I think 'Ready An' Willing' and 'Come And Get It' are the best studio albums Whitesnake did. The classic lineup of Coverdale, Paice, Lord, Marsden, Moody and Murray is THE definitive Whitesnake. When Coverdale decided to break in to America they became a heavy metal band with very little subtlety, and these days it's Coverdale with a backing band.
Love the older stuff for it's classic British blues/rock feel, but to me, The Sykes era sound was off the chain. That solo after the cello part in Still of the Night is still some of the best axe badassery of the 80s. Like a lot of folks, I bailed on the Vai stuff and followed Sykes over to Blue Murder.
It's a shame that if you mention Whitesnake, most people will only remember the "hair band" that did the video with tawny Kitaen on the car. I loved the 1987 album too (Sykes was a beast on it), but the old stuff is where it's at.
Too true. I did buy 1987 but basically ignored it after one play. Now I don't recognise anything after Slide It In. As for the abomination sell out version of Here I Go Again, that must be the only time when an artist murdered his own song.
@@stephenbrown4211 well the guy who wrote that song doesnt seem to mind the royalty check he still gets from the 87 version 😆. I read Mr Marsden's book, great read btw, and he doesnt seem to mind it.
I am a big Whitesnake fan and I absolutely agree with you. Old bluesy style is what Whitesnake really is. I am fan on this Whitesnake, when in this band were Micky Moody, Bernie Marsden, Jon Lord, Ian Paice, Neil Murray and, of course, David Coverdale. Cozy Powell and Mell Galley were also good.
Bought that t-shirt in 1978, very cool. I am very similar to you I love all the bands that developed through Purple! Live in the heart of the city, my favourite live album. Love the ready n Willing, come n Get it line up the best, saw them at Leeds Queens Hall, UK. Musicianship at its best.
Saw Whitesnake 5 times and the re-formed Deep Purple twice in the 80s. Great rock n roll shows! Met Ian Paice in Dr Muellers in the Frankfurt airport😆 we was passing the time looking at mags.. He was going to italy, just played a festival the weekend before.
Cozy had already done MSG by the time he joined Whitesnake. The Purple family tree is massive and has so many branches, responsible for some of the very best rock music, ever!
Yes. Good idea to do a little research. He left Whitesnake in ‘85, recorded with Phenomena, which was a project by Tom and Mel Galley, before he joined Emerson and Lake to replace Palmer as a new «P».
Whitesnake is one of my favorite bands ever!! The 1987 self titled album to this day is still one of the greatest albums I have ever listened to. I love their whole catalog. My favorite albums have always been 1987 self titled album, Slide It In, Saints And Sinners, Ready An Willing, Slip Of The Tongue, Come An Get It, Love Hunter, and Trouble. John Sykes is my favorite guitar player ever that played in Whitesnake. I would have really loved to hear a follow-up to the 1987 self titled album with John Sykes. I actually love Blue Murders debut album better than Whitesnake's Slip Of The Tongue. I have and love all their live albums. Especially the Back To The Bone 1984 , the live 1988 album from the 1987 self titled box set, Live In The Heart Of The City, The Purple Tour, Live In The Shadow Of The Blues, and Donington 1990.
For me personally the 1987 album was the beginning of the end. I went to that concert. It was the first time I saw them & all they played was that album & a couple from Slide it in. I went to see my favorite blues rock band & I got a spandex & hair metal show. I really don’t know any Whitesnake music after that. A fine hair band I’m sure, just not my thing.
Colin ‘Bomber’ Hodgkinson was the bassist on the original UK mix of ‘Slide..’. Mel Galley picked up his injury in Germany, on the European Tour. Viv Campbell was keen to contribute to ‘Slip..’ but other factors caused him to quit.
I was lucky enough to see Whitesake at the Castle Donnington Rock Festival in the early eighties. If my memory serves me well, it was the John Lord, Micky Moody, Cozy Powel, Mel Galley and Colin Hodgekinson line-up. My favourite song is Don't Break My Heart Again.
Great vid! Whitesnake has become one of my favorite bands over time.. I didn't discover early Whitesnake until around the Slip of the Tongue era. I remember being in my local music store and found Lovehunter and Trouble in the mark down bin. I didn't take to the material originally since it was so far removed from 87, Slip, and Slide It In but I now absolutely love those early albums.
back in 87 when i first saw In The Still of the Night video i knew i had to get the album not knowing the long history Whitesnake had. loved that self titled album and a couple years later i picked up Love Hunter on a whim not having any idea what to expect but that damn cover art was something else just for starters. i wasn't too sure what to think of the songs at first they took some getting used to because in my head i was expecting a more heavy metal/hard rock type music. but over the years it really won me over and i gained a whole new appreciation for Coverdale's vocals.
Whitesnake were a great rock blues band until they end of 1983. As soon as Micky Moody left, they went downhill. The greatest guitarist lineup was Moody Marsden.
The "High Water" mark for WhiteSnake as a blues-based, hard rock band: Come And Get It. The "Metal" peak:1987....saw them on this tour & from a performance standpoint....far superior to Crue, though I'm a fan of both. I also caught them with Foreigner & Jason Bonham in Nashville....the 40+ years of singing has took it's toll! Yet consider the talent throughout the years - Bernie Marsden/Tommy Aldridge/John Sykes/Neil Murray/Adrian Vandenberg/Jon Lord....Coverdale must be one hell of a pitch-man!!!
Seen both Marsden and Moody doing solo gigs at the Great British R&B festival here in Colne in the good old UK. Both did some stuff similar to Whitesnake but both did stuff that was very different. Proved that both are very talented guitarists. Whitesnake wasn't the same when this duo was split up.
