The REAL Whitesnake

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Why on this forum, whenever Whitesnake are mentioned, it is always post-1987? It's always the big permed-hair Whitesnake that people talk about. Why never the Moody-Marsden line-up?

Does anybody actually own albums from when Whitesnake were good, before they started doing songs like 'Is This Love'?

[WACF]

A few...thing is I never really heard of them until '87.

Then I started looking backwards into their cataloge...there was some good stuff there.

[Last_Child]

I got the "Live.....In The Heart Of The City"

Damn.. That's a good record!

[Coyote]

I got "Saints and Sinners" and "Slide It In", as well as the 1987 album.

Good music.

[Shaun Ponsonby]

A BRIEF HISTORY OF DAVID COVERDALE


THE PURPLE YEARS
First, Coverdale did 4 albums with Deep Purple;
1974-Burn
1974-Stormbringer
1975-Come Taste The Band
1976-Made In Europe (live)

GOING SOLO
Coverdale then left Deep Purple to make some solo albums;

1977-Whitesnake (Coverdale's first solo album, most of the band members ended up in the Whitesnake band)
1977-Northwinds

THE BEGINNING OF SOMETHING WHITE
He then decided to use his backing band as his new band, which he named after his first solo album, Whitesnake. The new additions featured ex-Deep Purple bandmates Jon Lord, and later drummer Ian Paice, this band played blues-based hard rock music;

1978-Snakebite EP
1978-T.R.O.U.B.L.E.
1979-Love Hunter
1980-Ready An' Willing
1980-Live...In The Heart Of The City
1981-Come An' Get It
1982-Saints An' Sinners

FIRST STEP OF SELLING OUT TO AMERICA
The next album is quite confusing because Micky Moody (guitar), Mel Galley (guitar) and Colin Hodgkinson (bass) all played on the British version of 'Slide It In', but, in America, these were replaced by John Sykes (all guitars) and Neil Murray (bass)

1984-Slide It In

BIG-TIME AMERICAN COVERDALE
This is were Whitesnake became White Jovi.

1987-1987
1989-Slip Of The Tounge (featuring non-other than a stand-in Steve Vai)

Then, Coverdale did an album with Jimmy Paige (ironically titled Coverdale/Paige)

1993-Coverdale/Paige
1994-Whitesnake's Greatest Hits

Then, a few years of silence from Coverdale's part, until 1997...

1997-Restless Heart

...and then an unplugged album recorded in Japan

1997-Starkers In Tokyo (live and unplugged/also available on DVD)

And then Coverdale released a solo album

2002-Into The Light

[Soul Reaper]

Which of the pre-1987 Whitesnake CDs would you recommend?

[Mr Badguy]

Originally posted by Soul Reaper
Which of the pre-1987 Whitesnake CDs would you recommend?

Personally, I would recommend:

Deep Purple "Burn"
Deep Purple "Stormbringer"
David Coverdale "Northwinds"
Whitesnake "Live...in the heart of the city"
Whitesnake "Come an` get it"
Whitesnake "Slide it in" (U.S. Version)

All the early Whitesnake albums are good but the three I`ve listed are the most consistant.

[Last_Child]

Especially "Live....In the heart of the city"


I think that record is focking great!

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Originally posted by Soul Reaper
Which of the pre-1987 Whitesnake CDs would you recommend?

All of them, but especially

Lovehunter
Ready An' Willing
Live...In The Heart Of The City
Saints An' Sinners

And Deep Purple's 'Burn' is amongst the best thing that Purple did with Gillan.

[Soul Reaper]

Cheers.

[Mr Badguy]

Originally posted by Shaun Ponsonby
And Deep Purple's 'Burn' is amongst the best thing that Purple did with Gillan.

You mean Coverdale, not Gillan.

"Burn" is a lot like Gillan era Purple, whereas "Stormbringer" is a lot funkier and soulful, often at the price of hard edged guitarwork.

"Stormbringer" could be Purple`s most controversial studio album ever.

You either love it or hate it.

I love it.

[Shaun Ponsonby]

I meant that 'Burn' rates as good as anything they did with Gillan.

I can predict that I'm now going to get tortured now with people saying

" Bollocks-Gillan's stuff was much better".

[WARF]

I never cared much for David CoverPLANT!

[FORD]

Originally posted by Shaun Ponsonby
Bollocks-Gillan's stuff was much better".

Exactly ;)

If it ain't Blackmore AND Gillan, it ain't Deep Purple.

Fuck Covercheeseball.