Meat Loaf - 3 Bats Live [DVD]

Primary Artist
Meat Loaf
Album Title
3 Bats Live [DVD]
Release Date
November 20, 2007 
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Review by William Ruhlmann
Meat Loaf is seen on his concert tour promoting Bat Out Of Hell Iii: The Monster Is Loose in this video, which chronicles a stop on the tour in an arena in London, Ontario. The basis of the 18-song, two-hour-and-24-minute performance is the three Bat Out Of Hell albums, the second of which is called Bat Out Of Hell Ii: Back Into Hell. The 59-year-old singer seems least animated when running through material from the three-decades-old original Bat Out Of Hell, notably the opening number (following a snippet of "All Revved Up with No Place to Go"), "Paradise by the Dashboard Light," the multi-part account of teenage seduction (accompanied by baseball commentary) followed by middle-aged regret, for which he appears on-stage in his late-'70s garb, including a ruffled tuxedo shirt and long-haired wig. Read More