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Markus 03:58 pm UTC 05/11/07 |
| In reply to: | re: Meat Review from Manchester - Vin 02:31 pm UTC 05/11/07 |
| Cool that so many german words are used outside germany as well. :) Markus. > Was this translated from another language? Grammar is > awful in places. > > Also, "Blind as a Bat" is no pun. I suppose he meant > "Cliche Police." Or really, "Figure of Speech" police. > > And sweat does not constitute fresh water; it would be > quite mean-spirited to offer a trough of sweat to > impoverished villagers. > > And Meat has been "30% less meaty than before" for about > 20 years." > > Oh well, at least he liked the show. > > Thanks for sharing, Dave. > > > Oh, and I've seen a Smeghead doppleganger on my train two > days in a row now. > > > This is worth posting, if only because the phrase > > "grandiloquent opera-rock oeuvre" is worth repeating! > > > > You have to credit Meat Loaf with one thing – and > > that’s dogged resilience. > > > > During his career, man known to his parents as “Marvin” > > has survived events that would topple mere mortals, > > including bankruptcy, legal wrangles with Bat Out Of Hell > > svegali Jim Steinman, collapsing onstage (“Tiiiiimber!”) > > and – perhaps most remarkably of all – appearing as the > > bus driver in the Spice Girls movie. > > > > Yet here he is, in front of the teeming hanger-like Arena, > > giving a brilliantly idiosyncratic and er, sweaty > > performance. Indeed, just one Meat Loaf gig could supply a > > Third World village with fresh water for a week – such is > > the amount of perspiration gushing off him. > > > > Arriving onstage at the supernaturally early time of > > 8.15pm belting out All Revved Up and Paradise By The > > Dashboard Light, the slimmed-down Loaf – looking a good 30 > > per cent less Meaty than before – ploughs through his > > wailing, grandiloquent opera-rock oeuvre that mercilessly > > hurls everything bar the kitchen sink at a track to an > > audience that reassuring includes a smattering of burly, > > hirsute HGV drivers, each with whom have parted with £40 > > (kerrching!) per ticket and presumably, sold their > > first-born to purchase the expensive merchandise. > > > > Fiddling with his trademark red hanky tied to his mic > > stand, you can tell that he was once in the both the stage > > and film version of the Rocky Horror Show, as during > > numbers like newbie (prepare to call the pun police!) > > Blind as a Bat, he entertainingly connotes emotion by > > wildly gesticulating like that the drunken tramp you’d > > avoid at the bus stop. > > > > He’s joined onstage for various songs by partner-in-rhyme > > Marion Raven, with whom The Loaf dueted with on a cover of > > It’s All Coming Back To Me Now, on latest album Bat III, > > supposedly the final chapter of the highly-lucrative ‘Bat’ > > trilogy. > > > > Visually, the show’s enlivened by pyrotechnics and – at > > one surreal point – a ten-foot inflatable band who play > > away looking like a Sex Toy version of Razorlight (though, > > admittedly, are probably full of less hot air). > > > > He perches on a stool to deliver a powerful rendition of > > Objects In The Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than > > They Are (a title so long-winded, it’s worthy of Fall Out > > Boy), but it’s the big one – his musical money shot – that > > finally gets the crowd out of their seats. > > > > As the final moment before the encore, the timeless Bat > > Out Of Hell – performed in full-on safety-limits-off > > “Histrionics” mode – which sends out the message that > > while he’s never topped his 30-year-old original magnum > > opus, the world would nonetheless be a less enjoyable > > place without the waistcoat-wearing bellower. | |
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