Lost all respect for DC for the way he treated Murray and Sykes. He shafted Murray twice and didn't seem bothered when he stopped being paid because DC was refusing to record what became 1987 due to tension with Sykes who he was becoming jealous of and the album was delayed. The fact Sykes told DC to hire Tommy Aldridge but he refused because he didn't want Sykes to have any real say in the band only to hire Aldridge for the 1987 tour shows what the others had to deal with. Murray is a mild mannered gent who got screwed. The band was never as good after this line up was disbanded.
I never really listened to any early Whitesnake, but I was in high school in the mid 80's when they were having a lot of success and I loved their music. Listening to the live version of "Slow and Easy" on this documentary, there is a part at 12:14 that sounds almost identical to a section in "Still of The Night." They must've put that in there on purpose. I wonder whose idea it was?
Although Blackmore and Coverdale didn't make up until 2012, RB really liked the Slide It In album. Gary Bushell had grudges on Coverdale, Schenker, Glenn Hughes, and a few others, and slagged them off accordingly, but I don't think Blackmore influenced him with regard to DC. Bushbaby just didn't like him, possibly because he championed Purple Mk.2 only. Thin Lizzy were a big influence on Whitesnake from Day 1. The Time Is Right For Love, from Trouble, was a ringer for For Those Who Love To Live (Fighting). Bad Company too - hear Trouble itself and imagine it on Straight Shooter.
ahah coverdale is a poet ! in french " glisse le dedans " ! mais quel texte ! quels lyrics ! "glisse le dedans " une aventure ! un ordre à suivre bonbon !
I loved the early Whitesnake, although never saw them live. I have seen them twice since, once in around 2008 in Sydney, where the show was not so bad (the Enmore in Sydney), and the second time supporting The Scorpions in around 2019 in Sydney. Whereas the Scorpions were professional, still sounded great and wowed the audience, Whitesnake were disappointing. Coverdal's vaoice has largely gone, it looked as though he has had a few facelifts, and he had metal type guitarists.
Oh yeah, when slide it in was released in late 1983, it was with the band that had a bassist named Colin Hodgkin's (sorry if I spelled it wrong) that really didn't fit in with the music the group was trying to become also, you have two members with huge egos (David & Cozy Powell) but it would be this album that really started to open doors for the band in the USA.
Interesting video discussing a transitional period for WS. Songs were very hit and miss, but that is caused by personnel changes and a lack of direction caused by Coverdale. How could anyone rate Slide it in above Love Hunter or Ready and Willing 🤣🤣
28:50 That's interesting... This is only '85 or so and Coverdale is struggling hard with Slide It In, not a very challenging song for him. Of course, it's probably well into a tour, but I'm always trying to pinpoint when he started having serious voice troubles.
Having long hair was part of why I kept practicing, practicing and more goddamn practicing. In that era, without long hair, you'd be passed over at auditions before you played a note. I wanted my playing to reflect that my hair was not the reason I got the GIG, only the reason I got the AUDITION. Because I had big plans after graduation, I refused to cut my hair at age 14, starting at a Christian private school where long hair was "not allowed" on boys. I allowed myself, thank you very much, O Lord. It occurred to me that I didn't have to care WHAT was "allowed" or "not allowed" because I NEVER ASKED their opinion of long hair on males in the first place. The rule was enumerated in the student handbook which I found somehow even MORE useless than than God's infallible Word, the Holy Bible* itself. Imagine my heartbreak when I was forced to leave an institution of "Christian Education"-an oxymoron if there EVER WAS one-to join the "communist" public school system....where I did in fact study Marxism in Political Science, Senior year. *1 Corinthians 11:14~ “Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace for him?" Cool story, St. Paul!
Name a song other than Here I Go Again or Fool For Your Loving post Slide It In. Other than Still of the Night which was more Zep than Snake there isn't anything memorable. Kitaen's Got Claws is more of a hint towards a prenup but still
Jerry Ewing, the Jack Black look alike - is an dope. You can eliminate him from the whole video, and it would be better. This is the short version, still very repetitive. I have both versions of the CD, and the American version is better, and the proof is that it sold more.
the problem with Whitesnake has always been Coverdale's songwriting. Every album has 2 great songs and a load of filler, until 1987. Slide it in was a step in the right direction but still way too much filler. I would say the Slip of The Tongue was his peak as a writer, even though I can't stand the guitar on that record.
I have heard "Whitesnake" twice: First a concert on cassette in the year 1982 in a bus for the pupil exchange from Germany to France. Just terrible noise and that usual guitar solo at overlength. ABBA took over after that. Then I saw them on TV with "Here I Go Again". Cheesy hair metal sucking in excess. At school we, the boys, were into Hard Rock and Heavy Metal, but no Whitesnake fans anywhere. It must have been a girls´ thing like Def Leppard. Dave´s shlong, so long, so what?
