"Ready an' Willing" my favorite Whitesnake recording and I truly feel they were at their peak of their blues-rock era! OUTSTANDINGD bassist Neil is!!

@CB-xr1eg

10 ай бұрын

From 1987 onwards (maybe excluding Restless Heart) Whitesnake were a sell out (and not in a good way) band pandering to the US audience.

Not many bluesy hard rock bands like this era of WS anymore. This was prime stuff.

Saw them in Dublin on this tour.. Great line up.. Great gig. RIP Cozy Powell and John Lord.

@dannymcmince

Жыл бұрын

1984...Sykes first gig...power cut half way through the set...SFX hall

@paddytguitar

4 ай бұрын

@@dannymcmincewow, called off?

@dannymcmince

4 ай бұрын

​@@paddytguitarno, powercut only lasted 15mins or so

Neil Murray comes across as such a down to earth and lovely guy.

This is awesome- we need the long version!

@sisibond

Жыл бұрын

KZread blocks the full version

I remember my mate saying his uncle was in whitesnake when we where kids , and I never acknowledged what he said, David marsden bernie marsden RIP

@gtdrummer6429

21 күн бұрын

Are you saying Bernie Marsden was your friend’s uncle?

Superb documentary..thank you.

He is the best on history of blues rock ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉🎉❤🎉 David Coverdale.

Excellent documentary, so far. Thanks for that.

Ready and willing is absolutely a great great album to me. With 1987 it went wrong imo.

@CB-xr1eg

10 ай бұрын

it was mostly downhill from 1987 onwards, for the UK fans anyway. DC sold his soul to the USA.

@gtdrummer6429

21 күн бұрын

For me, the 1987 album is when Whitesnake became great! But that’s largely thanks to the guitar work and co-songwriting of John Sykes. I get it that the old school fans of Whitesnake’s early music don’t care for the more hard rock/melodic metal vibe of 1987 era Whitesnake but that was when I discovered them and that sound was more my style. I still remember seeing the video for Still of the Night when it first aired on MTV. I was 17 years old and I was completely unfamiliar with Whitesnake, as in I had literally never heard of them, but that song blew me away!!!! I like a few songs from Slide it In, especially Love Ain’t No Straight, but I just never could get into earlier Whitesnake, and I really did try. There’s a reason Whitesnake became huge worldwide after the 1987 album was released!

J'ADORE DAVID COVERDALE ❤❤❤❤❤

Slide it in was the end of the beginning. And the beginning of the end. Ready an' Willing is hands down the best album.

Amazing Album to this Day!,.and the Tour was so Good!,…Hit after Hit!,..X

Lost all respect for DC for the way he treated Murray and Sykes. He shafted Murray twice and didn't seem bothered when he stopped being paid because DC was refusing to record what became 1987 due to tension with Sykes who he was becoming jealous of and the album was delayed. The fact Sykes told DC to hire Tommy Aldridge but he refused because he didn't want Sykes to have any real say in the band only to hire Aldridge for the 1987 tour shows what the others had to deal with. Murray is a mild mannered gent who got screwed. The band was never as good after this line up was disbanded.

Gambler is a Great track!!

@chipper2462

Жыл бұрын

I play that song the most I think.

@CB-xr1eg

10 ай бұрын

I agree, no reason at all why it shouldn't have been the album opener.

First time I saw Whitesnake was the Slide It In tour and all after.

John Sykes truely is a fernominal guitarist!

I never really listened to any early Whitesnake, but I was in high school in the mid 80's when they were having a lot of success and I loved their music. Listening to the live version of "Slow and Easy" on this documentary, there is a part at 12:14 that sounds almost identical to a section in "Still of The Night." They must've put that in there on purpose. I wonder whose idea it was?

Мілий Девід і Whitesnake.Хочу туда.

28:50 That's interesting... This is only '85 or so and Coverdale is struggling hard with Slide It In, not a very challenging song for him. Of course, it's probably well into a tour, but I'm always trying to pinpoint when he started having serious voice troubles.

