Lock up your daughters. This might be sensible advice.
Uhum, a song that bears - cough! -
hardly any correlation to these two tracks here which had been in the UK Charts 18 and 6 months before, respectively, giving Whitesnake its first two major UK hits (Fool For Your Loving #13, Don't Break My Heart Again #17):
Slade had not only played with Whitesnake in Reading in 1980, but also been their opening act (I remember a 1980 or 81 gig where Ozzy with Randy Rhoads was the opener, Slade the middle act and Whitesnake headlined), so Jim Lea must have thought
I can write something like that too. And he did, the parallels are obvious, it went to #29 of the UK Charts in the fall of 1981. It's basically the bastard child of Fool For Your Loving's riff structure and breaks combined with Don't Break Ny Heart Again's stompiness. '
Whiteslade' even added some Jon Lord-style Hammond to their studio version, an otherwise rare occurence with their music.
Needless to say I really like it though it was a bit of an intentional effort by Slade to leave their pop foundations behind and appeal to a hard rock audience with a blues-rockier sound, sort of "
If the metal kids now like us, we'll give them what they want!"
Re Dave Hill: His sartorial elegance and timeless high bangs cut hid what a tasteful lead guitarist he was. His solos were always just perfect for Slade, often picking up a previous vocal melody but then turning it around. He was a master of holding back and actually very controlled playing, much in contrast to his outrageous stage demeanor.
Are the Nasty Habits back in action, Fräulein Rommel?