Thread 127438787

holy shit

>>127438787 (OP)
i know, i had the same reaction, holy shit this is utter garbage

>>127438787 (OP)
I'M GOIN' STRAIGHT FOR THE HEART

>>127438787 (OP)
bluesrock Whitesnake > hair metal whitesnake

>>127439763
Yah
I used to think too that 1987 was the schnitz but as I matured I've been falling more and more towards the real, Deep Purple offshoot Whitesnake:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMT-Uyxy5pg

But John Sykes was obviously a monster player. He should've kicked Coverdale in the ass and start a new band with the guys.
His voice was not as strong as Coverdale's in the studio but Sykes was singing way better live than Mr. Coverversion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6aEFz09rxQ

>>127438787 (OP)
mom rock

pic related mogs it

>>127438787 (OP)
If you like 1987 then you MUST check out John Sykes' Blue Murder.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfsZ4EzSn80

>>127440145
>>127440169
>>127440200
It's a shame that Coverdale and Sykes were both such petulant children and couldn't get along for more than five minutes. The hypothetical follow-up to the '87 album that combines the best parts of Blue Murder and Slip of the Tongue would've been kino. Both have their moments but pale in significance to what they achieved together on the '87 album.

>>127440238
coverdale was the only primadonna child in that arrangement. not only did sykes have to find out through others that he was fired, he wasn't even given a reason.

>>127438787 (OP)
The guitar solo on Bad Boys is so sick.

>>127440492
t b h Sykes got his job kinda the same way. Slide It In was recorded and released in the UK when Coverdale found Sykes. then he fired Mel Galley and Micky Moody, deleted their tracks, had Sykes replay them with his own touch and then released the album in the U.S. with that new lineup.
Coverdale did cold to Galley and Moody, real cold
And then after recording 1987 he did the same to Sykes. the only difference being that he didn't delete Sykes' tracks but had actors (Viv Campbell and Adrian Vanenberg) mime to Sykes' music in videos

>>127440492
>>127440591
The Coverdale-Sykes shit is all he said she said anyway, no one really knows the full story, plus bits and pieces of both of their versions of it have come out via different people over the years (the Popoff book goes pretty in-depth about it and yet you still come out scratching your head) so the truth is likely somewhere in the middle. Either way, as proven by how they've acted since, Coverdale is an arrogant primadonna and Sykes is a neurotic baby, so it was never going to last.

>>127439763
Their debut album is mint, but the other blues stuff isn't that good to be honest.
>>127440565
The solo for Crying in the rain is what sold me, that's when I knew it was gonna be a good album.

Whitesnake [Geffen, 1987]
The attraction of this veteran pop-metal has got to be total predictability. The glistening solos, the surging crescendos, the familiar macho love rhymes, the tunes you can hum before the verse is over--not one heard before, yet every one somehow known. Who cares if they're an obscure nine-year-old vehicle for the guy who took over Deep Purple's vocal chores five years before that? Rock and roll's ninth or tenth "generation" of terrified high-school boys can call them their own. And may they pass from the ether before the eleven-year-olds who are just now sprouting pubic hair claim their MTV. D+

>>127440169
Too bad the technical quality of the recording is so wretched. It sounds like a cassette demo of a great band.