It's about time he retired

[uwe]

And I've seen/heard him do it even worse. It shattered me.

I think it was Kevin Shirley (the producer) who made an interesting observation along the lines that a young singer can spend weeks on the road with five gigs a week and his voice will hold up. But not a man in his sixties - the voice needs more rest. But if you space gigs that way, the whole touring organisation will be losing money and bands like Whitesnake live from their touring these days, their sales of fresh music are miniscule. So gigs are sequenced according to financial needs/economics of scale (and not the recuperation time for half-century old vocal chords), often three gigs in a row, then only one day off etc. A guy in his twenties and thirties can pull that off, Coverdale however can't anymore.

[Highlander]

Mr Coverdale... might as well face it your addicted to love adulation... and it's going to finish badly, like most forms of addiction...

[gweimer]

Neil Young was right...better to burn out than fade away.

[uwe]

Back when he still sang and played music:







(Love Murray's busy bass here!)

[Highlander]

Murray and Moody have recently been in a band called Snake Charmer... Laurie Wisefield is the other guitarist...

DC is guesting on Marsden's next outing...

[uwe]

Yup, Snakecharmer sounds Wishbone Ash'esque in places, Wisefield's songwriting impact is strong. It's a pleasant album, but a bit forgettable. It's hard to find someone with the charisma young Coverdale had in his voice. It got him the job with DP as an unkown after all.

[Basvarken]

Coverdale also sings one song on the upcoming album of Adrian Vandenberg's Moonkings.
The other songs on the album are sung by Jan Hoving.




You may remember Jan from the band Stonefly (with yours truly on bass ;-)  )

[uwe]

Rob, you now belong to the Deep Purple family in a roundabout (pun intended) way, I'll have to collect you!!!

I bought the Manic Eden CD recently and was surprised how Hendrixy Vandenberg sounds on that. Then I realized that he had neither played on 1987 (that was John Sykes) nor on Slip of the Tongue (that was Steve Vai due to Vandenbergs wrist issues) and that his recorded work with WS is few and far between.

I'll get the Moonkings CD too.

[Basvarken]

Haha, should I be worried about this new found incestuous "family" of mine? 



I like the Manic Eden album better than the Whitesnake albums the Flying Dutchman was involved in.

[uwe]

Listening to 80ies (and current Whitesnake) is like watching a bodybuilder at the beach, all pumped up, it's just too much. They have this cinemascope huge sound where it would do DC's voice a whole lot better if it was embedded in more sparse surroundings.


I was pleasantly surprised by the Manic Eden CD.

[Highlander]

Further checks found that Wisefield and Murray had been/are in the "We Will Rock You" house-band in the London shows... it's a job...

[gweimer]

I just figured I'd toss this in here for laughs.

[Basvarken]

Beautiful EB2!

[amptech]

(Love Murray's busy bass here!)

Except for having to play a couple of tracks from lovehunter in a cover band some years ago, I really
never listened to Whitesnake. (I enjoyed that LP cover, though)

But I have to agree, nice playing here- busy and tight as well.

[uwe]

Murray came from a jazz rock background, initially he was just invited to a Whitesnake session so they could audition a drummer. Of course, once they had heard him play, they never let him go again! On that particular track you can hear that young Neil (Murray) must have listened to Rocco Prestia/Tower of Power more than a few times.