Welcome to Digital Asset News to get top stories in crypto, current digital assets, and breaking down to bite-sized pieces. Today, we've got some pretty good stuff. First up, Novogratz plows ahead in DeFi amid the gamifying of crypto, and this article really is going to boil down to getting me into DeFi, and I'm going to show you exactly why. Also, our friends over at JP Morgan are going to have to pay $920 million to resolve a U.S. investigation into their dirty trading practices. This will be a quick article, but it just goes to show you that the real criminals aren't banking. Also, the presidential debates are tonight, so if you're going to watch, at least earn some T-Fuel over at Theta. And lastly, we're going to go over a poll where I ask the question, what's going to happen to the banks in the next five years? We had over 2,000 responses, and the results were pretty surprising even to me. But before we get into that, let's take a look at what's going on in the market. So it is the 29th of September, and it looks like it is around 2 p.m. trying to shore up some things, but here we are. So let's take a look. Down 1%. It seems like it goes up 1%, it goes down 1%. What are you going to do? Up 3% for the week. I'll take that little victory. And it's a 10-7-6, so hopefully we can breach that 11,000 barrier. Ethereum, down 1.4%, but hey, it's still up above 350, so I'll take that W. Tether's Tether, nobody cares. XRP, 24 cents. Watch out. Binance coin, $28 and up 3.5% in the fifth spot. That is amazing. Looks like it is jockeying for position back and forth between Bitcoin Cash and Polkadot. We'll see what happens, but Binance is really trying to get into the DeFi game. You can see what's happening with the Binance coin. Polkadot's down. Chainlink down big time, 6%, almost 7%, and followed by a $10 mark, so pretty awful. Bitcoin, still in top 10, don't know why. And everything else is pretty much just jockeying around for position. Any big news, any big players, Theta, up 4%, up 31% for the week, and I gotta tell ya, I gotta tell ya. Anything below a dollar like Digital Dave says is pretty much highway robbery. URIN Finance takes another plummet 20%, man, those are some huge swings for URIN Finance. I don't know how people stay in that game. I mean, I've got some pretty good ice in my veins, but to mess around with URIN, you've gotta be special. UMA, another DeFi product down 8%, down 4%, 3%, Celsius Network up 3%, almost gonna break that dollar barrier, and well deserved. Indigibyte down just a little bit, but we'll see how it goes in. Kusama, which I really have to take a look into is getting massive ground up 7.2% for the week, so congratulations all you Kusama holders. I do not hold it, but congratulations to you. Alright, let's get into today's top story. So speaking of DeFi. This was the article, I almost fell out of my seat because I was like, there's a lot of huge players getting into the game, and this is just one of those articles that just proves the whole point about where smart money is going. So title is Novogratz plows ahead in DeFi, and then the gamifying of crypto, which I think is a horrible title, what are you gonna do? Here's what's going on. Here's the meat and potatoes. Novogratz said that while banks are scared of what decentralized finance might do to their business, he's sure that DeFi is not a fraud and not something that's going to come and go. So Novogratz is right here. The banks are scared of what's happening to not just DeFi itself, what's happening in cryptocurrency and digital assets. I mean, look, just last week, Kraken, the cryptocurrency exchange, got essentially a banking license in Wyoming. What do you think is going to happen when you have Kraken, which is so far ahead of the curve? They know about custody. They know how to do cryptocurrency. They know how to do digital assets, and they're going to get into the game which is already established, which is all the different things that the banks actually provide. Checking account, savings account, debit cards, loans, high interest for savings or whatever you're going to put into the actual account, they're going to crush the banks, and that's only the start. So when you have something like that and you have something like decentralized finance or DeFi come along, what do you think the banks are going to do? Well, we answer that question actually, and what you think it's going to do in the poll, which we're getting into a little bit. Moving on, they state so Galaxy, and this is Mike Novogratz company, Galaxy Digital, is becoming a minority shareholder in ParaFi Capital, which makes DeFi investments. Other ParaFi investors include Bain Capital and Henry Kravitz, Kravitz, co-founder of Private Equity, Powerhouse, KKR and company. So if you're not in the whole game as far as finance, I'm not personally all around it. So I had to take a look at, well, Bain Capital, let's just take a quick look at what their assets under management are, and, oh, look at this, $105 billion, and then KKR, American Global Investment Company, a nice cool $148.5 billion. So this is what we might consider the smart money, and they are going into decentralized finance. So it's kind of a good indicator of where to look to actually put your money because they're getting in massively early. So this could be an opportunity, not financial advice, but I have to tell you, when I look at these types of things and see where people are going, I think to myself, Rob, you should probably look a little bit more closely at these projects. Moving on to states, it's probably 5% of our capital, roughly. So that's not a giant bet. Novigrat said of its entire investment in DeFi. But imagine this, 5% of your capital. He's like, that's not a big deal. It's only 5%. That's a huge, I think that's a huge amount, 5%. Look, when Paul Tudor-Jones came out, and Paul Tudor-Jones, you don't have to know this guy, he's like one of those legendary traders. He's only got like a little, you know, paltry 21 billion assets in our management. But when he came out and said, look, I'm going to put 1% to 2% of my total investments into not just, not Bitcoin, Bitcoin futures. People lost their mind. They could not believe this guy was going to come out of the woodwork and do anything like this because he is totally traditional finance. So when you have somebody like Novigrat's go, hey, I mean, we're in already in the space, cryptocurrencies or assets, but we're going to put 5% into DeFi. I think it's a bigger deal than what he's letting on. Just me. Let me know what you think of the comments section, but I think it's pretty big. Moving on. Lastly, really, he states, we want to stay close to the cutting edge. Novigrat said, my instinct is this is really an important part of the ecosystem. Perify was founded by Ben Forman, previously an executive at private equity firms KKR and TPG, which is the one we just talked about KKR and Perify began investing in DeFi in 2018. Can you imagine the steals that they got back then and its investments include apps like Compound, AVE and Uniswap? So here's my final thoughts. I'm looking at this and I've, I've been hearing great things about AVE compound, not too bad. And of course Uniswap, I love Uniswap. I love how they are building the community, how they did that airdrop, how they took and gave 400 coins away.  They gave it away to the community and it's a good project. It's a great project. I think it's, it can be huge and people have asked me like, well, you know, when are you going to sell your Uniswap? I don't think I'm going to. I think I'm going to stick myself into this ecosystem because I believe in what they're trying to do right there. And yeah, I'm going to take a hit on some profits, but who cares? At some point, you just have to ask yourself, what do I really believe in? Do I believe in what these projects are trying to do? How they're trying to change different things? Or am I just, you know, only in it for the money and then I'll peace out, depends on what you want to do. I mean, I understand I'm not not going to change the entire world, but I will take my stand in certain positions. And I like that. So when I think about Uniswap, great project. And now I really have to take a look a lot harder at Compound and Ave. So let me know what you think in the comment section, but I think this is huge. Moving on, this is a good segue to get into the actual poll that we recently did. And I started this on Twitter. And the question that I had was what will happen to banks in the next five years because of crypto digital assets? And there was some really good responses. And the comments are not going to go through all of them. But the ones that I did not expect to be the main one, which is banks will innovate or they'll create their own, was the clear winner by far. A lot of people do not have faith that banks are going to go away. They believe that they are in the pocket of the government and the government will actually bail the banks out at some point. And they will start to do things because, you know, that's just what the government seems to do for all the central banks and banks in general retail, what not. So banks will innovate 55 percent. And this was only four hundred and forty four votes, not too bad. And then over here in our YouTube poll, because as you can tell, I have a weak Twitter game. But in the YouTube poll, we had almost 1,800, well, over 1,800 votes and clear winner again, banks will innovate and continue leading finance. And I made that very good point. Will they continue leading? Thirty three percent said yes. And then in the close second, they'll create their own digital assets and take the lead. So I find it interesting that we are in this space and we talk about how great cryptocurrency assets are, but we don't believe that banks will ever get out of the way and just kind of lay down. Now, there is a big difference between innovating because it is the right thing to do and you want to upgrade certain things, do great things for your customers as opposed to innovating for survival. And I think that's essentially what's going to happen here. When you have to innovate to survive, it's amazing what you'll be able to do. And maybe that could be the case. Now, I see a blending, a merging of the old style financial and banks and what's happening over here in decentralized finance, DeFi, cryptocurrency assets and really come into a more open type of financial system.  I'm not for sure, but that's what I see. And honestly, I was surprised that it was voted this high. Anyhow, speaking of banks and how they should be a little more open, let's take a look at the next piece. Jamie Dimon. Oh, how we love you. JPMorgan Chase to pay 920 million, just about a shade under one billion because of spoofing. So what's going on here? Yet again, JPMorgan Chase is set to pay another record fines. This one almost a billion dollars to resolve probes from three federal agencies over its role in the alleged manipulation of global markets for metals and treasuries.  