Meat Loaf
VH1 Storytellers


Tracks:

1. All Revved Up with No Place to Go
2. Life Is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back
3. Story (Audience Member talks to Meat)
4. You Took the Words Right out of My Mouth
5. Story (Meat answers "What is 'That'?")
6. I'd Do Anything for Love
7. Lawyers, Guns and Money
8. Story (How Meat met Jim Steinman)
9. More than You Deserve
10. Story (Meat discussing pitching an album)
11. Heaven Can Wait - Soundcheck
12. Story (Meat discusses difficulties of demoing Bat)
13. Paradise by the Dashboard Light
14. Story (How Meat hates going on television)
15. Two Out of Three Ain't Bad
16. Story (What the title song of Bat was written for)
17. Bat Out of Hell - Soundcheck
18. Is Nothing Sacred - Bonus Track

Line up:

Meat Loaf - lead vocals, guitar
Patti Russo - vocals
John Miceli - drums
Kasim Sulton - bass
Paul Crook — guitar
Damon La Scot - lead guitar
Pearl Aday – backing vocals
Ray Anderson - rhythm guitar, keyboards, vocals Tom Brislin - piano, vocals

Record Label / Year of Release:

Beyond 1999

Notes:

Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday; September 27, 1947), better known by his stage name, Meat Loaf, is an American hard rock musician and actor. He is noted for the Bat Out of Hell album trilogy consisting of Bat Out of Hell, Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell and Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster is Loose. Bat Out of Hell has sold more than 43 million copies.

VH1: Storytellers was a live concert tour by Meat Loaf which one concert was played on the channel VH1. Meat Loaf told humorous stories of his career as a singer and how he unfolded into rock stardom. The DVD version has two additional songs. Some songs on the CD are taken from Meat Loaf's Hard Rock Live performance (also for VH1). Others were taken from the pre-show soundcheck.

The show was to have been Meat and Jim Steinman together. However, due to Jim falling ill, Meat had to do the show alone. This worried the producers, as Storytellers is about the concept of each song that an artist wrote that they were about to perform, and Meat did not write his own songs. To counter this, according to the liner notes of the CD, Meat improvised several things, such as the actions on the Radio Broadcast portion of Paradise by the Dashboard Light. For the stories, he instead goes into detail about how the hit album Bat out of Hell was conceived, with each song preceded by him discussing how the song fit into the making of the album and the difficulties that came into making, producing, and publishing the album. Meat also pitched a solution to how to get around the length of the songs: break up songs into two television segments, with stopping the song for a commercial, then finishing the song once they returned.

DVD exclusive tracks

1. Two Out of Three Ain't Bad - Alternate Version than what is on the CD release
2. I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) - Alternate Version than what is on the CD release
3. Heaven Can Wait - Alternate Version than what is on the CD release
4. Bat Out of Hell - Alternate Version than what is on the CD release
5. A Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
6. Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through