Comments about this gig posted on messageboards and mailing lists include:

Kasim Sulton
Kasim described this concert as "The past few shows have been great. What normally happens at this point in a tour is people start taking liberties with the parts they've been playing. You know, stretching out, pushing the envelope. That can be both good and bad. Good in terms of breaking the boredom of playing the same thing night after night and bad in terms of keeping the songs close to how they should be played. Each person, each part, depends on what the other instruments are playing. If Paul - our Lead Guitarist - decides to play a fill or a riff in a place where he normally doesn't, it has the potential to throw that whole section off. Granted, most times this doesn't happen as we're all pro's and pick our spots with the utmost care. But caring about what you play and WHEN and WHERE you play it is important.

This is mostly because our whole show revolves around one person, the lead singer. In this case, Meat Loaf. His comfort factor has to come first. If the changes taking place in songs over the course of numerous tours affect the singers ability to 'deliver' them, then you have a problem. Fortunately for us, everyone on the tour is aware of this and plays accordingly.

But, I digress ... As I said above, the shows have been going well. The band gets compliments every night from audience members. If you've never seen a Meat Loaf show before I can assure you it's not your average rock concert. On this particular tour, we're not using any pyrotechnics or unusual staging. We're just giving the audience an hour and forty-five minutes of pure rock. We start with a snippet of a Steve Earl song then launch into new and old Meat Loaf material barely stopping between songs. We're even performing a song that will apear on the next Meat Loaf / Bat Out Of Hell record due to start recording once this tour."

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Photo of Kasim taken from another concert on this tour