HOW?WHEN?WHERE?

[The Flying Mouse]

:twisted: We all come to this site,because at some time in our lives we heard a song and we have not been the same since.
When was your first Meaty experience and how did it affect you?
For me it was about 1989.I was about 12 at the time.I was in my mum's living room watching t.v. when an advert came on for Woolworths.The subject of the advert was their music department,and during it they showed this guy at home in a smart buisness suit playing air guitar on his umberella,and in the background I heard this voice sing "LIKE A BAT OUT OF HELL I'LL BE GONE WHEN THE MORNING COMES".
The song was only on for a couple of seconds (and until then I had never had much time for music)but I was blown away.
The next time we were in town,I pesterd my mum for a Meat Loaf tape.
She bought the Rock n' Roll Hero tape for me (but not the one that is in the shops now-confusing),and things have never been the same.
Well thats how I got into Meat Loaf.I hope I havn't bored you to much and i'd like to hear about how you discoverd The Bat.
P.S. Does anybody remember that advert?
P.P.S. Thanks Woolies.

[Shane]

I was listening to an `adult-comtemporary' radio station some time in early 1996 (or it might have been in 1995), when they played Two Out Of Three Aint Bad. I thought that was a pretty good song. Later on they played You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth, Anything For Love, and Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through. Because my only income was pocket money (and occasionally some money as a paper carrier temp), I was only able to record songs onto old cassette tapes lying around the house.

For my 19th birthday, a friend made a tape with me with a couple of Meaty songs included.

I decided that I MUST buy a Meat Loaf album. So in early 1997, I bought the BOOH album for about $14.95NZ. My only income at this time was pocket money. Six months later I bought BOOH 2, and then the other albums when I could.

Then in April of 1998 (or was it 99) when I got access to the internet for the first time, I went hunting for Meaty websites. I found a Graham McNally website, and then the OIFC site, and later this one. I joined the OIFC list in March 1999, but lurked until New Years Day, 2000. Earlier this year I joined the Loafdom list after lurking for a short time. Because of all the `new millenium' (which began 1 January 2001) hype, I put on my Meaty music on New Years Eve (in New Zealand) of Dec 31 1999 and Dec 31 2000, so as to be the first person in the world to listen to Meat Loaf in the new millenium.

I have yet to join a fan club. I'm not sure which one (if not both) I'll join. I'm waiting for the exchange rate to improve. As Meat doesn't often come to New Zealand often, a membership isn't vital for Meet and Greet purposes, but when he does come I'll have to hurry up with it. And of course, I hear the latest news through the lists and the net.

[heat]

The first time i ever heard of Meat Loaf, i was about 11, and i was at my brothers house. He's a big rocky horror fan, and he put it on...i thought it was fantastic, especially the stunning blokie on the bike :P . I've been into Meat big time since then... I was grounded indefinately at the time (due to being young and irresponsible...hahaha), and was made to hoover my sisters house from top to bottom as punishment. I wanted somrthing to sing along to, and found my sisters Meat Loaf tape in a drawer, i put it on...and was completely blown away....His music always cheers me up...it's been with me through the good times, and it's got me through the bad ones...plus as eye candy goes...Meat Loaf will do nicely!!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Heat

[heat]

OH - And i pocketed the tape...and never told my siter...she's still looking for it!!!! :oops:

[Tim]

When i was 7 orso (this was in 1986), my grandma gave me a tape, with a lot of songs and on the tape there was a song, called Paradise by the dashboard light. And oh, i hated that song. I always skipped it. But after a year or so, i listened to it, and then i liked it very much. Don't know what it was.

Than i asked my mother who that guy was, and she told me that it was Meat Loaf. Some years later i've got my first Meat loaf CD, it was Hits out of hell. And man, i liked it. It sounded right, it was cool.......

Since that day i was a Meat Loaf fan, and i bought al the CD's that i could find, a calender from Bat out of hell 2, some posters.
And of course, when i get in contact with the internet, i had to find a Meat Loaf page.

[Feleena]

:D My first Meat song I heard was Paradise, Steve my hubby who at the time was my boyfreind asked me to listen to this and that I would like it. He was right I loved it and he played the rest of BOOH to me, then showed me his Meat Loaf Live video! Well I was hooked after that.
In 1996 he took me to see Meat live for the first time now Im really hooked tee hee!

Feleena xx

[greg]

hi ill got hok ed in the late 70's early 80's when i watched dead ringer for love i did not take it in that much . but as i got older now 34 it grew & grew now i am a meat loaf nut mates even bought me a meat loaf wig for my birthday last year . now is that over the top or what .

[greg]

hi ill got hok ed in the late 70's early 80's when i watched dead ringer for love i did not take it in that much . but as i got older now 34 it grew & grew now i am a meat loaf nut mates even bought me a meat loaf wig for my birthday last year . now is that over the top or what . :oops:

[Meatles]

I was hooked when Bat 2 came out, and "Tarzan Dan's Hitlist" had Anything For Love video in very heavy rotation! I than started collecting everything with Meats name on it.

[LucyK!]