When I was 14 years old in England I saw Whitesnake a few times (starting with Ready and Willing) - awesome. At that stage in the UK there was a huge rivalry between Rainbow and Whitesnake amongst the fans and it was difficult to be 'allowed' to like both! Nuts!
I was never a huge Whitesnake fan but my cousin convinced me to go see them in the early 1980s when they were basically a blues band. Have to say they were incredible live.
Thanks once again for another "The history of ..." video! this is really great! I've grown up listening to all of these bands because of my dad's taste in music and just now I'm taking my time to learn the history of all of these bands. Keep up the good work 💪🍻
I love crying in the rain,looking for love, is this love, here i go again,i love whitesnake i love coverdale in deep purple stormbringer one of my favourite albums and burn david coverdale brilliant voice.
Trouble (1978), Lovehunter (1979), Ready n Willing (1980), Come an Get it (1981), Saints an Sinners (1982), Slide It In (1984), Whitesnake (1987), Slip of the Tongue (1989), Restless Heart (1997), Good to Be Bad (2008), Forevermore (2011), and Purple Album (2015
Saw them twice, Lord, Paice, then Powell etc. I was following them right from the start. Don't forget 'Into the Light' 2000, a Coverdale solo which rocks! Think after Purple he couldn't perform due to contractuals for two years so wrote the early solo stuff. He released the live 'In the heart of the city' double album cus the import version was extortionately priced and he always cared about his followers. Vaguely recall Mr an Mrs Dio did some backing vocals on 'Northwinds', or was it just Mrs Dio and friends? Yes Wendy Dio backing on "Give Me Kindness" Mr David Coverdale, thank you very much indeed.
However, here in America, Snakebite was not an EP,it was a full album - but first released as David Coverdale, then David Coverdale's Whitesnake on the second pressing,and finally Whitesnake by the Geffen Reissues were starting.
+Quinn, Joey, Mula, Boing-Boing Is popin David coverdale ' Whistenake (1977) David Coverdale "Northwinds " (1978) David Coverdale /Whitesnake 'Snake bite (1978) Whitesnake " Trouble "(1978) Lovehunter(1979) Ready and willing (1980) Live in the heart of the city (1980) Come on and get it ( 1981) Saints and Sinners (1982) Slide it in (1984)... and so on .. but for answer your question .. yeah on 70's They werent afraid to put inspired records on the same year . it was the normal thing . i mean even in jazz fusion stuff .. Herbie hancock .. billy cobham did like .. to a 4 albums the same year .
Just found all my Whitesnake albums last week. Put Slide it In on the turntable and cranked it. Ahhhhhhh. Haven't rocked that hard for a while. Right to the top baybauyyyeeyeah
Correction- Cozy Powell joined Keith Emerson and Greg Lake after leaving Whitesnake. He was in the Michael Schenker Group just prior to joining Whitesnake.
Let’s see who would have been on Keith Emerson and Greg Lake’s shortlist for a new drummer.... Cozy Powell Simon Phillips Ian Paice Earl Palmer Andy Parker Neil Peart Jeff Porcaro Ooh I’m so cynical...
John Sykes really was the missing link Coverdale needed to make that band into the Blues/Metal monster he had envisioned, and also to break them into the U.S. market (which is ironic - don't you think? - considering Sykes had no prior history in this country), as evidenced by *Slide It In* and *Whitesnake.* Once Coverdale fired Sykes, it all came crumbling down. Sykes can take pride in that, as well as the debut from the band he would form immediately upon his firing, *Blue Murder.* Produced by none other than Bob Rock, this album was one of the greatest of 1989. A final and fitting fuck-you from John to David. 😘
Milos Dunjic Me too. I remember walking the streets of Phoenix Az playing Ain’t gonna cry no more over & over on cassette with my Sony Walkman for days after a rough breakup in the mid 80s. That song still takes me back to that moment
you should do a show on Snakebitten (Whitesnake Tribute) from Phoenix AZ. The lineup is comprised of all pro musicians that were previously signed with both well known bands and independent label acts . Lead Vocals : Michael Beck (Jake E Lees Red Dragon Cartel) Drums: A.D. Adams (Dirty Looks) (Louis Prima Jr) Bass: Vince Pileggi (H.A.T.E. / Auburn Records) Lead Guitar: Brent Barker ( L.A. session guitarist and M.I.T. graduate) Rhythm Guitar : Paul Furlong ( Ultra Violet)
Whitesnake have been my favourite band since the age of 11 - when I got my first 2 ever records (Ready an Willing, Live in The Heart of the City) - my other favourite bands are also in the Deep Purple family (DP, Rainbow, Gillan) Thanks for posting this - interesting. A few inaccuracies with release dates etc but I see corrected in comments Whitesnake of course were pretty big in the UK before they broke the States and I think like most UK fans of my generation we prefer the pre-1987 vintage. However, a lot of classic tunes came post Slide it In too - Judgement Day, Still of the Night, Steal your Heart Away, Love ain't no Stranger Looking forward to the new album in Spring 2018 and hopefully another UK tour around the time of my 50th birthday and a chance for my kids to catch their 1st and 3rd Whitesnake gig's respectively.
Ready an Willing is a great blues/hard rock album. It was a minor hit in the US with Fool for your Lovin, I remember hearing on the radio. IMO, the best “Deep Purple family tree” since Come Taste the Band, and better than anything DP themselves would ever release afterwards. Whitesnake’s best IMO. Every song is great and the addition of Jon Lord and Ian Paice along with Neil Murray make the rhythm section extremely effective. Check out She’s a Women. Highly recommended.
