3 Bats Live

3 Bats Live
Video by Meat Loaf
Released October 15, 2007 (2007-10-15) (UK)
November 20, 2007 (2007-11-20) (U.S.)
Recorded March 14, 2007 (2007-03-14)
Genre Rock
Length 2:25:00
Label Hip-O
Meat Loaf video chronology
Bat out of Hell: Live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
(2004)		 3 Bats Live
(2007)		 Hang Cool Teddy Bear
(2010)

3 Bats Live is a music DVD by rock singer Meat Loaf. Recorded in 2007 at London, Ontario during his "Seize the Night" tour, it mainly features songs from the Bat out of Hell trilogy.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "All Revved Up with No Place to Go" (very short version)
  2. "Paradise by the Dashboard Light"
  3. "You Took the Words Right out of My Mouth"
  4. "Out of the Frying Pan (And into the Fire)"
  5. "Life Is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back"
  6. "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)"
  7. "Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer than They Are"
  8. "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through"
  9. "Seize the Night" (very short version)
  10. "The Monster Is Loose"
  11. "Bad for Good"
  12. "If It Ain't Broke, Break It"
  13. "Blind as a Bat"
  14. "Two out of Three Ain't Bad"
  15. "Bat out of Hell"
  16. "Black Betty" (Traditional)
  17. "It's All Coming Back to Me Now"
  18. "Mercury Blues"
  19. "Gimme Shelter" (Jagger/Richards)

Extra features

Extra features include the videos for "All Coming Back to Me" and "Cry over Me," both directed by P. R. Brown. It also contains the "Monster Is Loose Animated Short Film" and "Making the Monster: Making of Bat out of Hell III", that were included on the CD+DVD UK edition of the Bat III album. A second disc contains a ninety minute retrospective documentary called Meat Loaf: In Search of Paradise, about preparations for the tour and its first leg.

Other editions

A Limited Collectors "deluxe edition" box was also released, which includes a replica tour programme, tour poster, bat shaped sticker, and guitar pick.

A Blu-Ray edition was released in the UK on 11 November 2008 by Mercury UK and is also available as an import in the US. No official US Blu-Ray release has been set at this time by Hip-O or Mercury.

Personnel

Meat Loaf
Studio albums
Live albums
Compilations
Hits out of Hell (1984) • The Big Ones (1984) • Heaven & Hell (1989) • Paradise By The Dashboardlight (The Very Best of) (1991) • Back From Hell! The Very Best of Meat Loaf (1993) • Back From Hell Again! - The Very Best of Meat Loaf Vol. 2 (1994) • Alive In Hell (1994) • Heaven Can Wait – The Best Ballads of Meat Loaf Vol. 1 (1996) • The Very Best of Meat Loaf (1998) • Piece of the Action: The Best of Meat Loaf (2009)
Videography
Tours
Bat Out of Hell (1977-78)  • Dead Ringer (1981)  • Meat Loaf & The Neverland Express Euro '82 (1982)  • World Tour / Monsters of Rock (1983)  • Bad Attitude (1984-85)  • 20/20 (1986-87)  • Lost Boys & Golden Girls / Bat Out of Hell 10th Anniversary (1988-89)  • Everything Louder (1993-95)  • Born to Rock (1996)  • The Very Best of... (1999)  • Storytellers (1999-2000)  • Night of the Proms (2001)  • Just Having Fun... (2002)  • Couldn't Have Said It Better (2003-04)  • The Hair of the Dog (2005)  • Seize the Night / The Three Bats (2006-07)  • Casa de Carne (2008)  • Hang Cool (2010-11)  • Guilty Pleasure (2011-12)
Singles
"What You See is What You Get" • "It Takes All Kinds of People" • "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth" • "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" (w/ Ellen Foley) • "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" • "All Revved Up with No Place to Go" • "Bat Out of Hell" • "I'm Gonna Love Her for Both of Us" • "Dead Ringer for Love" (w/ Cher) • "Read 'Em and Weep" • "Peel Out" • "In Europe '82 (4 Track EP)" • "If You Really Want To" • "Razor's Edge" • "Midnight at the Lost and Found" • "Modern Girl" • "Nowhere Fast" • "Surf's Up" • "Sailor to a Siren" • "Piece of the Action" • "Rock 'n' Roll Mercenaries" (w/ John Parr) • "Getting Away with Murder" • "Blind Before I Stop" • "Special Girl" • "A Time for Heroes" (w/ Brian May) • "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" (w/ Lorraine Crosby) • "Life Is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back" • "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through" • "Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer than They Are" • "I'd Lie for You (And That's the Truth)" (w/ Patti Russo) • "Not a Dry Eye in the House" • "Runnin' for the Red Light (I Gotta Life)" • "A Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste" (w/ Bonnie Tyler) • "No Matter What" • "Is Nothing Sacred" (w/ Patti Russo) • "Did I Say That?" • "Couldn't Have Said It Better" (w/ Patti Russo) • "Man of Steel" • "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" (w/ Marion Raven) • "Blind As a Bat" • "Cry Over Me" • "Los Angeloser" • "If I Can't Have You" • "All of Me"
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