Meat Loaf - 3 Bats Live
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Movie Reviews of Meat Loaf - 3 Bats Live
Movie Review: 3 Bats Live Meatloaf
Summary: 5 Stars
Absolutely brilliant, bought one for myself and another for a friend. We are both big Meatloaf fans. Well worth waiting forMovie Review: Read Details before posting
Summary: 5 Stars
If the 2 people that posted would read the "Product Details" you'll see it says number of discs 2
Wezzie
Movie Review: Paradise almost found...
Summary: 4 Stars
The mighty voice rip-roars through the songs from the Bat trilogy with all the power of a jumbo-jet tearing down a runaway and blasting into a hell-raising takeoff. Here is another Meat Loaf performance that goes far enough to make the original studio recordings sound timid (listen out for "Objects In The Rear View Mirror", "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through" and "Bat Out Of Hell").
"Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through", "You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth" and "Blind As A Bat" are amongst the songs to have segments missed out - pity that these songs are 'incomplete' when they are sounding this good. It doesn't really matter that Meat Loaf doesn't always hit the notes like he once did or that he survives the chorus of "Blind As A Bat" with the help of a backing track because what he does sing, when he really goes for it, is all there.
I saw this show when the tour arrived in London, England by which point "Paradise By The Dashboard Light" had found a few great gags and "I'd Do Anything For Love" had a franticly awesome new opening arrangement (all of which are not present for this show). John Miceli's drum beats are pure rock, delivered like an earth quake bulging through an intravenous drip. The cover songs at the end are fine, but if Meat had the energy (and he does) it would be nice to hear him perform his own classics, after all, he has plenty more of those that aren't included on here. The show is superbly filmed and includes plenty of sweeping camera angles and a feeling that you're up on the stage next to him. It's this intimacy that helps give this DVD an edge over the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra DVD.
Where the show flounders is where the lead female vocals come into play, and they come into play frequently. Sure the girl can sing, but she isn't Patti Russo who, after 13 years, Meat Loaf appears to have unforgivably replaced in favour of a 'newer model', prior to the release of Bat Out Of Hell III, and a mistake that no amount of on-stage pyrotechnics can compensate for. Maybe Patti Russo was just too good. Russo is why I'll favour the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra DVD, and her absence here is my main reason for giving this DVD four stars and not five.
The bonus DVD is a fly on the wall documentary of the few weeks leading up to the show in London, Ontario and compliments Disk One perfectly. We see Meat rehearsing, driving his car, packing his suitcase, preparing for shows and collapsing from exhaustion after them. You might be disappointed to see this towering rock legend reveal enough of himself to make us realise how 'un-star' like the man behind the Meat Loaf character is: quiet, reclusive and fragile. It is a documentary that is in essence about the road leading up to the show on Disk One, and as for Meat Loaf himself - we are left little the wiser. Even his autobiography was told in glimpses. It does leave you realising that perhaps the on-stage and off-stage personas couldn't be flung any further apart.
The king of rock crown isn't leaving Meat Loaf's head (even if the king is missing his queen). Frankenstein has no hope of ever recovering this overweening creation.
Movie Review: Meat CAN still deliver
Summary: 4 Stars
Based on other reviews, I was kind of skeptical to buy Meat's lastest DVD performance. Then, one night DirecTV had an edited (shortened) version of the concert on one of its music networks and I was fortunate enough to catch it. Meat Loaf rocked! After that, I immediately bought the DVD for myself to the see concert in full. What a show! Meat's vocals were pretty much on the mark all night...the only exception being "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth." He seemed to struggle a bit on that one. Aspen Miller did a great job being Meat's leading lady as well. The rest of the band was flawless with their musicianship...Paul, Randy, John, Mark, Kasim, and of course C.C. all rock! Also, Meat delivered worthy covers of Black Betty and Gimme Shelter. Considering his age, and the fact that this DVD was recorded on the tour that he would later discontinue because of a cyst on his vocal chords, Meat Loaf gave a great show...like he always does!Movie Review: On 3 Bats album
Summary: 4 Stars
I love it.Played it many times.A great fan of Meatloaf.Have other DVD's and MOST of his CD's.It has it's flaws.Wouldn't let it go for anything.Unless I had a Blue-Ray version in its place.I can look at it in 1080i though.I recommend this album to any one that is a great fan of Meat Loaf.