Friday, January 21, 2022

ITP V.022 ONLY ONE PER COFFIN: R.I.P. MEATLOAF (MARVIN LEE ADAY)


U.S.  multi platinum selling rock artist MEATLOAF has died at 74. 



MEATLOAF unleashed "BRAVER THAN WE ARE",  9/16/2016 via 429 RECORDS. 

 MEATLOAF classic 1977 release "BAT OUT HELL" (co written by late songwriter JIM STEINMAN)  is one of rocks best selling releases of all time, and a great, fun listen.

 

 

MEATLOAF: "BAT OUT OF HELL" (VIA SPOTIFY, COURTESY OF MEATLOAF) : 

 

 

 

FROM MEATLOAF ESTATE: 

 

Our hearts are broken to announce that the incomparable Meat Loaf passed away tonight surrounded by his wife Deborah, daughters Pearl and Amanda and close friends.
His amazing career spanned 6 decades that saw him sell over 100 Million albums worldwide and star in over 65 movies, including “Fight Club”, “Focus”, “Rocky Horror Picture Show” and “Wayne’s World.”
“Bat Out of Hell” remains one of the top 10 selling albums of all time.
We know how much he meant to so many of you and we truly appreciate all of the love and support as we move through this time of grief in losing such an inspiring artist and beautiful man.
We thank you for your understanding of our need for privacy at this time.
From his heart to your souls…don’t ever stop rocking!
 
FROM JASON BITTNER (SHADOWS FALL, OVERKILL DRUMMER): 
 
My thoughts and prayers go out to Scott and Pearl and entire Aday family….I got to meet the man once decades back when I used to work concert security - a genuine down to earth awesome guy! He will be missed.
RIP MeatLoaf
 
 
 FROM BOY GEORGE: 


 
 
FROM DINO CAZARES (FEAR FACTORY):  
  FROM DAVE MUSTAINE (MEGADETH): 

 

 

FROM ANTHRAX: 

 

From his heart to your souls...Don’t ever stop rocking!’
We’re deeply saddened that the incomparable, truly one of a kind Meat Loaf is no longer with us. Our deepest condolences to Pearl, Scott and everyone in the family.
All our Love. ❤️
FROM ALICE COOPER: 
Meat Loaf was one of the greatest voices in Rock N Roll, and he was certainly one of my closest friends in the business. He was really so much fun, truly fun to be around. He just felt like a best friend to everyone no matter how long it had been since you last saw him. We worked together many times over the years and he was always a force. He was a real theatrical character like I was so our shows went really well together. I remember when you would see his show, he would treat the audience almost like a Pentecostal Preacher and he was so powerful on stage. Working with Meat Loaf was one of the main reasons I wanted to do the movie Roadie in the first place - I wanted to watch him show off his acting chops. He plays the ultimate roadie on this quest to be the best in the world. But that’s what he did in life too - he always wanted to be the best at what he was doing… And I think he succeeded. There was nobody, and I mean nobody like Meat Loaf. His shoes can never be filled. 
 
 
FROM ALEX SKOLNICK  (TESTAMENT): 

