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A good night out in Glagsow Carling Academy, which was packed with a sold out crowd.
The success of the recent live DVD "Live...In the still of the night" has clearly boosted Whitesnake`s popularity with younger people, when I last saw them in 2003 the place was full of bald heads but this time there were plenty of women with tender young asses.
I stripped to the waist and tried to rub against as many of them as I could.
I missed most of the support act The Answer (I was in the pub watching Germany V Argentina), what I did see was alright, although they are clearly borrowing heavily from Led Zeppelin, in appearance and the slide guitar fuelled blues rock.
Whitesnake always put on a good show and this was no different.
If ever a man defined the term "rock star", then surely it is David Coverdale, who had the crowd in the palm of his hand all night.
The only problem was that the set got bogged down in the middle by self indulgent soloing. Doug Aldrich done about five minutes, then Reb Beech done five minutes, then they did a bluesy instrumental for another couple of minutes. Then half of "Crying in the rain" which went into Tommy Aldridge`s drum solo. It must have wasted about fifteen minutes where they could have played "Bad Boys", "Guilty of love", "Slow an` easy" or any of the other songs that could have brought the house down.
It picked up again afterwards with the usual singalong favourites, which surprisingly didn`t include "Fool for your loving".
The did play a new song called (I think) "Ready to rock", a fast paced number which didn`t really get a reaction, the crowd bemused by something they had never heard in amongst a set of rock radio staples.
Songs like "Here I go again", "Still of the night" or "Is this love" are those that you probably don`t put on in your house because you`re so familiar with them but it`s still a great experience to hear them performed live.
BURN/STORMBRINGER
SLIDE IT IN
LOVE AIN`T NO STRANGER
IS THIS LOVE
READY TO ROCK (NEW SONG)
DOUG ALDRIDCH SOLO
REB BEECH SOLO
CRYING IN THE RAIN
TOMMY ALDRIDGE
READY AN` WILLING
AIN`T NO LOVE IN THE HEART OF THE CITY
GIVE ALL YOUR LOVE
HERE I GO AGAIN
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TAKE ME WITH YOU
STILL OF THE NIGHT
SOLDIER OF FORTUE (COVERDALE SOLO)
WE WISH YOU WELL (TAPE)
The success of the recent live DVD "Live...In the still of the night" has clearly boosted Whitesnake`s popularity with younger people, when I last saw them in 2003 the place was full of bald heads but this time there were plenty of women with tender young asses.
I stripped to the waist and tried to rub against as many of them as I could.
I missed most of the support act The Answer (I was in the pub watching Germany V Argentina), what I did see was alright, although they are clearly borrowing heavily from Led Zeppelin, in appearance and the slide guitar fuelled blues rock.
Whitesnake always put on a good show and this was no different.
If ever a man defined the term "rock star", then surely it is David Coverdale, who had the crowd in the palm of his hand all night.
The only problem was that the set got bogged down in the middle by self indulgent soloing. Doug Aldrich done about five minutes, then Reb Beech done five minutes, then they did a bluesy instrumental for another couple of minutes. Then half of "Crying in the rain" which went into Tommy Aldridge`s drum solo. It must have wasted about fifteen minutes where they could have played "Bad Boys", "Guilty of love", "Slow an` easy" or any of the other songs that could have brought the house down.
It picked up again afterwards with the usual singalong favourites, which surprisingly didn`t include "Fool for your loving".
The did play a new song called (I think) "Ready to rock", a fast paced number which didn`t really get a reaction, the crowd bemused by something they had never heard in amongst a set of rock radio staples.
Songs like "Here I go again", "Still of the night" or "Is this love" are those that you probably don`t put on in your house because you`re so familiar with them but it`s still a great experience to hear them performed live.
BURN/STORMBRINGER
SLIDE IT IN
LOVE AIN`T NO STRANGER
IS THIS LOVE
READY TO ROCK (NEW SONG)
DOUG ALDRIDCH SOLO
REB BEECH SOLO
CRYING IN THE RAIN
TOMMY ALDRIDGE
READY AN` WILLING
AIN`T NO LOVE IN THE HEART OF THE CITY
GIVE ALL YOUR LOVE
HERE I GO AGAIN
============
TAKE ME WITH YOU
STILL OF THE NIGHT
SOLDIER OF FORTUE (COVERDALE SOLO)
WE WISH YOU WELL (TAPE)
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