I was never really exposed to very much of his music, but enjoyed what I did hear. Two Out Of Three A’int Bad, was a great song that I sang along to many, many times.
RIP Meatloaf.
I saw Meat Loaf in person back before he had achieved widespread recognition. I sure hadn’t heard of him. This was back before RHPS or Bat Out Of Hell.
It was the National Lampoon Show, an irreverent show put together by the inmates at National Lampoon, and with their blessings (it was NOT “Lemmings”, although it was in the same style and apparently had some of the same performers. It also was slightly later than that 1973 show) that toured college campuses. One of the performers was listed as “Meat Loaf”, which seemed – weird.
He definitely stood out, singing songs like “We Don’t Give a Fuck” in that style of his. He also performed in skits like “The Rhoda Tyler Moore Show”. I didn’t recall any of the other performers in the show, but I would still remember him, even if he hadn’t achieved fame.
Oh, yeah – he was a replacement. The guy whose place he took had left the show to do some late night TV show – John Belushi.
TMZ has proven inside sources. This is probably correct. Meat was a severe asthmatic.
My favorite song of his, and I only discovered it in the last year or two:
I liked his music, even if it wasn’t really my style.
My best memory of him though is this scene in the movie “Scavenger Hunt”.
I like Richard Benjamin too.
Speaking to The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in August last year, he told the interviewer “I hug people in the middle of COVID,” and said: “I understood stopping life for a little while, but they cannot continue to stop life because of politics. And right now they’re stopping because of politics.”
The singer went on to complain about being asked to wear a mask on a plane, stating that he didn’t believe paper masks were as good at N95s at stopping the coronavirus from spreading. “We had to go on the airplane with the paper masks and then on the way back, we got a Nazi: ‘Get your mask on now!’ They’re power-mad now,” he told the paper.
After the interviewer replied “Oh, God. We’re being controlled by everybody,” the singer responded ominously: “Yeah, I know. But not me. If I die, I die, but I’m not going to be controlled.”
“Original Sin” is one of my favorites:
He’s ended his time with us.
I was never a fan of his music, but there has never really been anyone LIKE Meat Loaf. His sound and music are their own, and that’s worth absolutely mad respect as far as I’m concerned. You cannot say about very many artists that they were their own sound and also immensely successful for a long period of time.
Marvin Lee Aday
Someone has probably said this already.
Did I hear a whoosh?
No. I’m not a whoosh kind of guy. Usually.
That’s a very tender subject.
The morning news is reporting Louie Anderson has died as well. Posting here instead of starting a new thread pending confirmation. (Someone can start a thread for him if and when confirmed.)
Yeah! You tell 'em, dead guy! “You’re not the boss of me.”
He was hospitalized for non-Hodgkin lymphoma a couple of days ago.
ETA: Confirmed now but I’m too busy to start a thread.
Not A Dry Eye In the House
RIP, M. L.
So we’ll never know what it was that he wouldn’t do for love? 
Wear a mask on a plane?