Actually you missed outa bit of whitesnake info there after 1990 he took a break resurfaced in 1994 with a greatest hits release and put together another version of whitesnake again with Adrian Vandenberg on 🎸 and also Warren demartini from ratt and a few others then they went silent again and THEN in 97 was the restless heart album
I liked the video very informative not a big Whitesnake fan but might have to check more out.It would be cool if you rank the albums at the end! Thanks
Hi, My favourite Whitesnake album is the American mix version of Slide it in, and favourite track Givs me more time. But my favourite period of Whitesnake is from Trouble in 78, to the 1987 album, after that it kinda lost its way by then in my opinion. I was kinda hoping via request could you do an in depth review of the Slide it in album for me?
Forgets to mention Ainsley Dunbar played in Jefferson Starship . Later on also played with the UFO band : Mogg/Way and Damn Yamkees. I also think he did one album with Mothers Army which Joe Lynn Turner on vocals, Bob Daisly on Bass. Made 3 great albums but bot all with Dunbar. Carmine Appice also did 1 or 2 albums.I like these kinds of portraits of a band but mistakes are emberrassing. Cozy Powell indeed did MSG befor ehe joined DC in Whitesnake. Btw, Richard Bailey replaced Jon Lord after the spring of 84. He was a heavy on synthesizer man while Lord was ofcourse a Hammondmand. Btw, it also would have been nice to mention DC's stint with Jimmy Page(before he reunited with Robert Plant, often dismissing DC and his zeppelinisque efforst including dying his hair blond but still singing a Coverdale.page tracks live!) : supposedly it was meant to be called Legend but renamed into Coverdale/Page. They did not tour much but had legendary shows in Japan.
Just a footnote. Cozy and Galley did play on the Saints & Sinners tour. Colin Hodgkinson also replaced Murray on bass. Later Galley, Murray & Marsden formed a band called MGM. Saw them support Marillion in 86. Galley had left Whitesnake after he injured his hand and MGM saw the first appearance of The Claw, a device that allowed Mel to play again.
I prefer the UK mix of slide it in. Other than me preferring both Moody and Galley, the drum sound on the British mix is bigger and in your face. On the US version it's more in the background.
Alan Spenner played bass in the original recording of " Jesus Christ Super Starr " 1970 Rock Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice , he later joined Roxy Music ... Tony Newman drummed for the Cosmic Troubador Donovan ...
I was a fanatical Whitesnake fan back in the day...loved Coverdale in Purple and his two solo albums...Whitesnake to me was great into the early 80's....kick ass blues based hard rock.......unfortunately I feel that Saints and Sinners was their last great album....suddenly we had Coverdale with an" overhaul" of spandex teased hair plastic surgery generic commercially contrived MTV dime a dozen 80's hairband poser metal .........couldn't get into it......clueless girls back then ( and morons ) actually thought this was a new band ....give me Whitesnake up through Saints and Sinners....I'll accept Slow and Easy.....sounds like an outtake from the old days...haha
They did do a tour in 1994 too in support of the "Greatest Hits" album, which had a new remix of 'Here I Go Again' I recall. I think Warren DeMartini from RATT was in the band at the time, along w. Coverdale of course, and Vandenberg. Not sure who else was in it.
I saw them on Slip o t tongue tour Vandenberg did all the solos had all the spotlight Vai kind of hung in the background. . Quiet Riot was the opening act incidentally
here the Complete History of David Coverdale. Burn [1974] Stormbringer [1974] Come Taste The Band [1975] White Snake [1977] Northwinds [1978] Snakebite [1978] Trouble [1978] Love Hunter [1979] Ready An' Willing [1980] Come An' Get It [1981] Saints An' Sinners [1982] Slide It In [1984] Whitesnake [1987] Slip Of The Tongue [1989] Coverdale & Page [1993] Restless Heart [1997] Into The Light [2000] Good To Be Bad [2008] Forevermore [2011] The Purple Album [2015] Flesh & Blood [2018] Whitesnake Unzipped: Accoustic Journey Through The Years [2018]
Hi I really enjoyed this Whitesnake video. Not tok many videos in the vc like this one. I noticed that you neglected to show "into the light" from 2000 which was a solo album like the two early releases. Great album i really enjoyed that one. just watched your Rainbow and UFO videos too. v entertaining.many thanks. Andy H
When considering the career of David Coverdale and Whitesnake, one can't dismiss the work of John Kalodner. He was the A&R guy who got Coverdale together with John Sykes to write, while also insisting that Martin Birch NOT be used to produce the 1987 record, as Birch had done on many of the previous Whitesnake records. Kalodner wanted a new, fresh, "American" sound for the upcoming record. (Kalodner, by the way, was also instrumental in launching Aerosmith's return to the rock stratosphere around the same time.) Also very important to the Whitesnake story is Marty Callner, who was the video director who conceived the videos that would feature Tawny Kitaen ("Kitaen Kitaen!" ). That '87 record was good, but if not for those videos, David Coverdale might not have had such a long career.
I saw WS in the summer of 81 with Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. It was the Lord, Paice lineup. If I remember correctly they were doing the "Come and get it" material.
Damn...the second video (first was a review of the new Queensryche) of yours to pop up and its Whitesnake. The band that is solely responsible for me being a rock fan.
My first song was "Guilty of love" which charted in Germany. Since then and up to today, I really love the album "Slide it in". Also the work before that is quite nnice. Later songs are that obviously refined for commercial market, they are not so much my thing.
