Meat Loaf - 3 Bats Live
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Movie Reviews of Meat Loaf - 3 Bats Live
Movie Review: 3 Bats Live: Great Band...Struggling Meat Loaf
Summary: 3 Stars
I have been a Meat Loaf fan for a very long time. I too am a performer, and I have even played Eddie and Dr. Scott in "The Rocky Horror Show" which Meat Loaf played in the original Roxie cast. I just want to make it clear I have a deep love and respect for this artist before I continue.
This DVD is not Meat Loaf at his best, but his band and back up vocalists are totally awesome. I had to overlook many aspects of Meat Loaf's performance on this DVD because he is mostly flat, has problems with tempo and he is obviously struggling with some of the higher notes.
He is however; solid on lyrics.
It about broke my heart to see Meat Loaf struggling through the repertoire. It is very obvious his support band are helping him all they can. All the band members are extremely young and have more energy to perform these songs.
As an afterthought, I am not sure if Meat Loaf was having problems singing or he was having problems hearing. I know a faulty monitoring system will throw off a performance. Plus when I record, I only listen to the playback with one ear piece and not two. Trying to listen to yourself over a system can direct you to sing flat. It's good to have one ear open so you can hear yourself as you actually sound. Meat Loaf on this DVD has two ear pieces. He sometimes uses only one. He sounds better when he does this. Meat Loaf does fiddle with an ear piece a bit which led me to believe he may have been having a technical difficulty. I still feel external monitors are best...call me old fashioned.
The "Bat Out of Hell" songs are extremely difficult to perform and listening to the albums is a much better way of enjoying these challenging songs.
This DVD is good to keep as a perspective piece but not as a keepsake of great performances. It almost should have been billed as "Meat Loaf's Band and Meat Loaf". I'm surprised it was released in this condition.
The producers/directors should have had Meat Loaf dub himself afterwards to correct the vocal flaws before the DVD was released.
Movie Review: Good concert, but has some issues...
Summary: 3 Stars
I'm okay with the fact that Meat can't sing like he used to, no points deducted for that. But, I'll agree with many reviews here that say the legendary singer is "off" at times during the concert. Credit due though, he NAILS it more than he misses.
The video is awesome, shot in HD (featured/promoted recently for free on DirectTV HD) and excellently edited, by far the highpoint of this DVD. Five stars for video, all the way.
Although the audio is also five stars (great bass, crisp cymbols, everthing in between), it's the AUDIO MIX that takes all the bang out of this concert for me. The guitars are too far back in the mix, making this sound more like an 80s contemporary rock concert than classic hard-rockin' Meatloaf.
I already own the concert with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and I think it's much better (performance and audio mix) than 3 Bats Live, even though audio and video quality can't compare to this release.
Movie Review: No point buying it
Summary: 2 Stars
I've always been a huge Meatloaf fan and I even still like his non-Steinman recordings which never were dull (esp. Midnight at the lost and Found and Blind before I stop - I mean the songs not the album). I've seen him twice in the last 5 years, always to my big disappointment. I just couldn't see him publishing a concert in that low quality of singing he offered when I was in the audience, so I had higher hopes for this disc. But, well, it's the sad new story: He and his voice are burnt out unable to cope with enormous amount of versatility and range that Steinman-stuff demands. He tries to get away with some acting and putting more "expression" into his voice, but it sounds stained, he's off the mark a lot of times, his voice cracks and out of tune. This actually is a sad document of an artist who is not able to live up to his own standards. He should ease-up, go into clubs, with a small band and do it more acoustic. He just can`t hold up against the massive wall of sound anymore. No blame on the band which is excellent and tight. The mixing could've been more powerful. And the female leads (yes, pretty) should stick to what Steinman wrote (-he sure still knows better as his refusal to work on the ill-fated (and soundig) BAT III shows).
Movie Review: Embarrasing performance
Summary: 2 Stars
First off I am a big fan of Meat Loaf so I hate rating this so low. But here goes..
On the first line on the first song "All Revved Up With No Place To Go" he wasn't even near the melody of the song. I'm talking WAY off here....not just a little flat or sharp. As I continued to watch it became clear to me that something was terribly wrong with Meat that night.
The band is hot but because of Meat's poor performance I'm sure I'll never watch this again. It was just too painful.
It's no wonder this DVD isn't even mentioned on Meat Loaf's official website.
This product should have never seen the light of day.
Movie Review: Disappointing
Summary: 2 Stars
After seeing Meat Loaf Live in Melbourne, this concert was a great disappointment. Although Aspen is a capable singer, she is no Patty Russo. Also, it seems like Meat picked the worst songs from Bat out of hell 3 for this concert. If you really love Meat Loaf, get 'Live in Melbourne'.