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Flake
27 May 2011, 17:18
Why? Because it seems like Australians cant watch the videos online {Please don't bite my head off, I'm just kidding, i love Australia, But you guys should probably rethink some questions}. This is a summary, didn't QUOTE everything exactly.

Q: When are you coming back to Australia & New Zealand?
A: October
Q: When are you coming up with a new album?
A: We’re working on it right now. It’s called “Hell in a Handbasket.”
Q: Why?
A: Because the entire world has gone to Hell in a Handbasket.
Q: Do you have any plans to come to Europe?
A: No, not right now, but in 2012, I won’t be surprised if we came.
Q: Are there any plans to release a live DVD from the Hang Cool Teddy Bear Tour? A: Yes there is. We are going to shoot a DVD in Australia, without the Orchestra.
Q: Will Patti be touring this summer?
A: Absolutely.
Q: How do you choose your supporting acts?
A: Sometimes the promoters choose them, sometimes I see people.
Q: Who is working with you on producing the new record?
A: Paul Crook, Doug McKean is going to mix it and Rob Cavallo is going to put his two cents in when we start to mix.
Q: Before you step on stage, what goes through your mind?
A: You people are going down tonight.
Q: Do you take anything from home, that makes you feel more at home on tour?
A: Everything.
Q: What is your favourite song to perform live?
A: Peace on Earth from Hang Cool Teddy Bear, but that changes all the time.
Q: Of all the characters you have played, what’s your favourite role?
A: The Character in the movie; Focus {Fred}. Second favourite is probably Bob {Fight Club}. Third is Eddie from Rocky horror.
Q: How do you feel about being a grandpa?
A: Yeah Baby!
Q: Where did you get all your gothic jewellery?
A: In London.
Q: Will Backbone be doing any TV Performances?
A: We sure the hell hope so.
Q: Would you consider adding another volume to your autobiography?
A: Yeah, when I get enough stuff.
Q: Why doesn’t Meat Loaf have a star on the walk of fame?
A: I don’t know, write the Hollywood chamber of commerce and ask them.
Q: Would you ever consider doing stand-up comedy?
A: Yes, I have in the 80’s when I introduced the Rocky horror show. I decided that I would make it funny and I kind of did a little stand-up. I went down to the Westport Comedy Club and I did 4 different stand-up shows.
Q: How did you get involved with the charity “The Painted Turtle”?
A: Lou Adler {the producer of the Rocky horror show} did a lot for me and my career, so I’ve been working for “The Painted Turtle” ever since he started working for them.
Q: Would you ever consider doing a Holiday Album?
A: Yes, we probably will do one now because we built a portable studio.
Q: How are album covers created?
A: Bat out of hell was Steinman’s creation, Bad attitude was mine, Dead ringer was mine that came from a painting I saw in a museum. The only one we didn’t create was the cover for Blind before I stop. Either Steinman or myself have been in control of making that cover art.
Q: What’s my favourite video?
A: The first 4 we did, with Two out of Three Ain't Bad. Dead ringer for love with Cher. Working with Michael Bay on Anything for love, Rock n Roll Dreams and Objects in the rear view mirror. Rock n Roll dreams with Angelina Jolie. Working with a director named Michael Grant who did I’d lie for you and that’s the truth. Working on Los Angeloser. The duet with Marion Raven {It's All Coming Back to Me Now}. There’s no real favourite.
Q: Are there any plans to re-release remastered deluxe editions of Bat, dead ringer, lost and found and bonus material?
A: No.
Q: If you can spend a day in the studio with any artist to record, who would it be?
A: Elvis Presley.
Q: Would you ever do another duet with Cher?
A: Absolutely. I Love Cher
Q: Would you be back on ghost hunters again with Jay and Grant and the crew?
A: I sent a text to Jay saying I want to come back on Ghost Hunters and he wrote back saying absolutely.
Q: True or false; Your favourite ice cream is vanilla?
A: That’s false, my favourite Ice cream is chocolate chip, but I can’t eat it, because I’m Lactose intolerant.
Q: What are your thoughts about doing voice work on animation films?
A: All anybody got to do is pick up the phone and call me, ill be there.
Q: Is there any chance they’ll bring back rock and a hard place?
A: No. I would do it, but they aren’t bringing it back.
Q: Have you ever thought about recording a country album, or a country-rock album? A: We’ve got sort-off a song on the new album that I’m actually having a country-fiddle play on. I don’t know if that’s country or not, but it’s got a country-fiddle.
Q: Do you speak any foreign languages?
A: Yes. "Fermez la bouche, toute suite" meaning "Be quiet (shut your mouth) right away" {Thanks Caryl for clearing that up}. Willst du mit mir ins Kino gehen? {Probably means; Will you go with me to the movies?}
Q: Are you coming to Chicago, Kansas City, Colorado, Germany, Ireland, Spain etc.?
A: At sometime within the next year and a half we would probably have been in most of these places.