Slide it In is a brain-deadeningly awful record. Who knew it was possible to come up with anything worse than the title track? They managed. Spit it Out is a contender for the most crassly stupid and offensively dumb record ever made. Weirdly, however, Guilty of Love is a gem. Like the best songs from previous albums you could imagine The Four Tops singing it. The rest of it is witless, bloodless dross with terrible arrangements, or just toe-curlingly derivative: Slow an' Easy.
6 million copies sold worldwide but you think it's "brain deadeningly awful". Ok.😐 The Four Tops singing Guilty Of Love? In your parallel universe maybe, but not in this one.
@@StonefieldJim4 Hmm, now why would Moody & Marsden dislike this album? Could it be...because they were no longer in Whitesnake and therefore not on the album?
He is no Icon of good will he shafted John sykes because John was getting more attention from the guitarists and the girls out there and Coverdale was jealous so John had to go and I will never forgive that hairspray addicted ponce for ruining the career of John sykes.
peterprice-No. Coverdale has always been flamin' hot and a super soulful singer. To me Sykes isn't soulful or sensual at all. His playing doesn't do anything for me Scales aren't soulful at all. He might try and stick in an up bend at the end of the scale/hammer-ons but he blows that too. 22:20
If you never listened to whitesnake how do you know what they sound like to say whether you liked them also you must have watched whitesnake videos to know who the girl was on the bonnet of a car oh and her name wasn't tannie cataine either it was tawny kitean
Coverdale…. overrated… also a bit dumb… his over use of the F word, crap lyrics…riding on the coat tails of talented guitar players… compared to Plant and Daltrey… second tier by comparison
Oh yeah, if it wasn't for Sykes, Whitesnake wouldn't have had the same amount of success. In my opinion, Sykes belongs in Whitesnake and should have remained in the band.
so depressing as fans, see Coverdale by years now, being the ghost of himself, completly embarassing vocally, allowing backing vocalist and bandmates, do his job . I'd much more appreciate him , if he'd retired with dignity as any man should do ,facing his own decline.
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"Ready an' Willing" my favorite Whitesnake recording and I truly feel they were at their peak of their blues-rock era! OUTSTANDINGD bassist Neil is!!
From 1987 onwards (maybe excluding Restless Heart) Whitesnake were a sell out (and not in a good way) band pandering to the US audience.
Not many bluesy hard rock bands like this era of WS anymore. This was prime stuff.
Saw them in Dublin on this tour.. Great line up.. Great gig. RIP Cozy Powell and John Lord.
1984...Sykes first gig...power cut half way through the set...SFX hall
@@dannymcmincewow, called off?
@@paddytguitarno, powercut only lasted 15mins or so
I remember my mate saying his uncle was in whitesnake when we where kids , and I never acknowledged what he said, David marsden bernie marsden RIP
This is awesome- we need the long version!
TH-cam blocks the full version
Ready and willing is absolutely a great great album to me. With 1987 it went wrong imo.
it was mostly downhill from 1987 onwards, for the UK fans anyway. DC sold his soul to the USA.
Superb documentary..thank you.
Excellent documentary, so far. Thanks for that.
He is the best on history of blues rock ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉🎉❤🎉 David Coverdale.
Slide it in was the end of the beginning. And the beginning of the end.
Ready an' Willing is hands down the best album.
J'ADORE DAVID COVERDALE ❤❤❤❤❤
First time I saw Whitesnake was the Slide It In tour and all after.
Lost all respect for DC for the way he treated Murray and Sykes. He shafted Murray twice and didn't seem bothered when he stopped being paid because DC was refusing to record what became 1987 due to tension with Sykes who he was becoming jealous of and the album was delayed. The fact Sykes told DC to hire Tommy Aldridge but he refused because he didn't want Sykes to have any real say in the band only to hire Aldridge for the 1987 tour shows what the others had to deal with. Murray is a mild mannered gent who got screwed. The band was never as good after this line up was disbanded.
Slide in in is my favorite WS album
I never really listened to any early Whitesnake, but I was in high school in the mid 80's when they were having a lot of success and I loved their music. Listening to the live version of "Slow and Easy" on this documentary, there is a part at 12:14 that sounds almost identical to a section in "Still of The Night." They must've put that in there on purpose. I wonder whose idea it was?
John Sykes truely is a fernominal guitarist!
Amazing Album to this Day!,.and the Tour was so Good!,…Hit after Hit!,..X
Gambler is a Great track!!
I play that song the most I think.
I agree, no reason at all why it shouldn't have been the album opener.
