Meat Loaf — Live Around the World

Produced by Meat Loaf and Dave Thoener
Additional Production: Steve Buslowe & Randy Nicklaus
Engineered by Dave Thoener, Larry Alexander, Ben Fowler, Randy Nicklaus, Kooster McAllister & Nathaniel Kunkel
Mixed by Dave Thoener, Ben Fowler, Randy Nicklaus & James "Jimbo" Barton
Additional Engineers: Dan Gellert, Steve Boyer
Assistants: Barbara Lipke, Rory Romano
Recorded at various locations around the world 1977 — 1996, Effanel Music, Manor Mobile, Studio On Wheels, Record Plant Mobile
Mixed at Power Station (NYC), Cherokee Studios (LA) & Enterprise Studios (LA)
Mastered by Greg Calbi at Masterdisk Inc. (NYC)
Additional Mastering by Erik Labson at MCA Mastering

Management: The Left Bank Organization

Business Management: Bernie Gilhuly and Anthony Lipman for Tribe Management

Legal: Gary Stiffelman Esq. for Zifren, Brittenham, Branca & Fischer; Charles Ortner Esq. for Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker; Don Engel for Engel & Engel

Mixing Coordination: Rick Fagan and Mark Sullivan for Tribe Management

Front Cover Photo: Amanda Lee Aday. Painting: Rafael DeSoto

Band
Meat Loaf
Steve Buslowe: Musical Director, Bass Guitar, Background Vocals
Kasim Sulton: Rhythm Guitars, Keyboards, Background Vocals
Pat Thrall: Lead Guitars, Background Vocals
Mark Alexander: Piano, Keyboards, Background Vocals
John Miceli: Drums and Percussion
Patti Russo: Lead Background Vocals
Pearl Aday: Background Vocals
Jim Steinman: Voice on "Wasted Youth", Piano on "Heaven Can Wait" and "Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are"
Steve Lukather: Additional Guitar on "For Crying Out Loud"
Paul Mirkovich: Additional Keyboards on "For Crying Out Loud"
Jeff Bova: Organ on "All Revved Up" and "What You See Is What You Get"

Touring Staff Craig Evans, Tour Management; Rick Fagan, Tour Management; Alan Hornall, Production Manager; John "J.T." Thomson, Stage Manager; Eric Anderson, Drum Technician / Crew Chief; Billy Sheldon, Lighting Director / Designer; George Wehrlin, Front of House Sound Engineer; Peter "Bear" Barna, Head Set Carpenter; Marin Hodgson, Set Carpenter; Andrea Donnelly, Wardrobe; Dave Clements, Guitar Technician; Tony Roan, Guitar Technician; Rick Huber, Keyboard / Piano Technician; Derek Hay, Rigger; Arthur "Torch" Russo, Rigger; Norman Gomes, Rigger; Kevin Pruce, Monitor Engineer; Owen Orzack, Monitor Engineer

Booking Agencies: Jim Wiatt, Johnny Podell & Steve Chasman, IMC Inc., New York / Los Angeles; Jonathan Levine, Artis & Audience, New York; John Giddings, Solo-ITG Agency, London

Travel Agencies: Tribe Travel (LA); Happy Holidays Travel (Norwalk, CT)

Tour Coordination: Mark Sullivan and Paul Leighton for Tribe Management

Merchandising: Winterland Inc., 100 Harrison Street, 4th floor, San Francisco, CA 94105

US/UK Touring Vendors: Sound Company, Eighth Day Sound; Lighting Companies, Creative Stage & Lighting / NEG Earth Lighting; Trucking Companies, Upstaging Inc./ Edwin Shirley Trucking; Bussing Companies, Florida Custom Coach / Phoenix Bussing Services; Pyro Company, Luna Tech Inc.

Special Thanks to Jim Fifiueld, Ken Berry, Paul Conroy, Ray Cooper and Charlie Diamond and everyone at Virgin Records, Jane Calverley-Buslow, Shirley Buslowe, Zoe Thrall, Janet Alexander, Eve, Anna & Scot Miceli, Laurie, Alexandra, Tarick and Kasandra Sulton, Siro Pagliaro, Allan Kovac, Jeff Sydney, Bruce Tenenbaum, Randy Nicklaus, Jordan Berliant, Eli Lande, Lewis Kovac, Ed Thomas, Holly Browde, Lawrence Kovac, Carol Sloat, Katy Krassner and everybody at the Left Bank Organization, Bernie Kosar Sr., Andy Noch, New York Yankees, Mike Mascolo at International Pinball, Russ Gill and The Hollywood Allstars, Brett & Michelle Cullen, Curt Chaplin, Dan Hecht, Bruce Smith, Jim Kelly, Dan Marino, Bernie Kosar, The Valvano Family, Yogi & Carmen Berra, Phil Rizzuto, Earl & Peggy Shuman, Rabbit Christenson, Darren Henault, Robert & Barbara Patrick, Robert & Barbara Wuhl, Catherine Furniss, Rick & Erleen Fagan, Ira Resnick, Brian Rodgers, Sharon Tapper, The Staff at 3 Lincoln Center, and Tommy Manzi.

Steve Buslowe wishes to thank Larry Hartke at Hartke Systems, Jane McNall at Modulus Graphite & Greg Romani at D'Addario.

Mark Alexander wishes to thank Frank Sheenan at Hammond Suzuki USA, Inc. & Bill Dimarzok, Eugene Seagriff & Dom Cicchetti at Technics Musical Instruments.

Pat Thrall wishes to thank Larry Brooks & Christopher Zerbe at Seymour Duncan, Dave Cowles at GHS Strings & Jim Chowing at Rocktron.

Kasim Sulton wishes to thank Jim Archey at Gibson Guitars, Bill Mitchell at Mitchell Guitars, Rich Friedrion at D'Addario, Michael Sciortino at Quick-Lok Systems, Nick Owen at Soundscape Digital Technologies & Mitch Colby at Korg USA.

John Miceli wishes to thank Joh Barrie Dytke and Oliver Link at Sonor Drums, John King, John De Christofher & Lenny DiMuzio at Zildjian, Tracy & Kelly Firth at Vic Firth Sticks & John Roderick, Jr. & Kim Graham at Gibraltet Hardware.

All songs written by Jim Steinman, except “Midnight at the Lost and Found” written by M.L. Aday, Steve Buslowe, Paul Christie and Dan Peyronel; “Whatever Happened to Saturday Night” written by Richard O’Brien and “What You See Is What You Get” written by Patti Jerome and Michael Valvo.

Art Direction and Design: Fredette/Sparagno
Booklet Photography: Neal Preston, Mark Hadley, Kevin Mazur, Amanda Lee Aday, and Steve Rapport.