Guesting on The Joe Piscopo Show, rock icon Ted Nugent paid tribute to Meat Loaf, who passed away on January 20th at the age of 74.

Nugent: "He was such a shining light of just good will and decency and the work ethic. I cannot rave enough about what Meat Loaf epitomized for life, liberty and pursuit of rock and roll happiness. What a driving force of nature he was. I have a flood, a tsunami, a bombardment of incredible, funny, outrageous, bellyaching laughter moments (while collaborating on his Free-For-All album in 1976). Because we were all clean and sober, our humor, our laughter, our passion, our work ethic was united to deliver the ultimate musical performance. So between me and Meat Loaf and Tom Werman (producer) and everybody in our team, it was an absolute orgy of laughter. But once the recording button was hit, it was serious, serious business without losing the sense of humor and the passion and the outrageousness, and, more important, the defiance. What defines Meat Loaf's best music? He was a defiant son of a bitch, and I love him for that. And that will always be with us."

Free-For-All is Nugent's second studio album, released in October 1976 by Epic Records, and was his first album to go Platinum. A full year before Bat Out of Hell brought him international success, Meat Loaf was brought in by producer Werman to sing on the album. 

Meat Loaf was paid the sum of $1,000 for his contributions to the album, which included crafting his vocal arrangements and two days of recording sessions. He says that after he agreed to do the album he was sent a lyric sheet containing just the words with no arrangements. Having no idea what the songs were going to sound like, he nonetheless created the vocal arrangements for the songs that he recorded and performed.