The Josh Innes Show - Meatloaf: The Musical

Episode Date: March 31, 2026

I didn't know this, but there is a Broadway show based on the music of Meatloaf. It's as if someone made a special musical just for me... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello, everybody. I just learned something that has me super duper excited. And what has me super duper excited is that there's apparently a meatloaf musical. Now, I think I knew this. Like, I'm probably heard like, oh, a meatloaf musical. But it never really registered with me or really, you know, occurred to me that a meatloaf musical would fuck. And I'm not talking about like, you know, the food meatloaf. I've already seen musicals about food.

I've seen the corn musical, not corn with a K. but corn with a sea like the food corn. I saw that one at the fabulous Fox Theater in St. Louis, Missouri. But there's apparently a meatloaf musical, and it's coming to Detroit. And it's like it was made for me. Let's get into this after these words. If you know anything about me, if you've ever listened to me on the radio, one of my favorite composer, producer, whatever you want to call them, one of my favorites is a gentleman by the name of Jim Steinman.

Okay? Jim Steinman is responsible for producing some of the greatest songs of all time. Just songs, at least in my mind, songs that are the greatest songs of all time. Songs that if you know me, you're like, okay, this dude loves these songs because this dude is probably gay. And let's see here. Let's let me list some of these songs that Jim Steinman, he produced and wrote some of the songs on Bad Out of Hell, of course, which Bad Out of Hell is the iconic.

meatloaf album, but also Dead Ringer, which is a meatloaf album. He did some Billy Squire stuff, more meatloaf stuff, Barry Manilow stuff. But here's some of the, most importantly, a song called Making Love Out of Nothing at All by Air Supply, which is an amazing song. They all have this big balls orchestral sound about them. And that's what I love about it so much. This big balls, orchestral, like, it'll blow you away. And it really sounds good on vinyl. And that's the only time I'm ever going to say that because I'm not someone that like, it gets into vinyl because I'm not one of those duffices that's like, hey guys, there are pieces of vinyl here. That's not really my thing. But when you listen to meatloaf's bad out of hell on vinyl, it will change your life.

I found it, not the original version of it, but I found basically a meatloaf greatest hits at a record store in St. Louis. And in St. Louis, we had a record player at Casey and you could play records on the air, you know, which I mean, I can't imagine there are too many radio stations that still even have that option, but there was a record player in the studio. And every now and then back early in the show, whenever they let me do fun things, I would place, you know, shit on vinyl. And like one day I tried to play, it was the anniversary of appetite for destruction. And we had a copy of appetite for destruction on vinyl. So I started playing it. And it never occurred to me that appetite for destruction.

instruction is like parental, I mean, it's a parental warning shit. Like it's, oh, by the way, it's like fucks and shits and titties and everything. So I'm in the middle of playing this on vinyl and I'm like, oh shit. I've made a mistake. Operator error. So I had to bring it into that. I was planning to play like a whole side of appetite on vinyl because it does sound cool. Like I didn't know that until I really started listening, but certain things just sound full and sexy and rich on vinyl.

I don't know if those are official vinyl. terms or not, but full and sexy and rich is how it sounds on there. But anyway, some of these Jim Steinman songs that I love. And when you hear them, you go, oh yeah, they all kind of have that same sort of sound of him. But there's air supply making love out of nothing at all. You've got Bonnie Tyler holding out for a hero and Bonnie Tyler totally eclipse of the heart. I believe it Jim Steinem was total eclipse. He had to have been. Like, Let me see here. Let me go back to Jim Steinman's Wikipedia, just so I can give you, you know, the facts.

The facts about Jimmy Steinman, because this guy ruled. Is he dead or is he alive? He had a stroke. See, April 29th, age of 73. Oh, he died. Jim Steinman is dead. Coming up on the anniversary of his death, April 19th, 2021. That makes sense.

