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SeeingI 03:21 am UTC 10/30/07 |
| In reply to: | Meat Loaf live - Markus 04:23 pm UTC 10/25/07 |
| You're right - he really should hang up the guitar & concentrate on acting. He's a great actor! He needs to get an agent who'll work hard to get him movie & TV roles. > I guess I have been to my last Meat Loaf concert on Monday > night in Mannheim / Germany. > > What was written in a much more dramatic and somewhat > unfair manner two days later in some local newspapers I > wrote directly after the show. > > Today I read the review from his show yesterday in > Nürnberg / Bavaria. The same like before and I BET it > wonīt change anymore. Sad, very very sad but true. > > I was there with my mother and my love Antonina and they > both werenīt too disappointed. So was I. But only because > I didnīt expect ANYTHING from Meat. They werenīt too > disappointed mainly because they honoured that he at least > tried to make the impossible happen. He tried too hard and > failed miserably. Most of the time he didnīt hit the > notes. Often, too often he was too slow or to fast. When > he was to slow it looked like his tongue just wasnīt able > to do what he wanted it to do. It sounded like some kind > of Dysarthrie (look wikipedia). Many times, too many times > his voice just wasnīt there at all! > > He was the complete opposite of his bg singers and the > band. I wonīt go into details like his slow moving because > I donīt think it would be fair to do this. Heīs 60 and > heīs not on stage to jump around, but to sing and act. > Singing isnīt there anymore, he should quit after this > tour and concentrate on acting. I have to agree with this > one headline saying it was an agonizing self dismantlement > (guess you know what I mean). Heīs definitely ruining his > reputation. I read many comments of fans that he should go > on doing this because he sounded much better than the last > time etc.... I am still a fan saying the opposite. > My example was this: If you do something really really bad > without recognizing it and your so called friends (fans) > tell you to go on, you were great with it - you go on. And > on and on and on and you sink deeper and deeper in the mud > until you drown in your own shit. I have a feeling thatīs > exactly whatīs happening with Meat at the moment. I am > still a fan and I donīt want him to drown in his own shit. > Thatīs why Iīm saying he has to stop. Not because I donīt > want to see him on stage but because I donīt want him to > shatter himself to the ground with his own high > expectations he just canīt fulfill anymore. > Michael, I know you still see him as a great performer but > believe me - most of the people saying this are his die > hard fans and they donīt do him a favour with saying it. > Others just walk away shaking their heads with pity. > > Markus. | |
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