So I mean, sure, they pay are going to pay 920 million, but how much do they actually make? Three billion, five billion, 10 billion. So wouldn't it just be at in their best interest just to go, you know what, we're going to pay fines. Let's put the money away and just wait for these suckers in the government to actually, you know, rattle us out. We'll pay it and we'll move on, just like we've been doing for the entire entire lives in the bank. That's what I think is going on, but sad, but true. The figure was released Tuesday by the by the CFTC in a statement from Commissioner Dan Brookovitz. Bank is quietly settled. A long-running lawsuit that accused the bank of manipulating precious metals markets with spoofing trades. What's spoofing? Well, the penalty is a record, which is when sophisticated or spoofing when sophisticated traders flood markets with orders that they have no intention of actually executing and the practice was actually banned ever 2008 financial crisis and regulators have made it a priority stamp out.  And people look and look and go, wow, look at all those buy orders. There must be something going on. And then they fomo in and these guys are like suckers. We're not buying squat and they just pull the orders. That's spoofing. And they ban it in 2008. I mean, they had a good solid 12 years to get rid of it or to get rid of that practice in 2020. But hey, JPMorgan, do what they ever they want to do. The conduct of the individual's reference in days resolutions is unacceptable. And they are no longer with the firm. Daniel Pinto, co-president of JPMorgan, said in the statement, we appreciate that the considerable resources we've I can't read the rest of this. This is just a prime example of how it just put out some kind of nonsense statement just so people are like, OK, something, they're really going to do the right thing. They're not going to do the right thing. They're going to continue on with the same practice. Like I said, if you are going to make 3X, 5X, 10X, and you only got to pay a fine of 10%, just keep doing the same thing because nobody's going to jail and nobody really cares. And they're going to turn a blind eye. And that's why we kind of need DeFi, cryptocurrency, visual assets to come in because this stuff's got to stop. Lastly, this is so sad, the bank, the biggest US lenders by assets has entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the DOJ that will expire in three years if the firm satisfies its obligations on a deal, meaning you're on house arrest and just don't mess up anymore. And we'll just sweep this under the rug. That's sad. That is exactly how the world works. I'm sorry to say, kids. All right, let's move on. Speaking of how the world works, we have a new presidential debate, which is going on tonight. So if you're not in the US, this is not really interesting, but we're going to have another presidential election coming around in November, almost 40 days away. So we get to do these three debates, which are kind of useless, but it's always interesting to see what could be said. And if you're going to watch it, why watch it on CBS or ABC or what it's going to be, why not watch it on Theta? Why don't you support the Theta decentralization, Theta TV and come on over and watch it over there if you're into this type of thing and earn T-Fuel, which is pretty cool, right?  I got a whopping 32. So yeah, just come over here and check it out. I actually do have a streaming key and I swear I will actually start live streaming when I get some time. And that's just an excuse. I really should do that. But yeah, I'll probably be there tonight.  Oh, I can't wait for the comments. All right, and that's it for today. So a nice, easy, slick little video. I, we're not going to do Q of the day. I actually had two videos that I've already shot and I need to do some editing and it's going to be two different people. One is Freddie from Shieldfolio. He came in and did an explanation of the ghost pen and the ink that they use and the different chemists that he's actually gone through and actually got the different things, how long it's going to last. So I will put that up soon. And I also did a really good one with Ian Bellina from Token Metrics. And I asked him some great questions. I mean, I asked him some hard questions and one of those was about Shilling in 2017 when he had all the ICOs. So I will put that out and I will just say this. It was a very honest answer and I can appreciate that. But just to let everybody know, I also have a second channel. It's called Digital Asset News Clips. I did this channel for two reasons. First of all, sometimes I ramble a bit too much and I'll have like 30, 40 minute videos and that's just too much for some people. So I break them down into clips because time is money and I want to save everybody a little bit of time. And the second reason is because I don't want YouTube to come along and ban my primary channel, Digital Asset News. So I created this channel as a backup and I also do extra videos like here. They'll be called Dan Clips Exclusive where I don't have them here in ban and I put them over at Dan Clips. 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Welcome to Tovy TV, this is the Everton News Daily. Everton suffered a 2-0 defeat to Liverpool in the Mershade derby Anfield last night, I'm sure you all know it was a poor game, poor performance by everything to be honest. And Sean Deitch was asking his post-match press conference what his thoughts were on the performance and this is what he had to say. I think they had the upper hand in the early stages of the game without really opening too much up, our shape was good, covering shape was good from the defenders, the energy was decent but we didn't use the ball as well, we didn't look to play as much as what I hoped. And then it changes on 15-16 seconds where we hit the post and we don't quite react as quick, we know that Liverpool are good on that kind of transition phase, I know they've opened down time more recently but they're still a good outfit. We concede a goal really without needing to, just on transition I think Jordan has a bit of a misread, don't worry he's still got a lot to do even if he doesn't misread it but I think he has a bit of a misread. And that was the story of the first half, a breakaway goal out of a nothing sort of situation or one where we could have scored even and then we calmed it down and got to half time and it said to the players, I said look we've got to play, we've got to use the ball better but if you give away a goal so quickly it's very difficult then at any ground but certainly here, if you're two down, we kept plugging away, kept trying to play, too many sloppy passes, too many turnovers and then we created a really good chance for Tom, we don't take that, that might have made it nervy at the end of the game. But yeah, you know the players, the players have, I said last week, they've taken a lot on board, you know so I'm not going to be too critical, there's a lot going into the players, they've delivered a lot, they've been working very hard, very diligently, you know finding that balance of in possession, out of possession, sort of searching for the right framework of the team out of possession and then now we can turn that through a transition into good possession and affect teams so I think that's the next layer of what we want to do. Yeah it was a poor game let's be honest and I think there was a lot of optimism going into the game because of the win against Arsenal, there was only one game but I don't blame anyone to be honest because we were that good against Arsenal and I think maybe we put the amount of effort we did against Arsenal into that game last night then we might sort of different results but hopefully we don't know because it just seemed like the effort wasn't there from the plays and I think a big factor into the you know the game as well and the performance was against Arsenal we had Dominic Avalon is a massive focal point and you know he didn't score but you look at the numbers and you look at how everyone got up the pitch and and transitioned and the way we played and kept out of the ball Dominic Avalon was a massive focal point and you know you lose him and like I said before I don't have a like-flight striker so we had to put LSMs in there and I think that was a big I don't know if there's an issue well it is an issue because you know ultimately in my opinion he's just not good enough for the Premier League and I think it showed last night that you know playing as a lone striker you can't do what Dominic Avalon does and Sean Deitch was asked about that anyway and this is what he had to say yeah we'll see I mean he's working diligently I think he's adding up and down time the challenge we've got is not just to get the injury fit it's to get him generally fit so his body doesn't break down and I think that might you know I might have to give him extra time for that and actually slow that down to make sure because you know we don't want to play for one game one and for as many games as possible so that's going to be you know the right kind of challenge for me and the staff to make sure that we give him a chance to be really fit if you like rather than sort of getting him back for the sake of one game if you like so since I've called that one but hopefully we'll see how it's settling this week yeah I did say before and it'll be interesting to see what he'd what he would what he would do I didn't expect Sims to go in there and I can I can see why because you know with it you know he's physically he's a big striker so people could assume that he can do the job that Dominic Avalon does or does he he just doesn't for me and I don't think play it is maybe playing next to another striker he's a pot he's a poacher getting those areas and around a six-yard box always clinical in the in the box and he's on the ball but he just didn't do enough last night and that's not in on that's not on him to be honest you know you couldn't really give him a stick because he shouldn't be here should be absolutely undeveloped develop him but Everton poor recruitment means that he's ended up now starting in the Merseyside Derby and it shows you as well what the manager probably thinks of Malpay you know Malpay coming in and playing games for Lampard and then suddenly under a new manager your third-choice striker it'd be interesting to see what we go what we do going forward because you know he's played an hour and hour since whether he's gonna try and build on that they're gonna improve him and look what he did right and what he did wrong or just drop him bring Malpay in but then you're in a situation where you might be going just back to the start where you might realize well Malpay can't do it either then so it will be interesting what he does some coaching news today toffees have hired two new coaches they've appointed Tom Kearney and don't and Dan Coughnell as assistant heads of coaching I'm not I'm not a bright I academically I'm bright I'm not a very overall a bright person so maybe someone can tell me but I have no idea what an what an assistant head of coaching is or what that role requires them to do and why you have two of them but listen if they've been influenced by Sean Deitch's signings or they've been influenced by Kevin Thalewell then hopefully you know they're coming in to do a to do a massive job benefit us and hopefully the end result is ever to get better on the pitch because we need it and we didn't sign any players in January so hopefully these coaches can at least give us something I don't think they'll be getting the boots on and getting on the pitch on against Leeds on Saturday even being honest but if they can try and influence some change then great we've said a lot of changes in in the club this this season under Thalewell since he came in and last season lots of new coaches lots of coaches leaving coming and going so hopefully this can just be two new decent traditions but yeah I don't know much to say about them or what to say on them but there you go I'm just gonna report the news whether it makes a difference to Everton's fate I don't know but there you go that's all the news for today but of a quite one it's just everyone's I think on a down after yesterday to be honest but hopefully we'll get some more news and hopefully some good news before Leeds because I think we need the lift going into an important home game there without a manager and we're in need of three points desperate leaves in the bottom three and they're just above us so we can get the three points that be a big game but we'll talk about that later in the week there you go make sure you like this video and subscribe to the channel if you want more videos including live daily exclusive videos join us on top of those if you permit there is a QR code on the screen in about two seconds see you later


