01/20/2023
🕯️Today, we remember Meat Loaf.
This photo taken outside the theater with Meat Loaf, his daughter Pearl with her husband, rhythm guitarist and co-founder of the band Anthrax - Scott Ian and their child, is shared by Pearl Aday. She says: "I was born just a handful of miles away in Kingston, NY. Mom and I lived in Woodstock. Mom worked at Bearsville Studios in the 70s, and Dad worked on the legendary Bat Out of Hell album here. They met at the end of 1978 and married three weeks later in the beginning of 1979 over on Mink Hollow at the home of Todd Rundgren. I was the flower girl. So much wild history for us here in Bearsville and in the town of Woodstock, NY. We love you, Dad."
Michael Lee Aday better known as Meat Loaf, collaborated with producer/songwriter Jim Steinman and began production for Bat Out Of Hell in late 1975 at Bearsville Studios in Woodstock, NY. The album went on to sell over 43 million copies worldwide and is one of the best-selling albums of all time. Part of the credit for the LP’s mega-success certainly belongs to Todd Rundgren. When Rundgren discovered that the deal with RCA did not actually exist, he went to Albert Grossman. Grossman offered to put it on his Bearsville label but needed more money. Rundgren had essentially paid for the album himself!
One fond memory Rundgren has was Meat Loaf proposing to his wife. "We were up in Bearsville, there was a secretary at Bearsville Records, Leslie, and Meat Loaf kind of fell for her. She was a pretty girl, and he fell for her, and I remember when he kind of like did his first big move on her. We were in the Bear Cafe and he had a package that he had brought up from New York and presented it to her, and it was a giant whole salmon. And it was as if a bear had proposed to his mate. Instead of a ring, a salmon."
Meat Loaf will always hold a huge place in Bearsville History.
