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The_Jackster 07:53 pm UTC 10/01/07 |
| In reply to: | Confusion about the new interview - bobsaget 04:34 am UTC 10/01/07 |
| Well, here's my (long-winded, so leave if you don't like it) opinion: If you read Meat's autobiography, Jim didn't even initially want to work with Meat on the original album that became Bat. He had in mind a Seventies rocker type with long blond hair named Kim Milford, who had also starred in More Than You Deserve and went on to the title role in the Roxy cast of Rocky Horror. As Meat put it, he (and Robert Stigwood, with whom both were signed at the time) had to twist Jim's arm to get him to even agree to the "More Than You Deserve" single, never mind to use Meat period. What I see, from interviews with Jim and interviews with Meat, each from their own perspective, is that Jim did like Meat, but it was because he was in love with the idea of what Meat could be (let's face it, the image he conjures up in interviews is almost nothing like the Meat Loaf we know and love today, or knew and loved at any point in time). Meat, OTOH, has always been more in love with the idea of what he himself wanted to be, and how Jim fit into his plan, as opposed to Jim's epic image, which he has always shied away from. Both found out (in old age) that neither could truly be what each wanted the other to be (in Meat's case, Jim couldn't gel with what he wanted him to be a part of). To quote John Lennon: "And so, dear friends / You'll just have to carry on / The dream is over!" | |
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