Even reading the documentation on the whole Bat II preproduction in those court documents was an eye-opener. When Meat has to ask his permission to use the title and cede control of pretty much everything to Jim to get the album done, it shows you two things:
1) Meat would stop at nothing to get his comeback album because he's planned for his career and where Jim fits in.
2) Jim would stop at nothing to help the comeback album into play on his terms to revive his idea, his idealized vision of Meat Loaf, as opposed to the real Meat.
> Point taken, but the way it looks, I don't think they ever
> really got along. For that matter, they never respected
> each other either, suing each other when it suited them
> (Jim sues Meat in 1981 for 15m, Jim sues Meat in '95 to
> stop it "All Coming Back" to him, Meat sues Jim and Jim
> countersues in '06, etc.). If they can't get it together
> on a business footing, who's to say they ever had it on a
> personal footing as well?
>
> > > Was it ever a "legendary friendship" though? Wasn't it
> > > always more of a "partnership," legendary or otherwise?
> >
> > At the beginning I think it was. Jim needed a muse and
> > Meat had nothing the lose. They then worked closely
> > together as equals on something that was unique and
> > phenomenal for its time. You can't work that closely with
> > someone at the beginning of your career and not strike
> > some sort of special bond.
> >
> >
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