Michael Lea Day, better known by his stage name Meet Loaf, is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor. He is noted for the Bat Out of Hell trilogy of albums, consisting of Bat Out of Hell, Bat Out of Hell 2, Back Into Hell, and Bat Out of Hell 3, The Monster is Loose. Bat Out of Hell has sold more than 43 million copies worldwide. Almost 40 years after its release, it still sells an estimated 200,000 copies annually, and stayed on the charts for over nine years, making it one of the best-selling albums in history. He is also known for his powerful wide-ranging operatic voice and theatrical live performances. After he enjoyed success with Bat Out of Hell and Bat Out of Hell 2, Back Into Hell and earned a Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance for the song I'd Do Anything for Love, Meet Loaf experienced some initial difficulty establishing a steady career within the United States. However, he has retained iconic status and popularity in Europe, especially the United Kingdom where he received the 1994 Brit Award for Best Selling Album and Single, appeared in the 1997 film Spice World, and ranks 23rd for the number of weeks spent on the UK charts as of 2006. He ranked 96th on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with worldwide sales of more than 80 million records. He has also appeared in over 50 movies and television shows, sometimes as himself or as characters resembling his stage persona. His most notable roles include Eddie in The The Rocky Horror Picture Show, 1975, Robert Bob Paulson in David Fincher's Fight Club, 1999, and The Lizard in the 51st State, 2002. He has also appeared in several television shows such as Monk, Glee, South Park, House, M.D. and Tales from the Crypt as a guest actor. Early Life Marvin Lea Day was born in Dallas, Texas. He was the only child of Wilma Artie, a school teacher and a member of the Vododoo Girls Gospel Quartet, and Orvis Wesley Day, a police officer. His father was an alcoholic who would go on drinking binges for days at a time. A day and his mother would drive around to all the bars in Dallas, looking for Orvis to take him home. As a result, a day often stayed with his grandmother, Charles C. Norrid. Meatloaf relates a story in his autobiography, To Hell and Back, about how he, a friend, and his friend's father drove out to Love Field to watch John F. Kennedy land. After watching him leave the airport, they went to Market Hall, which was on Kennedy's parade route. On the way, they heard that Kennedy had been shot, so they headed to Parkland Hospital, where they saw Jackie Kennedy get out of the car and Governor John Connolly get pulled out, although they never saw the president taken out. In 1965, a day graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School, having already started his acting career via school productions such as Where's Charlie, and The Music Man. After attending college at Lubbock Christian College, he transferred to North Texas State University, now the University of North Texas in Denton. After a day received his inheritance from his mother's death, he rented an apartment in Dallas and isolated himself for three and a half months. Eventually, a friend found him. A short time later, a day went to the airport and caught the next flight leaving. The plane took him to Los Angeles. Music career In Los Angeles, a day formed his first band, Meet Loaf Soul, after a nickname coined by his football coach due to his weight. During the recording of their first song, he hit a note so high that he managed to blow a fuse on the recording monitor. He was immediately offered three recording contracts, which he turned down.Meet Loaf Soul's first gig was in Huntington Beach at the Cave, opening for Van Morrison's band, Them. While performing their cover of the Howlin' Wolf song Smoke Stack Lightning, the smoke machine they used made too much smoke and the club had to be cleared out. Later, the band was the opening act at Cal State Northridge for Renaissance, Taj Mahal and Janice Joplin. The band then underwent several changes of lead guitar, changing the name of the band each time. The new names included Popcorn Blizzard and Floating Circus. As Floating Circus, they opened for the Who, the Fugs, the Stooges, MC5, Grateful Dead and the Grease Band. Their regional success led them to release a single, once upon a time, backed with Hello. Then Meet Loaf joined the Los Angeles production of Hair.During an interview with New Zealand radio stations EM, Meet Loaf stated that the biggest life struggle he had to overcome was not being taken seriously in the music industry. He compared his treatment to that of a circus clown. Stoney and Meet Loaf With the publicity generated from Hair, Meet Loaf was invited to record with Motown. They suggested he do a duet with Sean Stoney Murphy, who had performed with him in Hair, to which he agreed. The Motown production team in charge of the album wrote and selected the songs while Meet Loaf and Stoney came in only to lay down their vocals. The album, titled Stoney and Meet Loaf, Sick, Meet Loaf as one word, was completed in the summer of 1971 and released in September of that year. A single released in advance of the album, What You See Is What You Get, reached No. 36 on the best-selling Soul Singles chart, the same chart is now titled Hot R&B Hip Hop Songs, and 71 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. To support their album, Meet Loaf and Stoney toured with Jake Wade and the Soul Searchers, opening up for Richie Havens, The Who, The Stooges, Bob Seeger, Alice Cooper and Rare Earth. Meet Loaf left soon after Motown replaced his and Stoney's vocals from the one song he liked, Who Is the Leader of the People, with new vocals by Edwin Starr. The album has been re-released after Meet Loaf's success, with Stoney's vocals removed. Meet Loaf's version of Who Is the Leader of the People, was released, but the album failed. More Than You Deserve After the tour, Meet Loaf rejoined the cast of Hair, this time on Broadway. After he hired an agent, he auditioned for the public theatre's production of More Than You Deserve. It was during the audition that Meet Loaf first met his future collaborator Jim Steinman. He sang a former Stoney and Meet Loaf favourite of his, I'd Love to Be, As Heavy as Jesus, on VH1 Storytellers. Meet Loaf shares his first introduction with Jim Steinman, Meet would revive Steinman's reaction to his intimate audience, well, I think you're heavy as two Jesuses to be a matter of fact, and with that, got the part of Rabbit, a maniac that blows up his fellow soldiers so they can go home. Ron Silver and Fred Gwynn were also in the show. After it closed, he appeared in As You Like It with Rahul Julia and Mary Beth Hurt. He recorded a single of More Than You Deserve, with a cover of In the Presence of the Lord as the B-side. He was only able to save three copies of it, because the record company did not allow its release. With those three copies he released many rare CDs featuring the two songs. He recorded it again, 1981, in a slightly rougher voice. The original single came out on RSO 407 with some promotional copies bearing both songs, while some were double A-side copies with More Than You Deserve in mono and stereo on them. The Rocky Horror Picture Show During the winter of 1973, after returning from a short production of Rainbow in New York in Washington, D.C., Meet Loaf was asked to be in The Rocky Horror Show, playing the parts of Eddie and Dr. Everett Scott. The success of the musical led to the filming of The Rocky Horror Picture Show in which Meet Loaf played only Eddie, a decision he said made the movie not as good as the musical. About the same time, Meet Loaf and Jim Steinman started work on Bad Out of Hell. Meet Loaf convinced Epic Records to shoot videos for four songs, Bad Out of Hell, Paradise by the Dashboard Light, You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth, and Two Out of Three Ain't Bad. He then convinced Lou Adler, the producer of Rocky Horror, to run the Paradise video as a trailer to the movie. Meet Loaf's final show in New York was Gower Champion's Rockabye Hamlet, a Hamlet musical. It closed two weeks into its initial run. Meet Loaf later returned occasionally to perform Hot Patootie Bless My Soul for a special Rocky Horror reunion or convention, and rarely at his own live shows, one performance of which was released in the 1996 Live Around the World CD set. During his recording of the soundtrack for Rocky Horror, Meet Loaf recorded two more songs, Stand By Me, A Benny King Cover, and Clap Your Hands. They remained unreleased until 1984, when they appeared as B-sides to the nowhere fast single. In 1976, Meet Loaf recorded lead vocals for Ted Nugent's album Free For All when regular Nugent lead vocalist Derek St. Holmes temporarily quit the band. Meet Loaf sang lead on five of the album's nine tracks. As on the Estonian Meet Loaf album, he was credited as Meet Loaf, one word, on the Free For All liner notes. Major success. Bad Out of Hell Meet Loaf and friend-songwriter Jim Steinman started Bad Out of Hell in 1972, but did not get serious about it until the end of 1974. Meet Loaf decided to leave theatre, and concentrate exclusively on music. Then, the National Lampoon show opened on Broadway, and it needed an understudy for John Belushi, a close friend of Meet Loaf since 1972. It was at the Lampoon show that Meet Loaf met Ellen Foley, the CO star who sang Paradise by the dashboard light with him on the album Bad Out of Hell. After the Lampoon show ended, Meet Loaf and Steinman spent time seeking a record deal. Their approaches were rejected by each record company, because their songs did not fit any specific recognized music industry style. Finally, they performed the songs for Todd Rundgren, who decided to produce the album, as well as play lead guitar on it. Other members of Todd's band Utopia also lent their musical talents. They then shopped the record around, but still had no takers until Cleveland International Records decided to take a chance. In October 1977, Bad Out of Hell was finally released. Meet Loaf and Steinman formed the band The Neverland Express to tour in support of Bad Out of Hell. Their first gig was opening for Cheap Trick in Chicago. He gained national exposure as musical guest on Saturday Night Live on March 25, 1978. Guest host Christopher Lee introduced him by saying, and now ladies and gentlemen I would like you to meet Loaf. Pauses, looks dumbfounded, I beg your pardon, what? He listens to the directors aside, oh. Why, why I'm sorry, yes, of course, ah. