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Max 05:42 pm UTC 06/01/10 |
| In reply to: | Jim Steinman freaks - Scaramouche 09:56 am UTC 06/01/10 |
| I guess Jim is his own biggest freak, given what he said about Meat's involvement in recording Bat Out of Hell: VH1: What was the atmosphere at the recording sessions like? Steinman: The sessions were in Woodstock, N.Y., in Bearsville Studios, which was Todd's studio. They were really hard for Meat Loaf. I spent a lot of time with Todd and Roy Bittan, the pianist, working on the arrangements and the music, which Meat Loaf really wasn't involved in. Meat Loaf would be in the corner while we were recording. He didn't know what to say. I remember he finally got up the nerve to leave the corner and come up to Todd. Todd went, "Yes, what do you want?" Meat Loaf said, "Well, I was just thinking this part here, you could do it like Motown R&B." Todd said, "Yes, we could. But that would be wrong if we did, so why don't you go back to the corner and let us make your record." He didn't take it well. That was one of the nights he tried to kill himself. Todd was brutally efficient. He mixed the whole record in one day, from 4:00 PM to 4:00 AM, and it was one of the wildest things I've ever seen. But we ended up remixing it and it took about two months. It was like that when he took the record to be mastered. It was a drive-thru mastering place, like Burger King, called Stone. He handed it through the window to the receptionist and she said, "What do I do with this?" He said, "Make it sound good." And he walked away. > A recent interview were Meat has a little dig at Jim > and/or Steinman fans, about vocals on Bat 1? > > I always thought that Jim spent a lot of time teaching > Meat the phrasings for the Bat 1 songs, so that Meat > effectively sang them like Jim would? > > He also disses Bat 3 again. I remember, just before Bat 3 > was released, that Meat said he listened to it in his > house and cried as to how good it was. Hmmmmm. > > > > | |
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