 
When I was growing up, Meat Loaf’s music wasn’t played on the radio in San Francisco, which I later found out stemmed from a feud between his manager and godfather-like figure of Bay Area music biz, Bill Graham (much like Graham’s feud with a different manager, Peter Grant - whose client, Led Zeppelin was to big to be banned from radio). As a result, most of my friends knew his name from somewhere (who could forget a name like that?) but weren’t familiar with his music and probably couldn’t name a song.
So for most of my youth, I only knew Meat Loaf (Michael Lee Aday) from the Rocky Horror Picture Show midnight showings at Berkeley’s indie film hub, UC Theater (now a rock venue). This cult film became a fun event for us young teens (with a soundtrack that’s still one my favs of all time).
Fast forward to the mid 2000’s, my “guitarist for hire” period and joining the Dream Engine, a project directed by late MeatLoaf collaborator Jim Steinman (featuring great singers @elainecaswell @nickirichards1 @robevanofficial @jeremykushnier and having her well deserved moment, @adriennelwarren. And of course, special guest @bonnietylerofficial). My crash course in Steinman’s catalog awakened me to the fact that Meat Loaf’s early tunes (“Paradise By the Dashboard Light” especially) were anthems, loved and memorized by millions around the world. Apparently my friends and I who grew up on Bay Area rock radio were all way behind the curve as far as MeatLoaf was concerned (not our fault of course, a side effect of some unfortunate music biz infighting).
I would also argue that the guitar on “Bat Out of Hell” with its motorcycle tremolo bar effects and post-modern (at the time) tone was a bit of a precursor to the first Van Halen album, which came out a year later. It stands alongside VH as one of the the guitar moments that shaped the next decade, despite being played by someone better known as a singer/pianist (Todd Rundgren, pictured, also the album’s producer). Go back and listen to “Bat Out of Hell” in its entirety.
Condolences to his entire family and especially those I’m blessed to know as friends, @pearlcaliforniacountry & @scottianthrax. 
 
FROM DEE SNIDER (TWISTED SISTER): 
 
 

FROM SHARON OSBOURNE: FROM JAMEY JASTA (HATEBREED): FROM PAUL STANLEY (KISS):

 

 FROM OZZY OSBOURNE: 

Three madmen living all in a row. Meat Loaf, Pat Boone and Me. Who would ever believe that the 3 of us would have lived next door to each other. Rest well my friend, you will be sorely missed but never forgotten.
 
FROM ROB THOMAS (MATCHBOX 20): 
 I was sitting in a hotel lobby one evening with friends when a nice woman came over and said “Loaf would like you to come up to his room” I was taken aback but you gotta go where the loaf tells you to go. I went up to his room and he was sitting on his bed listening to a cassette of my local band, pre Matchbox, Tabitha’s Secret. It turned out he had been listening to that since the late 90s and was a big fan and just wanted to connect. It was a surreal and wonderful moment with a legend and I’m thankful for it. RIP Marvin and Long Live Loaf.
 
FROM EDWARD NORTON (ACTOR-CO STAR IN THE MOVIE FIGHT CLUB) : 
 FROM RICK ASTLEY: 
Meat Loaf. What a legend. Rest in peace - Rick x

 

 FROM CHARLIE BENANTE (ANTHRAX): 


 

 

 FROM MORTIIS: 

RIP Meatloaf.

FROM DESMOND CHILD (PRODUCER, SONGWRITER): : 

MEAT LOAF R.I.P. It was one of the greatest adventures and honors of my career to have written and produced Meat Loaf’s final masterpiece BAT OUT OF HELL III. A deep low bow to my artist,
colleague and friend… the proud larger than life irrepressible Texan, Marvin Lee Aday, who the world would come to know as… Meat Loaf.

 FROM BRIAN MAY (QUEEN): 

BRIAN'S SOAPBOX - RIP MEAT LOAF"
"Remembering great times. Completely gutted that Meat Loaf has left us.
Always full of madness, with the innocent sense of naughtiness of a 5-year old, Meat was forever young.... ...." Brian May
 
FROM CHRIS JERICHO: 
Sorry to hear of the passing of #Meatloaf, who definitely needs to be considered one of the greatest rock singers of all time! This was taken in a studio in San Antonio (I think) after Meat did #TalkIsJericho Episode 282. He showed up three hours late, because he was lost and couldn’t find the studio…and I know he was telling the truth because I was in constant contact with his wife the whole three hours. Neither one of us knew where he was and we were about to call the police, when he finally showed up angry and annoyed that he couldn’t find the place. I started recording the moment he walked in the door and the first ten min of the show was him angrily…and hilariously…recounting the story of how and why he was lost for so long. It was a great show, a great day and he was a great guy!!! RIP Meat and thanks for all the timeless and legendary music you gave us! (Bat Out Of Hell Part 2 is a top 30 album for me!)
 