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Loaf. During a show in Ottawa, meet Loaf lumbered off the stage and broke his leg. He toured with the broken leg, performing from a wheelchair. During this time, meet Loaf began heavy use of cocaine, had a nervous breakdown and threatened to commit suicide by jumping off the ledge of a building in New York. In the middle of recording his second album, Bad for Good, meet Loaf lost the ability to sing, it is unclear as to the exact cause the tour was a punishing one, and the vocals are energy intensive. However, his doctors said that physically he was fine and that his problem was psychological. Nevertheless, Steinman decided to keep recording Bad for Good without meet Loaf. Bad out of Hell has sold an estimated 43 million copies globally, 15 million of those in the United States, making it one of the highest selling albums of all time. In the United Kingdom, alone, its 2.1 million sales put it in 38th place. Despite peaking at number 9 and spending only two weeks in the top 10 in 1981, it has now clocked up 485 weeks on the UK albums chart, May 2015, a figure bettered only by rumours by Fleetwood Mac for 87 weeks. In Australia, it knocked the Bee Gees off the number-one spot and went on to become the biggest selling Australian album of all time for several years. It is now second on the list. Bad out of Hell is also one of only two albums that has never exited the top 200 in the UK charts, this makes it the longest stay in any music chart in the world, although the published chart contains just 75 positions. Dead Ringer In 1976, Meet Loaf appeared in the short-lived Broadway production of the rock-musical Rockabye Hamlet. Songwriter Jim Steinman started to work on Bad for Good, the album that was supposed to be the follow-up to 1977's Bad out of Hell, in 1979. During that time, a combination of touring, drugs and exhaustion had caused Meet Loaf to lose his voice. Without a singer, and pressured by the record company, Steinman decided that he should sing on Bad for Good himself, and write a new album for Meet Loaf, the result was Dead Ringer, which was later released in 1981, after the release of Steinman's Bad for Good. After playing the role of Travis Redfish in the movie Roadie, Meet Loaf's singing voice returned, and he started to work on his new album in 1980. Steinman had written five new songs which, in addition to the track More Than You Deserve, sung by Meet Loaf in the stage musical of the same name, and a reworked monologue, formed the album Dead Ringer, which was produced by Meet Loaf and Stefan Galfas, with backing tracks produced by Todd Rundgren, Jimmy Eovini and Jim Steinman. In 1976, Meet Loaf appeared on the track Keeper Keep Us, from the intergalactic touring band's self-titled album, produced by Galfas. The song Dead Ringer for Love was the pinnacle of the album, and launched Meet Loaf to even greater success after it reached No. 5 in the United Kingdom and stayed in the charts for a surprising 19 weeks. Cher provided the lead female vocals in the song. A comedy-documentary movie was filmed to accompany the release of Dead Ringer, written and produced by Meet Loaf's managers David Zonenberg and Al Delantash. It featured Meet Loaf playing two roles, himself, and a Meet Loaf fan, Marvin. Zonenberg persuaded CBS to advance money for the making of the movie, which was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival and won some favourable reviews. The album reached No. 1 in the United Kingdom, and three singles were released from the album, Dead Ringer for Love, with Cher, I'm Gonna Love Her for Both of Us, and Read M & Weep. The tour was planned to support the album, but it was cancelled after one show once the advance money had been exhausted. Struggle Midnight at the Lost and Found Following a dispute with his former songwriter Jim Steinman, Meet Loaf was contractually obliged to release a new album. Struggling for time, and with it seemed no resolution to his arguments with Steinman on the horizon, eventually, Steinman would sue Meet Loaf, who subsequently sued Steinman as well, he was forced to find songwriters wherever he could. The resulting album was Midnight at the Lost and Found. According to Meet Loaf, Steinman had given the songs total eclipse of the heart and making love out of nothing at all to Meet Loaf for this album. However, Meet Loaf's record company refused to pay for Steinman. This was hard luck for Meet Loaf, as Bonnie Tyler's version of eclipse and Air Supply's version of making love would top the charts together, holding No. 1 and No. 2 for a period during 1983. Meet Loaf is credited with being involved in the writing of numerous tracks on the album, including the title track, Midnight at the Lost and Found. The title track still regularly forms part of Meet Loaf concerts, and was one of very few 1980s songs to feature on the 1998 hit album The Very Best of Meet Loaf. This was the last album that Meet Loaf did with the record label Epic until the best of album. On December 5, 1981, Meet Loaf and the Neverland Express were the musical guests for Saturday Night Live where he was reunited with fellow Rocky Horror Picture show alum Tim Curry. Curry and Meet Loaf teamed up in a skit depicting a one-stop Rocky Horror shop. Later, Tim Curry performed the Zucchini song and Meet Loaf and the Neverland Express performed Bad Out of Hell and Promised Land. In 1983, he released the self-written Midnight at the Lost and Found. Bad Attitude In 1984, Meet Loaf went to England to record the album Bad Attitude, it was released that year. It features two songs by Jim Steinman, both previously recorded. The recording of the album was rushed and it was mainly an attempt to keep Meet Loaf from going bankrupt during this period of lawsuits. It concentrated more on the hard rock side of Meet Loaf, which was a minor success around the globe and released a few hit singles, the most successful being Modern Girl. It also holds Jump in the Gun and Peace of the Action, which are among Meet Loaf's favorite songs. The American release on RCA Records was in April 1985 and features a slightly different track list, as well as alternate mixes for some songs. The title track features a duet with the who's lead singer Roger Daltrey. Modern Girl was taken from this album and was the biggest hit. Peace of the Action, Sailor to a Siren is the B-side and Nowhere Fast were also released singles with extended mixes and exclusive songs, take a number, stand by me, a Benny King cover, and clap your hands. The latter two songs were recorded during the sessions for the Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack. On the cover of this album, there is a note that this album was recorded in Munich and it is produced by Mack known as the Queen Producer from the 1980s. During the tour to support the album, Leslie, Meet Loaf's wife, had a nervous breakdown and had to check into the Silver Hill Hospital rehab facility in Connecticut. Things finally looked like they were going to turn around in 1986, when Meet Loaf found a new writer, John Parr, and started recording a new album, blind before I stop. The album resulted in critical failure and Meet Loaf going bankrupt, eventually losing everything. His relationships with longtime friend Jim Steinman and Leslie also deteriorated. In 1985, Meet Loaf did some comedy sketches in England with Hugh Laurie. At some point, Meet Loaf tried stand-up comedy, appearing several times in Connecticut.  It features production, mixing, and general influence by Frank Farion. Meet Loaf gave songwriter another shot with this album and wrote three of the songs on the album. Released as a single, in the United Kingdom, was Rock and Roll Mercenaries, which was a duet with rock singer John Parr. Another single released in the United Kingdom was Special Girl. According to Meet Loaf's 1998 autobiography, the album sold poorly because of its production. Meet Loaf would have preferred to cancel the project and wait to work with more Steinman material. However, the album gained a cult following over the years, citing the song's execution day and standing on the outside as stand-out tracks on the record. Standing on the outside was also featured during the third season of the 1980s television series Miami Vice, it was used several times during the episode titled Forgive Us Our Debtz, first aired December 12, 1986. In the former USSR, this was the first Meet Loaf album officially permitted to be published, in connection with the beginning of the collapse of the Iron Curtain. The song Masculine was the only song off the record that was a live show Mainstay from 1987 to 1992.  Return to popularity. Meet Loaf performed thrashing for the soundtrack of the 1986 skateboarding cult classic film Thrashen, directed by David Winters and starring Josh Brolin. To try to get his career back off the ground, Meet Loaf started touring small venues, such as pubs and clubs. Slowly, he developed a faithful following which grew to the point where they were unable to fit into the venues that Meet Loaf was playing, and then they too began to grow. This carried on until the late 1980s, where he began to sell out arenas and stadiums again, including over 10,000 tickets at Ohio State University. Leslie studied to be a travel agent, so they could save on travel expenses, and they toured all over the United States, Germany, England, Scandinavia, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Greece, Abu Dhabi, Oman and Bahrain. With the help of his New York collection of musicians John Golden, Richard Raskin and Paul Jacobs his European tours enjoyed immense popularity in the 1980s.  Because of the success of Meet Loaf's touring in the 1980s, he and Steinman began work during the Christmas of 1990 on the sequel to Bat Out of Hell.  