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Klasien 03:05 pm UTC 05/20/11 |
| In reply to: | re: A few Meat Loaf Steinman questions - rockfenris2005 03:03 pm UTC 05/20/11 |
> > > > A few Meat Loaf + Steinman questions that I ponder from > > time to time: > > > > • Meat says the song Dead Ringer For Love was traded w/ > > Jim for RnR Dreams, after both of their respective albums > > were already underway. And this appears to be > > substantiated by the different lineup of musicians that > > play on dead ringer for love, suggesting it was recorded > > at a different time to the others. So, this begs the > > question, did meat ever record RnR dreams in 80/81? Did > > Todd + the Bad For Good band ever record Dead Ringer For > > Love? Did Jim ever attempt a proper vocal on it? > > That's what I'm curious about. I used to think I could > hear Meat Loaf humming at the very start of Jim's "Rock > and roll dreams". > > Cool!! I'm not the only one who hears Meat in that!! > > • Why did meat record so FEW steinman tracks thru-out the > > 80s? Even tho his label didnt want to pay for Steinmans > > involvement, it Dddn't occur to him to simply cover a > > single one of the BFG tracks during the Tom Dowd sessions? > > After the two from Bad Attitude, both excellent, he didn't > > consider any others for Blind Before I Stop? As far as I'm > > aware, the recording sessions for all three of his 80s > > albums was before he got back in touch with Jim re a Bat2 > > project, thus there's no reason I can SEE for him not to > > have done frying pan or lost boys. Other than his morbid > > fear of repeating himself artistically (which, despite the > > at times crappy results, is actually quite admirable). > > Maybe there are more than the two that were released?? > > Maybe he wanted to record these songs but Jim said, "why > don't we save it for Bat 2?" > > I remember reading once that they started talking about > Bat 2 in 1984! Wish I could find the link for that. > > > > • did meat ACTUALLY record a finished version of all > > coming back for neighbourhood? > > No idea. And what would have replaced it on the album, > storywise? "Martha"? "Where angels sing"? > > Again, I remember reading once that Jim recommended > "Martha" to Meat Loaf. > > > > Have I missed any other bits and pieces of the meat and > > Jim story that beg for a little more explanation? Does > > anyone think we have any hope of ever hearing this stuff, > > if any of it exists? > > > > I don't know of anything else, but (and you're most likely > going to disagree with this) I think "Who needs the > young?" should have been on Bat 1. > | |
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