Big J
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Whitesnake unplugged
"I want to do an unplugged greatest hits, which is very exciting to me," Coverdale says. "And it won't be just 'The Love Songs of Whitesnake.' It won't be the songs to cut your wrists by. It'll be, like, 'Still of the Night,' as well as 'Is This Love' and 'Here We Go Again,' all done in my inimitable way."
"That's something that will let me tell my stories and maybe go into more intimate venues and do up-close and personal stuff, which is really hard for me to do when I'm in rock 'n' roll mode. I'd like for it to be something other than, 'Omigod, I've got two hours to kick ass!' and maybe dial it down just a touch.
http://www.theoaklandpress.com/arts-and-entertainment/20160615/sound-check-whitesnake-leads-with-its-hits-on-latest-tour
Excellent news!
--- Video clips from various gigs -> http://youtube.com/weissheim
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16/6/2016, 7:27
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Re: Whitesnake unplugged
He badly needs to take a page from Plant in how to reinvent himself.
How long is he going to fall back on 1987? Now acoustic versions of the same songs...
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16/6/2016, 7:55
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Big J
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Re: Whitesnake unplugged
He showed on The Purple Album that he can reinterpret older songs very effectively. I agree that he could maybe have a broader vision for this but it's a good first step.
--- Video clips from various gigs -> http://youtube.com/weissheim
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16/6/2016, 8:03
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Re: Whitesnake unplugged
quote: Big J wrote:
"I want to do an unplugged greatest hits, which is very exciting to me," Coverdale says. "And it won't be just 'The Love Songs of Whitesnake.' It won't be the songs to cut your wrists by. It'll be, like, 'Still of the Night,' as well as 'Is This Love' and 'Here We Go Again,' all done in my inimitable way."
"That's something that will let me tell my stories and maybe go into more intimate venues and do up-close and personal stuff, which is really hard for me to do when I'm in rock 'n' roll mode. I'd like for it to be something other than, 'Omigod, I've got two hours to kick ass!' and maybe dial it down just a touch.
http://www.theoaklandpress.com/arts-and-entertainment/20160615/sound-check-whitesnake-leads-with-its-hits-on-latest-tour
Excellent news!
I agree with this and with Danielb. I would like to hear an acoustic album especially if it includes rockers as well as love songs (actually could we drop the love songs) BUT I would like it to be either a double album that recreates songs from Purple right the way through or an album that comes with a blues/soul CD as well (like Paul Rodgers did with Muddy Waters Blues).
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16/6/2016, 8:41
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I have absolutely no interest in any acoustic rendition of Whitesnake songs or indeed ANY rock songs for that matter, I Like my rock to rock .I hated Starkers in Tokyo it was bloody corny and cringeworthy IMHO so no more of the same please
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16/6/2016, 9:22
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Re: Whitesnake unplugged
quote: danielb wrote:
How long is he going to fall back on 1987? Now acoustic versions of the same songs...
Crowds are quite large in current greatest hits tour in US so he will be falling back to it until he retires.
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18/6/2016, 11:59
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quote: danielb wrote:
He badly needs to take a page from Plant in how to reinvent himself.
How long is he going to fall back on 1987? Now acoustic versions of the same songs...
Whats the point of reinventing himself at his age??He's a rock star, he plays hard rock music ,he has a great live band around him ,he's still entertaining a lot of people.No need to change IMHO ,if he finds he can't do it anymore then give up.Robert Plant did reinvent himself to a certain extent but to be honest the material hes done in the last decade has for the most part been bloody awful IMHO.
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18/6/2016, 22:52
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Re: Whitesnake unplugged
Plant's older and he continually reinvents himself...
That said, the idea of an acoustic Whitesnake album is no bueno for me...I'd rather hear new solo material in the style of Northwinds or Into The Light and have an array of guests both old and new...
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19/6/2016, 4:00
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Re: Whitesnake unplugged
Acoustic shows blow. Plug the damn guitars in and blast off. No interest at all in acoustic shows.
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19/6/2016, 13:08
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jmorton
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Re: Whitesnake unplugged
quote: RatBatBlu wrote:
Plant's older and he continually reinvents himself...
That said, the idea of an acoustic Whitesnake album is no bueno for me...I'd rather hear new solo material in the style of Northwinds or Into The Light and have an array of guests both old and new...
Well to be fair Plant and DC are within 3 years of each other. So basically the same age. However I do understand your point.
I think one of the reasons DC has been so reluctant to change to where he would prefer to sing (more soulful) is every time he does it's greeted with a collective shrug (First two solo albums, Restless Heart, Into the Light) and I think the lack of financial success when that happens has proven to be difficult for him to overcome.
Look at it this way, from 1993-2008 he only released one album in the States, Into the Light. The ONLY reason Into the Light was released in the States was because he formed his own distribution label and it was a financial disaster (even though it was a good album) so in some way he has been a prisoner of Whitesnake.
Think about this, DC did make a big change of approach in 1984-87 and it paid off financially. Big time. However he was in a make or break period ... having bought out all of Whitesnake's financial debt in 1983 from John Coletta. So he put all his eggs in John Koladner, David Geffen and Geffen records and it paid off big time. It was an enormous financial boon but he has struggled to come back from that.
He has said over and over that he wants to do stuff like his first two solo albums and Into the Light ... but I do believe that negative reinforcement from the ITL experience has kept him from changing. And in THIS way Robert Plant has surpassed Coverdale because Plant seems to not care.
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19/6/2016, 19:35
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