Posted on 01/21/2022 7:14:34 AM PST by US Navy Vet
I have seen a few documentary items on this performer and you are correct, he was a great performer and much more complex than first appearances would indicate.
If we are listing rock performers we would like to have met, he is right up at the top for me.
I first bought the album in Aug 1988 and it became my road trip album. That month I also first heard a brilliant man with talent on loan from God. I listened to both for many years and they both died within the past year.
That sounds like a reasonable balanced response to a man who’s voice and antics reached a receptive cord in your hypothalamus.
That brings up a broader , more curious phenomena. Its been speculated that a male voice sung through an electric amplifier seems to have a very curious effect on some women who attend such events. These women are often driven into a frenzy and openly seek to copulate with these singers. If they met them on the street, they would not give them the time of day. So very little is known about the biochemistry of human thought, that dictates behavior and just what external stimuli or physical forces affect it.
Two out of three ain’t bad. I remember that song.
If we are listing rock performers we would like to have met, he is right up at the top for me.
The woman did a good,job in the song too. Wonder what Janice Joplin woilda sounded like,doing that with him?
What's that got to do with anything?
I know I shouldn’t have, but I did LOL
Mick Jagger is a perfect example. Stone Cold Ugly.
But females in the audience swoon if they think he looked at them while singing
Just wow. It could have been all that “demon we’d” bring smoked that made the girls horny. Have you ever been called a buzzkill?
some high profile vegetarian wouldnt meet with him because of his name..even though he was a vegetarian at the time
It’s got nothing to do with amplified voice. Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac, and fame is a form of power.
I don’t see anyone worshipping him or sacrificing their first born to him, what I do,see are folks reminiscing znd remembering him and his music fondly. That is a far far cry from worshiping a person. It’s no different than when our loved ones die znd we remember them with fondness and appreciation for,what they meant to us. Why are you trying to shame people for simply COMMENTING about a lerformer that they liked listening to by snidely claiming the person is worshipping them?
Saw Meatloaf on Huckabee recently. He was telling the story about his link to the Kennedy assassination. Said him and his buddies were out joy riding when they were stopped by a Secret Service agent who told them to move over so he could drive to Parkland. Interesting.
Man, now this one is heartbreaking. What a voice. What a performer.
On “Fox & Friends” this morning they played some segments of his appearances on their program. It seems that he was genuinely a good person. I was only vaguely aware that there was someone out there who went by the name Meat Loaf and never listened to any of his music.
There were Elvis fans and Sinatra fans…..no big deal.
It was k.d. lang.
Good grief.
1. He didn't call himself Meat Loaf. His high school football coach did.
2. Clearly, you never heard any of his music.
3. It isn't celebrity worship. Dude was blessed with considerable talent. Do yourself the favor of listening to his rendition of the National Anthem at the 1994 MLB All Star Game: Meat Loaf National Anthem
Women at Sinatra and Presley concerts behaved in a similar manner long before marijuana and drug use was common at public events. No not been called a buzzkill. Thanks for the compliment. But tell us did your girlfriend or wife run off with a “rock star”? Would explain much.
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