I was always surprised that Meatloaf was attempting to sell out the Jones Beach Theater and now we know he can't.....I received an email today from LiveNation offering special tickets available today for only $10 each.
August 22 at 8:00 pm Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
Specially priced $10 tickets are available for this show only on Tuesday, Aug 7th, from 10am to Midnight.
I know there's a few people out there who still love "Bat Out Of Hell" but to think you could get 20,000 people to show up was stretching things.
I would guess his Bat Out Of Hell 3 was a bomb.
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Very cool that the convenience charge is only $3.65, which is cheaper than the higher priced tix.
When Brian Wilson played Pasadena a few months ago, they offered half price tix. But Ticketmaster bumped the convenience fee $9 dollars higher than it would have been on the full price ticket.
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Meat Loaf abandoned a show last night (October 31) due to "stress".
The singer was playing Newcastle's Metro Radio Arena when he stopped the show midway through.
He launched into a performance of 'Paradise By The Dashboard Light', then abruptly stopped, thanked the audience and left the stage.
Shortly afterwards an announcement was made saying that the singer had been taken ill.
A spokeswoman from Newcastle's Metro Radio Arena said that he had been forced to curtail the gig due to an inflammation of the larynx.
His tour promoter Andrew Miller has refuted claims that he told the audience it would be his final gig.
Miller told BBC News: "I've spoken to his doctor and it's clear it's just exhaustion and stress. It's not his last ever gig, that's for sure. He'll be fine. We hope that 24 hours rest will get him better."
I guess selling not even a tenth of what you sold on your previous blockbuster "Bat" album can stress out a man...
And to think, if he'd just brought Steinman back into the fold, none of this woulda happened...
_________________ "One good thing about music: when it hits, you feel no pain." -- Bob Marley
"There's got to be a way to make something louder and pull people in without making it louder and pushing people away. Music's not about pushing people away." -- Jim Scott, in TapeOp #75
Meat Loaf will continue his UK tour despite ending a show in Newcastle (October 31) early and calling off another one in Birmingham (November 2) this week.
The singer, who is suffering from acute laryngitis, abandoned the show on Wednesday due to "exhaustion and stress" his manager said, and then postponed last night's gig on doctor's orders.
"Performing for my fans is the most important thing in the world to me. Over the years, I've gone on stage with a broken foot and an arrhythmic heart," he explained in a statement. "It was devastating to come off stage in Newcastle but over time, I've reluctantly learned that I have to abide by what the doctors tell me to do."
The shows will be rescheduled, while the following European dates are set to continue:
Manchester MEN (November 4) London Wembley Arena (6) Nottingham Arena (8) Cardiff CIA (11) Horsens Forum (13) Bergen Grieghallen (15) Stockholm Hovet (17) Rotterdam Ahoy (20) Belfast Odyssey (22) Killarney INEC (24)
Meanwhile the singer's official website has claimed that comments Meat Loaf made during the Newcastle gig that this would be the last time he played the city were referring specifically to 2007 and he is not hinting at retirement.
He had told the audience before abandoning the show: "This is my last show I may ever do in my life. I take my coat off to you and thank you for the last 30 years."
Meat Loaf has been forced to cancel the rest of his current tour, following the diagnosis of an 'inter-vocal cord cyst'.
The star, who recently pulled out of two gigs after halting a show in Newcastle, was set to perform at Wembley Arena tonight (November 6).
In a statement on his website, Meat Loaf said: "It really breaks my heart not to be able to perform these shows. I was really looking forward to capping off a great year and celebrating the start of the holidays with the fans.
"Let me dispel any rumours before they start - I will be back."
Inter-vocal cord cysts usually require surgery, although a period of vocal therapy lasting four to six weeks must first be carried out to determine the severity of the condition and the appropriate course of action.