Q: How did the songs for Hang Cool Teddy Bear come about? Did writers come to you with them?
A: No. Writers never come to me with them, and if they do, the songs are never what they come with, because I constantly change them. What happened with Hang Cool Teddy Bear is a series of writers came to Rob Cavallo’s house and spent over 5 weeks with this. They came with certain songs and ideas and we just moulded them.
Q: Why didn’t they mention standing in the storm in the finale?
A: I had the same question.
Q: What does your wife think about you being on Celebrity Apprentice?
A: She laughed at me when I cried, and she was angry at me when I yelled at Gary Busey.
Q: Did I appear in King Lear many years ago on Broadway?
A: No. I appeared in off-Broadway, in Central Park, in two Shakespeare plays {As you like it and Othello} in the early 70’s for the New York Shakespeare Festival.
Q: Would I ever consider a Duet with Bon Jovi?
A: Absolutely. Jon has come on stage with me before and we sang Johnny B. Goode together.
Q: Is the skeleton from Hang Cool Teddy Bear the biker from Bat out of Hell?
A: Absolutely correct.
Q: Australian tour dates and tickets {OMW! This never ends does it}?
A: Within the next week and a half, you’ll be the first to know.
:roll:
Thanks for answering some of our questions Meat! Takes a lot of speculation out of the equation ...

Flake
27 May 2011, 17:19
Also wanted to say that it just shows how much consideration you have for your fans! Thats why we Love you!!!

melon
27 May 2011, 17:29
He's been patient enough to answer various questions regarding Australia several times lol

Monstro
27 May 2011, 18:08
He's been patient enough to answer various questions regarding Australia several times lol

Not a lot else to do when sat in a car waiting for your other half to finish shopping :-P

Flake
27 May 2011, 18:22
Not a lot else to do when sat in a car waiting for your other half to finish shopping
Haha, not many husbands are that patient
10 point to Meat!:cheer::yay:

Flake
27 May 2011, 18:25
Mel, i only just realized you're also from Australia :yikes:
Aren't there any laws against abusing someone's facebook page in Australia?

DJLeen
27 May 2011, 20:06
He answered mine 'bout the music video. But he said whether he'd come to Germany that was asked on his facebook i've seen, but not about the Netherlands???? That was asked too...?

melon
28 May 2011, 02:30
Mel, i only just realized you're also from Australia :yikes:


Crikey sure am mate :lol:


Aren't there any laws against abusing someone's facebook page in Australia?


Same as anywhere, not sure I follow what you mean here?

CarylB
28 May 2011, 03:23
He answered mine 'bout the music video. But he said whether he'd come to Germany that was asked on his facebook i've seen, but not about the Netherlands???? That was asked too...?

He ran through a list of cities and countries, a selection I guess from the many listed, and confirmed Australia and Colorado which he remembered .. and indicated that europe was a possibility next year, and wherever we were he'd try to get there.

It's too far off to for him to say much about next year plans I think; dates tend to be fixed much nearer the time, and people tend to take it as a commitment when he says he hopes to be coming to ** or ** next year ;) And it's not about Meat not wanting to tour in countries he's not managed with Hang Cool; he's dependent on promoters and insurance. Last year he said he didn't think he'd be able to tour Netherlands because he couldn't get insurance, and costs were so high he couldn't plan Germany (although he had hoped to do some summer festivals, which clearly in the end weren't achievable. At one stage he didn't think he'd manage the UK either, but finally secured a deal which brought him here. But it's never as easy as him simply saying he'd like to tour here or there.

He did say keep checking meatloaf.net .. they may be slow at getting information posted, but when dates are arranged they will be posted there :)

Caryl

Flake
28 May 2011, 06:14
@Mel Just joking about all the Australian questiions on Meat's facebook page

robgomm
28 May 2011, 18:28
Is Meat going to Australia or did I miss something?

Flake
29 May 2011, 07:32
Yeah you missed something :D about 5 Q&A Videos on youtube & facebook saying that he is going to Australia http://www.youtube.com/user/RedPony2