3 Bats Live

Video by Meat Loaf

Released

October 15, 2007 (UK)
November 20, 2007 (U.S.)

Recorded

March 18, 2007

Genre

Hard rock, progressive rock^[1]

Length

2:25:00

Label

Hip-O

Meat Loaf chronology

Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose
(2006)

3 Bats Live
(2007)

Piece of the Action
(2010)

3 Bats Live is a music DVD by rock singer Meat Loaf. Recorded on March 18, 2007 at London, Ontario during his "Seize the Night" tour, it mainly features songs from the Bat Out of Hell trilogy.

Track listing

All songs by Jim Steinman, unless otherwise noted.

"All Revved Up with No Place to Go" (very short version)
"Paradise by the Dashboard Light"
"You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth"
"Out of the Frying Pan (And into the Fire)"
"Life Is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back"
"I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)"
"Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer than They Are"
"Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through"
"Seize the Night" (very short version)
"The Monster Is Loose" (John 5/Desmond Child/Nikki Sixx)
"Bad for Good"
"If It Ain't Broke, Break It"
"Blind as a Bat" (Child/James Michael)
"Two Out of Three Ain't Bad"
"Bat Out of Hell"
"Black Betty" (Traditional)
"It's All Coming Back to Me Now"
"Mercury Blues"
"Gimme Shelter" (Jagger/Richards)

Extra features

Extra features include the videos for "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" 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 United Kingdom on November 11, 2008 by Mercury UK and is also available as an import in the United States. No official US Blu-ray release has been set at this time by Hip-O or Mercury.

Personnel

Meat Loaf – lead vocals
Kasim Sulton: Bass, Vocals
John Miceli: Drums
Mark Alexander: Keyboards, Vocals
Paul Crook: Guitars
Randy Flowers: Guitars, Vocals
Dave Luther: Saxophone, Keyboards, Vocals
Marion Raven – Guest Vocals
Aspen Miller – Vocals
"C.C." Coletti-Jablonski: Vocals

References

↑ Allmusic Review

Meat Loaf

Studio albums	Stoney & Meatloaf (1971) Bat Out of Hell (1977) Dead Ringer (1981) Midnight at the Lost and Found (1983) Bad Attitude (1984) Blind Before I Stop (1986) Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell (1993) Welcome to the Neighbourhood (1995) Couldn't Have Said It Better (2003) Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose (2006) Hang Cool Teddy Bear (2010) Hell in a Handbasket (2011) Braver Than We Are (2015)

Live albums	Live at Wembley (1987) Live Around the World (1996) VH1: Storytellers (1999) Bat Out of Hell: Live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (2004) 3 Bats Live (2008)

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	Live Hits Out of Hell Bad Attitude – Live! Bat Out of Hell II: Picture Show VH1: Storytellers To Hell and Back Bat Out of Hell: Live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra 3 Bats Live Meat Loaf: In Search of Paradise

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) Mad, Mad World (2012) Last at Bat (2013)

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" "Peace on Earth" "If I Can't Have You" "Stand in the Storm" "All of Me" "The Giving Tree"

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