| re: Jim Should Write A Book Like Meat Loaf's "To Hell And Back" | |
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steven_stuart 12:57 am UTC 10/08/10 |
| In reply to: | re: Jim Should Write A Book Like Meat Loaf's "To Hell And Back" - Scaramouche 12:08 pm UTC 10/06/10 |
| > Hmmm . My guess is these were already written and Jim was > approached and asked if he had anything. I doubt he agreed > to work with Air Supply and THEN wrote something, and I > imagine he was writing Eclipse all through the 70's, as > it's origins lie in the Dream Engine. That's interesting although not what he claims. Perhaps we could agree that Wikipedia is wrong about him offering the two songs to Meat Loaf for his "Midnight At The Lost And Found" album. Are there fragments of "TEOTH" in the original "Dream Engine" production? Actually that would be cool. Its had such a life, going from "Dream Engine" to Bonnie and then to "Tanz". > I would like to see a book about his musical > history/studio work as I reckon there's quite a bit of > stuff not many people know about. For starters, a detailed > chapter on the Def Leppard saga would be a great read. Yes. I would love to read about that. Conas has a good point when he writes: "There is so much mystery regarding Jim that has gone untold. Even his childhood and teenage years have never been accounted for. Maybe he doesn't want anyone knowing his personal business which is fair enough, and I respect that totally." But a book about "musical history/studio work" (as you suggest) would not require Jim to go into his personal business and it would set the record straight about things like offering songs to Meat Loaf and exactly who changed the Steve Margoshes arrangements in the Meat Loaf show. Have you read the "Phenomenology of Excess" book that CultOfByron mentions in his post? I Googled it and I could only find the page on this site. The page is very interesting but I'm still not sure what kind of book it is or if its still available. There is a book of the same name which deals with electron reactions in liquid hydrocarbons but I doubt that has anything to do with Jim. I thank CultOfByron for bringing that name up because I hadn't read the "Phenomenology of Excess" page on this site before and it is very interesting. I didn't know about: "Jim Steinman attended the same Amherst College fraternity as David Eisenhower. The secret service agents guarding the place meant it was totally safe, drug-wise, since the cops could never get it. This may account for Jim's brilliant, uniquely warped consciousness." > To Hell and Back is okay but not very in depth. Meat & Jim > teaming up again for Bat 2, and the subsequent recording > of the album, was seriously lacking any decent info. Its more in depth than any book I have read about Meat and Jim (and it really is about both Meat and Jim). Although I have never even seen a copy of "Phenomenology Of Excess". Maybe that book was more in depth. Surely "To Hell And Back" is better than nothing. Have you heard the rumours that Meat Loaf might be writing another book? Unfortunately the "BOOH The Musical" book will just be about the history of "BOOH", starting with Jim first coming up with the story of a futuristic "Neverland" in his head, through to the two albums and then to the production of the show (and not surprisingly there will be absolutley nothing personal or private - and photos will be as important as text - its a posh coffee table book like George Perry's "Phantom" book). Jim has done so much more than "Neverland" and "BOOH", so I would like to see at least the "musical history/studio work" book that you suggest. That would be cool and a fantastic read. | |
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