{"id":15739,"date":"2017-04-30T22:47:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T02:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=15739"},"modified":"2022-01-25T00:19:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T05:19:13","slug":"2022-r-i-p-meat-loaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=15739","title":{"rendered":"2022 – R.I.P. Meat Loaf"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (ignore April 30, 2017 publish date – this was published on January 25, 2022)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Geez – the old stars are really starting to drop like flies lately (though no one would DARE to compare this man to a fly).<\/span><\/p>\n

I really went all-in when Meat Loaf started out. I photographed his first East Coast show (second, overall) on a VERY rainy\/flooding Election Day 1977 evening in a club in West Orange, NJ, called Creation, which was next door to the house where the Uncle Floyd Show was produced back then.<\/span><\/p>\n

(\u201chouse\u201d? Yeah – look!)<\/span><\/p>\n

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And a shot from that first East Coast gig is the first photo in the Meat Loaf section of my site – https:\/\/bobleafe.com\/<\/a> <\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Before I go any further, I have to tell you that these photos will bounce around between the 18 images (and stories) on my site and the 18 that I picked out this past weekend from my analog file cabinets (including the leadoff shot, which was taken at the Show Place in Dover, NJ, on 1-14-78). I\u2019ll be going through these file cabinet B&W shots chronologically.<\/span><\/p>\n

So while we\u2019re still in Dover, here\u2019s another shot from that show:<\/span><\/p>\n

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On March 4, 1978, I took this pic at Manhattan\u2019s Palladium:<\/span><\/p>\n

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On March 27, he did an in-store at EJ Korvettes in Paramus, NJ. Here\u2019s some of the crowd waiting to get their albums signed:<\/span><\/p>\n

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On August 29, he did a similar in-store at the Harmony Hut in Wayne, NJ:<\/span><\/p>\n

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This was a pretty cool event on 10-11-80 that involved Meat and Billy Joel, so I\u2019m stealing this explanation from my site:<\/span><\/p>\n

Hofstra University Stadium, Hempstead, NY 1980<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Billy led the Long Island-based WLIR-FM Heavy Hitters team against the Meat Loaf-led WNEW-FM All Stars team from NYC in the first annual Charity Begins At Home benefit softball game. Meat pitched for NEW and Billy DH’d for LIR.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t see a ball in the catcher\u2019s mitt, so I guess Meat hit it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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On 10-14-81, Meat visited The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder and decided he should be wearing the album jacket as a hat:<\/span><\/p>\n

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He showed up on 11-5-81 at the taping of The Robert Klein Radio Hour sporting a black eye. I don\u2019t recall what that was about\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.or if it was even a real one:<\/span><\/p>\n

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On 8-26-82, there was a unique event in Forest Hills, Queens, NY called Musicourt \u201982<\/em> that featured rock stars and tennis greats. Both played tennis and musical instruments at the jam that followed the matches.<\/span><\/p>\n

There were a lot of photographers at this event, but nobody else got this shot of Meat leaping over the net (my notes say he tripped on it):<\/span><\/p>\n

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BTW – There\u2019s a Musicourt \u201982<\/em> listing on my site with some jam photos.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I can\u2019t find any what\/where\/when\/why information on this shot. I remember him crumpling something, but that\u2019s it and it\u2019s too cool a shot to leave out:<\/span><\/p>\n

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So much for the black-and-white pix\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is the program for Meat\u2019s 5-26-78 show at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, NJ (my house!). The cover was created by my friend Moyssi, who was the venue\u2019s lighting director:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I had the inside shot:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Somehow, on 7-22-78, I stopped on the Garden State Parkway, got out and took this picture (I’m lucky I didn’t get a ticket):<\/span><\/p>\n

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A good guess would be that I was on my way to shoot the show at the GSAC. Some shots from that show are on my site.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s a shot I had on the November 1978 cover of PIZZAZZ magazine:<\/span><\/p>\n

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They flipped it for this inside shot:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The athletic and high-flying Meat Loaf changes a light bulb during a show at the Brendan Byrne Arena in East Rutherford, NJ, on Halloween, 1981:<\/span><\/p>\n

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(and if you believe THAT\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Again, not sure where this was or what this was about, but it says \u201cMarch \u201885\u201d on the slide and that\u2019s an MTV mic pointed at him:<\/span><\/p>\n

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And let\u2019s wrap this up with a weird photo I took at what I think was the last time I photographed him: May 7, 1989 at Bergen Community College in Paramus, NJ, where I was a faculty member the previous time I shot him there in 1978:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Summing up the encounters over the years: Meat could be real cranky – I got hit with his fury once or twice – but man, did he put on a show!<\/span><\/p>\n

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