Meat -the missing years '87-'93

[MJ]

I am particularly interested in these years when Meat was touring like a maniac and getting his act back together- particularly the years when Chuck Burgi was the drummer. I've heard there was a tour book covering this time...does anybody have one? I've seen one photo of the band from this book that shows Burgi and Bob Kulick...any sites on the web that might cover this era?
I've got the fabulous Live at Wembley album and a live CD from New York City ('93) with this lineup. Any more?
Thanks! MJ

[Anonymous]

The most notable of this time is an actual record, Blind Before I Stop. Depending on who you talk to, it was either his worst album since Midnight At The Lost And Found (which I think was an excellent album in it's own right), or a album which was surprisingly not a hit. I think the latter. It's a good album, but loses some of the crudentials that made his previous album, Bad Attitude (one of the other albums that came out during that time, although I don't know if it came out within your requested time frame), which was billed as Meat's "undiscovered gem." Bad Attitude features Modern Girl, Sailor To A Siren, and Surf's Up, while Blind features Getting Away With Murder, Rock And Roll Mercenaries, the title track, Rock And Roll Hero, and Masculine.

He also had a greatest hits CD that didn't make it to the US shores (in which I live in), called Prime Cuts. That has 11 of his hits from Bat Out Of Hell to Blind Before I Stop. I'm going to try to get an import of this one if I can.

I hope this helps.

[Michel]

I have many bootlegs from the touring years. The Lost Boys tour in 1988, with many songs from Bat For Good. A few from 1989, the first time he tells the public about Bat II. And I have also a few from 1990 and 1991. There Meat sings the songs like the Bat II tour. John Miceli and Mark Alexander were already in The Neverland Expres in 1991.

[Bart]

Meat did not miss any year. in fact those years were the best years. he had a great and great voice at that time. So powerful. Nowadays it is not that powerful, but that is because he is always touring.

[The Flying Mouse]

Bart wrote
Nowadays,it is not that powerful,but that is because he is always touring.

Are we talking about the same guy? :lol:
I went to the Kings Dock (Liverpool) show last year and,believe me,his voice has lost nothing.
In fact I wouldn't be suprised to hear that people could hear him on the other side of the River Mersey :twisted: .

[Michel]

I have to agree, that his voice wasn't as good as in those years. Especially from 1996 til 1999. But now his voice is getting better, I've heard it on many clips. But he never had a bad voice or something like that, he always proved he was the best!

[Bart]

between 84 and now he had never a bad voice! He has, in our opinion, the best voice in the universe. I just said ,that between 86 and 89 his voice was on its best. Now it is also great but then it was better, you know better than great or something like that.
Guys, his voice was indeed bad in 81/82. But he could not help it at that time.

[sherrie87]

I saw him in concert in the early 90's- I'm guessing it was 92 but it may have been earlier. It was, bar none, the best concert that I have ever been too (and I have been to MANY). It was at Jannus Landing in St Petersburg, Florida, an open air/open seating concert and I got there plenty early to get right against the stage. I remember the roar that went up from the crowd when Meat anounced that he was "working on" Bat 2! I would love to go back in time and relive that concert- no other concert since has measured up, and I've seen Billy Joel (x 6), Paul Simon, Dead Milkmen, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Garth Brooks, James Taylor, Huey Lewis and many others. I saw ML again just a few months ago, but it was in a Clearwater, FL concert hall and it was very different. Still great, but different. I think the open air, front row vibe of that concert at Jannus Landing will never be beaten for me. Oh to be 22 and in that front row again! :lol:
Sherrie

[Bart]

Wow!
Give us more of these concert reviews Sherry!

[sherrie87]

Actually, now that I think about it that concert may have even been in the late 80's. Either way, it was sometime between 89 and 92, but I do remember that it was a few years between that concert and the release of Bat 2. I was waiting for Bat 2, not very patiently, and it seemed to take forever to be released.
I remember that Meat was not as slender as he is now, but not nearly as robust as he was in the 70's, either way he was looking good and sounding great.
I was right up against the stage, and Meat still had his long hair so everytime he flipped his head sweat flew everywhere- I remember I kept thinking "how can he do this every show? How does he keep from having a heart attack?"
Several times during the show Meat announced that he would not sing any more until the crowd screamed "Meat Loaf you are a sex god!", which we were glad to do.
I very vividly remember him singing "Paradise", it was the first time I had every seen him perform it and I was really impressed with the theatrics.
My best friend from high school and I hung around after the show hoping to meet Meat or the band, but alas we did not. A year later I saw the Indigo Girls there, and ran into one of them on the street (Amy Ray) after the show- now why couldn't that have been ML instead? :D
:D Sherrie