FROM  JOHN PARR (MUSICIAN, MEATLOAF BANDMATE): 
 
I thought I would be able to sit down, open my heart and say a farewell to my friend.
For once I am a little lost for words. it hasn’t been an hour since I heard of the passing of Meatloaf, “Meat” to all who knew him, even his kids….
I met Meat in the early eighties. We hit it off immediately and within a few weeks I was in Connecticut, living with him, his first wife Leslie and their daughters Pearl and Amanda, who were indeed little girls at the time. I was drafted in to write songs and help make the new album, which in truth now pale into insignificance to the bond he and I made…Meat was a much misunderstood person, his larger than life physical appearance and his overwhelming stage preference cast a legendary shadow. His record sales place him in the high echelon of contemporary music. Yet it is the person I have known for almost forty years I will miss. We travelled the world together and truly there never was a dull moment. I remember he always used to say this crazy phrase “wat cos bumsen mit de wager fuhrer” no one ever knew what he was talking about, that was until he shouted it to me across the crowded luggage hall in Munich airport….The whole room stopped what they were doing and stared….”How much is sex with the bus driver” was the German translation. That and a hundred more crazy moments fill my memories as I write.
Meatloaf…a total one off, as a musical icon and a friend
God Bless
John
 
FROM JON BON JOVI (BON JOVI): 
 
What a voice.
What a bigger than life presence.
Saw the original tour.
Loved it sooo much
Luv ya Meat…
 
FROM BEARSVILLE THEATER (WOODSTOCK, NEW YORK): 
We're so sorry to hear about the passing of Meat Loaf today.
Michael Lee Aday better known as Meat Loaf collaborated with producer/songwriter Jim Steinman who had created a musical named Neverland, a futuristic rock version of Peter Pan. Meat Loaf, who was touring with Jim on the National Lampoon live show at the time, began collaborating with Jim on this album, which had yet to be named Bat Out Of Hell.
Production for this album began in late 1975 at Bearsville Studios in Woodstock, New York. Musicians on it included; Roy Bittan and Max Weinberg from Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, Utopia’s Todd Rundgren, Kasim Sulton, Roger Powell, John “Willie” Wilcox, and Edgar Winter and Ellen Foley.
Part of the credit for the LP’s mega-success certainly belongs to Todd Rundgren. When Rundgren discovered that the deal with RCA did not actually exist, he went to Albert Grossman. Grossman offered to put it on his Bearsville label but needed more money. Rundgren had essentially paid for the album himself!
One fond memory Rundgren has was Meat Loaf proposing to his wife. "We were up in Bearsville, there was a secretary at Bearsville Records, Leslie, and Meat Loaf kind of fell for her. She was a pretty girl, and he fell for her, and I remember when he kind of like did his first big move on her. We were in the Bear Cafe and he had a package that he had brought up from New York and presented it to her, and it was a giant whole salmon. And it was as if a bear had proposed to his mate. Instead of a ring, a salmon."
The album went on to sell over 43 million copies worldwide, and is one of the best selling albums of all time.
Meat Loaf will always hold a huge place in Bearsville History. ❤️🎶
 FROM THE MONOLITH DEATHCULT: 
Although it was not allowed as a brutal death metal band at the time to like Meat Loaf, 43 years ago we listened the phenomenal Bat Out of Hell album evening after evening. A leading role in this were the brilliant vocals of Marvin Lee. The Meat Loaf albums have had an unmistakable influence on the sound of the later Monolith Deathcult in terms of songwriting (hi Jim Steinman) and drama. Unfortunately, Marvin Lee Aday's heart stopeed beating and with his death the music world loses another icon. But we are still here!
"I'm barely 70 and I'm already dead"
 
FROM JOEY BELLADONNA (ANTHRAX): : 
Krista and I send our deepest sympathies to PEARL Scott Ian , Revel, and everyone who knew and loved Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday). He was such a great man with enormous talent. He will be dearly missed. #meatloaf #ripmeatloaf💔

Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-  

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