> Then there's the story about Meat Loaf's manager offering
> Jim the biggest producer's contract in the history of rock
> music and Jim turned it down, probably because it said
> Peter Mokran would be in charge of the vocals. Jim's songs
> are his children, remember.
>
Yeah 'biggest producer deal in history', which is a frigging laugh, because he would have been sole songwriter on a multi-million selling album. So compared to this, this so called biggest deal ever would have to be an entire order of magnitude greater than anything prior in order to sweeten the deal in anyway.
So I always ASSUMED that it in fact WASN'T the biggest deal in history, and probably probably robbed peter to pay paul, taking what is rightfully Jim's in the long run (IP) in exchange for an artificially inflated lump-sum.
> Or it was something else to do with Meat Loaf owning a
> certain amount of the rights to "Bat", bla bla...
Yeah, that.
>
> Personally, I think he should have just cancelled. It
> would have been much better if the album didn't exist at
> all, and, you know, "Two out of three ain't bad..." ;-)
>
I assume that by the time it got to this point, Meat had signed the dotted line saying that it would be done, and it would cost X million in lost revenue for the label if Meat no longer wants to do it.
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