Your timeline is off; Trouble goes all the way back to 1978, Lovehunter was 1979, Ready an' Willing was 1980, Come an' Get It was 1981, and Saints & Sinners was 1982.
seen Whitesnake on the 2018 tour with Foreigner and Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin experience...to me Whitesnake by far was the best of the three...they were kick ass
If you want the BEST version of Slide It In, get the UK edition. John Kalodner ruined the American edition by not just having extra guitars (which were merely OK to me), but doing both a resequencing AND remix for the US market. I first heard the British mixes for "Love Ain't No Stranger" and "Slow An' Easy" on a release called "The Definitive Collection: Whitesnake", and a couple of others made their way to the double "Whitesnake: Gold" set.
The band's *Whitesnake* name meaning I didn't realize until I put the _Slide It In_ album title, and, many of their double-entendre song names together.
Thanks Pete! Great retrospective on Whitesnake. Absolutely love bluesy hard rock and Whitesnake brought some of the best. Loved COME N GET IT but, was actually SLIDE IT IN that got me hooked. Sorry to say this though, 1987 version of Here I Go Again leaves me cold. I prefer the Saints N Sinners version. Like A Hobo I Was Born To Walk Alone. 1987 version just seems too poppy and syrupy. Like they were looking for a hit. If they had kept pounding their blues rock ways, i think they may have been even bigger!
I saw Whitesnake with that cd that's in your hand at the Fox theater in Atlanta with Iron maiden killers album , Judas priest Point of entry album. Triple bill.
It really never mattered who was behind David Coverdale, everyone played a massive part in making some of the best rock albums in the world. Great video !
Ironically Micky Moody came from Graham Bonnet band to Whitesnake. Later he returned to Bonnet. Don Airey from late 80s Whitesnake was in Rainbow with Bonnet too.
It may be a good idea to work on the history and presentation before making a video, Coverdale toured the band as Whitesnake earlier in 1978 before the release of Trouble and the tour that supported this release, I saw this very first tour in a place called Ashington and was at the first date of the Trouble tour at the City Hall Newcastle, I had a brief facebook back and forth with Bernie Marsden about the Ashington gig.
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I love these history shows that you do.Well done.
I think 'Ready An' Willing' and 'Come And Get It' are the best studio albums Whitesnake did. The classic lineup of Coverdale, Paice, Lord, Marsden, Moody and Murray is THE definitive Whitesnake. When Coverdale decided to break in to America they became a heavy metal band with very little subtlety, and these days it's Coverdale with a backing band.
Definitely their greatest records, and I would put Lovehunter and Slide It In right after
Lovehunter 1979, Ready n Willing 1980, Live in The Heart of the City 1980, Come and Get It 1981, Saints and Sinners 1982
yep was a bit taken when he said Lovehunter was 82
Trouble,Northwinds,
Snakebite
@@Theheavymetalshop Great albums too
They are US release dates. Pete should give uk/europe release dates aswel
Love the older stuff for it's classic British blues/rock feel, but to me, The Sykes era sound was off the chain. That solo after the cello part in Still of the Night is still some of the best axe badassery of the 80s. Like a lot of folks, I bailed on the Vai stuff and followed Sykes over to Blue Murder.
I saw the 3-ex-Purple lineup live. "Ain't No Love..." was the best song of the night. Only one I really remember other than "Fool For Your Lovin'"
It's a shame that if you mention Whitesnake, most people will only remember the "hair band" that did the video with tawny Kitaen on the car. I loved the 1987 album too (Sykes was a beast on it), but the old stuff is where it's at.
So true!
Totally agree. I think it highlights the difference between UK rock and US rock.
Too true. I did buy 1987 but basically ignored it after one play. Now I don't recognise anything after Slide It In. As for the abomination sell out version of Here I Go Again, that must be the only time when an artist murdered his own song.
@@stephenbrown4211 well the guy who wrote that song doesnt seem to mind the royalty check he still gets from the 87 version 😆. I read Mr Marsden's book, great read btw, and he doesnt seem to mind it.
I am a big Whitesnake fan and I absolutely agree with you. Old bluesy style is what Whitesnake really is. I am fan on this Whitesnake, when in this band were Micky Moody, Bernie Marsden, Jon Lord, Ian Paice, Neil Murray and, of course, David Coverdale. Cozy Powell and Mell Galley were also good.
Bought that t-shirt in 1978, very cool. I am very similar to you I love all the bands that developed through Purple! Live in the heart of the city, my favourite live album. Love the ready n Willing, come n Get it line up the best, saw them at Leeds Queens Hall, UK. Musicianship at its best.
Saw Whitesnake 5 times and the re-formed Deep Purple twice in the 80s. Great rock n roll shows! Met Ian Paice in Dr Muellers in the Frankfurt airport😆 we was passing the time looking at mags.. He was going to italy, just played a festival the weekend before.
Ready n Willing and Slide It In are my two favourites
Cozy had already done MSG by the time he joined Whitesnake. The Purple family tree is massive and has so many branches, responsible for some of the very best rock music, ever!
Yes. Good idea to do a little research. He left Whitesnake in ‘85, recorded with Phenomena, which was a project by Tom and Mel Galley, before he joined Emerson and Lake to replace Palmer as a new «P».