The artist's then manager, Tommy Manzi, later told Hit Quarters that music industry insiders were wholly unenthusiastic about the idea of a comeback, and considered the project a joke. The immediate success of Bat Out of Hell too quickly proved any doubters wrong, with the album going on to sell over 15 million copies, and the single I'd Do Anything for Love, but I won't do that, reaching number one in 28 countries. Meet Loaf won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance, solo in 1994 for I'd Do Anything for Love. This song stayed at number one in the United Kingdom charts for seven consecutive weeks. The single features a female vocalist who was credited only as Mrs. Loud. Mrs. Loud was later identified as Lorraine Crosby, a performer from England. Meet Loaf promoted the song with American vocalist Patty Russo who performed lead female vocals on tour with him. In Germany, Meet Loaf became notably popular following the release of Bat Out of Hell too but has enjoyed most of his success among pop rock fans. Also in 1994, he was honored by singing the star-spangled banner at the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, something he says was one of the two biggest highlights of his career. Meet Loaf attempted to follow the success of I'd Do Anything for Love, but I won't do that, by releasing rock and roll dreams come through as a follow-up. This song reached number 13 in the United States. Welcome to the Neighborhood In 1995, Meet Loaf released his seventh studio album, Welcome to the Neighborhood. The album went platinum in the United States and the United Kingdom. It released three singles that hit the top 40, including I'd Lie for You, which reached number 13 in the United States and number 2 in the United Kingdom charts, and Not a Dry Eye in the House, which reached number 7 in the UK charts. I'd Lie for You, and That's the Truth, was a duet with Patty Russo, who had been touring with Meet Loaf and singing on his album since 1993. Of the twelve songs on the album, two are written by Jim Steinman. Both are covers, the original sin from Pandora's Box's original sin album and Left in the Dark first appeared on Steinman's Own Bad for Good as well as the 1984 album Emotion by Barbara Streisand. The video had a bigger budget than any of his previous videos. Other big hits, namely I'd Lie for You and Not a Dry Eye in the House, were written by Diane Warren. The Very Best of Meet Loaf In 1998, Meet Loaf released The Very Best of Meet Loaf. Although not reaching the top 10 in the United Kingdom, it went platinum in December of that year, and was already platinum around the rest of the world just after its release. The album featured all of Meet Loaf's best known songs, a few from his less popular albums from the 1980s, and three new songs. The music on the two Steinman songs was written and composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The single from the album was Is Nothing Sacred, written by Jim Steinman with lyrics by Don Black. The single version of this song is a duet with Patty Russo, whereas the album version is a solo song by Meet Loaf. The album did not feature any songs from his 1986 album Blind Before I Stop. Couldn't He Have Said It Better In 2003, Meet Loaf released his album Couldn't He Have Said It Better. Only for the third time in his career, Meet Loaf released an album without any songs written by Jim Steinman, not counting live bonus tracks on special edition releases. Although Meet Loaf claimed that Couldn't He Have Said It Better was the most perfect album he did since Bet Out of Hell, it was not quite as successful. However, the album was a minor success worldwide and reached No. 4 in the UK charts, accompanied by a sell-out world tour to promote the album and some of Meet Loaf's biggest hits. One such performance on his world tour was at Sydney's 2003 NRL Grand Final. There were many writers for the album including Diane Warren and James Michael, who were both asked to contribute his 2006 album Bet Out of Hell 3, The Monster is Loose. Diane Warren has written for Meet Loaf in the past and had some very big hits. James Michael had never written for Meet Loaf before and it was only his songs that were released as singles from the album. The album featured duets with Patty Russo and Meet Loaf's daughter Pearl Adé. Hair of the Dog and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra From February 20 to 22, 2004, during an Australian tour, Meet Loaf performed his classics with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, titled Bet Out of Hell, Live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. He went as far as to bring in the Australian Boys Choir to do back-up on a Couldn't He Have Said It Better track, Testify. The show went on to spawn a DVD and a CD called Meet Loaf and the Neverland Express featuring Patty Russo live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. The CD had few edited songs from the concert on it. Meet Loaf sold out over 160 concerts during his 2005 tour, Hair of the Dog. On November 17, 2003, during a performance at London's Wembley Arena, on his Couldn't He Have Said It Better tour, he collapsed of what was later diagnosed as Wolf Parkinson White Syndrome. The following week, he underwent a surgical procedure intended to correct the problem. As a result, Meet Loaf's insurance agency did not allow him to perform for any longer than one hour and 45 minutes. As well as singing all the classics, Meet Loaf sang a cover version of the hit single Black Betty. During this tour he also sang Only When I Feel, a song meant to appear on his then-upcoming album Bet Out of Hell 3. The song subsequently turned into If It Ain't Broke, Break It. Bet Out of Hell 3, The Monster Is Loose Meet Loaf and Steinman had begun to work on the third installment of Bet Out of Hell when Steinman suffered some health setbacks, including a heart attack. According to Meet Loaf, Steinman was too ill to work on such an intense project while Steinman's manager said health was not an issue. Steinman had registered the phrase Bet Out of Hell as a trademark in 1995. In May 2006, Meet Loaf sued Steinman and his manager in Federal District Court in Los Angeles seeking $50 million and an injunction against Steinman's use of the phrase. Steinman and his representatives attempted to block the album's release. An agreement was reached in July 2006. According to Virgin, the two came to an amicable agreement that ensured that Jim Steinman's music would be a continuing part of the Bet Out of Hell legacy. The album was released on October 31, 2006, and was produced by Desmond Child. The first single from the album It's All Coming Back to Me Now, featuring Marion Raven, was released on October 16, 2006. It entered the UK Singles Chart at No. 6, giving Meet Loaf his highest UK chart position in nearly 11 years. The album debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 and sold 81,000 copies in its opening week, but after that did not sell well in the United States and yielded no hit singles, although it was certified gold. The album also featured duets with Patti Russo and Jennifer Hudson. In the weeks following the release of Bat3 Meet Loaf and the NLE, The Neverland Express, did a brief tour of America and Europe, known as The Bases Loaded Tour. In 2007, a newer, bigger worldwide tour began, The Seize the Night Tour, with Marion Raven, serving as a supporting act, throughout the European and American tour. Portions of the tour in February 2007 were featured in the documentary Meet Loaf, in Search of Paradise, directed by Bruce David Klein. The film was an official selection of the Montreal World Film Festival in 2007. It opened in theatres in March 2008 and was released on DVD in May 2008. During a performance at the Metro Radio Arena in Newcastle upon Tyne, England on October 31, 2007, at the opening of Paradise by the Dashboard Light he suggested that the crowd of thousands should enjoy the performance as it was the last of his career. He attempted to sing the first line of the song, but instead said ladies and gentlemen, I love you, thank you for coming, but I can no longer continue. Removing the jacket he was wearing, he thanked the audience for 30 years, said goodbye forever and left the stage. His tour promoter, Andrew Miller, denied that this was the end for Meet Loaf and said he would continue touring after suitable rest. The next two gigs in the tour, at the NEC and Manchester Evening News Arena were cancelled because of acute laryngitis and were rescheduled for late November. The concert scheduled for November 6, 2007 at London's Wembley Arena was also cancelled. Meet Loaf cancelled his entire European tour for 2007 after being diagnosed with assist on his vocal cords. After releasing a statement he said it really breaks my heart not to be able to perform these shows, adding I will be back. On June 27, 2008, Meet Loaf returned to the stage in Plymouth, England for the first show of the Casa da Carn tour alongside his longtime duet partner Patti Russo, who debuted one of her own original songs during his show. The tour continued through July and August with 20 dates throughout England, Ireland, Germany, Portugal, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. Six US show dates were also added for October and December 2008. Recent Years Hang Cool Teddy Bear In May 2009, Meet Loaf began work on the album Hang Cool Teddy Bear in the studio with Green Day's American idiot album producer Rob Cavallo, working with such writers as Justin Hawkins, Rick Brantley, Tommy Henrickson and John Bon Jovi. Though not much was revealed officially to begin with, Meet Loaf gave away some information through videos he posted on Twitter and YouTube. The album is based on the story of a fictional soldier, whose story furnishes the theme. During his March 19, 2011 concert held outside of Vancouver, BC, Canada, Meet explained that he had wanted an insert put with the album to explain what the premise of the album was, but he said there were too many bleeping record label politics and it did not get done. He went on to tell the audience that the story was of a soldier who being wounded, had his life flash forward before his eyes, and the songs were telling the story of his life. The album is based on a short story by 50.a based screenwriter and director Kilian Kerwin, a longtime friend of the singer.  Patty Russo and Cara Dioguardi also duet on the album. Meet Loaf himself describes the album as the most important of his career, not as good as bat out of hell but in the same ballpark. The guests, he says were not planned but he says the idea of using his friends came only when he saw them fit in a song and not as a commercial gimmick. Queens' Brian May features on guitar along with Steve Vai. It received positive reviews from critics and fans alike. The first single from the album, Los Angeloser, was released for download on April 5 with the album charting at number 4 in the official UK album chart on April 25, 2010. The Hang Cool Tour followed in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada with rave reviews from fans and critics. Patty Russo accompanied him on the tour, continuing through the summer of 2011. Hell in a Hand Basket In May 2011, Meet Loaf confirmed in a video on his YouTube account, that he was in the process of recording a new album called Hell in a Hand Basket. According to Meet Loaf, the album was recorded and produced by Paul Krug, Joe McKean did the mix with input from Rob Cavallo. The album features songs called All of Me, Blue Sky, The Giving Tree, Mad, Mad World, and a duet with Patty Russo called Our Love and Our Souls. On July 6, the album had to be finished for the record company. They released it in October 2011 for Australia and New Zealand, and February 2012 for the rest of the world. Meet said, It's really the first record I've ever put out about how I feel about life and how I feel about what's going on at the moment. The Mad, Mad World tour in connection with the album Hell in a Hand Basket was launched in late June 2012. For the tour Meet Loaf has said, People who come to Meet Loaf shows know what to expect. They know they're going to get full on energy with the best rock and roll band in the world. That's not an opinion. That's the truth. 