| re: Seeing Meat Loaf tonight... | |
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Vin 11:27 pm UTC 08/12/10 |
| In reply to: | Seeing Meat Loaf tonight... - Brian 10:34 pm UTC 08/12/10 |
| I generally agree with you as to Meat needing to switch up his live act, but I do like LotO; and it was really good live earlier in the tour. I actually like all 4 HCTB songs in the set, AND also the ones you mentioned. It would be cool if they rehearsed them all and then shuffled them around night to night. > What are the odds he'll play Paradise and Took The > Words??? > > As for songs he hasn't run into the ground, apparently > Break It is the only Bat 3 song he's playing on this tour, > which is a shame as it's not one of my favorite > Stein-songs, period, and his version is even lesser. Four > cuts from the new album and Hot Patootie are about the > only things he's added, rest is the same Bat 1 and 2 > selections he's always played. > > It really baffles me how little he changes things with > each tour. I mean, I get that people like to hear the > hits, but why all of them, every single show? And even if > he's got the mentality that Bat 1 and 2 are the only > albums the bulk of his audience owns, why not pick > something else from them? FCOL every now and then, or > pretty much anything from the 2nd half of Bat 2? And Bat > 3 may not have sold as much as the others, but it's still > more successful than his others - one song? he said he > loves Blind as a Bat (as do I) and the Steinsongs - why > only one? > > He's also picking, IMO, lousy songs to promote HCTB with. > Peace on Earth, Living Outside, Los Angeloser, and Song of > Madness would all be in the bottom half of the list if i > were to rank the album song for song, yet those are the > ones he's playing every night based on setlist.fm. Elvis > in Vegas, If I Can't Have You, or Love is Not Real would > be far more catchy (especially in a crowd of, by his > logic, people who only like Anything For Love and Two out > of Three). Hell even California would at least create > some curiosity. I've listened to the album a dozen times > and I still couldn't hum a note from Living on the > Outside... how much good can it possibly do at a concert > after he runs through a crowd-pleasing hit? | |
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