 Location: Pittsburgh Posts: 431	Lost in the ways of loaf It always makes me laugh when I wear my Meat Loaf T-shirt, and people come up to me saying , "Oh! Meatloaf! Thats a realy good band" Have any of you had an experience like that? haha they make me laugh! all should be taught in the ways of loaf

09 Apr 2006, 17:05	#12
RadioMaster The German Join Date: 11.03.2006 Location: some kind of hunting lodge for rich weirdos... Posts: 15,778	But there is also one good thing: Nearly everyone i talk with, even people of my age(17), know him, or have heard of him. A girl, i´ve talked with (i never thought that she knews anything about Meat) even said, that she didn´t like his kind of music, because it´s too pathetic. So, I think nearly everybody who is interessted a little bit in music knows Meat, that´s good for the success of Bat3! R. Last edited by RadioMaster; 09 Apr 2006 at 17:46.

09 Apr 2006, 10:55	#2
Bart Bald Mega Loafer Join Date: 06.03.2003 Location: Holland, but I prefer Greece Posts: 2,243	Is he still alive? Does he still sweat like a maniac? Does he still need oxygen? I thought it was a band? He writes great songs!

09 Apr 2006, 12:14	#3
Ankie Office manager Join Date: 25.04.2002 Posts: 1,884	Same here, but the thing that makes me smile, is the fact that everyone obviously knows him!! I can NOT recall someone asking me: Who??

09 Apr 2006, 12:16	#4
RadioMaster The German Join Date: 11.03.2006 Location: some kind of hunting lodge for rich weirdos... Posts: 15,778	Most time people think he is a band. The best thing i heard was, when somebody called him "meet love" (very poetic )

09 Apr 2006, 12:18	#5
Keep Rocking Super Loafer Join Date: 06.11.2003 Location: Sitting on the steps outside, looking so restless and reckless and lost! Posts: 820	"Meat Loaf? I remember this name, but which songs did they play?" Me: "Bat out of hell" ?????? Me: "Anything for love" "Ah, this was Meat Loaf?"

09 Apr 2006, 12:52	#7
Leah Mega Loafer Join Date: 03.04.2005 Location: Cleethorpes, North East coast of England Posts: 1,510	Yes i've often had the line where people have referred to Meat as a band and then people who have pointed at my t-shirt and laughed/mocked amongst themselves and it leaves me to think what narrow minded people there are! Obviously they have no taste and haven't got a life!! Long Live the Loaf!!!!

09 Apr 2006, 13:40	#8
RadioMaster The German Join Date: 11.03.2006 Location: some kind of hunting lodge for rich weirdos... Posts: 15,778	For people in germany (and all other non-english-speaking countries) Meat Loaf just sounds cool, but when they think about what it means, most of them are laughing for an nearly endless time. "What, he really calls himself so???" Why? Never! You´re kidding" and such things. I have to add, that it sounds in german no so cool, it whould be Fleisch Klops or Hackbraten. R.

09 Apr 2006, 14:03	#9
meatloaf-unofficial Mega Loafer Join Date: 06.02.2006 Location: Touring the Country Posts: 2,558	Same here. I always get asked even at school, I thought Meat Loaf was dead. The answer from me is, You are a complete Moron ! He is still alive and if you listened he is is planning Bat 3. Plus they also make fun of him, ie fatty and shouts down the mic, all I say is nower days music isn't music, no one plays their instruments, its not like the past, Meat Loaf plays guitar and his band actually play. Its music. They have now learned to keep a low profile whilst infront of Meat Fan

09 Apr 2006, 14:23	#10
Ross Best Sig and Avatar 2006!!! (shared) Join Date: 25.11.2003 Location: Coatbridge near Glasgow. Scotland Posts: 3,446	I find the oppisite sometimes, when it comes to Queen. I will ask people do you like Queen? and they say, yeh he was really good. Hello, there were another 3 members of Queen you know. But yeh I have came across people thinking Meat was a band, people who have never heard of him, and also a very strange case where someone had been led to believe Meat and Jim were one and the same person... LOL now that would maybe stop all the BAT 3 problems..... Ross