2011 AFL Grand Final Performance At the 2011 Australian Football League Grand Final, the pre-match entertainment was headlined by a 12 minute medley performed by Meet Loaf. The performance was panned as the worst in the 34-year history of AFL Grand Final pre-game entertainment in a multitude of online reviews by football fans and Australian sport commentators. Meet Loaf responded by calling online critics butt-smellers, and the AFL jerks, saying I will go out of my way to tell any artist, do not play for them. Braver than we are and other album plans. Meet Loaf is planning to release a Christmas album called Hot Holidays. In media interviews to promote his 2013 last-at-bat tour, Meet Loaf claimed he would work with Jim Steinman again on an upcoming album called Brave and Crazy. The title of the album since changed to Braver than we are. The album was finished in February 2016 and was released on September 9, Europe, and September 16, North America. It features 10 tracks Meet claimed in several interviews that he will be recording reworked versions of Steinman's songs Braver than we are, speaking in tongues, who needs the young, and more, previously recorded by the Sisters of Mercy, for the album. Additionally, the song Prize Fight Lover, originally issued as a download-only bonus track for Hang Cool Teddy Bear, has been re-recorded for the album. Personal Life In 2001, Meet Loaf changed his first name from Marvin to Michael. Meet Loaf is a baseball fan and supporter of the New York Yankees. He is an avid fantasy baseball player and participates in multiple leagues every season. Meet Loaf is a supporter of the Northern English football team Hartlepool United and, in 2003, the BBC reported he was seeking a residence in the nearby area. He. Currently resides just outside Calabasas, California, near Saddle Peak and Calabasas Peak. He also does a considerable amount of charity work, and in June 2008, he took part in a football penalty shootout competition on behalf of two cancer charities in Newcastle upon Tyne in the United Kingdom. He auctioned shots to the 100 highest bidders and then took his place between the goal posts. He also participates in celebrity golf tournaments. Meet Loaf has expressed that he has social anxiety, being quoted saying I never meet anybody much in a social situation because when I go into a social situation, I have no idea what to do. He revealed that he does not even go anywhere, and also feels he leads a boring life, saying that he completely freaked when having to attend a party, and that he was so nervous, so scared. He also said he met with fellow musicians chiefly in work-related situations as he was working a lot. Family. In December 1978, he went to Woodstock to work with Steinman. It was at the Bearsville studio that Meet Loaf met his future wife, Leslie G. Edmonds, they were married within a month. Leslie had a daughter, Pearl, from a previous marriage, Pearl later married Scott Ian, the rhythm guitarist for the Thrash metal band Anthrax. A day in his family moved to Stamford, Connecticut, in 1979. In 1981, Leslie gave birth to Amanda a day, now a television actress. For a brief time after Amanda's birth, they lived in nearby Westport. According to Meet Loaf, Pearl, then in the fifth grade, came home crying because she had the wrong type of jeans and I said, That's it. We're gone. The family then moved to Reading, Connecticut, which is much more of a blue collar, working class kind of town, and it really didn't make any difference what kind of jeans you were wearing. I really liked it there. Meet Loaf coached children's baseball or softball in each of the Connecticut towns where he lived.In 1998, Meet Loaf relocated to California. Meet and Leslie divorced in 2001. He married Deborah Gillespie in 2007. At the start of his 2012 tour in Austin on June 22, Meet Loaf announced that he was a new resident, one month, of Austin, Texas. Meet Loaf was a vegetarian for ten years. Accidents and other incidents Meet Loaf is said to have cheated death on numerous occasions, crashing in a car that rolled over, being struck on the head with a shot during a shot-put event jumping off a stage during a concert and breaking both of his legs, and being afflicted with Wolf Parkinson White Syndrome, a heart condition.In October 2006, his private jet had to make an emergency landing at London's Stansted Airport after his plane's four-hour flight to the United States. The airport after his plane's forward landing gear failed. In 2011, Meet Loaf fainted on stage while performing in Pittsburgh. He collapsed again while on stage in Edmonton on June 16, 2016, due to severe dehydration after having cancelled two other shows due to illness. The playback containing his pre-recorded vocal track in Edmonton continued while he lay unconscious on the stage. Politics On October 25, 2012, Meet Loaf endorsed Mitt Romney for president of the United States, citing poor relations with Russia as a major reason he had been arguing for Mitt Romney for a year. Meet Loaf explained that �I have never been in any political agenda in my life, but I think that in 2012 this is the most important election in the history of the United States.� He cited storm clouds over the United States, and thunderstorms over Europe. There are hail storms and I mean major hail storms. In the Middle East. There are storms brewing through China, through Asia, through everywhere. The same day, he performed America the Beautiful standing next to Romney. Meet Loaf has criticized the court-ordered removal of a school prayer banner in Cranston, Rhode Island to Providence Journal on March 23, 2012. �I just said the world is going to hell in a handbasket because there are a lot more things to worry about than whether there is a prayer on the wall that�s been on the wall for 50 years that you think needs to come down.�


Live from Boston, Massachusetts, it's theCUBE, covering OpenStack Summit 2017, brought to you by the OpenStack Foundation, Red Hat, and additional ecosystem of support. Welcome back, I'm Stu Miniman, joined by my co-host, John Troyer. This is theCUBE worldwide leader in live enterprise tech coverage. Coming into the show this year here at OpenStack, discussion of Edge was something that had a little bit of buzz last year's show in Austin, the telecommunication, all the NFV solutions. We're definitely one of the highlights. Happy to welcome to the program a first-time guest, Beth Cohen, who is the SDN and NFV Network Product Strategy at Verizon, thanks so much for joining us. Thank you, yes. All right, so Beth, I mean we heard Cloud in the Box, Edge, all those pieces on the keynote Monday. People are excited, telecommunications. I worked in telecom back in the 90s. I'm excited to see that people are getting involved in looking at this, but before we get into all the tech, just tell us briefly about you and your role inside Verizon. So I actually work at Verizon as a new product strategist, so I come up with new products. So I do product management. This is actually my second product for Verizon. The previous one was Secure Cloud Interconnect, which is a very successful product. Who would have thought that connecting privately to the cloud would be a good idea? Turns out everybody thinks that's an excellent idea. But I worked in telecom back for GTE back in the 1990s and through BBN, so I've been in this industry for a while and I've always stayed kind of on the cutting edge of things, so I'm very excited to be working on these cutting edge projects within Verizon. All right, so speaking of cutting edge, let's cut to the edge. Cut to the edge. And give our audience a little bit about what the announcement was, the actual product itself. So virtual network services is a product we originally announced it in July with a universal CP box. That box was not what we're calling a white box, which I think is the industry term now. That one was based on the Juniper NFX250, which is we call gray box, so it's using the Juniper NFX software. But the new announcement is this is truly a white box. It's an X86 box. It's generic. Any X86 will work. And in fact, the product has, we realized actually working with customers that some customers want to have a very small box, very small footprint, low cost, that only supports maybe two, possibly three NFVs, virtual network functions. All the way up to our largest box is 36 core. So we have four core at the bottom. So that's used for the coffee shops or the small retail type functions where they're only looking for security and routing or security and SDN, or SD-WAN, or whatever, so very small compact use. All the way up to 36 core, which can support 10 or 12 different functions, so load balancing, routing, security, whatever you want. Cloud of the box. There's so many pieces of OpenStack and they've been for years talking about the complexity. This really, if I understand it right, I mean it's OpenStack at the edge in a small box, so how do we fit such a complicated thing in a little box and what kind of functionality does that bring, what will customers get with it? So obviously we didn't take all everything, of course, so it does include neutron for the networking and it does include Nova and the computes. And so it has the core components that you need for OpenStack and why did we choose that? Because OpenStack really gave us that consistent platform across both out at the edge and also within the core. So we are building the hosted network services platform, which we're using internally as well to host our, to support our network services and we're also supporting customers on the same platform. So that gives us the ability to give a customer experience both out at the edge and within the core. So of course, everybody wants to know the secret source. How did we cram that in? Containers, so we containerize OpenStack. One of the requirements is it had to be a single core. So it is a single core in the box because of course, particularly in a small box, you want to leave as much space as possible for services that our customers want because the OpenStack is the infrastructure that supports it all. That's great. So Beth, that was one of the highlights of the whole show for me, right? I like when tech blows my mind a little bit and the idea of something that we might have run in some embedded Linux or embedded OS before, now is actually running a whole cloud platform in a box in my office was amazing. As you're looking at the center of the network versus the edge, is that one, to you and to network ops, is that one big cloud? Is that a cloud of clouds? What's called the architecture? Yeah. Is it fog? Yeah, you could say it is a fog. Because one of the things when you pull the network out to the edge like that, Verizon lives, I