One of Roger Dean's BEST covers!! (NSFW!)
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One of Roger Dean's BEST covers!! (NSFW!)
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Hey! That's the late Chris Achilleos, not Dean!Originally Posted by JKL2000
I say it's DEAN!
It doesn't even LOOK like Dean!
Whitesnake is a frustrating band for me. I vastly prefer the pre 1987 era material but the early albums can be pretty inconsistent. A good compilation might be the way to go. It's funny how Whitesnake not only became the biggest spinoff band from Deep Purple, but here in the US at least, they became even bigger than the mother band. You couldn't get away from these guys in 87/88.
Radio + MTV played them to death and back, but I didn't complain too often, since their videos looked like this!
And boy what a tempest in a teapot she wasRadio + MTV played them to death and back, but I didn't complain too often, since their videos looked like this!
Yep. She was something else. Too bad she had such a tragic ending. But back in the day, I was a little obsessed with her. Remember that movie Witchboard?Radio + MTV played them to death and back, but I didn't complain too often, since their videos looked like this!
I first got into Whitesnake in 84 or 85 right after the Slide It In album. I still like that one as well as any of them, although Ready An Willing is right up there too. But I still get more mileage out of Rainbow or Gillan. There was no way Ian Gillan was going to make it with his albums. They were too fricking weird!
The only Whitesnake album (cd) I have is the self titled one from 1987. I'm not sure yet if I want (or need) any others.
Last edited by Digital_Man; 05-21-2022 at 10:31 PM.
Do not suffer through the game of chance that plays....always doors to lock away your dreams (To Be Over)
I like Slide It In the best. The song Slow snd Easy is the most blatant and affective Led Zeppelin rip off in their catalog, even moreso than Still of The Night off the eponymous '87 album.
Agreed. Not much to like here, in my opinion. As I heard (and saw it), Whitesnake helped to usher out the hard rock/heavy metal/hair bands of the 80's and early 90's, and thank goodness for that effort. Deep Purple is legendary, Whitesnake is ordinary glam/hair/arena Rock of the most generic kind. It was fitting that Target made a full length commercial of "Here I Go Again" as the little kids returned to school with their books in hand and "like a drifter they were born to be alone". Yikes.
In the late 80s, early 90s I wore that t-shirt to work. A co-worker pointed to it and said it was going to be his next tattoo.
"Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"--Dalai Lama
I hope you worked at a carnival or something!
Well, lyrics aren't the point of hard rock anyway, unless you're Phil Lynott. Everyone one else was singing to stuff fill the guitar between the guitar solos.
But I always thought Would I Lie To You was a pretty good song. I love that line "Do I look the kind of guy who'd take advantage of a woman like you".
I still say the first six albums, up to and including Saints And Sinners are all great records. Sure, some of the lyrics are kinda silly, but so are most hard rock bands. I mean, not everyone can be Robert Hunter, Phil Lynott, or Bob Zimmerman.
It's still better than any of that 90's crap.
Last edited by GuitarGeek; 05-22-2022 at 05:08 PM.
I'll keep that in mind. I actually like that 90s crap but I suppose it depends on what you are talking about.
Do not suffer through the game of chance that plays....always doors to lock away your dreams (To Be Over)
That's the snake from Relayer surely? And the naked butt from Going for The One.It doesn't even LOOK like Dean!
That's the snake from Relayer surely? And the naked butt from Going for The One.
You knew all was lost when you saw Rudy Sarzo and couldn't ID him right away because even he'd frosted his hair.Yep. She was something else. Too bad she had such a tragic ending. But back in the day, I was a little obsessed with her. Remember that movie Witchboard?
I first got into Whitesnake in 84 or 85 right after the Slide It In album. I still like that one as well as any of them, although Ready An Willing is right up there too. But I still get more mileage out of Rainbow or Gillan. There was no way Ian Gillan was going to make it with his albums. They were too fricking weird!
Or a strip club.
Do not suffer through the game of chance that plays....always doors to lock away your dreams (To Be Over)
It was one of the few remaining electronic manufacturing companies in the US at the time. Most there were the long haired, metal head type. I myself was the on-staff technician, being recently discharged from the Navy. My Navy electronics training proved better than the Associates' Degree in electronics the company owner had. I explained to him how zener diodes actually work. He learned only that they were specially doped for reverse bias operation.
"Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"--Dalai Lama
Whitesnake = a dick?
Slide It In = sex?
Tough to parse, but I think I get what they're trying to say through all of the subtlety.
I had a buddy in the navy that was a country music only fan who used to talk about filthy lyrics in rock (Whitesnake in particular) and that country didn't do that. Somehow, songs about infidelity didn't count. And that creepy Conway Twitty song, You've Never Been This Far Before, a 40yr old man singing about an encounter with a virgin.
As juvenile as some rock lyrics were they never creeped me out like those old fashioned 'cheatin' songs did.
A cousin of mine was listening to country radio on a late night drive and a woman called in to request Conway Twitty. The DJ asked if she was a big Conway fan and she said she loved to sit on the speaker and wait for him to hit those low notes. We still laugh about that to this day.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
Ready an' Willing is their masterpiece, in my opinion. Very different band and album from the 1987 one, though.
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