Meat Loaf Legacy - 1980 Its Rock n Roll - UNAIRED Meat Loaf & Jim Steinman game show

From 1980 the never broadcasted pilot of It's Rock n Roll, hosted by Richard Belzer.
Meat Loaf and Jim, Steinman were the contestants in this pilot

[@irisbrandt2959]

Meat's laughter was so lovely! 🥰 He and Jim were an unbeatable team, because Jim was a Rock lexicon and Meat knew a lot. They should have let them stay in every show and only change the other lol. 😂

[@Barbie_All_The_Way]

Meat's laugh is my favorite thing about him. Jim and Meat are a force to be reckoned with

[@lauriedumas7537]

Meat and Jim are adorable here! Meat's laugh is the best...cuteness!! ♥♥

[@PowderBlueML]

His smile always does it for me. ❤️

[@Barbie_All_The_Way]

It's really cute to me and I say that now but I can listen to it all day

[@Barbie_All_The_Way]

I wish I could see a video of Meat Loaf and Jim together. They probably acted like brothers and messed with each other

[@tenshialpha]

Thank you for this! I don't think I've ever seen Meat & Jim hanging out together in such an informal setting before, it's fun. Also, Jim really suits that blindfold, doesn't he?

[@ctuckwell6562]

Probably because we're used to seeing Jim in funky eyewear! Looking forward to watching this later tonight.

[@jenniferhowell8944]

Congratulations Meat and Jim steinman and Trish. Super excited for yall .

[@marmartin528]

He’s like a kid playing with friends. And knowing all the answers. Lovely. ❤️

[@beautyangelfriends6566]

👏👏👏Well that was a hidden gem, a lot of fun & I enjoyed it😍Great to see unseen Meat Loaf & Jim Steinman🥹So lucky the tape of this show wasn’t just erased like so many, thanks for uploading it🙏🏻xxx

[@ctuckwell6562]

Wow, great find, thank you for sharing! Meat jamming his hand down on the buzzer first, so that Jim can give the right answer; that's great teamwork right there!

[@jacquelinedillon354]

Phenomenal thing to surface! Thank you.

[@barbaraschafer8216]

Thank you for posting this.

[@avm6891]

Amazing find!!

[@audreymaclelland3995]

Any more?

[@gmwcfhg]

This reminds me of a popular British show called Pop Quiz that debuted on the BBC just one year after this pilot was made, one big difference being that there were 2 teams made up of 3 pop stars and no regular contestants

[@blueharvest77]

Looked like Jim & Meat were having a blast.

[@sarahfurbey]

Thank you! x

[@thesisypheanjournal1271]

Oh my God Richard Belzer looks like Rick Ocasek!

[@themadmattster9647]

This is absolutely amazing

[@wormquartet]

This is amazing.

[@M_Ladd]

I can see why it didn't make it! The only thing the guests did was pick a category.

[@TheRadioAteMyTV]

What's more painful, the budget of this show or the dude in the audience who can't stop whistling?

[@WaltGekko]

Richard Belzer after he and Scotty Brink were let go as the morning show on WNBC (66 AM) in New York when Don Imus returned and over a decade before Belzer would begin playing Det. John Munch on "Homicide: Life on the Streets" and after that ended on "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit," also guesting as Munch in several other shows.

[@Lovuschka]

Funny thing is, Meat Loaf later sang "California Dreamin'" also.

[@katherinekoza6536]

Richard Belzer also stared in Law and Order SVU . as John Munch

[@maccant4707]

Brian Nankervis, you been watching this show? The OG rockwiz SBS Australia. Of course you and Julia Zamiro refined and improved the concept, well done.👍

[@VainEldritch]

Miss ya Jim and Meat.

[@TheRadioAteMyTV]

If it didn't air, did the contestant get paid, or was it just a run through pilot to see if it would work and the contestants were pretending to be contestants?

[@MLConcerts]

your guess is as good as mine...

[@Barbie_All_The_Way]

Why would you not broadcast it? That doesn't make sense

[@Bimorcomics]

This was essentially a test pilot to shop the show to advertisers, networks, syndicators, etc. Since it wasn’t picked up, it just went on the shelf.

[@Barbie_All_The_Way]

14:34

[@bossleonie7658]

Why is the guy from law and order hosting this?

[@fumblemonkey5500]

He was a stand-up comedian before his Law & Order days.

[@mikeholmanlovesyou]

Had anyone BUT Belzer hosted this, it may have been picked up.. he ruined it by his lame jokes and always trying to boss the stars around.

[@Bimorcomics]

Loved Belz, but his hipster standup persona around 1979/80 was not quite ready for the middle America audience. (Or that audience wasn’t ready for him.)

[@ryanschroeder9903]

Worst pilot I've seen. Wish they made more!

[@marvinleeaday1]

Man sieht diese wundervollen, harmonischen Bilder der beiden BestBuddy'sEver, und fragt sich, wieviel Boshaftigkeit muß in den falschen Schlagen von den jeweiligen Beratern der beiden gewesen sein, das sie es schafften dieses DreamTeam für soviele Jahre auseinanderzutreiben?! Was hätten wir Fan's für einzigartige Songs erleben und hören dürfen, wenn die Versöhnung nicht erst 1993 stattgefunden hätte. Ein Beispiel dafür ist: "MAKING LOVE OUT OF NOTHING AT ALL"(komponiert von Jim 1983! Und zuerst der damaligen Plattenfirma von Meat angeboten , die lehnten aus Kostengründen ab: WAS FÜR IDIOTEN!!!) war dann mit BONNIE TYLER und AIR SUPPLY ganz passabel aber leider auch nicht viel mehr! Jedoch bei MEAT's damaligem Stimmvolumen wäre dieser Song der weltweite MegaHit geworden, welcher später durch: " I'll do anything for Love" erzielt wurde. Weiteres Beispiel: BAT OUT OF HELL 3 ( Release: 2006! Somit Meat schon 59 Jahre alt und durch sein rastlosen, kräftezehrenden Lebenstil absolut nicht mehr stimmlich auf hohem Niveau, sorry!) deshalb Fazit: BAT OUT OF HELL 3: kam viel zu spät und Jim's Meisterwerke blieben im Endresultat deutlich hörbar, unter dem was Marvin( Meat) zu seiner Glanzzeit hätte leisten können! Sämtliche Alben danach sind selbst für eingefleischte und treue Meat- Fan's kaum zu ertragen, da stimmlich sein Zenit weit überschritten war. Diese Kritik soll niemanden beleidigen oder diskreditieren- es ist einfach mein persönliches Empfinden und ich kann mit Fug und Recht sagen, ich bin seit meiner Jugendzeit 93 treuer, unerschütterlicher Fan dieses Duo's ( Jim/ Meat) und werde es ganz sicher auch bis zu meinem letzten Atemzug sein - KEEP ROCKIN'