Day 07- A Song That Reminds You of a Certain Event

Yes, Meat Loaf. Yes, Paradise by the Dashboard Light. I was a giant Rocky Horror nerd/floorshow cast member from the time I was 15 onwards. And, amazingly enough, the first ever live concert I went to was to see Meat Loaf when I was 18. (This was in 1989! Yes, I am very old.) Pretty much every one of my friends from the Rocky Horror cast went to see this show at a local rock club. And Meat Loaf blew the damn doors off the place. He was one hell of a showman! It was a pretty awesome concert, all told. So, this song always reminds me of my first real concert/live show as a "grown up".

Amusingly enough, whenever I later went to karaoke with female friends, I somehow always got stuck singing the Meat Loaf part when we did this song since they all wanted to do the girl part. See also: Summer Lovin' from Grease, where I always got stuck doing the John Travolta part. No, I do not have a particularly deep voice. XD (I was Columbia in Rocky Horror cast because I was small and squeaky; I just had really girly friends I guess!)

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