Turns out Meat Loaf needed a little extra time in the oven, but we’re finally back to discuss the late vocal powerhouse’s 2000 memoir To Hell and Back. Join us as we ponder Meat’s many concussions, his suitably operatic relationship with the also-recently-departed Jim Steinman, and how he’s easily in the top five of anti-maskers we would have been okay catching COVID from. We’ll be back around the middle of next month for a special Jheri Curl June miniseries on Morris Day‘s On Time: A Princely Life in Funk!







00:02:13 Our Sebastian Bach podcasts (Parts 1 and 2)



00:02:43 The Urbz: What Callie did instead of read the book last month









00:05:56 Our Rick James podcast



00:10:49 Here’s what those clowns look like







00:11:40 Here’s that video of Gene Simmons falling onstage if you need a pick-me-up









00:12:08 Share in our trauma over witnessing Gene Simmons deep-throating a microphone



00:15:50 How we imagine David Lee Roth’s life









00:16:59 “Bat Out of Hell” by Meat Loaf (from Bat Out of Hell, 1977)



00:28:39 The Fight Club line Zach couldn’t remember because he’s not a real millennial









00:29:38 Now this is a Meat Loaf film performance









00:36:37 Sebastian Bach on Amoeba Music’s “What’s in My Bag?”









00:44:47 Meat Loaf does his thing all over “Hammerdown” by Ted Nugent (from Free-for-All, 1976)



00:51:10 For the record, Meat Loaf never was on Celebrity Ghost Stories; he was, however, on its spiritual successor, The Haunting Of (talking about a completely different ghost story!)

Hey mothertruckers, we’re Bach in the saddle with Part 2 of our series on Sebastian Bach‘s 18 and Life on Skid Row! This book really picked up in the second half, so please excuse the slightly flabby runtime; there’s just too many good stories for us not to discuss them. Join us again in two weeks when we discuss the first half of the late Meat Loaf‘s To Hell and Back! Rock it up!







00:01:07 Part 1 of Our Sebastian Bachcast



00:01:13 Our Led Zeppelin Episode



00:03:45 Here’s Hum0ng0us’ Webcomic



00:05:31 Here’s Sebastian in Trailer Park Boys









00:32:27 This altercation between Vince Neil and Nicolas Cage isn’t in the book, but it might as well be









00:32:59 Never forget the original “slap heard round the world,” Vince Neil punching Izzy Stradlin at the 1989 VMAs



00:34:59 “Piece of Me” by Skid Row (from Skid Row, 1989)



00:40:55 Joey Kramer’s 2020 tussle with Aerosmith



01:02:47 The “Kiddie Metal” sketch from Sebastian’s 1991 Saturday Night Live appearance









01:17:32 Sebastian (top) and David Hasselhoff (bottom) performs “Confrontation” from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on Broadway















01:20:39 Remember to call Mark McGrath “Sugar Gay” if you ever run into him









01:26:13 Sebastian as Riff Raff in The Rocky Horror Show









01:31:27 Just one of many puzzling examples of Ted Nugent self-identifying with the N-word

This month's official Headbangers Book Club selection is over five years in the making: Callie got her copy of Sebastian Bach's 18 and Life on Skid Row (signed by Sea Bass himself!) in late 2016, and we're finally getting around to reading it. This episode covers the first half of the book, give or take, and so far we're having a lot of fun with it! If you want to read along, there's still time to catch up--we'll be posting Part 2 by the end of the month! And if you want to get started early on next month's book, we will be tackling Meat Loaf's To Hell and Back in April! Show notes: https://dystopiandanceparty.com/blog/headbangers-book-club-sebastian-bachs-18-and-life-on-skid-row-part-1/

