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It is a Shadow of my youth. I recieved this product on time an in great condition.
I love it. Drove me straight back to the end of the eighty's and early nineties.
Please try not to hold this music against Coverdale and the many talented musicians he worked with prior to it.Check out the Slide It In album and anything earlier (such as Love Hunter, Snakebite, etc). The recognition that his original style deserved would have come in time - I'm certain of that, considering the revival of blues and blues rock that occurred in the 90's. This album is the most blatant example of "selling out" that could ever be presented for your consideration. I can understand wanting to make money, but I wish that David Coverdale had been more like Ayn Rand's character Howard Roarke.
The band became a farce, with the only constant being David Coverdale, who then still had one of the best rock voices around, and a rotating band of musicians, all of whom were good, but combined made WS possibly the ugliest (and the oldest) hair metal bands around, which did nothing for their popularity.This is an OK album at the start of their downfall. Most of the original WS were from 70s classic rock and heavy blues bands, and their early albums reflected this, but then the 80s hit and metal became trendy and fashionable, and WS reformed themselves to be the ultimate hair metal band. If you really like mediocre 80s hair metal ballads this is for you, if you like blues-rock music pick their earlier albums. Whitesnake were always an anomaly amongst rock(). bands.
I'm not sure why they tampered with it, but probably to make it an even bigger hit would be my guess.This is heavy pop/hair metal. He still has it.I would've liked to see him get a little more down and dirty with the sound on Whitesnake, but still, this album rocks. One thing I can say about Dave Coverdale, he sure attracts some great backing musicians. This shows in the music. Of course, Coverdale was the only original member, but his band of hired hands, as usual, rocked. At least that flub gave them a human touch that is a bit missing on some of this album. The one on this vinyl album is a bit heavier and simpler than the more orchestrated version usually heard on the radio.
There was this old man at a bar near our house and when he saw my daughter with a Whitesnake T-shirt on, he said, "Veetuh-snawkuh." To this day, I call them veetuh- snawkuh.A couple of years ago, I saw Whitesnake here in Las Vegas at Mandalay bay. This is another band I can tolerate over and over again, though it does get a little old, but not enough that I slam the off button on the radio.One thing I can't resist mentioning, is that they were pretty big in Spain in the 80's.
They put on a great show despite Vandenberg flubbing a keyboard line on one of the songs. This album in particular is a hit factory and you can hear many of the cuts on classic rock radio.
If you start with his first album, you will find his career punctuated with a who's who roster of rock elite. That standard hair metal snare drum sound is prominent, as well as their hair styles (though there is no photo of the band on my vinyl copy).
Recommended. It is well done, very slick, and totally catchy.I saw him in Spain in the 80's and he had Steve Vai and Adrian Vandenberg with him.
It is good, in fact, great in a lot of ways, but I just wish it wasn't so slick.One thing I noticed is that there are two versions of Here I Go Again.
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