Everybody, we're back here with Meat Loaf.
(audience cheering)
Let me ask you.
We didn't get into the past too much there in the last--
No, we didn't get into that.
I did wanna ask you about the song.
Cause I heard this rumor, and I don't know if it's true,
but "Paradise by the Dashboard Light",
the part with Phil Rizzuto in it.
Yeah.
I've always heard that, or someone told me that,
he didn't know what he was recording for.
The part where he's saying rounds first, round second.
(Meat Loaf chuckling)
That he didn't know and that he was annoyed later on
when he found out that it was put in this rock song.
We had to say that because he lived three houses down
from... or a priest where he went to church
was giving him a hard time.
So that was his story.
Because of the song's sexual nature?
Yeah. I mean.
But Phil knew exactly what was going on
cause he had an agent.
(Conan chuckling)
He had an agent named Art Shamsky.
Uh-huh.
Art Shamsky was a right-fielder for the Mets in 1969
when they won the, you know,
the amazing Mets they won the series.
So, we contacted Art Shamsky
and Art Shamsky came in for his first meeting
and we told him what we wanted to do.
We explained, I mean, it was pretty obvious
before he got there.
I was gonna say like, how do you not know
you're recording something for what?
Like people hide the instruments,
and you come in and you record?
Yeah. So no, no.
So then we had another meeting with Art Shamsky
before we met Phil
and Art came back and said,
"Phil has agreed to do it, except for,
he has one question to ask,
'Do you have to get stoned to listen to the record?'"
(Conan laughs)
And so, we started to laugh, sort of what you're doing.
That was kind of my reaction too.
I'd like to see that in a contract.
"Artist must not have to get stoned to enjoy--"
No, no, not the artist,
the people that are listening to it.
I understand. Yeah.
And so, my comment back was,
"It's probably better if the people
who listen to "Bat Out of Hell" aren't stoned
when they hear it."
And you know, you're liable to do anything.
So anyway, when Phil came in, we listened to all summer
to Phil Rizutto and we took his words.
Like everything is his words,
we just pulled them out of like
Detroit game or Kansas city game or whatever game.
And Jim Steinman strung it all together.
And so Phil came in to do it.
And so we said to Phil, "Okay, Phil do it exactly
just like you do in a ball game."
And you know Phil's very animated and all this stuff.
So Phil gets in the studio and he goes,
"Holy cow, look at him go, there it is
a line shot up that middle this like a--
(Conan laughing)
No Phil, no, like a game Phil.
Oh, okay. I got it. I got it.
Look at him, go.
This boy is flying around the band.
Look at him he still...
No Phil, Phil relax.
It's like he is in the money store commercial.
That's exactly right.
(audience laughing)
Just a whole different level.
What I wound up doing was I was in the studio.
He was there, and I was running the basis.
I got the head, I ran the first, I slid in the second,
and I weighed about 330 lbs or 340 lbs then.
So I was a pretty big hefty boy--
You were chugging around, yeah
You can actually hear it on the CD,
if you turn it up really loud.
So that was the Phil story.
But Phil knew exactly what...
You can hear it on the CD really?
Yeah, with really good quality speakers, Yeah.
You need the really good giant one.
Those Sony headphones are you a Sony sponsor?
No, they're not a sponsor so screw them.
It's a crap that stuff.
That stuff is junk.
I don't even know who's the sponsor.
I don't watch this show, I watch infomercials.
I enjoy them.
Oh yeah. Me too, Which one?
Oh, I liked the--
"The Psychic Hotline."
Hey, hey, we'll talk after the show.
Let me ask you about the "Rocky Horror Picture Show".
Cause I wanna ask you about that too.
(audience cheering)
Its got got such a stride, as you can see.
It's got such strong fan response over the years.
Did you ever go to a live show?
Cause I thought if you did,
they'd probably reap you apart.
The only time that I went to a live show
was, I went with Tim Curry early on
down to the, you can say...
(audience cheering)
And I went with Timmy down to the village
to under the...
What is it in the village?
Where did they have that?
(audience speaking indistinctly)
There they go, we went there and it was sold out.
We wanted to go, you know,
Tim had some friends, so we were going down there.
And when we got there, it was sold out.
And so Tim had his hair cut off at that point
and I was wearing a wig and the movie.
So I went up to them and I said,
"Excuse me, this is Tim Curry, and I'm Meat Loaf
and we're in the movie and it's sold out
and we have two friends that we'd really like to get in."
And this woman goes, "How do I know that's who you are?"
And I go, well, "That's, that's who we are."
And she goes, "Okay, Imma let you in."
And some other people said, "Oh, that's them, that's them."
And she came up to me and said,
"You'd better be him or I'm gonna throw you out."
(audience laughing)
You'd better be him!
You would better be Meat Loaf or you're in big trouble.
That's right, so, we got to stay and watch it.
And that's the only time I've actually gone.
You claim to be an amazing softball pitcher?
I don't claim. You are?
There is no claim to this.
You are the greatest softball pitcher?
No I didn't say I was the greatest.
I didn't say I was greatest.
You said, "Am I a good..."
What was your exact words again? Do you remember?
You claim to be a great softball--
Okay, great, not the best, but great.
You are a great softball pitcher,
we thought maybe we'd give you a chance
to prove it right here, it'll just take a second.
Okay no problem.
You wanna do it right now?
Yeah, let's do it.
All right, well,
I thought maybe what we do is we have...
Let's see if you can strike out this NBC page right here.
I didn't say we will strike her out.
She just can't get a hit.
All right, you don't think this NBC page and get a hit?
And what are we gotta pitch to her?
All right, you're gonna pitch yourself up, let's go.
Let's do it right now
This NBC page,
What is she, All American from UCLA?
No, no, she's just an NBC page we found, come on over.
Yeah, let's go.
Let me see, let me see this.
Well, just another NBC page.
Hi, how are you?
How are you?
We got our bat.
I think you go over here. Is that right?
Okay Actually.
Is this right, Frank?
How am I doing?--
Am I positioning this right?
All right, that's all right.
I don't care who you are.
And you claim that no one can get a hit off you.
No I didn't say that, but go ahead.
(audience cheering)
Not bad, we're just testing her.
Here, you ready?
(audience laughing)
Hey. Watch it!
(audience clapping)
One more, one more. Keep it lower.
Wait a minute, where?
(audience clapping)
We got time for one more.
We had time, wait a second.
Okay, now we get serious.
All right, one more.
Here we go. You ready?
Ready?
You sure you're ready?
(audience clapping)
Here we go, one more.
Here we go, here we go.
It's hard to get traction in here.
Lawn inside.
(audience cheering)
So far she hadn't gotten a hit.
So far she has not gotten a hit.
One more, we are running out to time, here we go.
Let me just try one.
Okay, go ahead.
We try one.
And then we got to go to commercial. Right here.
Now I want you to watch him
cause this man is a great hitter, okay?
We got one more and then we gotta go to--
We gotta go to commercial right after this.
Thank you Meat Loaf and then Play out Max.
Here we go. You ready? Go.
(audience cheering)