So I would have been, like, just gotten to Nashville, I think, at that time, because I played all this fucking. meatloaf music on 105-9 The Rock the morning, that I guess it would have been Jim Steinman dying. That makes sense. But let me see here. I mean, he did making love out of nothing at all. He did, what's the other me? Oh, I would do anything for love, but I won't do that.

Two out of three ain't bad. God, this guy ruled. Ah, I tell you, this guy just made banger after banger after banger, after banger. And now, apparently, they're taking all of these. bang her ass songs and they're putting them in it well they've already done this i mean it's a musical that's been out for a long time but it's new to me damn it and it's all songs that i just freaking love kind of like mamma mia this is like if it's like a mama mea but of meatloaf it's like mama meatloaf is what this is boy like i like i like musicals man i not all musicals i want

to be very clear like i have no desire to go watch like the pirates of pincans or some shit like that. But if the music's good, I'm in. I think we've talked about this before, but I, let's see, when I was in Louisiana, was the first time I went to a Broadway show, was off Broadway, of course, because it was in Lafayette, Louisiana. But I saw Chicago, and I saw rent. 525,600 minutes. 525,000 moments old. dear 525,600 minutes. How do you measure measure a year in daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee,

in inches, in miles. Let me tell you. Now, the plot of rent, certainly a plot that Jade Nivey would not be a fan of. It's, you know, gay folks and people have the aides and they don't want to pay their rent. like the plot of it is not for me like it's like okay just pay your fucking rent like you you rent the house pay the fucking rent like the first song you hear in the musical is a song about not paying the rent and they feel like they're owed like free rent because the landlord is their buddy or some shit right like that's the whole point of rent and we're not gonna pay last year's rent like i mean well i mean you kind

of have to that's the way the world works but like either way so but rent solid musical Greece. Like you forget that Greece is actually a musical that was, you know, on Broadway at one point, you know. But Greece rules, Greece two rules, Mama Mia rules. I saw Chicago off Broadway. Boy, Chicago's a good show. Good tunes in Chicago. Again, I don't like every musical. You know, there's a lot of musicals that I have no interest in. Like someone offered me tickets to the sound of music the other day and I'm like, I'm not going to go see the fucking sound of music. My hills are not alive with the sound of music. I'm not interested. But what I'm interested in is going to see a, a musical that's based on the music of Meatloaf and Jim Steinman. Boy, that's going to rule.

I got to try to get tickets. I very rarely reach out for free tickets to shit because real talk, no one really gives me free tickets to shit. But I'm trying to get freebies to go see Bad Out of Hell, the musical with the music of Jim Steinman and Meatloaf. Mama Mia was a great musical. The only show I've ever seen actually on Broadway was Mama Mia, and it was all the music of Abba.

And now I guess they're touring again with a new version of Mamma Mia. Like, I don't know how they keep making new versions of Mamma Mia. Like, eventually you're going to run out of ABBA music, I think, maybe. I don't know. But is there a new movie version of it? Or are they touring again? Mamma Mia part, like, is there a Mamma Mia part three that's coming out? Okay, it's in Develop, and it's going to come out like 2028.

I just don't know what the hell else you're going to do in Mamma Mia part three. Because I think Mamma Mia, here I go again, was more of the same music. right? Not that any of you would know, I wouldn't expect you to. You're not as, you know, maybe, you know, borderline homosexual as I am. But let's see. Let's see what music was in Mamma Mia. Here I go again, because it was, I think, mostly the same shit. Let's see. When I kissed the teacher, I wonder. Now, I don't know if any of these were written just for these musicals or not. Let's see, there's Mamma Mia. I have a dream, a song to sing. Waterloo, that's a jam. Fernando's a jam. Super trooper is a jam

Super trooper lights are gonna find me But I don't feel blue Boy, AbbaFox It's funny, I was talking to my boss A little while ago About talking about doing a concert Because I've always wanted to do Butstock

And buttstock would be a butt rock Like concert in the vein of, you know, Woodstock but for butt rock, you know So and it would be to raise money for you know colon cancer, rectal cancer colorectal cancer whatever it might be, and that would be the whole point of this, is to raise money for a charity, and call it buttstock.