You have an awesome channel, mate! New subscriber!
Мілий Девід і Whitesnake.Хочу туда.
Ready an Willing is, imo, song for song WS’s best album. But the ‘87 version was ok too.
Although Blackmore and Coverdale didn't make up until 2012, RB really liked the Slide It In album. Gary Bushell had grudges on Coverdale, Schenker, Glenn Hughes, and a few others, and slagged them off accordingly, but I don't think Blackmore influenced him with regard to DC. Bushbaby just didn't like him, possibly because he championed Purple Mk.2 only.
Thin Lizzy were a big influence on Whitesnake from Day 1. The Time Is Right For Love, from Trouble, was a ringer for For Those Who Love To Live (Fighting). Bad Company too - hear Trouble itself and imagine it on Straight Shooter.
Who has ever worried what Bushell says? The guy is a complete dick and always will be.
Oh, dude. Fighting is a true masterpiece. So good.
RIP Bernie
ahah coverdale is a poet ! in french " glisse le dedans " ! mais quel texte ! quels lyrics ! "glisse le dedans " une aventure ! un ordre à suivre bonbon !
I loved the early Whitesnake, although never saw them live. I have seen them twice since, once in around 2008 in Sydney, where the show was not so bad (the Enmore in Sydney), and the second time supporting The Scorpions in around 2019 in Sydney. Whereas the Scorpions were professional, still sounded great and wowed the audience, Whitesnake were disappointing. Coverdal's vaoice has largely gone, it looked as though he has had a few facelifts, and he had metal type guitarists.
Sick !!!
Oh yeah, when slide it in was released in late 1983, it was with the band that had a bassist named Colin Hodgkin's (sorry if I spelled it wrong) that really didn't fit in with the music the group was trying to become also, you have two members with huge egos (David & Cozy Powell) but it would be this album that really started to open doors for the band in the USA.
I never heard Cozy had a big ego. Thats a shame.
Interesting video discussing a transitional period for WS. Songs were very hit and miss, but that is caused by personnel changes and a lack of direction caused by Coverdale. How could anyone rate Slide it in above Love Hunter or Ready and Willing 🤣🤣
Perfect band
28:50 That's interesting... This is only '85 or so and Coverdale is struggling hard with Slide It In, not a very challenging song for him. Of course, it's probably well into a tour, but I'm always trying to pinpoint when he started having serious voice troubles.
It was clear on the 1987 album that he was really straining at times, so definitely began around mid-1980's.
Murray❤
Coverdale sang amazing on Slide it in album. But on the 1984/85 tour... he sounded a bit stressed.
29:45 😂 He’s total right. Americans just wanted to have carnal fun at that time.
JE NE COMPRENDS PAS L'ANGLAIS COMME PAS MAL DE PERSONNES 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
Sykes❤
I was 16teen 😁
Having long hair was part of why I kept practicing, practicing and more goddamn practicing. In that era, without long hair, you'd be passed over at auditions before you played a note. I wanted my playing to reflect that my hair was not the reason I got the GIG, only the reason I got the AUDITION.
Because I had big plans after graduation, I refused to cut my hair at age 14, starting at a Christian private school where long hair was "not allowed" on boys. I allowed myself, thank you very much, O Lord.
It occurred to me that I didn't have to care WHAT was "allowed" or "not allowed" because I NEVER ASKED their opinion of long hair on males in the first place.
The rule was enumerated in the student handbook which I found somehow even MORE useless than than God's infallible Word, the Holy Bible* itself.
Imagine my heartbreak when I was forced to leave an institution of "Christian Education"-an oxymoron if there EVER WAS one-to join the "communist" public school system....where I did in fact study Marxism in Political Science, Senior year.
*1 Corinthians 11:14~ “Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace for him?" Cool story, St. Paul!
Name a song other than Here I Go Again or Fool For Your Loving post Slide It In. Other than Still of the Night which was more Zep than Snake there isn't anything memorable. Kitaen's Got Claws is more of a hint towards a prenup but still
so where is the long version?
TH-cam blocks it.
whitesnake were a better band with moody marsden. their songs had more feeling. but skyes whitesnake was something different i guess.
Sort that title out.
It's done, you can stop crying now.
Slide it in, not slade. Who writes these titles?
The video poster I guess, but it's changed, you can stop crying now.
Jerry Ewing, the Jack Black look alike - is an dope. You can eliminate him from the whole video, and it would be better. This is the short version, still very repetitive. I have both versions of the CD, and the American version is better, and the proof is that it sold more.
‘Is an dope’? 😂
@@glengamble526 ah - you got me. Is A dope
So, where and how do we find the full version of this?!
You Tube blocks the full version
@@sisibond May I ask why?
