welcome back to the show bob shaw will be here and the gentleman who invented the nautilus equipment
and uh my first guest in 1977. this gentleman released an album entitled
bat out of hell that was one of the most successful debut albums in rock history
since then he's done a lot of different things and
we're going to talk about some of those right now please welcome the legendary
meat loaf
you look great and i'm fifty i enjoyed you laughing at your own introduction i thought that
yeah that shows uh introductions are always funny point of character there
i appreciate that um here i brought you a t-shirt oh great
i enjoy t-shirts hey guys just like always ben doesn't get one you know what i mean
oh this is nice that yeah this is uh this is is this from the new album uh from the last down from
the last album i'm sorry well it's the newest one and you brought enough of these for the audience
that's really nice yeah they're 7.50 a piece for you uh you're gonna play tennis you have a big
tell me about your you play tennis uh yeah i play in fact i even had a lesson about a month ago yeah
you got a function coming up here huh yeah tell me about you want to know about sure
okay um yeah i'm playing um tennis with uh with john mcenroe and vida scaralitis
and uh andy summer of the police and um yeah andy summer come on he'll appreciate it
so um and it's for uh uh the guerrillaitis i gotta remember this the guerrillaitus youth foundation
and uh the world hunger project and uh select celebrity policy cerebral palsy that's not funny
not funny that's not but you're gonna get letters now boy no you're trouble
you're gonna get the letters oh they don't know my address uh but that you know
and where and when did we cover that oh no we didn't cover that it's at forest hills
this is uh forester they clap at everything yeah on wednesday wednesday
august 25th unbelievable ladies and gentlemen and i don't know the time of day but that's a
lot of other people there charlie daniels not the time of day charlie daniels and joe cocker uh long
tennis yeah these guys yeah connors yeah charlie daniels way back um let me uh uh charlie anders of
course will wear his hat during the match he was here and wore his hat here and she hadn't chewed
gum wouldn't he couldn't see anything either no um tell me about you before you uh became a big
success on your own you did many many other things and you worked with ted nugent you sang in a group
uh what was uh any interesting experiences happen with mr nugent traveling across the
country well i didn't actually ever travel with him he asked me to but i went to one of the shows
and i couldn't hear for about 10 days after that and so i said well i better not
do it with ted and i've known uh mr nugent as he's referred to um for about oh 15 years so and
there is one incident that i know about well see i did travel with ted in the late 60s
uh and uh i opened him i was with a band called the popcorn blizzard uh and we opened to ted and
we were in lima ohio at the limo ohio rock will you give me the lime ohio rock festival
there's nothing like and so uh ted asked me for his uh set to open these doors and
he came out to stark naked the boy did with his guitar and he almost then another time he jumped
in the water down in miami and then almost around so that's some ted nugent story now
how does this work in lima ohio a man standing there nude on stage is that uh
i don't think they knew it that's kind of the ultimate insult there isn't it
fans naked and nobody knew it um uh where where uh what are we going to do an insult to lima ohio or
an insult to ted nugent something we'll figure that out and come back but we're going away but
we'll be back is that what we're doing yeah we'll be right all right we'll be right back
hi welcome back to the show uh arthur jones will be with us the man who invented the nautilus
machines and comedian bob shaw this gentleman of course is meatloaf uh you've worked you're one
of the few world-class rock and rollers as we say who has done any recording with the phil rizzuto
the scooter uh tell us about that i mean that huckleberry
i mean holy cow scooter oh phil razoo was hysterical uh aren't shamsky who used to play
uh for the mets in 1969 the miracle mets is was i don't know if he still is phil rizzuto's agent and
so phil rizzuto wanted to know through art shamsky if you had to get high to listen to the record
and we we told him that it would probably be better with this record than if you didn't
you know so he good he came in and uh and we gave him a script and uh it was written by uh
my partner jim steinman and it had phil rizzuto you know language and like holy cow and he's got a
beat on the ball and all that good stuff you know and he couldn't do it i mean he could not say holy
cow when it was written on a piece of paper holy cow you know and we sit in there for the longest
time and uh we paid him you know a certain amount of money and he continues on the air they continue
to tell him hey do you know how many records that so you know you really got screwed phil you know
what was his reaction after the record came out and he hurt himself oh he said
well see he he didn't know anything about it his kids live in boston they brought him home
the record and said dad you're on this record and he said yeah yeah i did this
record you know and he said he keeps saying that he got a lot of letters from priest
and uh because he was on paradise for the dashboard light and he he was doing a baseball
play-by-play which was also the old you know first base second base thing but he didn't actually know
that when he was doing it and uh but it was really supposed to be on the radio a baseball
play you know it just happened you know the heavy breathing behind it just you know fit in good
and so are you in phil buddies today oh yeah yeah he yeah i see him you know when i like at
the ballpark and things and he he continues you know he says calls me a huckleberry on the uh air
all the time and listen he got a lot of press we went we went i gave him a platinum record
and i gave the yankees a platinum record and i met jackson that day too you know first thing reggie
jackson asked me um we were introduced he says um what kind of percentage you make on your records
what's your contract call for reggie you know how many times i bet do you uh let me ask you
about uh in addition to being a singer and uh uh rock music legend that's where you're right
well i don't know about that what about your performance in uh the rocky horror picture
show do you ever go see that uh with in front of the regular midnight audience
yeah i went uh i went one time i guess in about 1978 you know and i went to there in new york
it plays it used to play at the waverly they've since had a riot and it doesn't play there anymore
and so i went and it was sold out and i had a bunch of friends with me and and it was real
embarrassing and i never do this but this time i decided well look i got to go up and tell them
i'm meatloaf and i'm in the movie well they didn't believe me i mean they go you're not meatloaf i
said yeah i am and i said no you're not so finally i convinced they said you better be they let me in
they said you better be meatloaf because we're sitting you right here where we can watch you
so i said okay fine you know and so they sent me with all these people and one this was in 1978 and
this particular person one side sitting next to me seen it 220 times in a row the one over here
had seen it like 150 and they were snorting you know you know and they were going to be here you
want some i'm going no it's okay you know and these people were going oh wow wow they weren't
watching the movie at all but it was like i mean it was total insanity tim curry actually went once
and they didn't know it was him because he doesn't look like that character you know everybody else
looks like him more than he does that they dress up and in fact in in los angeles somebody got
married right there the character i played in the rocky horror show right out on sunset boulevard
they're and i went a couple of times when we were at you know
um well i was promoting bat you know just wondering because they they
we had a trailer that was running in front of the movie of the some of the songs from
bat out of hell so i went and asked a lot of questions i mean they're you know they're fun
and everything but they're they they are out there it's interesting that you have to prove that your
meatloaf to get in that's uh well i remember the right i don't how do you prove that yeah
oh there is listen really oh there oh this guy oh good thank you for bringing that up you know
there's there is this guy in california who goes around impersonating me and i sometimes
stay at the beverly hills hotel we called up for a reservation and they said you're prasada
non-grata i said what the hell does that mean you know and they said well you can't get in i said
why not well you know they said because you know you flipped the coin with our night manager and
and beat him out with 20 000 rooms i said what i did what and then uh somebody asked me did you
do that and i said what are you not this guy goes around la in different places and he's a
gambler yeah and he flips coins in fact the fbi called me up one day and i thought who what did
i do you know and they wanted to question me it was about this guy so if anybody got
involved with this particular let me do this if anybody got involved with a particular person
ignore him it's not me well he's here tonight meet and listen by the way this is your life
by the way you got a coin we have to go uh good guys on your tennis tournament oh thank you
i wish you come and play we'll come back anytime hey thank you very much ladies and gentlemen
you