What we're learning is that a lot of these bands don't like to be associated with the term butt rock. And I'm like, well, guys, whatever gets you there, get you there, right? If you're going to make money, who cares if people call you butt rock? Like, I understand that you might be kind of offended that your music's kind of considered a joke to some. I'm using it as a term of endearment. It is a term of endearment.

This is not like a thing where I'm like, hey, you know, butt stock is a negative. It's a positive, and we're raising money for charity. It's a charitable thing we're doing here. So embrace it. But a lot of these bands do not embrace the idea of being butt rock. Like a lot of these artists don't embrace the concept of being yacht rock. Now, for the most part, most of them have because yacht rock's got a super positive vibe about it now.

But butt rock kind of gets a negative vibe. Say it'd start calling it like Divorce Dad Rock or whatever. It's butt rock. It will always be butt rock and it fucks. Right? But I'm trying to, like, build a concert around the concept of butt rock and make it buttstock. And, you know, we've gotten turned down by some. Some of them are too expensive. It's amazing how expensive some of these bands still are, like a puddle of mud or a buck cherry or something. Maybe buck cherry's not. I think it was puddle of mud.

And most of these bands don't have, you know, original members or the original singer, like Hinder. Hinder will cost you money. But the guy from Hinder that sings the song tours on his own. and the rest of the band just tours is Hinder, which I get is a basic thing that you see in a lot of rock music still, but I bring this up because I'm talking to my boss, and we were talking about the idea of maybe doing a show with like a saliva. I'm like, I know like one saliva song,

and then saliva and what about drowning pool? I'm like, I know one drowning pool song. But I can't just book a show for something based on what I like, because as we were discussing, right before my boss walked in, I was trying to get tickets to see the meatloaf musical. So I'm trying to get tickets to see the meatloaf musical. I don't know that I should be the one that determines, yeah, you know what?

Drowning pool and saliva is not going to be a show that moves any tickets because it may. There might be people that are super duper into the idea of seeing drowning pool and saliva. Now, they're touring together. And look, it wouldn't be for me. Like if I had options to go buy tickets to see drowning pool and saliva, I would not buy tickets for myself to go see drowning pool and saliva. But I cannot base what we do on whether or not I like it or not.

Like if it were my choice, buttstock would have, you know, hinder and buck cherry and stained or people like that. Well, stained is playing amphitheaters and shit right now, so we're obviously not going to get stained. But it would be more of like the ballady, you know, butt rocky jams of that era versus like, you know, saliva. Again, what do I know? But I bring that up because, you know, my taste in music, I can't just operate on my taste of music being the only taste that matters about whether or not we're going to do a show or not. Because, again, I'm looking for tickets to see Meatloaf the musical. And I'm explaining to you how I thought Mamma Mia was amazing.

And I'm explaining that I saw Chicago off Broadway and it was great. And that rent, while the subject matter is lame to me, the music in rent fucks hard. So again, am I the guy that you're going to go to and say, well, Josh thinks we shouldn't book that show. Well, because Josh would rather go see Night Ranger. So that's just what Josh is. But anyway, more to come. All that to say, meatloaf, I'll let you guys know if I end up with tickets to see Meatloaf, the musical. Because again, I was looking at the music in the show.

And it's just all Meatloaf and Jim Steinman music for the most part. Like, making love out of nothing at all, which was an air supply song, my favorite air supply song, boom, it's in there. Bonnie Tyler's song I need a hero I believe is in this Like I'm looking at the songs Paradise by the dashboard light Making Love out of nothing at all bad out of hell All jams and all in this musical

Dead Ringer for Love That was Cher and Meat Love Great tune It's all coming back to me now Celine deion I do anything for love God that's good shit God this is quality Two out of three ain't bad

Which is one of my favorite songs ever I must see this show. Like, it never occurred to me to go to this show, but now I feel like I must see it. More to come.