09 Apr 2006, 15:08	#11
Heli Daddy's little internet junkie Join Date: 29.01.2004 Location: Grimsby Posts: 4,596	Drives me mad when people do that! I mean i love freddie to pieces, but that band would not be the same band without any of the other three! It's four different strong units, working together, making some excellent music... Meat.....i sometimes get embarressed about being a meat fan (maybe because everything i do usually has something to do with meat) but when I say i've seen meat loaf in concert a couple of times, people are either suprised or impressed....or both! LOL. I also get alot of "Meat Loaf; they did Anything For Love didn't they??" LOL

09 Apr 2006, 19:42	#15
RadioMaster The German Join Date: 11.03.2006 Location: some kind of hunting lodge for rich weirdos... Posts: 15,778	I think Meat should cover a Queen song for Bat 3, that whould be great. Maybe the bohemian rhapsody R.

09 Apr 2006, 19:52	#17
RadioMaster The German Join Date: 11.03.2006 Location: some kind of hunting lodge for rich weirdos... Posts: 15,778	no, im honest! Ok, it doesnt has to be Its a kind of magic or fat bottomed girls, but a version of bohemian rhapsody whould be great, and maybe (although it´s Freddie Mercury and not Queen) Who wants to live forever? (That whould fit to the scheme Bat1-Young guy, Bat2-middle-age guy, Bat3 old guy ) But honestly these two songs were great! R.

09 Apr 2006, 20:02	#19
RadioMaster The German Join Date: 11.03.2006 Location: some kind of hunting lodge for rich weirdos... Posts: 15,778	Ok, that´s true, a baat album, should be something special. You´re right, that´s Queen, i mixed up, because it fits to these im-dieing,-lets-do-some-songs,-but-fast Freddy Mercury songs.

09 Apr 2006, 20:19	#20
Vickip Mega Loafer Join Date: 07.02.2003 Location: Posts: 8,101	My Dad put a picture of Meat and I from the M&G at Mohegan Sun on the counter at our store. He knows how big a fan I am ... and every once in a while, he'll ask our customers if they know who Meat is So far everybody I've talked to knows who Meat is ... some are great fans who really like Paradise By The Dashboard Light and Anything For Love But my favorite one was this young guy who had been a fan for years, saying how he went to one of Meat's concerts back in the 1980's .... and how much he enjoyed Meat's performance in Fight Club and Crazy in Alabama. It's great when people recognize Meat for both his singing and acting here in the U.S. Vicki

09 Apr 2006, 20:26	#21
L96 Inaugural goldfish winner Join Date: 04.07.2005 Location: In a handbasket. Believe me, for someone my height, it's hell... Posts: 2,373	I was talking to my now-ex-workmates one day, and one young lad said "who is Meat Loaf?". After I revived, we got it sorted. Turns out he didn't know any of Meat's movies, but knew every song word perfect from BOOH and Bat II without knowing the artist name! I love mentioning he acts as well, and people say "no, he doesn't". "Um yes, he does" The best ever was "did you see Fight Club?" "yeah, I love that film". Meat was in that. "no, he wasn't". Yes, he was. You remember the big guy Bob with the bitch tits? "yeah" That was Meat. "No it wasn't" etc etc. And a week later they come crawling back "yeah, it is Meat, I had no idea, he's really good".

09 Apr 2006, 20:40	#22
RadioMaster The German Join Date: 11.03.2006 Location: some kind of hunting lodge for rich weirdos... Posts: 15,778	Yeah, i know such talks, but that shows, how good he´s acting. people see just the role of Bob, and dont see Meat! Else it whould be like: "What, now he´s acting, too? Oooh, he´d better stay just singing" I think it good so like it is with his acting R.

10 Apr 2006, 16:33	#24
amethyst I know that i'll be bad for good. Join Date: 15.11.2003 Location: South UK Posts: 893	Along with the "oh yeah they're a great band" remark, I also get asked, time and time again.... "what is it that he won't do for love?". I have tried explaining it to a few people, but in the end I just give up. ames xx