Artist: Meat Loaf
Title: Cleveland 78 (long version)
Date 21st April 1978
Location: Music Hall, Cleveland, OH, USA
Source: FM
Rating: 8.5/10

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Comments:
This is the longer of the two versions of this broadcast I have.
The other - titled "Get Out of Hell" - is superior in terms of quality, but is around 18 minutes shorter, missing: "intro / Bolero", "For Crying Out Loud" & the encore, "Hammer Down", plus all spoken intros. And, as the tracks are in a different order, must come from a re-broadcast of the show.
Those songs are the reasons I'm including this one, especially "For Crying Out Loud" which features just Meat and Jim Stienman on Piano, and "Hammer Down" which apparently comes from a Ted Nugent album, and features, Todd Rudegren & Utopia, playing with Meat's band.
This latter song must have been ommitted from most broadcasts of the show as Meat swears during the intro....

The quality for most of the show is near perfect, stereo (FM), but does have two sections where the taper, for some reason, retunes his radio to another station for a few seconds before returning to Meat.
Meat's voice is also in rather good form, certainly better than it was, five months later for the Nassau show (since removed/ banned
from DIME as some tracks were officially released - sorry).
If you're an "audio snob" and only like things perfect then wait for "Get Out of Hell" to be torrented in a day or so.

Track Listing
Intro / Bolero
Bat Out Of Hell
You Took The Words
For Crying Out Loud
Paradise By The Dashboard Light
Band Intros
Life and Death of an American Guitar (Cut)
--retune--
(cut) Story Intro
All Revved Up
River Deep Mountain High
Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad
--retune--
Hammer down (w/ Todd Rundgren & Utopia)