01-26-2019, 09:53 AM
(01-13-2019, 03:50 PM)admin Wrote: I have rekindled my love affair with Meatloaf and I can't help to notice the similarity in some of his songs and TSO/Savatage.
Did Paul O'Neill or Jon Oliva ever have any type of relationship with Jim Steinman, who was the main song writer for Meatloaf? As I understand it, Meat and Jim had an on again/off again relationship but they both needed each other to be successful. Solo albums from either guy were duds but when they got together they made magic...
I don’t believe there was ever any kind of relationship between Steinman and O’Neill/Oliva. I believe I have seen comments from Paul referring to Steinman as a genius though. And several performers have worked for both Steinman and O’Neill (Patti Russo, Rob Evan, Alex Skolnick, Adrienne Warren). I definitely hear a similarity in each other’s work though with the overly-dramatic and theatrical songs. Not sure if Paul was influenced by him but musically much of their work treads similar territory imho. I used to be part of a Meat Loaf/Steinman forum and the “Jim Steinman Knock-off” comments about Paul came up on occasion.