Meatloaf

[Igavemyloveachicken]

...last ones to know.

 

[edgie]

Meat Loaf addressed his declining vocal abilities once saying he still has the range to hit three octaves or whatever but his tone had changed permanently.

But why are we focusing on that still

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[Igavemyloveachicken]

Meat Loaf addressed his declining vocal abilities once saying he still has the range to hit three octaves or whatever but his tone had changed permanently

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Thanks Edgie...it's the little things that I've reflected upon in ageing performers regardless of their genre that I find interesting.
With football, ageing players are scheduled in for a rest for an interstate game or they play in a position less taxing that a position of their peak.
In music, I've noticed that singers will try similar tactics to still perform. Maybe they increase the responsibility/stage presence of their back up singers and band in general. Maybe they strip it back and go more acoustic or are more selective about song choice.
Meatloaf's songs where that upbeat and lengthy in duration that he was maybe a bit limited in regards to what he could do tactic wise?
I'm not sure if he was still performing in recent years but good luck to him I guess if he was and his fans still enjoyed it. I could only imagine what it would be like to be a generational sporting or music talent, the feeling of performing in sporting arenas or music stadiums must be like a drug that would be near impossible to give up if you still craved it.

 

[edgie]

Thanks Edgie...it's the little things that I've reflected upon in ageing performers regardless of their genre that I find interesting.
With football, ageing players are scheduled in for a rest for an interstate game or they play in a position less taxing that a position of their peak.
In music, I've noticed that singers will try similar tactics to still perform. Maybe they increase the responsibility/stage presence of their back up singers and band in general. Maybe they strip it back and go more acoustic or are more selective about song choice.
Meatloaf's songs where that upbeat and lengthy in duration that he was maybe a bit limited in regards to what he could do tactic wise?
I'm not sure if he was still performing in recent years but good luck to him I guess if he was and his fans still enjoyed it. I could only imagine what it would be like to be a generational sporting or music talent, the feeling of performing in sporting arenas or music stadiums must be like a drug that would be near impossible to give up if you still craved it.

All artists usually lower the register of any music played as they age. Brian Johnson still sounds fine singing AC/DC but they've dropped the tuning of the guitars and bass a bit to match him. If they still played it identical to 1980 it would be awful.

I just wonder if Meat or his band knew to do the same. He still sounded ok in studio and I don't believe he'd be the type to digitally correct himself.

It's a bit strange. Maybe he just really struggled live. Perhaps he thought he needed to sing louder and lost control easy. A lot of singers, even pros, forget how microphones work sometimes. Sometimes when I sung in pubs or clubs I wouldn't even use a mic.

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[Igavemyloveachicken]

All artists usually lower the register of any music played as they age. Brian Johnson still sounds fine singing AC/DC but they've dropped the tuning of the guitars and bass a bit to match him. If they still played it identical to 1980 it would be awful.

I just wonder if Meat or his band knew to do the same. He still sounded ok in studio and I don't believe he'd be the type to digitally correct himself.

It's a bit strange. Maybe he just really struggled live. Perhaps he thought he needed to sing louder and lost control easy. A lot of singers, even pros, forget how microphones work sometimes.

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Brian Johnson and his hearing issues was what what made me think about the potential of Meatloaf's hearing decline.
I love listening to different music but know absolutely nothing about the technicalities behind it.
Music is subjective, if it was a sport then it would be one of those sports that relies on a judges scorecard to deliver its outcome, like Gymnastics as an example.

 

[CharacterFirst]

He kept going because he needed the money.

 

[edgie]

He kept going because he needed the money.

Pretty sure Bat out of Hell holds or held records in Australia for sales and time in charts.

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[The 747]

Maybe he loved singing music and didn't want to stop. Some pretty poor posts in here, but that is par for the course on BF.

 

[RUNVS]

Could be wrong but I heard suggestions Meatloaf was an anti-vaxxer who ended up dying from Covid. If true (and I don't know if it is true) then his own stupidity killed him.

 

[edgie]

Could be wrong but I heard suggestions Meatloaf was an anti-vaxxer who ended up dying from Covid. If true (and I don't know if it is true) then his own stupidity killed him.

He expressed anti lockdown and anti mandatory vaccine views but no one knows if he was personally unvaxxed or not.

Regardless, he was 74 and unhealthy. He wouldn't have been much better off vaxxed.

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[Toump Ass]

haha I always thought the loaf man’s performance wasn't that bad.
I'd only ever seen the first 30 seconds though. Watching it back now and goddamn, it really is as terrible as everyone says it is, maybe worse even.

The start isn't compltely horrendous but it really goes pearshaped 5 minutes 40 seconds in, the breakdown for I Would Do Anything For Love, poor old guy sounds like kermit the frog... those honky noises coming out of his face lol, it sounds like something you take to the vet to put out of misery or something.