I first heard Meat when I about 3, and I was playing with my mum's cassette tape of the Bat Out Of Hell album, and he helped me put it in adn I pressed play, and it was the orchestral part of For Crying Out Loud, and it came belting out, terrified me, and I turned it off!
Then when I was about 6, I found the same tape again and started listening to it in my room on one of those little walkman things ( secretly so my mum didn't know I'd pinched her tape! ) and I really got into it, but I didn't know who it was, then when I was 7 - Meat released Anything For Love, and I didn't like it!! They played it all over everything and I really wasn't keen, but then my dad said that he didn't like it - so I decided to say I liked it just to wind him up! So to prove I liked it, I had to listen to it on the radio, and watch it on all the music TV shows, and as I listened, I just grew to love it! The fact that the guy shared his name with food didn't even occur to me, I just loved it! Then I found out that it was in fact the same singer that I'd been listening to in my room for about 6 months!!
So I pleaded with my mum to get me the album, so we went into town and she got me a real dodgy copy of it from a market stall, because she wasn't going to spend good money on something I wouldn't like in a few weeks time - and that was 9 years ago! AndI still have that dodgy album! lol
Then I started to build up a little collection, cutting out pictures from magazines, bought the calendar - that kinda thing, and that went on for a few years, finding vinyls at record sales or car boot fairs, finding the albums that I'd missed out on. Then Welcome To The Neighbourhood was released and the whole thing just took off!! And with the album came the tour ad my very first Meat Loaf show when I was 10, and it blew me away!!
Carried on finding Meat Loaf albums, singles, pictures etc, then on June 2nd 1998 I joined the MLUKFC - met you crazy bunch and I'm still hooked! And probably will be forever!

Oh and Rainer....don't forget I met him :wink:

[Michel]

When I was ten (1993) I've heard one song that made a strong impression on me, and that song was Anything for love. But I bought my first Meat Loaf album when I was 15, because I needed an album with I'd Lie For You, I Bought the very best of. Because I liked the songs, I wanted to hear him live, so I bought Live Around The World, than I bought slowly on the other albums, and now I'm still collecting bootlegs.

[Meatles]

Sorry I was blunt with my last post on this topic, here is the full story.

I was watching that Hit List in 1993, and that video came out "Anything For Love" and I was totally obsessed with it! There was just something about the song and video that I loved. So I asked my mother who it was, she said it was MeatLoaf. I even loved his name! I thought it was so cool to be named Meat.So I found "Bat Out Of Hell" in a bargain bin at the local Zellers and I had it worn out 6 months later. I also bought Bat 2 the same year 1994. A funny story about my Meat Loaf crusades was that I was at a Flea Market and I saw a cassette "Meat Loaf : Featuring Stoney and Meatloaf" and I really didn't think it was the same one, because the cover was boring and bland (plate of Meatloaf and carrots) and it wasn't the same text as on the other albums. I asked the guy running the flea market and he said it was just a gospel duo not the Bat Meat. I started collecting everything with Meats name on it, even the movies he was in. I even picked up a
copy of "Stoney and Meatloaf" and found out that it was the same one
(nobody has such a classic tenor as Meat).

[White of High]

When I have heard first a meat song (watced a clip) I wasn't more 10. It must be before BOOH2. It was a clip or a live appearing in a theater, like in Not A Dry Eye In The House (I've never seen it). It was fantastic, maybe For Crying Out Loud(????). After I have forgotten his name, after I watched I'd Do Anything For Love. I noted his name. I went to a music-shop. I bought this tape, after Hits Out Of Hell and Welcome To The Neighbourhood cassette. Then I doesn't like HOOH. After more money and more CDs...

[Jaymze]

I always liked his music but never went out of my way to buy any of his stuff as I was never really a music fan and I was really disapointed when I found out he never wrote his own songs and that Bat Out of Hell wasn't about a real motor cycle crash that Meat had been in but in 98 I downloaded Anything For Love, Not A Dry Eye In The House and Bat Out Of Hell from Napster, then my friend loaned me BOOH II Picture Show to prove that Angelina Jolie was in a Meat music video because I didn't believe him and when I watched it I thought he was amazing and decided to keep to the video- with permission from him, I especially liked Rock'n'Roll Dreams the music video and I just forgot about him until later that year when I saw BatII in a sale for £6.99 and I thought I may as well buy it as it's such a low price. When I heard it I couldn't believe it, it was the first album I heard on which every song was amazing and I couldn't understand why Out of the Frying Pan hand't been released as a single, for weeks after that I couldn't stop listening to Everything Louder then Everything Else as the words were simply fantastic and then I discovered the whole partnership with him and Steinman and understood it didn't mattter if he didn't write the songs and then I bought his autobiography and since then it hasn't stopped, now I've reached spiritual enlightenment as Steinmans songs helped find God- he comes from Texas and sang Bat Out Of Hell.

[Chris]

I first heard meat aged minus 6 months

My mum was a fan and used to play it to me whenn she was pregnant got through two tapes of Bat when I was young as I played them so much they wore out.

been a fan every since and have just about every album every released by him in the UK


Chris