mean, we live and breathe networks and networks are wands, wide area networks, right? They're everywhere. So we live and breathe that every day. So traditionally, as I mentioned in the keynote, is that cloud has been sort of data center centric, right? And that changes the equation because if you think about it, most data center centric clouds, the network ends at, there's some mystery thing that happens at the end, right? It just goes to that network router, NNI network to network, net router, and it just kind of disappears, right? Well, of course we know what's on the other side. So what we've done is we've said, okay, we have functionality within that data center, but we've expanded that out to the edge. And we understand that you can't just have everything sitting in the cloud and then rely on that edge to just work. So you need to move pieces of it out. So it's not reliant on that inside data center. So there's tools back there, but if that data center connection goes away, that function will still work out of the edge. That's great. You talked about both SDN and NFV, a big conversation at OpenStack for the last several years. Can you talk a little bit about maybe the state of SDN and NFV and how you all are looking at that and are we there yet? What places do you still see we need to go? So when I worked with the marketing team, they were like, oh, we have to use this NFV term, we have to use the SDN. And when I talk to customers, inevitably they're like, what is this NFV stuff? They have no idea. So really at the end of the day, I see NFV as a telco thing. Absolutely we need it, but we have to translate what that means to customers because all that backend stuff, as far as they're concerned, that's magic. That's the magic that we deliver the services. Those packets just arrive, they do what they're supposed to do. So I say, okay, network services is really what you're talking about. Because they understand, oh, yeah, I need the security, I need the firewall, I need that WAN optimizer, I need that load balancer. That they understand. Well, Beth, my telcom background, I think of there's lots of hardware, there's lots of cabling. There's the challenges that you have with wireless and we're talking a lot about 5G. You're talking about software though, and it's delivering those services that the customer needs. So right, is that what they ask for is that I need these pieces and now I can do it via software as opposed to before. We talked, it's the appliances to the software move. What are your customers asking for and how are they embracing this? Well, so our customers are very excited. I can't think of a single customer that I have gone to that have said, why would I do that? They're all saying, no, this is really exciting. And so what they're doing is they're really rethinking the network because they're used to having stacks of boxes. So the appliance base that was really pioneered back, of course Cisco sort of pioneered it back in the 90s, but I remember talking to Infobox back in the, oh like early 2000s, when they came out with the DHCP DNS appliance and I was like, wow, that's so cool. So this is sort of the next generation. So why do you need to have six different boxes that do a single thing? Why don't we just make it a cloud in the box and put all those functions together and service chain them? That gives you a lot more flexibility. You're not stuck with that proprietary hardware.  They have end of life equipment. The vendor's saying, forget it. This is 10 year old equipment. We're not supporting it anymore. Yeah, but what are the security implications here though? We've seen the surface area of where tax can come from just seems to be growing exponentially. I think I go to the edge. I've got way more devices. There's more vulnerabilities. Your last product you said was security. How does security fit into all of this? What are you hearing from your customers? How do you partner with other people? So security is absolutely paramount to our customers. As I mentioned in the talk, we did a survey of our customers. Security was absolutely the top priority. But security is a lot more sophisticated, as you said, than it used to be. And the vectors for attack are much more sophisticated. And so it's not enough to just have a firewall. Your attack is, the squishies inside and the hard outside, forget it. That's just, this is not the area. The motor gone, they're in the castle. They're in the castle, right. So for us, it's very appealing to our customers with the idea that they can put the security where they need it. So they can put it out at the edge. And some of them do want it at the edge.  We also find customers like the brand names. So we offer Palolato, Fortinet, Cisco, Juniper, and others will be coming. So that appeals to them. They tend to be a shop of one or the other. All on the software basis. All on the software basis, right. All virtual appliances, right. And at the end of the day, our customers don't actually care about the hardware. For them, it's the service. I wanted to take it over to OpenStack itself for a little bit. The great conversation here this week has been something about modularization, talking about the ecosystem, talking about containers, both the app layer up on top and the packaging layer down below, which is kind of really cool as well. How are you seeing the OpenStack community engage with the ecosystem, be available to different use cases like this, slim it down, take what you need, leave the rest, for a while the conversation was there were so many projects about everything. And do you feel like OpenStack is going where we need it to go now in terms of a usable partner and community to work with? I do believe that because, so my product is really a portfolio if you think about it. So it's a portfolio of services and I view our use of OpenStack in the same way. So we're really taking that portfolio of OpenStack services and pulling, putting together the package that we need to deliver the services. So what's out at the edge, that package of OpenStack services at the edge is not the same set of services as what's within the core data center. There's some commonality, but we've chosen the ones that are important to us for the edge and chosen the ones that are important to us for the core. So I think that the OpenStack community is really embracing this notion and we really welcome that thing. Now what I'm finding is that the vendors that we're supporting in the ecosystem at the application layer are still struggling with, okay, do we containerize? Do we, you know, do we support? What, how do we support it?  You have to be virtualized. You have to be able to support, you know, run under OpenStack and they have to get past that, that issue. I noticed in some of your social feeds, you've attended some of the women at OpenStack event. I wonder if you have any comment on the events there and diversity in general in the community. So one of the things I love about OpenStack is it's really gone out of its way and within the open source community in general to really focus on the value of diversity and it really does track the number of women that are, you know, there's a metric that says the percentage of women at every summit and it's going up and the women of OpenStack community focus on mentoring and it's not just women because mentoring's very important, but it really allows, but women that have sort of special challenges and minorities have special challenges as well and we really try to embrace that fact that, you know, you do need to leg up if you're not a 50 year old white guy. Beth Cohen, really appreciate you joining us. Congratulations on the keynote, the product and wish you the best of luck, you know, going forward. We'll be back with more coverage here from OpenStack Summit in Boston for John and myself. Thanks for watching theCUBE.


Good morning everybody. Wait for it, wait. Just like yesterday, another day comes around right on time for it, that's okay, I forgive it. Good morning, you fine person sitting right there. Or are you standing? You better sit down. Trucker Josh Logs is on. It's time to hang out and have some fun. What are we gonna do today? I don't know. But there is a challenge that was offered to me and Britt. It is the Christmas 2021 challenge. And we have been challenged by Troy and Angie from Beyond 1031. They are daily vloggers from Washington State. A lot of you know who they are already. I talk about them often. The link to their channel is down below all of my videos right there. Go down there, say Beyond 1031. Go check out his channel and subscribe. They have challenged us to a Christmas decorating contest next year. So we got a whole year to prepare and a little bit, a year and a month, 13 months. And you're going to be the judges, all of you, his channel and my channel. His channel is a lot smaller than mine for some reason. Even though he makes great content, he deserves a lot more viewers because he puts a lot of work into it. And guess what? He's going for the Guinness World Record for the most consecutive days vlogged ever. I think he's chasing only one person right now. That's Charles Trippie. I don't know how many days he's vlogged in a row but it's probably over 3,000, close to 3,000. He's been going nine or 10 years straight every day. So he is dedicated. He lives out in Washington state. Great guys, go check him out. He deserves a lot more followers than he has. I don't know why his channel hasn't taken off yet, but you know what? All it takes is a few people to notice it. There it goes. But he has challenged us to the Christmas 2020 and 21 channel. You should go to his channel and see his displays. What him and Angie come up with for Halloween. Christmas is coming. You'll see it this year yet. So just wait, go check it out at Christmas. But go to his like last year's Christmas videos and Halloween videos. They are artists, both of them. And they put a lot of time and effort into it. So it's going to be a really big challenge for us to beat them. But we're gonna try, because we both love Christmas a lot. We'll see what happens. So that's for next year though. For this year, there's another challenge. Seeing as we're in lockdown here, well, lockdown, we can't travel very far out of our region. But we can go little ways if we stay in our vehicle and stuff. So there's a challenge going on. Oh, hey guys, how's it going? Just telling me about the landmark challenge. There's 101 attractions and monuments or attractions around Manitoba, all the way from, you know, the South and Winkler, all the way up to Churchill. The challenge is you go take a picture beside every single monument. And then at the end, you put them into one big collage. So we'll see how much of this we can do right now until they open things up a little bit more. But I think that'd be a pretty cool way to explore the province that I live in, show you where I live, and have a little fun and get out on the road.  