Like a bat out of Hell I'll be gone when the morning comes...

[Mendalla]

And, sadly, morning has come. Rock legend Meatloaf has passed away at 74.

I think pretty much everyone in my generation had, or at least had listened to, Bat Out of Hell, Meatloaf's debut album. It packed a string of power ballads and anthems by Loaf and Jim Steinman, with Todd Rundgren producing. Meatloaf had subsequent hits, notably Grammy winner "I would do anything for love (but I won't do that)", but Bat Out of Hell was his biggest, and most influential, album.

Besides his long recording career, Meatloaf also appeared on stage in shows like Hair and Rocky Horror Picture Show. And he carried his role as Eddie in the latter over to the famous film version, one of his first brushes with fame.

Yes, he was not the greatest singer out there and his music and performances could be overwrought and bombastic. But that's part of what made it entertaining and some of it was, indeed, great.

RIP, Meatloaf.

 

[Mendalla]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/meatloaf-bat-out-of-hell-obit-1.6322657

 

[Luce NDs]

And remember under the dash board lights ... as we dashed about trying to make something out of what was beyond us! Some said anon ... and didn't see what was dashing toward us ... until impact ... a dissonant thing with inertia ... and paths changed ... time warps?

Wasn't that a time? And we ask what can we take away from that experience? Nothing if inclined to be blind to where emotions can get ya' ...

Tu, or tous did it ... and mostly without a clue ... like some rites ...

 

[Mendalla]

Don't see much need to introduce these. First two are from Bat Out of Hell, last is from Bat Out of Hell II

 

[Luce NDs]

Is that de monist NG trip? Another goes down for the Count ... diabolically there appears no reason!

With the exceptions of those that can read into it and wish to ...

 

[Mendalla]

And I just realized that it was less than a year ago that we were mourning his writing partner Jim Steinman. With both of them gone, we have really lost a unique, and wonderful, creative team.

RIP, Jim Steinman, "When the night is over, like a bat out of hell, I'll be gone"

The list of wonderful songs that came from the pen of Jim Steinman would take pages. Total Eclipse of the Heart (Bonnie Tyler) Bat Out of Hell (in fact, a fairly big chunk of Meatloaf's catalogue was written or co-written by Steinman) It's All Coming Back to Me Now (Celine Dion) Making Love Out...

www.wondercafe2.ca

 

[Davyc]

A legend in his own lifetime and taken from us far too soon. I remember buying the Bat out of Hell album when it first hit the shelves and became an admirer then and there - even down to his iconic appearance in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. R.I.P. Meatloaf.

 

[Mendalla]

So apparently I, knowing Meatloaf mainly as a singer and only really knowing his acting from Rocky Horror and some cameos as himself, understated his acting career. I heard on the CBC news that he was in over 70 movies and TV shows including a major role in Fight Club.

Meatloaf's version of the great Jim Steinman song "It's All Coming Back to Me Now", made famous by Celine Dion (and apparently originally turned down by Meatloaf). This is actually from the Youtube channel of Marion Raven, his duet partner on this recording.

 

[Mendalla]

And back to the original Bat Out of Hell...

And his duet partner on the album was singer-actress Ellen Foley, who I enjoyed as public attorney Billie Young on Night Court without making the association with Meatloaf until later. And the baseball commentary is by Yankees broadcaster Phil Rizzuto, who apparently claimed he was unaware of the baseball-sex "getting to home base" metaphor.

 

[Luce NDs]

So many metaphors lost ... like souls as sol ... singularities that should be collected to know what the entire thing is about ... thus we dash about having lost that point spoken about in some theory of God as all over and uncontained! (theosophy)

One may have to go a long way to grasp it! Thus happy wanderers while some are pious and fixated ... as they believe they are it! They spread misunderstanding ... easily done given how little we know!