RIP Meatloaf

[Moondog Wily]

Classic rocker gone! Met him in about 2000 when some friends were playing a celebrity pro am golf tournament (they were playing just off the the 16th hole tee box). Meetloaf came up to me and asked me if I knew the guys in the band. I said I did and he asked if he might be able to borrow the lead singers afro wig to tee off on the 16th. I went and got him the wig, he put it on, tee'd off and came back with a thank you returning the wig! Seemed like a really fun guy!!! Hopefully he has seen paradise by his dashboard lights (or running back to her from the gates of heaven)!!!!

 

[Wakester]

I've been reading that the Meat Loaf we saw on stage was completely different from the person he was off stage.

 

[dmatthews]

R&R HOF panned Meatloaf
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[Alnus Rubra]

RIP not so big fella. Give em’ heck!

 

[dmatthews]

RIP not so big fella. Give em’ heck!

He'd do anything... but he won't do that...

 

[Aahzz]

I always did enjoy the 2 Bat Out of Hell albums - as well as the Rocky Horror Picture Show. RIP Mr Loaf!

 

[RickP]

RIP, Mr Aday. Thanks for the memories. Ahh, the dashboard light.

 

[Alnus Rubra]

No one matched his energy. Jim Steinman tried, but he wrote a better song than he performed it. Sorry if this offends, just my thoughts.

 

[Wakester]

No one matched his energy. Jim Steinman tried, but he wrote a better song than he performed it. Sorry if this offends, just my thoughts.

I think Meat Loaf was the perfect match for Steinman's genius. Very few male singers can pull off the energy the songs required, like he did. There are at best 2 female singers that really locked into Steinman's vision (Bonnie Tyler, Celine Dion), but Meatloaf was the only male to elevate Steinman's music to a level that even Steinman could not achieve.