So on over here, boys, how's it going? Wiener, he had a little bit of an episode yesterday. Give him a long diesel. We're not sure what happened, but he must have pinched his neck or something. And we got home yesterday and he was crying in pain. And we were really worried that it was his back again, because he had that IVDD surgery a while ago and he's been doing great since then. It's been almost two years. Yeah, almost two years. So we're not too sure what happened. But we're gonna be very careful with him now. And he seems to be doing fine today. Both of you, you old guys, just stop scaring us like that. I don't have any gray hairs yet. So I'm thinking that this will be the breaking point. Yeah. Yikes. And you big guys, you watch it around him. He's a lot smaller than you.  And he has no problems whatsoever. Hey, you can do backflips, cartwheels. Well, he does a lot of arthritis, but he doesn't ever exhibit anything except for when you pick him up wrong. He can stand on his front leg. He can do anything, right? Yeah, well, I was in the Great War, so I have seen a lot of stuff. Makes a man out of him, grows some hair on your chest. Well, Chevy, we're gonna have to leave you at home for this one today. Or maybe we can take him with. You might have to wait in the truck for a little while. Unfortunately, I can't vlog about that because YouTube really doesn't like the boomsticks.  And while we're gone, we're leaving Wiener here. And like we said, he had a little bit of, he was showing signs of pain before. Get a little more light in here. So I'm here with Wiener's cage, his kennel. And like I said before, he was showing signs of pain before yesterday and we're a little bit worried about him and his back. So in order to keep him safe while we're gone, said he doesn't jump up and down or so that other bigger creatures don't step on him. I don't know who I'm referring to exactly. We don't know what happened. We don't know if that's what happened, but they were all sort of in the room together. Accidents could have happened, I don't know. I mean, they don't fight. That's not what I mean. But when they get excited, when we come home and they all go running to the door, it's gotten close before. So in order to prevent that from happening again, Wiener's gonna stay in his kennel here, in his bed, so that he can't hurt himself and that no one else can hurt him while we're gone. It's just for a couple of hours. All right, so there it is. I think this will do. I'll toss this in there for him. So we're soft asleep and we'll put his blanket in there for him too. Perfect, see? It's like it was meant for it. And that'll be that. It's nice and cozy and safe so that when we come home that he's not getting trampled. I know it sounds kind of bad, but you know they all get excited and accidents happen. We wanna reduce the risk of that. There we go. Got all the bedding and pillows covered with the dog sheet. Weasel? Weasel, wanna give it a try? Come on, bud. On the bed. You don't want to? It's okay, go on then. How's it feel? How's it feel? Cushiness, very nice actually. Very soft, not a little firm, not too soft. Good, good.  Stop staring at me, go play. There you go. Oh, now Chevy spotted us. Oh, he doesn't care as much. All right guys, we'll be back soon. Wiener, you're safe in there. Don't cause any trouble or you keep these two in line, all right Sergeant? Sergeant Frank, someone told me maybe your title should be Major Frank. We'll have to go and check that out. I think Britt is ready to go here. Are you just saying something? My gloves were in my purse the whole time. Aha, sorta like when I leave my phone in my pocket and then I spend half an hour looking for my phone that's in my pocket. Only that happens every day, not just once. Yes, it does. Well, I don't know if we can say so for sure or not, but I think I know what these guys are having for supper. I think they're racing fans. Racing fans? What? Everybody else knows what I'm talking about. You figure it out. He's got a smile. Large?  You don't see it today? And a large coffee with two cream to go please. Two creams on the side? No, just two cream in there. Yeah, that's it. Super duper. She thinks you're super weird. To go creams usually does mean those little creams. Okay, well, that's good to know. Next time I'll have to be more clear. Can I get it for pickup? Can I get a coffee for pickup place? How many people do you think I can be like? You're in the drive-thru already. It is to go. Yeah, one person in my last time I did that in the comments, they didn't get it. And they're like, well, I don't get it. You're in the drive-thru. It's already to go. Oh boy. Yeah, that's the joke. How have you made it this far in life? Britt says I slouch too much. Gotta sit up straighter. I wanted to talk. I've got my grandmother's posture. She had osteoporosis. She was like curled over. Is this better? Is this a normal people show?  Well, how am I supposed to sit? Is this normal? A little more relaxed. A little more relaxed. Like this? I let the special boy drive again. I know that they know who I am. Cause every time I come here, I stay super duper and they're probably like, oh, it's him again. The shake and bake guy paid for our coffees. Every now and then, I pay for the coffees of the vehicle behind me.  If you get free coffees, you're supposed to pay forward and next time you pay for the coffee of the people behind you. Maybe he saw us laughing at his license plate. We bought our coffees. So next time we see him around town, we've got to make sure we thank him. More of that kind of thing, but YouTube has a kind of a dislike for the boomsticks, but it was a lot of fun ski-tuting. I feel a lot better now. I feel like a lot of anxiety and stress is just blown away. Yeah, the fresh air helps too. The fresh air, yeah, just being out in nature, miles and miles from anybody. I think everybody's a little bit on edge right now. But this is, like I was saying yesterday, I just hope that they don't go further than this. This is about my limit where I'm, get why they did the lockdown. Here's a Chevy in here. Hi, Chevy. What you doing in here? Yeah, you in here because it's quiet, so you could be alone. Well, here I am to bug you. What are your other two wishes? Go ball away. He always comes in here when he wants to be alone. And then I come in here and ruin it. Cause that's what I do, right? It's my job. Ah, I wish I could have filmed more today. It's a lot of fun. I know there's a lot of channels out there that specialize pretty much just in hunting and firearms and stuff like that. I don't want my channel to, I guess be focused around that. YouTube is very touchy when you dabble into those topics. So I'd rather just play my cards safe and not risk it or not bother, you know, the overlords out in Silicon Valley. Don't like that kind of stuff. So there's a lot of other stuff we can talk about and make it interesting as well.  And I have always known about this game American Truck Simulator. You probably know where I'm going with this. It's actually a very good game. I've talked about it before. It was very well put together. I'm very impressed with it. I've got a steering wheel set up and everything. It's a lot of fun to play. I figure, you know what? I bet you we could make something interesting out of this as well. Make it separate from the vlogs. These vlogs are gonna still continue. Just the way they are. I'm not gonna change anything on here, but I might add some extra content onto the channel. Just bear with me as I'm just trying new things.  I have some time to do this stuff. And this is the kind of stuff I've always wanted to do and dabble with. So I'm gonna be adding some American Truck Simulator content onto my channel as well, probably in the evenings on a different schedule than these vlogs, but I just don't want you to worry. These vlogs are still gonna continue, okay? You can't stop the vlog. I can't let it stop. First of all, my buddy Troy that I was talking about before has been doing this for so long. I sort of feel like, you know, he's been doing it for so long. I've got to keep going as well. But just the heads up, that there'll be a little bit of extra content added on. I made a little bit of a teaser trailer. It's not exactly what the content's going to be, but on the game I bought my first truck. It's my Kenworth W900, it's a little day cab. And I'm working my way up. Eventually it's gonna have a sleeper on it. I'm gonna stretch the wheel base and, you know, the whole deal. I bought my first little trailer, it's a little pup trailer. Got the paint all matched on there. I think it looks pretty good. I made a little trailer showcasing my new truck on there. Maybe I'll slide it into the vlog here for you to see. So you know what I'm talking about. And like I said, I've got the whole setup. I've got the mic, so I'm going to be voicing over and talking while I'm driving down the road. I think it's gonna be a lot of fun. We'll see what happens. I don't know. It's just something new I'm trying. If it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out. But don't worry about these vlogs, okay? They're still gonna be, they're still gonna keep coming. I love making these too much. These are a lot of fun. And it's sort of like a diary of my life too, right? I can go back day by day in the future and see what I was up to. Britt has been very fascinated with the royal family lately. Watching all the royal videos. It's very fascinating. Did you know that the British royals are actually German? I knew that. Did you know that? The show reminded us of that again. I hadn't thought of it in a while, but they went through the, I guess what do you call it, the genealogy and stuff? Yeah. Yeah, the Windsors are actually German. The more you know. Check this out. Outside I got our Christmas light display. The whole front of the house is just lit up. There's nothing yet. You wait till you see us next year. We've got my setup. I know that I need a desktop but laptop's working for now. So the gaming stuff I've decided is going to go onto its own channel so that it's not all mixing on one channel. My vlog content and gaming content. That's two very different genres for two different audiences sort of. There's a lot of mixing. Some of you might like both of them, but this channel is going to stay in my daily vlog channel. Same thing we've been doing on here for the past nine, 10 years. Video every day of whatever's going on in my life and all my gaming content is going to go onto my new YouTube channel called TJV Gaming. I'm going to put a link down below in the description of this video. You can go there and subscribe. If you're into that kind of content and you want to see more of it, you saw the little preview just before this. If that's what you want to watch, it's going to be on a different channel. I think it's best just to separate it and then if you don't want the gaming stuff, you don't have to watch the gaming stuff. The vlogs will continue unimpeded just like normal here on this channel. I think that'll just work out better on my end anyways and I think it'll work out better for you guys as well. So if you do want to subscribe, go down below, find the link. Go to that channel, TJV Gaming. The avatar is a wolf howling. Oh, I don't think he's howling. It's a wolf anyways. That's my gaming avatar there. Have a good evening everybody. Take care. See you tomorrow. Don't forget to subscribe to this channel and the other one.