Meatloaf takes pills for stage fright
"If you go into my dressing room there's a little bowl with Ricola cough drops in it and Vocal Zones [lozenges] and the spray is Singer's Secret. There's vitamins two kinds of Bs and a C and then there are energy-plus tablets. I know they help me," the Daily Express quoted him as saying.
Meat
Loaf,
who
is
regarded
as
the
power
ballad
king
by
his
fans,
had
to
quit
his
British
tour
early
last
autumn,
due
to
a
cyst
on
his
vocal
cords.
Now
that
he
is
back
on
the
road,
the
singer
says
that
he
is
also
trying
to
overcome
his
dependence
on
such
remedies.
"Before a show, I'm so uptight, so nervous and so antsy and so afraid and so paranoid. But I'm slow about taking the remedies, which start about 5pm. There's some I take at 5.30 and there's some at 6.15 and some at 6.45. It's a three-hour regimen. When they have meet-and-greets before a show, that throws me off. I'm so locked into this routine," he said.