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| "A second chat with Mr. Loaf" | |
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rockfenris2005 01:44 am UTC 04/30/10 |
| Some quotes: And then heads back to one of the favourite rants from our previous phone exchange. His last album, Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose. "I know I have already told you this - I'm telling everyone this - but that last album was just so horrible. It wasn't me. And it was a problem, well, from when Jim Steinman's lawyers came into the picture in 2005 - from then until the end of that tour was - I'm not exaggerating - the worst time of my life. And I say that as someone who was sued for $100 million in the 1980s so, there you go, BEAT THAT!" There's more laughter - more than there probably should be. "I don't know, I think we really should have just scrapped that project. When Jim walked away we should not have continued. And it was a sticking point - it just did not work. Too many people got involved and everyone began twisting and pulling in different directions and it was just horrible. I mean listen to that song The Monster Is Loose - it is just horrible." Meat is laughing as he is saying this. He's almost hysterical. I've never heard an artist sound so sure that something they did was so bad. "Dude, listen to it! It's just horrible. I don't know what Desmond Child thought he was trying to do. But it was just not good. And I should have walked away." I suggest that the problem with Bat Out of Hell III was the decision to create, by committee, a version of what was supposed to be a Steinman/Meat Loaf collaboration. "Absolutely. I mean these guys they got in - just horrible - it's like trying to get away with a knockoff of a Prada purse. I mean Steinman is a $10,000 Rolex and these others guys, they're $5 copies." I'm curious to know if Meat Loaf is still in touch with Jim Steinman. And if they'll work together again. "Oh yeah. I owe him an email actually. He dropped me a line recently and we keep in touch. But it's definitely my turn - I owe him a reply. We're..." - long pause - "like brothers. Jim and I are like siblings. And we're closer than that, even. And like siblings - even when you have a huge fight, when you're at your worst and you don't even know what the fight is or who started it you still love one another dearly. We're like that. Jim is" - another pause - "he is one of the four most important people in my life. And the other three are my wife and my two kids. So what does that tell ya?" Jim Steinman is also a smart cookie, according to Meat. "Steinman really is a genius. No question. He's one of the two smartest people in the world - as far as I'm concerned. And the other is my daughter. Different types of intelligence - but they're both geniuses." And then we're back to Jim Steinman - and his influence. (Does anyone else reading this sense that a Meat Loaf/Steinman reunion might be on the cards?) "Without Steinman, I'm not talking to you. You know what I mean? It's that simple. Really. And without Meat Loaf there's no Steinman either. But we're not talking today - I'm not talking to you if there was no Jim Steinman. I am so close to him - I am attached to him!" | |
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