Yep , Cozy was with MSG in 80-81 - dude's way off
Whitesnake is one of my favorite bands ever!! The 1987 self titled album to this day is still one of the greatest albums I have ever listened to. I love their whole catalog. My favorite albums have always been 1987 self titled album, Slide It In, Saints And Sinners, Ready An Willing, Slip Of The Tongue, Come An Get It, Love Hunter, and Trouble. John Sykes is my favorite guitar player ever that played in Whitesnake. I would have really loved to hear a follow-up to the 1987 self titled album with John Sykes. I actually love Blue Murders debut album better than Whitesnake's Slip Of The Tongue. I have and love all their live albums. Especially the Back To The Bone 1984 , the live 1988 album from the 1987 self titled box set, Live In The Heart Of The City, The Purple Tour, Live In The Shadow Of The Blues, and Donington 1990.
great video Peter ive sent it to my to my dad to watch he played guitar in the early days of whitesnake
Lot of stuff I totally forgot about. I haven't listened to old early Witesnake in years!! I enjoyed this one .
For me personally the 1987 album was the beginning of the end. I went to that concert. It was the first time I saw them & all they played was that album & a couple from Slide it in.
I went to see my favorite blues rock band & I got a spandex & hair metal show. I really don’t know any Whitesnake music after that. A fine hair band I’m sure, just not my thing.
Colin ‘Bomber’ Hodgkinson was the bassist on the original UK mix of ‘Slide..’. Mel Galley picked up his injury in Germany, on the European Tour. Viv Campbell was keen to contribute to ‘Slip..’ but other factors caused him to quit.
All the bands that i love, thanks for your knowledge 🙉👍👍👍
I was lucky enough to see Whitesake at the Castle Donnington Rock Festival in the early eighties. If my memory serves me well, it was the John Lord, Micky Moody, Cozy Powel, Mel Galley and Colin Hodgekinson line-up. My favourite song is Don't Break My Heart Again.
Great vid! Whitesnake has become one of my favorite bands over time.. I didn't discover early Whitesnake until around the Slip of the Tongue era. I remember being in my local music store and found Lovehunter and Trouble in the mark down bin. I didn't take to the material originally since it was so far removed from 87, Slip, and Slide It In but I now absolutely love those early albums.
Trouble, 1978, Love Hunter, 1979, ready n Willing, 1980, come n Get it 1981
back in 87 when i first saw In The Still of the Night video i knew i had to get the album not knowing the long history Whitesnake had. loved that self titled album and a couple years later i picked up Love Hunter on a whim not having any idea what to expect but that damn cover art was something else just for starters. i wasn't too sure what to think of the songs at first they took some getting used to because in my head i was expecting a more heavy metal/hard rock type music. but over the years it really won me over and i gained a whole new appreciation for Coverdale's vocals.
Get hold of Northwinds, Coverdale at his finest.
Steve Davies “Northwinds”?
@@holseyd yes it's mentioned in the original post. David Coverdales 2nd solo album. My personal favourite of all his work.
Steve Davies I’ll check it out. Thanks for the tip.
Great and accurate presentation of the history of this awesome band.
1 of my favourite live albums around that time along with unleashed in the east.. and queen live killers...🔊🎵🎵🎵🎵🤘
Always been a fan of the 1978 to 84 music from Whitesnake. The e.p. and first 6 albums have a bunch of cool music on them.
Saw these guys for the first time on Tuesday.
Live in the heart of the city is my favorite
Whitesnake were a great rock blues band until they end of 1983. As soon as Micky Moody left, they went downhill. The greatest guitarist lineup was Moody Marsden.
Seen them in Belfast on the slide it in tour , definitely had Cozy Powell and Jon Lord was the best gig I ever saw .
The "High Water" mark for WhiteSnake as a blues-based, hard rock band: Come And Get It. The "Metal" peak:1987....saw them on this tour & from a performance standpoint....far superior to Crue, though I'm a fan of both. I also caught them with Foreigner & Jason Bonham in Nashville....the 40+ years of singing has took it's toll! Yet consider the talent throughout the years - Bernie Marsden/Tommy Aldridge/John Sykes/Neil Murray/Adrian Vandenberg/Jon Lord....Coverdale must be one hell of a pitch-man!!!
Seen both Marsden and Moody doing solo gigs at the Great British R&B festival here in Colne in the good old UK. Both did some stuff similar to Whitesnake but both did stuff that was very different. Proved that both are very talented guitarists. Whitesnake wasn't the same when this duo was split up.
I would have loved to see them in concert around 80 \81 ,with Paicey never came to this part of the world unfortunately, love those early WS albums.
Lovehunter and live in the heart of the city are 2 of the best albums ever... Whitesnake and DP are 2 out of my top 5 fav bands
Bernie also played with the band PAL(Paice Ashton Lord). Trouble and Love hunter were late 70s releases.
When I was 14 years old in England I saw Whitesnake a few times (starting with Ready and Willing) - awesome. At that stage in the UK there was a huge rivalry between Rainbow and Whitesnake amongst the fans and it was difficult to be 'allowed' to like both! Nuts!
Legendary band 💕
Thanks for introducing me to WHITESNAKE. These videos have introduced me to music that I was unfamiliar with. Thank you.
I was never a huge Whitesnake fan but my cousin convinced me to go see them in the early 1980s when they were basically a blues band. Have to say they were incredible live.
There was a interesting album David Coverdale did with Jimmy Page right? I was longing to hear it's review.
Thanks once again for another "The history of ..." video! this is really great! I've grown up listening to all of these bands because of my dad's taste in music and just now I'm taking my time to learn the history of all of these bands. Keep up the good work 💪🍻
I love crying in the rain,looking for love, is this love, here i go again,i love whitesnake i love coverdale in deep purple stormbringer one of my favourite albums and burn david coverdale brilliant voice.
