Meat Loaf - Concert Introduction (Live in Birmingham, December 2003)

Here's a little treat for you all - from December 11th 2003 at the NEC in Birmingham, this is a pretty great quality recording which will be up in full sooner or later on the MLBFCollection channel - this is just a test of fixing up the audio a bit, this is a great show in terms of performance and quality and I really dig the intro for this part of the tour (always found it funny how "god" was edited out of the Wasted Youth Speech) - featured here is the 2003 arrangement of 'Wasted Youth' over tape into a live rendition of 'Do It!'
Enjoy :p
Lead Vocals - Meat Loaf [RIP]
Lead Vocals, Percussion - Patti Russo
Lead Guitar - Paul Crook
Guitar, Vocals, Keyboards - Randy Flowers
Bass, Guitar, Keyboards, Piano, Vocals - Kasim Sulton
Drums - John Miceli
Piano, Keyboards, Vocals - Mark Alexander
Backing Vocals, Guitar - C.C. Colletti-Jablonski

[@madhatterster]

Imagine how epic this would have been with BREAK IT instead of DO IT! Omg.

[@WhiskeyBrewer]

I was there for this one. The hospital guerny stuff and the ultraviolet masks

[@MLBFCollection]

Do It! begins at 03:11 :)

[@simontemplar9772]

Yeah I was disappointed in the CHSIB tour because that was the start of him using taped vocals

[@MLBFCollection]

Yeah I think it was the first tour he prominently used backing tracks on I honestly never minded it up until the mixing horrors of the 2015-16 tours

[@simontemplar9772]

What mixing horrors were they ?

[@MLBFCollection]

Oh the live mix was just all over the place during that tour Some times the backing track was so loud that Meat was inaudible and other times the exact reverse A lot of the time you couldn't hear the bass like at all and the overall mix throughout especially 2016 was just a muddy nightmare Of course Meats vocal condition at the time didn't make it much easier for them but even so, some 2015 shows nearer the end of that first tour were mixed better and are actually pretty enjoyable compared to the majority of recording from that era

[@simontemplar9772]

@MLBFCollection aw right I see what you mean. I know there's was an issue with the lead guitar sound on the 3 bats live dvd. And the guilty pleasure tour was just far too polished for my liking. Just my opinion

[@MLBFCollection]

No I agree, I prefer the early stages of the Hang Cool Tour - from mid 2011 onwards there was also occasional live autotune into 2012 I'm sure but most of what you hear on the DVD shoot is pitch correction done during production - I actually find the pitch correction on the Melbourne 2004 dvd to be quite noticeable as well though but it's less harsh since his voice was in pretty great condition even near the end of the Last World Tour in February 2004 We don't have any March 2004 recordings but I wonder how he'd have sounded by the time he reached New Zealand