Far out! :D

WAY too short....but still...what an awesome performance! Meat looked amazing and sounded even better! He's grown a goatee, wearing his hair a bit longer (minus highlights it appears), awesome outfit (just like he described -including the necklace Pearl made for him). IMO, he held himself back a bit -probably a courtesy to McPhee....wouldn't want to see her get blown off the stage in front of 200 million viewers I suppose. :roll:

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Cheers everyone!
jo

Better pics...
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Thanks Jo!!
It doesn't start here for another 20 mins :roll:

Thanks Jo for the pics.

I guess I'll be one of the few who thought it was a mediocre performance at best. She wasn't bad and the chorus was pretty good but Meats voice was flat at the very start.

Pud :twisted:

It was indeed way too short. Meat looked great - love the beard - and settled in when Katherine joined the duet. I was amazed as to how she kept up, but I suspect he was holding back some. The arrangement was interesting, and you can get an inkling as to how he will tinker with it, probably with Patti, on tour. Meat put the drama into the stage action, and that was great to see. Just too, too short.

Same here! Still good...but I can't wait to see Patti go toe-to-toe with him on that one!

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Can't sleep....enjoy!
jo

You probably will be :lmao:

I enjoyed it. I didn't find Meat's voice flat, but to me, it did seem that he was holding back whether it was for her benefit or not I don't know.

Crikey, talk about the knives been out

http://www.tvfodder.com/american_ido...n_idol_3.shtml
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12962061/
http://www.curlio.com/new_showarticl...8639&page=last

This from MSNBC:

Lowlight: Meat Loaf. He wouldn’t have made it out of “Idol’s” Hollywood round with the performance he gave on Wednesday. Plus, the pairing with Katharine McPhee singing “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” was just plain wrong on every level. He looked and sounded like a dirty old man singing to the pretty young girl with whom he has no shot.

Pud :shock:

Well, if MSNBC says that about Meat and Katherine, how about Paris Bennett and Al Jarreau??? Katherine at least is legal age, Paris is not.

Pics looks great, thanks, though it's odd to see Meat singing to/with someone other than Patti!!

Thanks for the links, Pud. The knives were indeed well and truly, and totally unjustifiably out. I haven't seen the finale for myself, but I am comfortable with the reviews here.

:evil: Feel like I need to huff off now and plan my "neck tie" party. :evil: MSNBC on top of the list. :evil:

One thing I thought was interesting was that in all the other duets, the AI contestant took the stage first and then introduced the guest star in the middle of the song. In Meat's case, though, he took the stage first - after a nice little plug for Bat 3.

Nice job by Meat's publicist or whoever negotiated that little detail for him!

Saw some clips of it on GMTV this morning. We saw Dionne Warwick and Prince. No sign or mention of Meat though :(

Will just need to wait till tomorrow night to see it.

http://kasimsulton.blogspot.com/ contains a 'backstage' review and pics!!

Links to both the video and MP3 file are posted on the home page of MOTS.

Found the mp3 and the video on Mirror of the Soul this morning. I thought it was a great performance.

So did I!

Yeah and those reviews can go where most of these reviews go: straight into the garbage bin. These reviewers are idiots ("my husband left the room" - how professional!), they write as if Meat needs to prove himself. They are biased no matter what people say. What a load of b......s.

Meat looked and sounded good in my opinion and this should be good advertisement for Bat 3 as so many people watch these shows.

Ok I did not like this performance one bit - hope the recorded version is better than this.

I am happy voor Loaf that he get this promotion. I feel sorry that he was dead nervous. I am proud of what he has done. But this perfomrance sucked. I have never seen a performance of him that sucked that much. O my god, I shamed every second I have watched it.

Having now had the benefit of seeing this twice for myself, here's my two cents.

My take on Idol shows is that the spotlight lies fairly and squarely on the upcoming artists. I felt Meat did not take his usual lead in the song because he was mindful of the need to promote Katherine's talent. I loved the rendition of this song (originally intended for Meat), but look forward to seeing how Meat and Patti handle it.

Screw the critics Meat, you've come up with another winner!

what?
To promote Kath? He just couldn't sing. The first sentence is hilarious. He couldn't cope with the melody and the notes.

Are you on the right forum? I thought we were here to promote Meat, not bring him down.

Cut the man some slack, by his own admission, he was nervous. He was "live", performing a new song, with a singer he had never sung with before. I imagine rehearsals were not as extensive as Meat would have prefered too.