Tawny was a rocker

[Dave W]

Tawny Kitaen, '80s Music Video Vixen and 'Bachelor Party' Star, Dies at 59

[Basvarken]

No-one could crawl across a hood like she could 😂

[westen44]

Very sad and unexpected news--Tawny Kitaen was one of a kind RIP

[TBird1958]

She evidently had her demons, sad. 59 is too early to check out, RIP.

[Dave W]

No-one could crawl across a hood like she could 😂

Jaguar's best salesperson ever.

[uwe]

She didn't just crawl, she did cartwheels too! It figures that you would only remember the one and forget the other.

Poor Tawny, obviously built for speed, but not for comfort. She took an "unknown boutique salesman from Redcar" by storm, rocked him like a hurricane and left him like a tornado. No mean feat.

Rest in the still of the night, Gwendoline.

[Basvarken]

And you bought the Gwendoline VHS because of those cartwheels she did in the video with an ex-Deep Purple member, right? 

[uwe]

 

Worse! I saw the Gwendoline cineastic highlight long before David und Tawny become an item after the Still of the Night video shoot. Details have become murky, but it wasn't even my idea to watch it at a cinema, a girlfriend of Martina has to take the blame. It was hilarious - even by the standards of soft-porn. Emanuelle or The Story of O were serious film works in comparison to this train wreck of a movie. It is so awful, I'm surprised it hasn't reached cult status.

If truth be told, I didn't like Still of the Night when it came out. Not the song (too Zep), not the vid (too much hair) und not the line-up it created (bunch of mercenaries). With the departure of Bernie Marsden, Whitesnake was never the same for me again. Overweight or not, he was a natural musician and I loved his songwriting and fluid, melodic solos.

And Tawny couldn't of course hold a candle to David's first wife, my countrywoman Julia, whom he got to know and love in Munich, marrying her as early as 1974, when he was fresh with DP! They have a daughter named Jessica (looking much like her dad).



Not very rock star'ish at all, Julia was about 10 years David's senior.



Their marriage folded around the split of the first classic WS line-up, long before Tawny started polishing the Jag hoods or throwing Kim Basinger shapes. To me, Tawny looked and acted (on WS tours) like she would create issues - and sure enough she did! Just ask Vivian Campbell.

Contrary to his lyrics and Image, DC is more the steady guy with women. Essentially there were three of them during his adult life, Julia (8 years married, one daughter), Tawny (two years of marriage plus two years hormone rush before, no children, file under "guilty pleasure" and "expensive mistake") and Cindy (25 years married and counting, one son).

For Julia, he wrote this here,



his best ballad ever and spine-tingling when his voice almost breaks in the middle-eight (beginning at 2:27). That's him playing the Rhodes too.

All that said, I'm happy to hear that Tawny had children and hope that mug shots and drunk driving aside she also found some solace and happiness in the last 30 years.

[amptech]

Thanks for all the info, I'm in a Whitesnake cover band these days and need to keep up with the diehard fans in the band. I had only heard a couple of ws songs before I joined, but of course I was familiar with DC from DP and Tawny from 'witchboard'.

[uwe]

So who's your favorite WS bassist?

Don't forget that the bass on 1987 (the album) is largely keyboards!

[Basvarken]

I'm in a Whitesnake cover band these days .

Cool!

My former bandmates have a Whitesnake tribute band too.

[uwe]

They really nail it!!!

[Basvarken]

They do, don't they?

Here's another one from the same session.





I generally really don't miss playing in a band. But these guys are an exception. I would have loved to be a part of their band.

[uwe]

Doing all that subtle Neil Murray overplaying, right?!  Because no one could overplay and be subtle at the same time like him.

Tawny on DC, Robin Crosby, the father of her children ("my second ex-husband") and hair shampoo. All in her walk-in closet.

[Basvarken]

She looked scary. Plastic surgery horror!