Trouble (1978), Lovehunter (1979), Ready n Willing (1980), Come an Get it (1981), Saints an Sinners (1982), Slide It In (1984), Whitesnake (1987), Slip of the Tongue (1989), Restless Heart (1997), Good to Be Bad (2008), Forevermore (2011), and Purple Album (2015
Saw them twice, Lord, Paice, then Powell etc. I was following them right from the start. Don't forget 'Into the Light' 2000, a Coverdale solo which rocks! Think after Purple he couldn't perform due to contractuals for two years so wrote the early solo stuff.
He released the live 'In the heart of the city' double album cus the import version was extortionately priced and he always cared about his followers. Vaguely recall Mr an Mrs Dio did some backing vocals on 'Northwinds', or was it just Mrs Dio and friends? Yes Wendy Dio backing on "Give Me Kindness"
Mr David Coverdale, thank you very much indeed.
Also, that legendary Snakebite EP that I recall buying from our local record shop! Those were the days, then Lovehunter!
However, here in America, Snakebite was not an EP,it was a full album - but first released as David Coverdale, then David Coverdale's Whitesnake on the second pressing,and finally Whitesnake by the Geffen Reissues were starting.
Snakebite 1978 also??? Or '77?
+Quinn, Joey, Mula, Boing-Boing Is popin
David coverdale ' Whistenake (1977)
David Coverdale "Northwinds " (1978)
David Coverdale /Whitesnake 'Snake bite (1978)
Whitesnake " Trouble "(1978)
Lovehunter(1979)
Ready and willing (1980)
Live in the heart of the city (1980)
Come on and get it ( 1981)
Saints and Sinners (1982)
Slide it in (1984)...
and so on ..
but for answer your question ..
yeah on 70's They werent afraid to put inspired records on the same year .
it was the normal thing .
i mean even in jazz fusion stuff .. Herbie hancock .. billy cobham did like .. to a 4 albums the same year .
Just found all my Whitesnake albums last week. Put Slide it In on the turntable and cranked it. Ahhhhhhh. Haven't rocked that hard for a while. Right to the top baybauyyyeeyeah
I got the Come And Get It album on vinyl Pete. It's simply fantastic!
I would love to hear you do this for the Scorpions and for Journey.
Really love watching your videos. Very entertaining.
Tank u for sharing the storyline with white-snake and davids trip..
Thank you, all the infos i wanted, New subscriber. Keep the good work
Correction- Cozy Powell joined Keith Emerson and Greg Lake after leaving Whitesnake. He was in the Michael Schenker Group just prior to joining Whitesnake.
That was a little touch and go there.
@SubramkrishnaAnian Michael Schenker made his mark in the classic British Hard Rock/Heavy Metal band UFO from 1972 - 1978.
Let’s see who would have been on Keith Emerson and Greg Lake’s shortlist for a new drummer....
Cozy Powell
Simon Phillips
Ian Paice
Earl Palmer
Andy Parker
Neil Peart
Jeff Porcaro
Ooh I’m so cynical...
@@bobthebear1246 so he did, and those albums he made with UFO are fantastic
John Sykes really was the missing link Coverdale needed to make that band into the Blues/Metal monster he had envisioned, and also to break them into the U.S. market (which is ironic - don't you think? - considering Sykes had no prior history in this country), as evidenced by *Slide It In* and *Whitesnake.* Once Coverdale fired Sykes, it all came crumbling down. Sykes can take pride in that, as well as the debut from the band he would form immediately upon his firing, *Blue Murder.* Produced by none other than Bob Rock, this album was one of the greatest of 1989. A final and fitting fuck-you from John to David. 😘
Their best music came from the original era of the band.
The Blue Murder album should have been a hit but wasn't. Then Sykes went commercial. Sad.
Sad part is I still listen to Blue Murder and I can see most of that being the basis of the 1987 follow-up
Ready N' Willing is my favourite WS album
Milos Dunjic Me too. I remember walking the streets of Phoenix Az playing Ain’t gonna cry no more over & over on cassette with my Sony Walkman for days after a rough breakup in the mid 80s. That song still takes me back to that moment
Same here - still got my vinyl copy from back in the day!
I saw them on that album tour at Manchester Appollo around 1980 ish. Superb. Fool for Your Lovin' was in the charts as a single. '
you should do a show on Snakebitten (Whitesnake Tribute) from Phoenix AZ. The lineup is comprised of all pro musicians that were previously signed with both well known bands and independent label acts .
Lead Vocals : Michael Beck (Jake E Lees Red Dragon Cartel)
Drums: A.D. Adams (Dirty Looks) (Louis Prima Jr)
Bass: Vince Pileggi (H.A.T.E. / Auburn Records)
Lead Guitar: Brent Barker ( L.A. session guitarist and M.I.T. graduate)
Rhythm Guitar : Paul Furlong ( Ultra Violet)
There was so many very talented/famous musicians in WhiteSnake, I would've never thought that about WhiteSnake. WTF.
Great video, and retrospective. Live in the heart of the city is a killer live album. Child of Babylon from Come and Get it a lost gem...
Absolutely it is. Also, from Northwinds listen to 'Breakdown' which is fast and truly superb and early Whitesnake sound. Thanks.
Thanks John! Yes, a great live album indeed, and I LOVE Child of Babylon!
Walking In The Shadow Of the Blues is my favorite on that LP!
Saint's & Sinner's ! Very cool album
Star Gazer, Epic!!!...my fav. Rainbow, He falls instead Riiissiiing" WOW!
