The Ted Nugent Album That's Mostly Meat Loaf
A year before
Bat Out of Hell came out,
Ted Nugent's rhythm guitarist and singer, Derek St. Holmes, quit the band in the middle of recording the 1976 LP
Free-for-All. Producer Tom Werman brought in Meat Loaf, paying him just $1,000 to sing lead on several songs. The LP performed well, reaching No. 24 on the Billboard 200 and becoming Nugent's first record to go platinum. "Rest in peace my soul-brother soul music blood brother!" Nugent wrote on
Facebook following the news of Meat Loaf's death. "A great man great American rock-solid in the asset column of the American dream! The wonderful Meat Loaf force of nature will be with us forever."