First dance with my future wife was at the Princeton Bar & Grille in Avalon NJ in 1988 to Meatloaf’s Paradise by the Dashboard Light. After buying her a few Long Island Ice Teas.
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Long Island Ice Teas at The Princeton.
Sounds insanely familiar.
I admire your tactics, well played.
Was he jabbed ?
I still can’t believe they killed Meatloaf in the Rocky Horror Picture Show
Dammit Janet!
His name was Robert Paulson…
His name was Robert Paulson…
Got his ass kilt in Fight Club also.
“What’s for dinner?”
“Meatloaf”
In death you get your name back. His name is Marvin Lee Aday.
Nice reference.
Rocky Horror was both amazing and a culture shock to my redneck Southern rock oriented teenage peer group . Some even said it was Satanic…seems so tame now. I guess this is what acclimation i.e. boiling the frog is all about .
But still one of the greatest pieces of rock n roll finesse ever produced.
So you got her drunk. I get it.
Smooth move. Except my overcalculating mind ran the math like this: long song, is it fast or slow so should we dance together or apart? Better wait for slow.
A few songs later… Take it on the Run by REO. OK, baby, let’s roll, I’m goin in.
RIP Marvin.
His name is Robert Paulson. RIP Marvin Lee Aday
Real music
Loss is yet another in what we all used to call real music. RIP Marvin.
Not to be a downer, no offense to admin, and RIP and all…
But I always thought, compared to so much other great stuff available at the time, that Meatloaf SUCKED! I always switched stations if he came on and never bought an album.
How can any single Meatloaf tune compare to just about anything from the Police or Talking Heads, as just two tiny little examples from that time period? Christ, Michael Jackson was better from a musical perspective!
Hmmmm….would I rather listen to Burnin’ Down The House and Wrapped Around My Finger or Meatloaf? Which ones still get played?
Which would be more likely to get me a girlfriend? I think Sting had a lock on that, but even Patrick Byrne had a better shot than Meatloaf.
Dude. Haven’t you ever been at a house party or in a bar when Paradise by the Dashboard Light started playing? The chicks would go crazy and started writhing like a gang of drunken bobbleheads on your car’s dash going down a gravel road. It was theater and drunken drama and young joy all mixed up in the scent of sweat, chapstick, spilled beer, sloe gin and pick-your-flavor schnapps. The music was just a sideshow, bro. A prelude to the makeout session.
Without a doubt Unprotected!
My wife loves ‘Paradise by the Dashboard Light’. We were watching a segment of Rock Legends on Meatloaf not long ago and when it came on she was dancing around the living room singing along with gusto…and she is 66. (The woman can still slinky move).
ummm, …it’s David Byrne actually, you literally don’t even know what you’re talking about
“Bat out of Hell”. About Death, Resurrection, Redemption. The second chance. That rider busting out of the grave for one more shot at it, all out.
Networx nightclub, Pasadena Md, 1989. He played a small 500 person nightclub like it was a stadium. It was so packed, it was tight standing room only. I was standing on the bar, 20 feet from the stage, my head in the rafters with the Redhead beside me. She had her nails dug into me, not even noticing she was drawing blood. I didn’t care. The Fire Marshal came in, fought his way through the crowd to get to the owner, standing a few feet away from me. Screamed “You Gotta Shut it down! It’s a fire hazard!” The owner looked around at the crowd, the band still howling. Looked back at the Fire Marshall and yelled “F*ck That!!!”, then yelled at the bouncers, “Open it up!!” They threw open the double doors on all 4 sides of the building. I looked out through the back doors and there were a thousand people standing out back in the parking lot listening. Through the front doors, the sidewalks and street out front were full, police cars blocking off the street with lights flashing, no one complaining. The band howled on. The Fire Marshal went away.
If you only play the sad stuff, it can make you want to kill yourself. If you play only the howlin stuff, it can make you think you can walk thru fire. He destroyed his voice singing it. There are no cover bands. No one else could do it.
Yeehaw Trooper! I got to see him play the Nassau Coliseum shortly after Bat Out Of Hell was released. Todd Rundgren opened (and played lead for Meat) Eddie Money followed and Meatloaf headlined. LOUD show, I loved every minute! Can only imagine the scene you describe! Sadly, no redheads for young me that evening…
Much credit has to go to Todd and sound man Jim Steinman for generating that wild music. It was them that made Marvin Meatloaf IMO, but dang if that dude couldn’t belt out tunes after a case of warm beer!
Teenage years… seems like several lifetimes ago, don’t it? RIP Meatloaf…
OK, since no one else ask…what kind of car were you driving that night, Admin?
Only asking because I was thinking about my first with my love, concert, hot tub, cold adult beverages. Paradise under the July moonlight.
Some fans, some not, but he was a performer with a good voice and “Paradise” was an innovative and catchy tune, penned by Jim Steinman.
God gives you lemons…
No car needed. Myself and 8 friends rented an absolute dump around the corner from the Princeton. My future wife and 8 of her friends rented the dump right next to ours. Good times.
An orgy.
One of the nicest guys in the world, and a hell of a singer and actor. God Speed and rest in peace brother.
25 years old without a care in the world and a gorgeous 23 year old sitting on my lap.
Dear God……
Score!
LOL…looks like it might a movie poster for a 80’s comedy. Nice hair BTW, JQ. You two made/make a handsome couple.
A few long island ice teas? And she could still walk?
I feel old. I remember being on my first sub in 1979 and all one mess crank (attendant) played on the stereo in the crew’s mess was the bat out of hell cassette. We listened to that album at lunch for the entire 90 days he was cranking. It was our white noise. His nickname was space man. He dated three women who were sisters one after the other and then dated the mom.
Told wife the news this morning and she replied she never knew what “But I won’t do that” meant in the “I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)” song. The answer is in this link:
https://www.newsnationnow.com/entertainment-news/id-do-anything-for-love-but-i-wont-do-that-meat-loafs-misunderstood-lyric-explained/
I had Meatloaf on an 8-track tape, which changed tracks in the middle of You Took the Words Right Outa My Mouth. I am so used to hearing it played that way, that hearing it played straight through makes me feel like something is missing, ha, even after all these years. Thanks for the memories.