Turns out Meat Loaf needed a little extra time in the oven, but we’re finally back to discuss the late vocal powerhouse’s 2000 memoir To Hell and Back. Join us as we ponder Meat’s many concussions, his suitably operatic relationship with the also-recently-departed Jim Steinman, and how he’s easily in the top five of anti-maskers we would have been okay catching COVID from. We’ll be back around the middle of next month for a special Jheri Curl June miniseries on Morris Day‘s On Time: A Princely Life in Funk!















00:02:13 Our Sebastian Bach podcasts (Parts 1 and 2)







00:02:43 The Urbz: What Callie did instead of read the book last month



















00:05:56 Our Rick James podcast







00:10:49 Here’s what those clowns look like















00:11:40 Here’s that video of Gene Simmons falling onstage if you need a pick-me-up



















00:12:08 Share in our trauma over witnessing Gene Simmons deep-throating a microphone







00:15:50 How we imagine David Lee Roth’s life



















00:16:59 “Bat Out of Hell” by Meat Loaf (from Bat Out of Hell, 1977)







00:28:39 The Fight Club line Zach couldn’t remember because he’s not a real millennial



















00:29:38 Now this is a Meat Loaf film performance



















00:36:37 Sebastian Bach on Amoeba Music’s “What’s in My Bag?”



















00:44:47 Meat Loaf does his thing all over “Hammerdown” by Ted Nugent (from Free-for-All, 1976)







00:51:10 For the record, Meat Loaf never was on Celebrity Ghost Stories; he was, however, on its spiritual successor, The Haunting Of (talking about a completely different ghost story!)