The cancelled gigs are as follows:
London Wembley Arena (November 6) Nottingham Nottingham Arena (8) Cardiff Cardiff Arena (11) Horsens Forum (13) Bergen Grieghallen (15) Stockholm Hovet (17) Rotterdam Ahoy (20) Belfast Odyssey (22) Killarney INEC (24) Manchester MEN Arena (27) Birmingham NEC (29)
Meat Loaf will play in the UK for the first time since cancelling a tour in late 2007.
The 'Bat Out Of Hell' star will play a date at London’s Excel Convention Centre as part of this year’s British International Motor Show on August 2.
Other bands set to play the festival include UB40 (July 23), Alice Cooper (July 24), Status Quo (July 25) and Deep Purple (July 30).
As previously reported on NME.COM Meatloaf postponed tour dates at the end of last year suffering with an "inter-vocal cord cyst".
UB40 (July 23) Alice Cooper (24) Status Quo (25) Squeeze (26) Here And Now 80’s show (27) TBC (28) TBC (29) Deep Purple (30) Chicago (31) Jools Holland featuring Marc Almond (August 1) Meat Loaf (2)
Meat Loaf will play in the UK for the first time since cancelling a tour in late 2007.
The 'Bat Out Of Hell' star will play a date at London’s Excel Convention Centre as part of this year’s British International Motor Show on August 2.
Other bands set to play the festival include UB40 (July 23), Alice Cooper (July 24), Status Quo (July 25) and Deep Purple (July 30).
As previously reported on NME.COM Meatloaf postponed tour dates at the end of last year suffering with an "inter-vocal cord cyst".
UB40 (July 23) Alice Cooper (24) Status Quo (25) Squeeze (26) Here And Now 80’s show (27) TBC (28) TBC (29) Deep Purple (30) Chicago (31) Jools Holland featuring Marc Almond (August 1) Meat Loaf (2) HOLT! (3)
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Meat Loaf has announced details of a new European tour, which includes eight live dates in the UK and Ireland.
The singer will kick off the tour at the Plymouth Home Park Stadium on June 27.
Meat Loaf will play:
Plymouth Home Park Stadium (June 27) Cork Docklands Marquee (29) Liverpool Echo Arena (July 2) Bath Recreation Ground (4) Hampshire Romsey Broadlands(6) Nottingham Trent FM Arena (9) York Castle Howard (11) Norwich Blickling Hall (13) Gelsenkirchen (19) Berlin Zitadelle (21) Hamburg Stadtpark (23) Amsterdam Heineken Music Hall (August 4) Norway Bergen (8) Helsinki Old Ice Hall (11) Linkoping Cloetta Center (13) Jutland Open Air Kolding Stadium (15) Sjaeland Open Air Hilleroed Stadium (16)
Has anyone seen the recent Cingular (I think) commercial with him in a garage and his son is asking for a cellphone to the melody of "Paradise by the Dashboard Light"? Pretty funny stuff. His wife also comes in at one point and sings a line also. I dont really know if its his actual son and wife for certain...
Anyone see the "Searching For Paradise" documentary? Caught most of it on cable the other night. He is a sad guy...
_________________ "One good thing about music: when it hits, you feel no pain." -- Bob Marley
"There's got to be a way to make something louder and pull people in without making it louder and pushing people away. Music's not about pushing people away." -- Jim Scott, in TapeOp #75
By Ann Powers, Times Pop Music Critic April 22, 2008
If one adjective (besides "gigantic") adequately describes Meat Loaf, it's "game." Rock's operatic jester has tried plenty of angles in his surprisingly long-lived career: He's acted in the Broadway production of "Hair," served as John Belushi's understudy in "The National Lampoon Show," helped make history as part of "Rocky Horror," and huffed oxygen to keep going onstage back when the album "Bat Out of Hell" made him as star in the late 1970s.
So any accusations that he's sold out by participating in an AT&T ad are just silly. Mr. Loaf never had any pure ideals to protect; that's one of his best qualities.
