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Following the
success of last year’s live DVD, Coverdale and Co return this time with a
live CD. This fine offering encapsulates the bands very successful
European tour earlier this year and marks the bands debut on SPV.
The entire
double, yes double album, captures one of the strongest Whitesnake
line-ups in all their live glory. As well as Coverdale on vocals,
the band is now further enhanced with the wondrous talents of not only
Doug Aldrich and Reb Beach on guitars, but also Tim Drury on keyboards,
Tommy Aldridge on drums, and replacing Marco Mendoza on bass is new boy
Uriah Duffy.
I was one of the
many to catch this line-up live and if you, like me were privileged to see
the band on tour, then you'll know all too well what to expect from this
latest release.
All the classics
are here ‘Bad Boys’, ‘Love Ain’t No Stranger’, ‘Is This Love’, ‘Fool For
Loving’ ... the list is endless and that’s just the first CD! They
are all here for your listening pleasure, although sadly still no ‘Lovehunter’,
which is a personal favourite of mine. Maybe next time eh Dave?!?
The album also
boasts something that a great many Whitesnake fans have been waiting for,
some new studio tracks from the band.
If you were at
the Newcastle shows earlier this year then you would have already got a
taste of the new tracks, as the band played ‘Ready To Rock’ at the shows
and it went down a storm then. It's vintage Coverdale at his best.
A real show stopper and to hear it again just wets the appetite for more.
Luckily there are three more fresh nuggets from the Whitesnake camp.
The next new
track is ‘If You Want Me (I’ll Come Running) and is another great track
that brings the whole Whitesnake sound bang up to date, with the heavy
guitar riffs and those immaculate vocals.
‘All I Want Is
You’ is another one of those Whitesnake love ballads that will have even
the strongest man in tears at the sheer magnificence of the track.
The final new
track is the hard rocker ‘Dog’, a track that stands up there with their
finest tracks, even ‘Lovehunter’, and if this is the quality of material
that the band can produce at this late stage in their career, then the
futures not only bright the future's White(snake). |