For the inaugural episode of the new and improved Headbangers Book Club, we decided to go big with not one, but two books on Led Zeppelin: four entitled manbabies and borderline sociopaths who just so happened to write (or, in some cases, steal) some of the greatest rock music of all time. Join us as we discuss the Great Dane incident, shitting incidents (plural), and all the other depravities in this 120 Days of Sodom for the hesher set. Please share your thoughts with us on Twitter, Instagram, or drop us an email; and remember to join us for our next book, 18 and Life on Skid Row by Sebastian Bach! We'll be reading the first half of the book by Friday, March 11. Show notes: https://dystopiandanceparty.com/blog/headbangers-book-club-stephen-davis-hammer-of-the-gods-and-richard-coles-stairway-to-heaven-led-zeppelin-uncensored/

Originally recorded in October 2019, it's another departure from the usual headbanger stuff--though, like Rick James, George Clinton has decidedly earned the title of "rock star." Our last archival episode--new episodes soon! Show notes: https://dystopiandanceparty.com/blog/podcast-dystopian-book-club-vs-george-clintons-brothas-be-yo-like-george-aint-that-funkin-kinda-hard-on-you/

It isn't every day that an Official Headbangers Book Club selection gets adapted into a movie; so, for the first and quite possibly last time, we reconvened in March 2019 to discuss Jeff Tremaine's biopic version of Mötley Crüe’s The Dirt. Show notes: https://dystopiandanceparty.com/blog/dystopian-adaptation-party-podcast-the-dirt/

After another hiatus, the Böök Clüb reconvened in March 2019 to discuss arguably the most notorious of all trashy rock bios, The Dirt by Mötley Crüe and Neil Strauss. Show notes: https://dystopiandanceparty.com/blog/podcast-dystopian-book-club-vs-motley-crues-the-dirt/

Another milestone episode: Our first non-autobiography, and our first written by an actual writer! Originally recorded in September 2018. Show notes: https://dystopiandanceparty.com/blog/podcast-dystopian-book-club-vs-mark-paytress-bolan-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-20th-century-superstar/

After a year-long hiatus, the Book Club made its triumphant return in July 2018 with this remarkably unedited memoir by Diamond Dave. Fun fact we didn't notice at the time: this book was allegedly ghostwritten by everyone's favorite musclebound punk rocker, Henry Rollins! Show notes: https://dystopiandanceparty.com/blog/podcast-dystopian-book-club-vs-david-lee-roths-crazy-from-the-heat/

Originally recorded in June 2017, this was both our first twofer episode and our first time venturing outside the world of hard rock--though, as anyone who's read these books could tell you, Rick James was more of a rock star than most actual rock stars. Covers both versions of James' memoirs: the raw and gritty Confessions of Rick James: Memoirs of a Superfreak and the more polished, David Ritz-edited Glow. Show notes here: https://dystopiandanceparty.com/blog/dystopian-book-club-podcast-jheri-curl-june-edition-the-memoirs-of-rick-james/

The grand finale of our four-part series on the memoirs of the original lineup of KISS, or, as one Twitter user aptly put it, "the stupidest possible Rashomon." Originally recorded in March 2017. Show notes here: https://dystopiandanceparty.com/blog/dystopian-book-club-podcast-paul-stanleys-face-the-music/

Originally recorded in January 2017, here's Part 3 of our four-part series on the memoirs of the original lineup of KISS. It's probably our favorite part, too, as evidenced by our uncontrollable laughter when we start talking about the erstwhile Catman's Facebook fan page. Show notes here: https://dystopiandanceparty.com/blog/dystopian-book-club-podcast-peter-criss-makeup-to-breakup/

Originally recorded in November 2016, Episode 2 of our four-part series on the autobiographies of the original lineup of KISS deals with the exploits of the Space Ace himself. Spoiler alert: There are, in fact, some regrets. Show notes here: https://dystopiandanceparty.com/blog/dystopian-book-club-podcast-ace-frehleys-no-regrets/

This is where it all began: The first episode in our four-part series on the autobiographies of the original lineup of KISS, originally recorded in September 2016. A quick note that we say a few things in this episode that we probably wouldn't say now that we're five years older and wiser; please know that we did not intend to mock neurodivergent people (just Gene Simmons, who we would absolutely still mock in 2022). With that caveat out of the way, here are the show notes: