I wonder how we would all feel if Meat had decided to cancel it, in spite of everything. I suppose he would still be our hero, and we would have applauded him for doing something very noble. For being loyal to Jim.
But I don't just blame Meat Loaf. He was the face of this whole thing. There was a lot of crap going on underneath, which he explains on his forum.
> This is all just an assumption, but its standard practice
> to have the defaulting penalty as part of the contract.
> Theoretically could be anything, but given the
> circumstance I'd assume a simple fee of cold hard cash.
>
> Shouldn't have hurt his future music career in any way.
> But who knows how much cash they may have been asking.
> It's entirely possible that Meat's team dived into a
> shitty contract WAY too soon.
>
> If you consider that they may have had a 100 million
> dollar penalty looming over their heads, suddenly becoming
> involved in a 50 million dollar law suit with Jim,
> claiming that Meat wrote some of the lyrics of Bat2, looks
> like the SENSIBLE thing to do.
>
> >
> > > >
> > > > 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.
> >
> > What would have happened if he had changed his mind at
> > that point? They would have sued him? Tore up his record
> > contract? Given him a bad name? No label would ever
> > release his albums again?
> >
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