John posted on Facebook Monday that he's back in LA recording. Hopefully we'll get another update from Meat soon :-)

that's if he's recording with Meat

Meat Tweets
 

to those who've said they check daily for new Meat Tweets, no you're not alone, I do the same thing :) Meat's been very generous with his time in sending us all these videos, and I really appreciate it as I know we all do :)

-Kathy

That's a good point ... I didn't think of that ...

I second that Kathy ... and I really appreciate it too :-)

Same here, I really appreciate them too, but will admit I've been missing them lately.

Carole

Thanks for the update Vicki, hopefully we'll hear from Meat soon.

Carole

Same here. Luv cx

You're welcome Carole. Hopefully we'll hear a little something this week :-)
Vicki

everybody wants a little something good!

Another few peeks...Meat's tweeted, Brian's jammin'. And I'm smiling.

Suzieq

I second that Suzieq :))

the loafs back, and brian with some nice chords

Brian May is just fantastic! That little piece of music definitely is a reason for me to buy the album, although I don't know what the CD will sound like yet. I can only repeat what Meat Loaf said in one of the videos: "C'mon Brian, a little bit more." :pray:

And now we know why it's been a while :wink:
Thanks again for all of the updates Meat !! I'm so glad to hear you're enjoying working on the CD ... and I can be very cool and patient :))

haha, All of them have lost their minds! I love it! Meat introduced a man who wrote a song called " Like a Rose. " Which to me sounds like more writers are being involved. There could be more than 15 tracks! The Meat bits of music we have heard are very cool! And congrats Doug and his family!

I know Suzie, it was great to get up this morning and see those couple of tweets from Meat, it really brightened up my day. Can't wait to get home and see if there's some more.

Carole

Oh my, it rained tweets today! So glad to see Meat back at the twitter's helm. That was like the cherry-on-top of my day. I had a fabulous day beginning at the crack of dawn and now to see Meat all relaxed, having fun, swearing, and "killing it" was the cherry-on-top of it all.

And hopefully with the gang in town, Meat can get a tweet out while they are doing their part in studio.

Sidebars: I'm excited for Adam's album coming out in Nov. too. Congrats to Doug for his new arrivals (lacking a little sleep is he???).

Suzieq

I am glad tweets are back but I am having trouble with the ones that say img on them. Are they just pictures or what. I cant get anything because quicktime keeps coming up and wont let me go on to see anything. Please help I am dying to know what they are. :?

I was having the same problem. They're MP4 video files, and should start playing automatically with Quicktime. Have you tried re-installing your Quicktime player ?

I second that Suzieq :))
Now I'm looking forward to Adam's cd coming out too !

Vicki

Yes ! I actually caught myself trying to hear the background music in one of the clips :)) Oh and congrats to Doug and his family !

Yes I'm having trouble too, I thought it could be my old computer. Luv cx

More future Meat Balls! I have one coming in very early 2010 ;)

Excellent ! Congratulations :))

Thanks! :D

Vicki, you are groovy!

You're welcome :))

Same here Vicki, I was doing the same thing trying to listen to the background music, but it was very faint. And congrats to Doug and his family from me too.

Carole

thank you very much vickip. It worked and I can see everything now. You are great and so are Meats tweets now that I can see them. :oops:

You're very welcome .. I'm glad it worked :))
And yes, the tweets are great !
Vicki

Great.. and very random!

I think the randomness is a big part of what makes them great! Really good to hear Meat enjoying himself.

I think he sounds a lot better (less difficulty breathing, less scratchy voice) when talking, so maybe all the vocal coaching and the better health is making the vocals he's producing come more easily and sound fantastic, and that makes it more fun - ie less of a chore?

You really could only hear the song very faintly on the recent twitters, but from what I could hear, I'm excited...

Meat's enjoying himself and his smile and laugh are contagious. I find myself giggling along at him and da' boys. I'm just going to sit back and wait...hanging patiently and cool.

CC has tweeted and she's coming to town to do her part. Joe L. has facebooked a positive status about the album. There's bound to be more generous tweets, but I shall leave greatness alone to work on the masterpiece.

Busting at the seams happy,
Suzieq

<3 Susie :)

still no news on the banjo solo on the album??? :( lol

:) RSG

Meat's Tweets
 

Is there anyone else who cant get the IMG videos? I feel as though I'm missing out! Luv cx

Try installing a Quicktime player. Hopefully that should work :-)
Vicki

Thanks Vicki, I'll try that. Luv cx

You're welcome. Good luck :)
Vicki

I wonder why they upload the videos to four different sites. Is there anything wrong with the YouTube channel?

Since I got tired of different video file formats and the various players you have to use to watch them I installed VLC media player. It plays almost any format. You just have to enter the URL.