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Never got into Whitesnake………………………..or Beyoncé. What’s wrong with me? I feel so alone.
I like the updated sound of slide it in but i actually think saints and sinners was a better album. It had swing and better songs
the problem with Whitesnake has always been Coverdale's songwriting. Every album has 2 great songs and a load of filler, until 1987. Slide it in was a step in the right direction but still way too much filler. I would say the Slip of The Tongue was his peak as a writer, even though I can't stand the guitar on that record.
Slide it in is the most perfect album side by side with The headless cross!! Not the best albums but most perfect once! :-)
Saints and Sinners is class
The band went to pot after Sykes was sacked absolute crap
David Covergirl
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SillyShame3804
99% of Whitesnake songs are love songs. Gets a bit boring, tedious & predictable. A variety of subject would have been better.
Music sounds all the same!
Then move on and listen to something else. Did someone force you to listen to whitesnake. 🤡
I have heard "Whitesnake" twice: First a concert on cassette in the year 1982 in a bus for the pupil exchange from Germany to France. Just terrible noise and that usual guitar solo at overlength. ABBA took over after that. Then I saw them on TV with "Here I Go Again". Cheesy hair metal sucking in excess. At school we, the boys, were into Hard Rock and Heavy Metal, but no Whitesnake fans anywhere. It must have been a girls´ thing like Def Leppard. Dave´s shlong, so long, so what?
Slide it In is a brain-deadeningly awful record. Who knew it was possible to come up with anything worse than the title track? They managed. Spit it Out is a contender for the most crassly stupid and offensively dumb record ever made. Weirdly, however, Guilty of Love is a gem. Like the best songs from previous albums you could imagine The Four Tops singing it. The rest of it is witless, bloodless dross with terrible arrangements, or just toe-curlingly derivative: Slow an' Easy.
6 million copies sold worldwide but you think it's "brain deadeningly awful". Ok.😐 The Four Tops singing Guilty Of Love? In your parallel universe maybe, but not in this one.
Agreed. And yes, it's f***king execrable. Moody and Marsden share(d) my opinion. Shame on them, eh?
@@StonefieldJim4 Hmm, now why would Moody & Marsden dislike this album? Could it be...because they were no longer in Whitesnake and therefore not on the album?
He is no Icon of good will he shafted John sykes because John was getting more attention from the guitarists and the girls out there and Coverdale was jealous so John had to go and I will never forgive that hairspray addicted ponce for ruining the career of John sykes.
At one point all of Whitesnake were using plenty of hairspray and had perms like poodles.
peterprice-No. Coverdale has always been flamin' hot and a super soulful singer. To me Sykes isn't soulful or sensual at all. His playing doesn't do anything for me Scales aren't soulful at all. He might try and stick in an up bend at the end of the scale/hammer-ons but he blows that too. 22:20
Gambler is one of the best songs on it! Slide It In the song is awful.
Dave was Deep Purple. That was his best version of himself. It’s a shame he completely burned John Sykes. John was the best guitarist of WS.
I’ll take Marsden over Sykes all day. I don’t give a F who thinks he’s good looking lol
Same with me
It's more than looks. Unless that's what you're into. 😳
Agreed, all that shredding that Sykes does sounds like noise compared to Marsden and Moody's soulful playing
Whitesnake never would have global success if Marsden had of stayed in the band...but it's a personnel choice!
@@dannymcmince True, I am happy they were able to find more success. But listening wise, I’d much rather listen to the original whitesnake
Never liked or listened to Whitesnake. The only cool thing about Whitesnake was Tannie Catain spread eagle on the car hood.
If you never listened to whitesnake how do you know what they sound like to say whether you liked them also you must have watched whitesnake videos to know who the girl was on the bonnet of a car oh and her name wasn't tannie cataine either it was tawny kitean
Coverdale…. overrated… also a bit dumb… his over use of the F word, crap lyrics…riding on the coat tails of talented guitar players… compared to Plant and Daltrey… second tier by comparison
Too much focus on Coverdale - it was Sykes that delivered that band to commercial success
100% Agree!
Oh yeah, if it wasn't for Sykes, Whitesnake wouldn't have had the same amount of success. In my opinion, Sykes belongs in Whitesnake and should have remained in the band.
F'n aye....
It’s criminal what DC did to JS and to the whole band after recording 1987
@Abe Froman please elaborate!
so depressing as fans, see Coverdale by years now, being the ghost of himself, completly embarassing vocally, allowing backing vocalist and bandmates, do his job . I'd much more appreciate him , if he'd retired with dignity as any man should do ,facing his own decline.
I'm sure he loses sleep every night over the fact that you don't appreciate him . Stoop 🤡