Coverdale/Whitesnake - Forevermore

[chefcraig]

I call it the "I AM THE STAR OF THE SHOW!" syndrome. First got a whiff of that syndrome watching an interview with Little Richard about his experiences with Jimi Hendrix in his band, lol.

I guess after spending a few years in Freddie Mercury's shadow, Paul doesn't want to take a back seat to anyone on stage again...Geez... it wasn't that long ago that Rodgers was happy just playing the local casino circuit up here in Washington state. Guess the Queen mutation and Bad Co revival made it hard for him to give up the spotlight?

Rodgers has always had one of the best voices in hard rock, but unfortunately, he's never had one of the best brains. This is a guy that thought forming a band (The Law) with Kenny Jones was a good idea. Next thing you know, he's playing Hendrix covers with Neal Schon at car shows. Then he does a blues album with a bunch of hotshot guitarists and winds up getting a Grammy nomination. How does he follow that? Yup, he re-forms Bad Company, and makes one of the best concert DVDs ever (Merchants of Cool). Then it's back to Hendrix covers and finally, Queen.

I love the guy, but at times some of his career moves leave you scratching your head.

[ELVIS]

Maybe he's not just in it for the money...

[Terry]

anybody see it? I found the show somewhat interesting. Hard for me to believe he is turning 60 this year. The hosts asked Coverdale why the 1987 band did not stay together (translation...why did you fire John Sykes..the guy that made you a superstar with this album). Coverdale replied saying they could not get along. That they were fighting all the time and he did not want that. Man if I was in the audience I would have yelled "dude, you fucked Sykes in the ass" .. He could have given more info.. you know there is more to the story. I think we all know that David was jealous of John Sykes great showmanship on stage and amazing talent. Coverdale wanted to be the only big star on stage. I just wish Coverdale had the balls to spell it out.

I dunno...I always thought it was a bit of shame that he had Dunbar AND Sykes on the 1987 album and those guys turned in such blazing performances that went to service what were, in the end, a bunch of real meatheaded songs. Then he sacks the lot of them and gets Campbell, Vandenburg, Aldridge and Sarzo (and later Steve Vai) to apply their abilities to playing that same stuff live and churning out the even lamer follow-up Slip Of The Tongue...then it's on to the Coverdale/Page album which finally sees Page bearing down and really trying for the first time in 15 years, and Page ends up turning in solid work on ANOTHER collection of meatheaded tunes...

Coverdale can sing, but if post DP he's ever come up with a lyric that wasn't cliche-ridden and deeper than a kiddie wading pool, I have yet to hear it.

So much vocal ability, has played with some of the best musicians rock has offered and yet so little to actually express.

[Diamondjimi]

I dunno...I always thought it was a bit of shame that he had Dunbar AND Sykes on the 1987 album and those guys turned in such blazing performances that went to service what were, in the end, a bunch of real meatheaded songs. Then he sacks the lot of them and gets Campbell, Vandenburg, Aldridge and Sarzo (and later Steve Vai) to apply their abilities to playing that same stuff live and churning out the even lamer follow-up Slip Of The Tongue...then it's on to the Coverdale/Page album which finally sees Page bearing down and really trying for the first time in 15 years, and Page ends up turning in solid work on ANOTHER collection of meatheaded tunes...

Coverdale can sing, but if post DP he's ever come up with a lyric that wasn't cliche-ridden and deeper than a kiddie wading pool, I have yet to hear it.

So much vocal ability, has played with some of the best musicians rock has offered and yet so little to actually express.

Well said, Terry.
Coverdale is a walking talking cliche'. The last good album he did was "Slide it in". The 1987 albums' production was atrocious. It's a reverb drenched tampon...

[Mr. Vengeance]

I picked it up on Friday. So far I'm enjoying it. Good followup to the last album, which was a nice comeback. I enjoy the Eagles-esque "One of These Days" quite a bit.

[jero]

Massive sound! Doug is on fire once again!

[Mr. Vengeance]

Although Coverdale's voice is starting to show it's age times.....