OMG, I just noticed that YouTube automatically translates all the video titles into German for me now!!! :wtf: In case you speak German, read this and have fun:

"Fleisch stellt einige der Paramore Bande"
"Eric Vetro Tropfen ins Studio"
"Fleisch schießt Rob produzieren und die Band Aufnahme"
"Fleisch-Kontrollen mit James Michael und Rick Brantley"

Good lord... :lmao:

I've got the same problems, I can't watch the videos since they're in that new format. None of my players can read them.
Are they hosted on another website, like they were on Youtube before? Maybe I could see them there.
Thanks a lot for your answer

Florence

Florence, try what Vicki said, it seems to have helped others.

Thanks a lot Suzanne. I've tried the Quicktime Player too, but it doesn't work either, probably because my computer is too old and can't download the appropriate tools.

I'm afraid I will have to read your posts to know what's in the tweets instead of watching them.

Florence

What kind of problem do you encounter exactly? Have you already installed Quicktime or does the installation of the tool itself fail? Any error message? What happens (or does not happen) when you try to play the video? How "old" is your PC exactly? Maybe you can provide some info regarding your system (operating system, how much RAM, CPU speed, browser version etc.), so that we can do some troubleshooting. :-)

I've mentioned VideoLAN's VLC media player before, it works fine for me, saved me a lot of trouble with Quicktime, Meat's MP4 files ;), other video files, codecs etc.

A workaround would be to save the files to your HDD and use a converter in order to transfer them to a more convenient format that can be played via a media player that runs on your computer.

I wish they'd stick to one site and one format when it comes to the videos. Don't know why they currently upload some to YFrog / Imageshack and none to YouTube. :?

I hadn't thought of a VLC Media player ... that may actually work better :-)
I was wondering exactly the same thing about YouTube .... I wish they would go back to posting the videos on there.

Having all the videos on YouTube would not only be more convenient, I also believe that it might work better with regard to promo. YouTube is extremely popular, a lot of people look for Meat Loaf videos there (not only die-hard fans) and they might stumble upon the "twitters" (:))), learning that a new album is being recorded.

Thanks Sarge for having taken the time to write me so complete an answer.

Concerning Quicktime, I've got the player and it works with other stuff. But with Meat's vids, I've got first a white screeen with the blue drawing at the middle (just as if it was uploading) for a few seconds and then it turned into a little icon picturing the blue thing broken.

I've got Windows and Real media players but I guess my problem comes from my computer which is both too full and too old and therefore I can't upload the latest versions of the players. My Windows version is just out of date, I'd be ashamed to name it :oops: Too bad for me...

Thanks again for having tried to help me.

Florence

Florence,
I hope it all sorts out for you. Suggesting a library computer may allow you to view the tweets? However, you may need to bring a pair of headphones for sound. Sometimes our library computers don't have speakers (due to noise levels).

Suzieq

Thanks for the suggestion Suzanne. Indeed watching the vids from outside my house seems the only solution.

Florence

I get the same .. my computer isn't that old and has plenty of space, and when I try to download the "latest" version it just informs me I have the latest version, so I'm in the same boat. My Quicktime works with other stuff too.

Caryl

Maybe this works: Download the files to your computer (right-click the link, select "save target as") and try to open them locally. Don't know if that solves the problem since I use VLC and haven't updated Quicktime in ages but maybe you're lucky.

Given the fact that numerous people seem to have to trouble to view the recent videos, I hope they'll decide to upload them to another place where they are better accessible.

Tonight I tried saving the videos directly to my computer (as MOV files) ... they worked better than playing them directly on Twitter. I still haven't tried using a VLC player, but I'm using a Quicktime player version 7.6.2.

Vicki

You and I must have been posting at the same time :-P
I downloaded the files directly to my computer tonight, and they worked better than trying to watch them directly on Meat's twitter page.

I agree ... I wonder if it could also be a problem with Twitter being busy :??:

moving onwards!! i would say its only a matter of weeks before we get the title of the album, maybe even the album cover? it must be nearly finished!! exciting stuff!!
keep up the tweets meat

i cant wait to see the tweets, im ending rock and roll dreams on the storytellers dvd i just bought for third time. not very HD friendly!

Boy, I'm beginning to think "why" is my computer working when usually it is mine who has the major malfunctions. I hope that the alternative ways helps people because todays tweets were exciting.

I loved Justin's wake up call tweet. Thanks Meat for posting a bevy of tweets today.

Suzieq

Yeah thanks Meat for all the twitters today. It was a nice surprise when I got up to find 3 new tweets, then when I checked a little while later there were 3 more. I loved that one too of the wake up call. And it's exciting to see a new band member too. I wonder if she's an Aussie, Meat asked her in a previous tweet if that was an Australian thing to do.