Whitesnake have been my favourite band since the age of 11 - when I got my first 2 ever records (Ready an Willing, Live in The Heart of the City) - my other favourite bands are also in the Deep Purple family (DP, Rainbow, Gillan)
Thanks for posting this - interesting. A few inaccuracies with release dates etc but I see corrected in comments
Whitesnake of course were pretty big in the UK before they broke the States and I think like most UK fans of my generation we prefer the pre-1987 vintage. However, a lot of classic tunes came post Slide it In too - Judgement Day, Still of the Night, Steal your Heart Away, Love ain't no Stranger
Looking forward to the new album in Spring 2018 and hopefully another UK tour around the time of my 50th birthday and a chance for my kids to catch their 1st and 3rd Whitesnake gig's respectively.
Ready an Willing is a great blues/hard rock album. It was a minor hit in the US with Fool for your Lovin, I remember hearing on the radio. IMO, the best “Deep Purple family tree” since Come Taste the Band, and better than anything DP themselves would ever release afterwards. Whitesnake’s best IMO. Every song is great and the addition of Jon Lord and Ian Paice along with Neil Murray make the rhythm section extremely effective. Check out She’s a Women. Highly recommended.
Actually you missed outa bit of whitesnake info there after 1990 he took a break resurfaced in 1994 with a greatest hits release and put together another version of whitesnake again with Adrian Vandenberg on 🎸 and also Warren demartini from ratt and a few others then they went silent again and THEN in 97 was the restless heart album
I liked the video very informative not a big Whitesnake fan but might have to check more out.It would be cool if you rank the albums at the end! Thanks
I liked the first half of the video - you get my drift! ;)
Great overview, enjoyed it very much. an album to keep an eye out for is Starkers in Tokyo. An acoustic album live with DC and Adrian Vandenburg
The best line up from White 🐍 👉 Jon Lord,Mick Moody,Bernie Marsden, Neil Murray, Ian Paice And David "fuck🎤" Coverdale 👏👏👏
Great review!
Love the older Whitesnake albums and Live in the hearth of the city is great, please rate mr Jon Lords solo albums too, and Blackmores NIght..
Hi,
My favourite Whitesnake album is the American mix version of Slide it in, and favourite track Givs me more time.
But my favourite period of Whitesnake is from Trouble in 78, to the 1987 album, after that it kinda lost its way by then in my opinion.
I was kinda hoping via request could you do an in depth review of the Slide it in album for me?
Forgets to mention Ainsley Dunbar played in Jefferson Starship . Later on also played with the UFO band : Mogg/Way and Damn Yamkees. I also think he did one album with Mothers Army which Joe Lynn Turner on vocals, Bob Daisly on Bass. Made 3 great albums but bot all with Dunbar. Carmine Appice also did 1 or 2 albums.I like these kinds of portraits of a band but mistakes are emberrassing. Cozy Powell indeed did MSG befor ehe joined DC in Whitesnake. Btw, Richard Bailey replaced Jon Lord after the spring of 84. He was a heavy on synthesizer man while Lord was ofcourse a Hammondmand. Btw, it also would have been nice to mention DC's stint with Jimmy Page(before he reunited with Robert Plant, often dismissing DC and his zeppelinisque efforst including dying his hair blond but still singing a Coverdale.page tracks live!) : supposedly it was meant to be called Legend but renamed into Coverdale/Page. They did not tour much but had legendary shows in Japan.
Maybe you should do a Whitesnake review as you appear to think you could do much better.
A "Coverdale Page "mention would have been nice
'ere's a song for ya!
Just a footnote. Cozy and Galley did play on the Saints & Sinners tour. Colin Hodgkinson also replaced Murray on bass. Later Galley, Murray & Marsden formed a band called MGM. Saw them support Marillion in 86. Galley had left Whitesnake after he injured his hand and MGM saw the first appearance of The Claw, a device that allowed Mel to play again.
your videos are awesome really enjoy them
I prefer the UK mix of slide it in. Other than me preferring both Moody and Galley, the drum sound on the British mix is bigger and in your face. On the US version it's more in the background.
Alan Spenner played bass in the original recording of " Jesus Christ Super Starr " 1970 Rock Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice , he later joined Roxy Music ... Tony Newman drummed for the Cosmic Troubador Donovan ...
I was a fanatical Whitesnake fan back in the day...loved Coverdale in Purple and his two solo albums...Whitesnake to me was great into the early 80's....kick ass blues based hard rock.......unfortunately I feel that Saints and Sinners was their last great album....suddenly we had Coverdale with an" overhaul" of spandex teased hair plastic surgery generic commercially contrived MTV dime a dozen 80's hairband poser metal .........couldn't get into it......clueless girls back then ( and morons ) actually thought this was a new band ....give me Whitesnake up through Saints and Sinners....I'll accept Slow and Easy.....sounds like an outtake from the old days...haha
They did do a tour in 1994 too in support of the "Greatest Hits" album, which had a new remix of 'Here I Go Again' I recall. I think Warren DeMartini from RATT was in the band at the time, along w. Coverdale of course, and Vandenberg. Not sure who else was in it.
Dann Huff played on the US re-mix of Hear I go again!
I also saw them on tour with Motley Crue. You are 100% correct. Whitesnake totally out did Crue at the show I saw in Portland Maine.
Sykes needed to stay.
I think David Coverdale's the only person who'd disagree with that. Plus Vandenberg/Campbell, perhaps. :)
Sykes was a dick...
