Guitarist BRUCE KULICK (GRAND FUNK RAILROAD, ex-KISS) checks in with the following update:

"After two amazing camp days, I knew Day Three would be equally exciting. MEAT LOAF was the scheduled guest and my history goes way back to 1977 with him. My brother Bob and I toured with Meat Loaf for the original Bat Out Of Hell Tour, which took us around the world a few times. A DVD of that band from a German TV show was just released, so there was much to ask Meat for sure!

The day started with me running through some of the songs, and we were still uncertain of all the tunes we would play. But for sure we had an original from JON ANDERSON's singing along to our Hendrixy jam, and we always knew 'Cold Gin' would work as number 2 song. But it was a bit of a shocker when I got news that Angus, who was to sing 'Mr Jones', was called up on Special Forces duty and would NOT be at the camp that day! I knew he was excited to meet Meat Loaf as well, as he is a BBC DJ, but we forged on without him tightening up the other songs. I gave a nice guitar theme idea from Vito's jamming to be the verses of the original song, and of course had Myles come in on harmony guitar as I love two guitars working like that. I was to play bass as Angela wanted to get 'Cold Gin' down cold, and for a newbie on bass that was enough for her pretty fingers. The room smelled of new skin from her protecting her fingertips!

After lunch it was time for the Meat Loaf interview and there was quite an excitement at the camp. Meat is so famous, for more even than having the THIRD MOST SELLING album of all time, Bat Out Of Hell (Michael Jackson being #1). Movies, stage, TV, etc, etc... Meat Loaf has had quite a career. I wanted the interview to focus on making it in the music biz, as Meat was told NO WAY hundreds of times when he first tried to get the project off the ground. He was VERY talkative and very entertaining, and I have to admit his personality easily fills a stadium, no less a room of campers.

Meat had vintage photos from that tour with him, and I was freaking seeing them. He also played the audience a song best described as Meattalica, as it was very heavy and huge sounding with STEVE VAI on guitar and Meat's famous vocals. The crowd was thrilled to have a sneak preview of his upcoming CD, which has many cool guests like Brian May from QUEEN appearing on it.

Later on he came around to all the band rooms, and when he came into my band's we played the original tune. He talked about stage presence and how you have to OWN the stage when you play, and all his tips were VERY helpful for my campers. Angela was practically fainting, as she was definitely the biggest Meat Loaf fan in the room and had more than a dozen things signed by him! We took pix and said farewell, and all of us were like, 'WOW! What an amazing guy'.

Then it was back to work on more rehearsal, and later on I had to give a master class and jam with campers. So, another full day of Rock n Roll at the Fantasy Camp. Saturday we record at Capitol Records with Eddie Kramer producing."