Carole

Yeah Carole, I almost fell over my computer when I returned from the gym to see a list of new tweets. Importantly, I'm glad to know the gang is all accounted for plus one (Georgia). I took her for an Aussie. She had a slight Aussie accent. Oh and Patti is hysterical too. Looks as though she's twitter shy. LOL. She even called Meat an S.O.B.

Glad the atmosphere is lite (no pun intended to the white spotlight tweet) and fun.

Suzieq

I can't see the tweets either. I wish they would post them on Youtube again. Who is Georgia- a singer or musician?

She's a singer :-)

I absolutely agree with you Suzieq :))
I think the two guys (sorry I forget their names) singing with Randy are from Mother Superior, who wrote "Whore" for Pearl.

Vicki

So now there are 3 female singers in the band?

Where were they on u-tube? What was the heading . I will get them on there if I know where they go.
M

Meat,
They are on your channel under Redpony2....the last heading I quickly pulled up was...Meat is nervous. That was posted about 1 month ago. Try that and see if it helps.
Suzieq

Thanx Glamourgirl. Duh, why didn't I just do that? :oops:

You bet, Suzie. And thanx Meat.

Thanks Meat :))

Apparently :-)

Thanks a lot Meat, that would be so nice of you.

Florence

Thanks :) I took your advice and installed VLC .. though for some reason I have to save them to my computer and then open to view.

And it looks like he will :)

Caryl


Thanks Meat. That is thoughtful and kind and would be great :) You're a star!

Caryl

You can also play them from the web. Click "Media" > "Open Network Stream" and enter the link to the video, it should work.

Excellent service. :D

Thank you kind Sir, would help out many I would think. Thank you also for the wonderful updates.

This was found by Meat's twitter followers. It's a hurry up and vote for @RealMeatLoaf across the various categories. They are finalizing the count this weekend.

http://mashable.com/owa/votes/add

Suzieq

Thanks for the link Suzanne, I've just begun to add my votes.
Meat deserves to be nominated and then elected of course :-)

Florence

Thanks .. yours is too ;)

Caryl

Meat just posted a twitter video .. and it's on YouTube :))

Thanks again Meat !

guess it does happen when you click your heels together...you go home...lol
just love it

So the tweets are at home on YouTube and Meat is in Kansas again :shock:, no, no, no that's right he's at Rob's. Great to hear/see some tweets before the weekend.

Exactly :))

just need Toto, pigtails and ruby slippers...lol

I just love how Patti gets so into this...WOW

LOL ! And I absolutely agree with you about Patti :))

The song you hear in the new videos - that's the one Rick Brantley and Meat sang in the "jam session" clip, isn't it? Had to listen to the last 5 seconds of the "it's not metal" clip over and over...

I haven't said a word for a long time but as Sarge did I listen to the last 5 seconds. It sounds like something new, poweful and just good to me. This time I really liked what I heard.
Great :)

Man, Me Too!

Me three ! I really liked it too and can't wait to hear more :))

it sounds great!!! ive always had a feeling that this album will not only be different, but totally new!! its brave and fair play to him:D

Yea, that last 5 seconds sounds really great. Meat sounded clear and better than he has in the last few years. I'm REALLY excited

Only 5 seconds, but holy rocking casbah that is awesome. The growl in Meat's voice is the first thing I notice. But its accompanied with a real powerful sound. A booming surge of thunder! Meat wasn't watering it down when he said this was going to a rocking album!

background vocals when 5 of them are standing in a row singing, "carry me to my grave!" i think it is very trippy. a exciting and strange time to be a Meat Loaf fan. I'm bursting out happy to the fullest to know what Doug, Covallo, Meat Loaf and crew have come up with. I was never around for the Bat 2 expeirience. But this one for me makes me feel somewhat it would have been like iin 1993. Call me over the top if you want, but I';m friggin' ecstatic!

Does sound awesome, Meat seems to be in top vocal form. Can't wait to hear more!

I wonder why you post this here, yet over there you refer to it as 'Bullshit in A China Shop' :nuts:

you stole my comment!

Indeed! :devil:

A Sunday outing ... ;)

Caryl

Let's not drag arguments from other places onto here please.

I won't defend myself. However I hope that a few of you understand I'm pro-this new record. Also Pro-Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman. As a pair or on their own. Draw your own conclusions if you dare! I'm healthy, just wiierd. I'm sure other opinions could branch from there. I would read them with a smile on face. And when I'm done, it is probable I will still have a smile on my face.

I'm starting to connect the dots between the clips like Sarge. A clip from a while ago paired with the clip from "it's not metal" and "carry me to my grave". I love what I hear and I can't wait to sink my teeth into this CD. Metaphorically of course.

In the back of my head I am wondering if the piano song by Meat/Hugh Laurie was recorded already. But for sure, I am so excited as well busting at the seams happy for Meat.

Suzieq

I was wondering that about the piano song too. And like you, I'm really excited and extremely happy for Meat right now :))