Remember Jones Tackles Some Heavy Meat Loaf
Remember Jones is the Asbury Park iconoclast who can go from Dean Martin, Dionne Warwick and Amy Winehouse to Joe Cocker, Queen and Tom Jones (with a stop along the way to star as the gender-bender Hedwig in a traveling company of Broadway musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch.) So now he’s back with a new show performing Meat Loaf’s 1977 Bat Out Of Hell album in its entirety with a 15-piece orchestra. He’ll be doing it October 17 at the South Orange Performing Arts Center and then again October 24 at the Hackensack Meridian Health Theatre at the Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank.
Bat Out Of Hell has sold upwards of 44 million records. According to the Remember Jones camp, “This is not a tribute act but a theatrical reproduction of the music and intensity like never seen before.” Meat Loaf [1947-2022] and Jim Steinman [1947-2021] wrote it. Todd Rundgren, Edgar Winter, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Max Weinberg, Roy Bittan, Ellen Foley and New York Yankee Legend Phil Rizzuto originally performed it on the album.