Classic Rock Revisited founder Jeb Wright recently caught up with rock legend MEAT LOAF to discuss his new Guilty Pleasures DVD, which Wright describes as "making this one show that you wish you could have been at. The quality of the DVD, however, makes you feel like you are there."

An excerpt from the interview is available below:

Jeb: Have you ever looked in the mirror and wondered why people like you so much?

Meat: "What I’ve done is look in the mirror and wondered why people see things so differently. It is a very strange thing. You can get one hundred great reviews and then get one bad one. The bad one stays with me."

Jeb: Are you really that sensitive?

Meat: "Yeah."

Jeb: I didn’t get that idea when I met you. I have been at meet & greets and people are lined up like they are meeting the President."

Meat: "I do meet & greets differently than any other artist. My meet & greets are 30 or 40 minutes long."

Jeb: You ask people questions.

Meat: "I ask them where they work and I ask them what they do. I joke with them a little bit. I will say, 'Are you married?' They will say, 'No.' I will say, 'Why not?' I try to make them at ease and not be nervous around me. Sometimes it doesn’t make any difference, as you get a person that just shakes and I just want them to stop that because I have all the respect in the world for them.

To answer your question about when I talk to the audience, I will tell you this: Whenever I say something like that directly to the audience I am never acting, as that is how I feel. I take the stage with total commitment to that performance. If I am off that night – my wife has been with me where I’ve had a bad show and I just sit in the middle of my dressing room floor in tears. I am not feeling bad for me; I am feeling bad for the audience. They paid money to see me. They paid money to park their car and they probably had to give their left arm for a beer. I am that dedicated.

I did an interview yesterday and this guy asked me, 'Do you mind doing the old songs?' I said, 'I don’t have any old songs.' That would be like saying to someone who loves classical music, 'Are you still listening to that guy Bach?' It would be like saying to a Shakespearean actor, 'Are you still doing that old play, Hamlet?' There are no old songs. Well, there is THE ARCHIES. They have old songs."

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