@Chris Manzi Not the only one. What about Marsden & Moody? Doug Aldrich and Reb Beach? Tommy Bolin? Coverdale was great with all of those guitarists.
I was distraught when Purple ended.
I absolutely loved Coverdales 2 solo albums, real quality.
I love Whitesnake but the best live show put onto vinyl, recorded at Hammersmith was "No Sleep 'til Hammersmith"
Correct!
@@dannymcmince Should have been called no sleep AFTER Hammersmith. my ears were still ringing 2 days afterwards!
@@CB-xr1eg Brilliant, great times Clive🎸🤘
I saw them on Slip o t tongue tour Vandenberg did all the solos had all the spotlight Vai kind of hung in the background. .
Quiet Riot was the opening act incidentally
here the Complete History of David Coverdale. Burn [1974] Stormbringer [1974] Come Taste The Band [1975] White Snake [1977] Northwinds [1978] Snakebite [1978] Trouble [1978] Love Hunter [1979] Ready An' Willing [1980] Come An' Get It [1981] Saints An' Sinners [1982] Slide It In [1984] Whitesnake [1987] Slip Of The Tongue [1989] Coverdale & Page [1993] Restless Heart [1997] Into The Light [2000] Good To Be Bad [2008] Forevermore [2011] The Purple Album [2015] Flesh & Blood [2018] Whitesnake Unzipped: Accoustic Journey Through The Years [2018]
This is not complete ! :)
Made in Europe?
Thank you!! I know that wasn't easy AT ALL.
Great stuff, keep it up.
Hi
I really enjoyed this Whitesnake video. Not tok many videos in the vc like this one. I noticed that you neglected to show "into the light" from 2000 which was a solo album like the two early releases. Great album i really enjoyed that one.
just watched your Rainbow and UFO videos too. v entertaining.many thanks.
Andy H
When considering the career of David Coverdale and Whitesnake, one can't dismiss the work of John Kalodner. He was the A&R guy who got Coverdale together with John Sykes to write, while also insisting that Martin Birch NOT be used to produce the 1987 record, as Birch had done on many of the previous Whitesnake records. Kalodner wanted a new, fresh, "American" sound for the upcoming record. (Kalodner, by the way, was also instrumental in launching Aerosmith's return to the rock stratosphere around the same time.) Also very important to the Whitesnake story is Marty Callner, who was the video director who conceived the videos that would feature Tawny Kitaen ("Kitaen Kitaen!" ). That '87 record was good, but if not for those videos, David Coverdale might not have had such a long career.
I saw WS in the summer of 81 with Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. It was the Lord, Paice lineup. If I remember correctly they were doing the "Come and get it" material.
Trouble was 78, Lovehunter 79, Ready and Willing 80 ect
My brother once wrote Lovehunter was from '77, Trouble from '79 and Come An' Get It 1982.
Damn...the second video (first was a review of the new Queensryche) of yours to pop up and its Whitesnake.
The band that is solely responsible for me being a rock fan.
My first song was "Guilty of love" which charted in Germany. Since then and up to today, I really love the album "Slide it in". Also the work before that is quite nnice. Later songs are that obviously refined for commercial market, they are not so much my thing.
Your timeline is off; Trouble goes all the way back to 1978, Lovehunter was 1979, Ready an' Willing was 1980, Come an' Get It was 1981, and Saints & Sinners was 1982.
seen Whitesnake on the 2018 tour with Foreigner and Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin experience...to me Whitesnake by far was the best of the three...they were kick ass
If you want the BEST version of Slide It In, get the UK edition. John Kalodner ruined the American edition by not just having extra guitars (which were merely OK to me), but doing both a resequencing AND remix for the US market. I first heard the British mixes for "Love Ain't No Stranger" and "Slow An' Easy" on a release called "The Definitive Collection: Whitesnake", and a couple of others made their way to the double "Whitesnake: Gold" set.
The band's *Whitesnake* name meaning I didn't realize until I put the _Slide It In_ album title, and, many of their double-entendre song names together.
Love Hunter, best album cover...
🍓 great stuff
Thanks Pete! Great retrospective on Whitesnake. Absolutely love bluesy hard rock and Whitesnake brought some of the best. Loved COME N GET IT but, was actually SLIDE IT IN that got me hooked. Sorry to say this though, 1987 version of Here I Go Again leaves me cold. I prefer the Saints N Sinners version. Like A Hobo I Was Born To Walk Alone. 1987 version just seems too poppy and syrupy. Like they were looking for a hit. If they had kept pounding their blues rock ways, i think they may have been even bigger!
I saw Whitesnake with that cd that's in your hand at the Fox theater in Atlanta with Iron maiden killers album , Judas priest Point of entry album. Triple bill.
Good one.
My family 🐌🐌🐌🐌💞🌹
Had to shut it off when Ready and Willin' was omitted! lol
It really never mattered who was behind David Coverdale, everyone played a massive part in making some of the best rock albums in the world. Great video !
I saw the crew tour and I don't believe they blew Crue off stage
Ironically Micky Moody came from Graham Bonnet band to Whitesnake. Later he returned to Bonnet. Don Airey from late 80s Whitesnake was in Rainbow with Bonnet too.
Whitesnake were ruined when they ''Americanised'' their sound.....Cozy left because of that.
It may be a good idea to work on the history and presentation before making a video, Coverdale toured the band as Whitesnake earlier in 1978 before the release of Trouble and the tour that supported this release, I saw this very first tour in a place called Ashington and was at the first date of the Trouble tour at the City Hall Newcastle, I had a brief facebook back and forth with Bernie Marsden about the Ashington gig.