Acoustic tour ????
 

Andrew G , where did you get that from !!! If we get to the West End , It will be Rocktales and Cocktails . This show so far away from an Acoustic tour it would be like moving New York to Moscow. It's a Rock show with a Meat loaf twist !!!

M

He prolly got it from that article saying its deconstructed or whatever.

Personally I wanna suggest something:

Billy Joel goes to colleges with a piano and speaks and does Q&As. Going back through the college circuit yourself with Randy and Jason accompanying you doing similar things around colleges would be really cool. I know youre not doing an acoustic show for Vegas, but if you do that for a Q&A college circuit thatd be great.

I know you said something like that a day or two ago, but just thought id give my two cents.

Which Meat has already debunked on here

Please don't ... You're not Billy Joel .. you're Meat Loaf, master of the big ride!! ;)

But go back to "Rocktales" .. like that better ;)

Who the ~~~~ is Jason?

love the idea that you may do the show in the west end please make it happen xx

Guy with the scary mask and a prediliction for hatchets and chainsaws? Guess it would certainly enliven any college show; save payback on some student grants!! .. but I'll stick with the current brilliant player with such lightness of touch :lol:

I don't know why some people get excited at the prospect of Meat doing acoustic stuff. As far as I'm concerned it doesn't really work. Meat Loaf should be loud and thunderous and with many instruments.

And we find common ground again :-)

I dunno the acoustic Took the Words was always great...

YouTube Video

How about HARPS ??? ... Beatles used harps... she's leaving home ...
 

AND BANJOS ... add a banjo ... AND MANDOLINS... add a mandolin ... I've been listening to a local pop station here in Philly ... B101 on the dial... and I've been shocked to find... I'm hearing banjos and mandolins ... hey soul sister ... is that Mister Mister on the radio ... mandolin... no ? ...

Happy Friday !!! ... Most important... loud or low... make it fun... and HAVE fun !!!

Did Who madolin somewhere ??? ... WITH BIG LOUD DRUMS ... RIP Keith !!!

The arrangement was great. The choice of instruments not so great.

And it had drums! Also it was one song, not an entire show. And I still think the original "wall of sound" has a big edge ;) Fantastic in LaB this year!

Kind of agree that an acoustic tour wouldn't work, though I've long thought that if any Meat/Jim piano and vocal demos ever surfaced I'd give my eye teeth to hear them.

Meat in the west end would be bombastically brilliant, overheightened, over the top and spectacular!!!....c'mon meat!! Get LV out of the way and come back to the uk shores :0)

Totally agree!

Not acoustic, but bombastic!!

Meat at his best, really really hope West end will come true. I'll come over there and step in a damn airplane again. (I really need to get over this flight fobia, man it sucks!)

Meat on the West End is more than my heart can take...that would just be beyond immense, and what a setting!!

If Meat ever wanted to go with Harps ( & I doubt it unless someone paid shed loads of money for a recreation of MSO ) I have as a personal friend the harpist used by Led Zep & a few others.

Didn't he say he quite liked Florence & The Machine? Who knows, perhaps harps are on the comeback, although we all know the angels in Jimmy's world play guitars...

Well written songs, I think we all agree that the with very few exceptions all of Meat's songs have been well written, will always stand being played in all manner of styles from the balls out rock that Meat has given us these long years to simple acoustic.

Afterall many people would have said BOOH would have never worked with a full symphony orchestra and not only does it work but it sounded even better. On a similar front has anyone else heard Metallica's S&M Live with the SFSO? Like Meat's MSO it not only works but sounds better.

I have, great show! Master of puppets awesome!

As Eric Morecambe said, if we have banjos, then not too heavy on them please.

i agree 100%
M

the west end was brought up again today !!!!
M

Great news ... and on my birthday ;) Do so hope you can bring it to fruition :D You would be great there!! A sell out in days!

C x

I agree. Not to say the odd acoustic number isn't good, but an entire show isn't right for Meat. It's kind of like Metallica doing an acoustic tour, less heavy but just as loud. :cool:

Also, acoustic would generally require him to sing quieter, which IMO is not his strength. He needs to be loud and in your face.

And what's that I hear? ML is performing at West Edmonton Mall? :twisted: