Meatloaf - Paradise by the Dashboard Light

This is WAAAAY crazy for me to post this video (as this song represents to me EXACTLY what was distinctly awful about the record industry's bloatedness back in 1978, when this song came out), but I was prompted to post by a humorous item in today's NY Post's Page Six column about how Warner Brothers nixed the release of this "Bat Out of Hell" LP after a live performance in Warner's office that apparently repulsed Mo Astin, the then head of Warners. So the deal never got done.

In this video you get a glimpse of what might have transpired in that office. Warning: it ain't pretty.

In 1978, Cheap Trick headlined Chicago's Riviera Theater (couldn't find any gig archive link for this, but it happened!). Openers? Meatloaf. I attended that performance with my high school pals, and in retrospect, Meatloaf was a pretty absurd operner choice for Cheap Trick. But we watched. And it was a lot like this video. The big white shirt. The hair. The Sweat. All on very dangerous display.