Diane
23 Feb 2007, 18:31
Found this here (http://www.thedesertsun.com:80/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070223/LIFESTYLES0101/702230334/1050). I couldn't agree with Meat more about what he considers one of the greatest acting performances of all time:
Marvin Aday is slipping into character
Bruce Fessier
The Desert Sun
February 23, 2007
Marvin Aday is letting the monster out Sunday night.
It's a multi-headed beast that could be the mild-mannered Michael Aday one minute, and the bat out of hell known as Meat Loaf the next.
Meat, as even his business associates call him, will show up at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino's Special Events Center. But he'll bring with him a dozen characters or more.
He was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1951. The official story is his father nicknamed him "Meat" when he was 2 years old because of his size. His schoolmates added the last name, "Loaf."
Meat calls himself Michael Aday when referring to the man who trained to become an actor. He played characters in "Bad Seed," "The Music Man," "Where's Charley" and "Plain and Fancy" while in high school.
He was a successful stage actor who brags about never being out of work for six years in New York. He was featured in "Hair" in Los Angeles while also singing in a string of rock bands.
But he's most proud of the character who can completely submerge his real life identity into characters.
"That Meat Loaf persona was nowhere to be seen in 'Fight Club,' nowhere to be seen in 'Focus,' nowhere to be seen in 'Crazy in Alabama,'" Meat said in a telephone chat shortly before his Bat Out Of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose Alive In Hell tour.
"I've been driven crazy with people saying, 'You're not real.' I'm going, 'Go tell that to Brando. Go tell that to Pacino. Go tell that to any of these actors when they're playing a role that that role's not real."
Meat Loaf first gained fame as the motorcycle-riding Eddie in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
But even then, his fame was schizophrenic - he was billed on the soundtrack as Meat Loaf.
But his life really became complicated when Meat Loaf became one of rock's first video stars, five years before MTV, singing "Paradise By the Dashboard Light," "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth" and "Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad" on the original "Bat Out of Hell" LP.
Composer Jim Steinman created a concept album that took adolescent themes to operatic heights and forced Meat to sing several characters.
They recorded "Bat Out of Hell II" in 1993 and the latest sequel last year. In between, Meat took acting roles with still more ambiguous credits. He was called Meat Loaf Aday in "Fight Club" in 1999, Michael Lee Aday in "The Salton Sea" in 2002 and Michael Meat Loaf Aday in "Chasing Ghosts" in 2005.
Meat says he prefers acting over singing and considers Meat Loaf his greatest role.
"I couldn't live without the acting," he said. "A Rolling Stone writer once said that everybody discounted my acting, but I've given one of the greatest performances of all time just being Meat Loaf."
Marvin Aday is slipping into character
Bruce Fessier
The Desert Sun
February 23, 2007
Marvin Aday is letting the monster out Sunday night.
It's a multi-headed beast that could be the mild-mannered Michael Aday one minute, and the bat out of hell known as Meat Loaf the next.
Meat, as even his business associates call him, will show up at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino's Special Events Center. But he'll bring with him a dozen characters or more.
He was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1951. The official story is his father nicknamed him "Meat" when he was 2 years old because of his size. His schoolmates added the last name, "Loaf."
Meat calls himself Michael Aday when referring to the man who trained to become an actor. He played characters in "Bad Seed," "The Music Man," "Where's Charley" and "Plain and Fancy" while in high school.
He was a successful stage actor who brags about never being out of work for six years in New York. He was featured in "Hair" in Los Angeles while also singing in a string of rock bands.
But he's most proud of the character who can completely submerge his real life identity into characters.
"That Meat Loaf persona was nowhere to be seen in 'Fight Club,' nowhere to be seen in 'Focus,' nowhere to be seen in 'Crazy in Alabama,'" Meat said in a telephone chat shortly before his Bat Out Of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose Alive In Hell tour.
"I've been driven crazy with people saying, 'You're not real.' I'm going, 'Go tell that to Brando. Go tell that to Pacino. Go tell that to any of these actors when they're playing a role that that role's not real."
Meat Loaf first gained fame as the motorcycle-riding Eddie in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
But even then, his fame was schizophrenic - he was billed on the soundtrack as Meat Loaf.
But his life really became complicated when Meat Loaf became one of rock's first video stars, five years before MTV, singing "Paradise By the Dashboard Light," "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth" and "Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad" on the original "Bat Out of Hell" LP.
Composer Jim Steinman created a concept album that took adolescent themes to operatic heights and forced Meat to sing several characters.
They recorded "Bat Out of Hell II" in 1993 and the latest sequel last year. In between, Meat took acting roles with still more ambiguous credits. He was called Meat Loaf Aday in "Fight Club" in 1999, Michael Lee Aday in "The Salton Sea" in 2002 and Michael Meat Loaf Aday in "Chasing Ghosts" in 2005.
Meat says he prefers acting over singing and considers Meat Loaf his greatest role.
"I couldn't live without the acting," he said. "A Rolling Stone writer once said that everybody discounted my acting, but I've given one of the greatest performances of all time just being Meat Loaf."