I love when it ends and the voiceover guy at the G is like "That was Meat Loaf!” and the crowd offer the wimpiest, most pathetic, half-arsed applause I ever heard in my life, they coulda at least added crowd noise, lol there’s one dude fist pumping but i reckon he must have snuck in there's no other reason for him to be that happy about anything at that moment in time, except maybe the fact it ended? I guess that's it, he's fist pumping like "yeaahhhhhhh baby, thank **** that shit's over! can't wait for the national anthem, give me fuxking anything to wash those ears out, i’ll even listen to that grinspoom cd! Boy oh boy that really sucked!!!!!", and then steve quartermain pipes in: “Extraordinary!”, i reckon you can hear him tryna stiffle laughter i really do. If only he coulda been honest while commentating: “hot diggity girls and boys, wasn’t that a steaming pile of shit?!?” lol. Onya Steve!

Aaaaaannnyway, respect where it's due, as far as memorable entertainments go that's as good as the AFL is gonna get ever. And it's still better than that limp Bird of Tokyo wank.

RIP Loaf man! I’m gonna have this one on repeat for a while!

 

[Freomaniac]

RIP The Big Fat Man On Television.
As a fellow Big Fat Man who loves to put double cream on cake all I can say is don't be the Big Fat Man or Big Fat Woman who died of COVID because you didn't want a jab.

Be like Toump Ass get ******* vaccinated, then you can eat as much as you want and only have to worry about heart disease etc. and not covid as well.
At least if my heart goes "Too much cake, much too much! And stop all the delicious pasta fatty!" I can always to get on the ol' exercise bike.
You can't get vaccinated in ICU.

And FYI Bat out Hell is tripe.
Shania Twain sold heaps of albums too, she's also sh*t.

I Don't mind some of Shania Twain to be honest

 

[Igavemyloveachicken]

I Don't mind some of Shania Twain to be honest

Very pretty lady as well, had an interesting divorce, her husband cheated on her with her best friend who was also married.
Shania and her best friends husband took comfort together in dealing with the issue of both being cheated on and ended up together, she could write a song about it.

 

[Beerfish]

That wouldn't impress me greatly

 

[Toump Ass]

Very pretty lady as well, had an interesting divorce, her husband cheated on her with her best friend who was also married.
Shania and her best friends husband took comfort together in dealing with the issue of both being cheated on and ended up together, she could write a song about it.

They should have gone on that TV show Wife Swap, that would have been rad.

 

[CharacterFirst]

Pretty sure Bat out of Hell holds or held records in Australia for sales and time in charts.

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The money didn't flow to him.

 

[Igavemyloveachicken]

The money didn't flow to him.

Yeah he didn't get royalties from the album, he made his money from touting and acting.
I read that his net worth prior to passing was $40 million but who knows how accurate those estimates are.

 

[edgie]

Maybe he wasn’t all the bad guy during his split with Steinman.


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[spenze]

He expressed anti lockdown and anti mandatory vaccine views but no one knows if he was personally unvaxxed or not.

Regardless, he was 74 and unhealthy. He wouldn't have been much better off vaxxed.

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Yeah I don't get people having a go at someone being unvaxxed in their 70s and being "if I go, I go". Sadly, I have known too many people in their 80s and 90s who would be happy not to wake up the next morning, they have had a life and they can no longer do the things they once did. It is sad but I don't begrudge them that

 

[edgie]

Very pretty lady as well, had an interesting divorce, her husband cheated on her with her best friend who was also married.
Shania and her best friends husband took comfort together in dealing with the issue of both being cheated on and ended up together, she could write a song about it.

Her husband is one of the finest rock and roll producers of all time. He made her famous by using his rock and hair metal production tricks on her country music to mainstream it.

A shame that pretty much the only thing he has produced this sit of the 80s is her and one Nickelback album (it sounded great though).

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[Pessimistic]

Yep, that's the way of many here, no class.

They probably have no understanding of what a simply monstrous album Bat Out Of Hell was either.

Although, in fairness to them on that point, being around when it was released certainly helped.

It was something else , totally unique and for some of us escape from yet another michael Jackson or bee gees song

I wenot to Rochford for the concert after the GF and the music and band was as tight as ever. His voice very challenged. Patti hadn’t dropped a note after all these years

 

[Rotayjay]

The day Meatloaf performed at the granny I remembered that I didn't have that song downloaded, so I did. Vale Meatloaf. Might have had a bad day at the office but what a star he was, and I hope his family is getting all the support they need.

 

[Beerfish]

The money didn't flow to him.

Or it did but it flowed straight through him.

 

[CharacterFirst]

Or it did but it flowed straight through him.

That to, probably.

 

[edgie]

I read Meat Loaf’s rider once, I remember it being very high end.


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