"Paradise by the GoPhone Light" promotes AT&T's prepaid wireless service by turning one of the Loaf's most recognizable hit -- a hilarious mini-epic in which our boy attempts to seduce a date while the late, legendary commentator Phil Rizzuto calls the play-by-play -- into a father-son duet about the teen's need for a cellphone.
Former '80s sweetie Tiffany plays Mom, while the actor Adam Cagley, who looks like a mini-Loaf, steals the show as Junior (one Isaac Young ghost-sings his part). The New York and Atlanta-based advertising firm BBDO created the spot.
Kids might like this ad, but it's really meant for their folks, and the turn it takes from previous GoPhone ads (made for Cingular, before that company merged with AT&T) says something interesting about intergenerational rock. Let's face it: Mainstream rock is the new parlor music, passed down via toddler-size Ramones T-shirts, daddy-and-me dates to Lollapalooza and self-esteem lessons at Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls.
BBDO's previous ads for the program played on the cliche that, as Will Smith once rapped, parents just don't understand. The spots twisted the truisms of the generation gap to show that the right service plan can help families rekindle the love adolescence can destroy.
"I never hated you, and I never will!" a daughter petulantly shouts at her mother as she stomps up the stairs with her new GoPhone. "You are the most grateful little. . . .," Mom replies to the dust her girl has kicked up. (It's no accident that the spot's actors look like cleaned-up versions of Holly Hunter and Evan Rachel Wood in every mom's favorite horror flick, "Thirteen.")
The Meat Loaf ad also presents the GoPhone as the solution to discord, but it operates on the principle that harmony is the family's natural state. And that peace comes through music. When Junior asks the Loaf for a phone, the singer simmers for a moment, then agrees by breaking into song. Junior joins him, as does Mom -- they all dig rocking out to the sound of the 1970s. Classic rock bridges the gap the tech-soaked age of videogames, Facebook and hip-hop has redefined.
The clip's domestic bliss continues classic rock's drift away from rebelliousness and toward family fare, despite the best efforts of third-generation stripper lovers Buckcherry, whose hit "Crazy Bitch" nostalgically longs for the dirty days of Axl and the Crüe.
Maybe Ozzy wrecked it all on the Emmy-winning "The Osbournes" by showing that even a drug-damaged bat-decapitator can be a No. 1 hubby. Now KISS king Gene Simmons, a more cogent paterfamilias, has his own mom-and-pop reality show, and Twisted Sister drag queen Dee Snider's son Jesse has a chance of winning it all on the celeb-spawn show "Rock the Cradle." The Meat Loaf ad simply follows in this pattern of mildly spicy metal middle age.
And none of these projected dreams would resonate if they didn't seem right in the real world. The counterculture has utterly fragmented; rebellion is old hat. Rock, made for big crowds and sweeping statements, works best these days as a means of communicating the all-American values of independence, personal flash and weekend-warrior partying. Meat Loaf really is Ward Cleaver -- or at least Homer Simpson. The release his music offers is good, clean fun.
And as his TV son sings as he anticipates that cute little mobile, for that we'll love him 'till the end of time.
Meat Loaf collapses onstage after suffering 'asthma attack'
Meat Loaf collapsed onstage during a gig in Pittsburgh on Thursday (July 28) - but managed to carry on with the show after being revived by crew members.
The 'Bat Out Of Hell' singer was left flat on his back after fainting during his gig at the Amphitheatre At Station Square - scroll up and click above to see the drama unfold.
After being helped to his feet, the 63-year-old implied he had suffered an asthma attack, commenting:
Quote:
I fucking fainted. I have asthma, I can't breathe. And then - oh wait, I forgot - I got poked by a pin and bled half to death and then I got slapped in the face and my tooth is loose.
Meat Loaf is due to continue his 'Guilty Pleasures' tour at the Quik Chek Festival Of Ballooning in Redington tonight (31) before the jaunt moves on to Australia in October.
His latest studio album, 'Hang Cool Teddy Bear', was released last year.
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