[jero]

But still a great voice

[hambon4lif]

Massive sound! Doug is on fire once again!

Agreed, and we should enjoy it while it lasts.
Once Aldrich steals the spotlight from Coverdale, he's going to find himself out of a gig.

History has a funny way of repeating itself.

[Mr Badguy]

I have to be honest, I wasn't expecting much.

But I have to say THIS ROCKS.

For fucks sakes, people, it might not be the 80's anymore but we're getting a second golden age here.

Killer new albums from Ki$$, Ratt, Whitesnake, Iron Maiden, Motorhead amongst others I can mention.

Fuck all the bitching around here, the Metal is more alive than it has been for a good 15 years and most of the feeedback is negative.

I'm loving it.

[binnie]

I have to be honest, I wasn't expecting much.

But I have to say THIS ROCKS.

For fucks sakes, people, it might not be the 80's anymore but we're getting a second golden age here.

Killer new albums from Ki$$, Ratt, Whitesnake, Iron Maiden, Motorhead amongst others I can mention.

Fuck all the bitching around here, the Metal is more alive than it has been for a good 15 years and most of the feeedback is negative.

I'm loving it.

I think that the Ki$$ album is a lot of fun, but I wouldn't say it was great (makes me smile though.) The others, as you say, are still producing great, great music.

And that's just the old guys: if you like the heavier end of metal, then the genre has rarely been healtheir - there is some phenomenal stuff out there at the moment, it might not be life affirming, party hard rock/metal, but its biblically powerful nonetheless.

[yomaster]

I agree. A lot of his stuff is very cheesy. But I'm more than willing to look past his sometimes lame lyrics because of his voice and the music. He really needed better partnerships, it was nothing but downhill after Sykes left.

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Terry wrote:

I dunno...I always thought it was a bit of shame that he had Dunbar AND Sykes on the 1987 album and those guys turned in such blazing performances that went to service what were, in the end, a bunch of real meatheaded songs. Then he sacks the lot of them and gets Campbell, Vandenburg, Aldridge and Sarzo (and later Steve Vai) to apply their abilities to playing that same stuff live and churning out the even lamer follow-up Slip Of The Tongue...then it's on to the Coverdale/Page album which finally sees Page bearing down and really trying for the first time in 15 years, and Page ends up turning in solid work on ANOTHER collection of meatheaded tunes...

Coverdale can sing, but if post DP he's ever come up with a lyric that wasn't cliche-ridden and deeper than a kiddie wading pool, I have yet to hear it.

So much vocal ability, has played with some of the best musicians rock has offered and yet so little to actually express.

[yomaster]

TO Elvis: It still bothers me about Sykes firing. Perhaps I'm a little nuts for still being pissed about it. But I guess we are all a little nuts at times about all the years of VH with no Roth and Roll.

[yomaster]

I'm not that familiar with the bad company catalog or paul's solo projects. But from the numerous hits I am familiar with I always thought he had a nice voice but the material never really really moved me. It was always good but never "wow I gotta go out and buy that record right fucking now" But I can't tell people what to like and not like. Lot's of people love the shit out of bad company.

[yomaster]

I wore the hell out of my original 1987 Whitesnake cassette tape. I even liked 'Here I Go Again'. But motherfuck! I haven't heard the ORIGINAL version since. I don't know how many different versions there are now, but even the ones listed as 'original' aren't truly from the first copies of the album.

I saw them open for Motley Crue and WS only played 5 songs. That was kinda a let down.

But really Coverdale lost all my respect when he fired the band that recorded the big breakthrough album and replaced them with All-stars. Then had the audacity to re-record said tunes with all-stars. And to me that ruined the songs....not made them better.

Coverdale & Lenny Wolf can both take turns sucking Robert Plants wrinkly old cock.

*Plus Whitesnake pisses me off cause I got busted at Target for shoplifting the 'Come An' Get It' cassette & a Bic lighter.

Sykes guitar parts were not re-recorded. I can't speak for the rest of the musicians.

BTW- your comment about old cock was pretty good. lol