@grobbler1

4 ай бұрын

It was clear on the 1987 album that he was really straining at times, so definitely began around mid-1980's.

You have an awesome channel, mate! New subscriber!

ahah coverdale is a poet ! in french " glisse le dedans " ! mais quel texte ! quels lyrics ! "glisse le dedans " une aventure ! un ordre à suivre bonbon !

Slide in in is my favorite WS album

Although Blackmore and Coverdale didn't make up until 2012, RB really liked the Slide It In album. Gary Bushell had grudges on Coverdale, Schenker, Glenn Hughes, and a few others, and slagged them off accordingly, but I don't think Blackmore influenced him with regard to DC. Bushbaby just didn't like him, possibly because he championed Purple Mk.2 only. Thin Lizzy were a big influence on Whitesnake from Day 1. The Time Is Right For Love, from Trouble, was a ringer for For Those Who Love To Live (Fighting). Bad Company too - hear Trouble itself and imagine it on Straight Shooter.

@CB-xr1eg

10 ай бұрын

Who has ever worried what Bushell says? The guy is a complete dick and always will be.

@jasoncravens1124

2 ай бұрын

Oh, dude. Fighting is a true masterpiece. So good.

Oh yeah, when slide it in was released in late 1983, it was with the band that had a bassist named Colin Hodgkin's (sorry if I spelled it wrong) that really didn't fit in with the music the group was trying to become also, you have two members with huge egos (David & Cozy Powell) but it would be this album that really started to open doors for the band in the USA.

@temporarysaint740

Жыл бұрын

I never heard Cozy had a big ego. Thats a shame.

Interesting video discussing a transitional period for WS. Songs were very hit and miss, but that is caused by personnel changes and a lack of direction caused by Coverdale. How could anyone rate Slide it in above Love Hunter or Ready and Willing 🤣🤣

I loved the early Whitesnake, although never saw them live. I have seen them twice since, once in around 2008 in Sydney, where the show was not so bad (the Enmore in Sydney), and the second time supporting The Scorpions in around 2019 in Sydney. Whereas the Scorpions were professional, still sounded great and wowed the audience, Whitesnake were disappointing. Coverdal's vaoice has largely gone, it looked as though he has had a few facelifts, and he had metal type guitarists.

JE NE COMPRENDS PAS L'ANGLAIS COMME PAS MAL DE PERSONNES 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

Ready an Willing is, imo, song for song WS’s best album. But the ‘87 version was ok too.

RIP Bernie

Coverdale sang amazing on Slide it in album. But on the 1984/85 tour... he sounded a bit stressed.

Sykes❤

Perfect band

Murray❤

Having long hair was part of why I kept practicing, practicing and more goddamn practicing. In that era, without long hair, you'd be passed over at auditions before you played a note. I wanted my playing to reflect that my hair was not the reason I got the GIG, only the reason I got the AUDITION. Because I had big plans after graduation, I refused to cut my hair at age 14, starting at a Christian private school where long hair was "not allowed" on boys. I allowed myself, thank you very much, O Lord. It occurred to me that I didn't have to care WHAT was "allowed" or "not allowed" because I NEVER ASKED their opinion of long hair on males in the first place. The rule was enumerated in the student handbook which I found somehow even MORE useless than than God's infallible Word, the Holy Bible* itself. Imagine my heartbreak when I was forced to leave an institution of "Christian Education"-an oxymoron if there EVER WAS one-to join the "communist" public school system....where I did in fact study Marxism in Political Science, Senior year. *1 Corinthians 11:14~ “Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace for him?" Cool story, St. Paul!

29:45 😂 He’s total right. Americans just wanted to have carnal fun at that time.

I was 16teen 😁

Sick !!!

Name a song other than Here I Go Again or Fool For Your Loving post Slide It In. Other than Still of the Night which was more Zep than Snake there isn't anything memorable. Kitaen's Got Claws is more of a hint towards a prenup but still

whitesnake were a better band with moody marsden. their songs had more feeling. but skyes whitesnake was something different i guess.

Sort that title out.

@CB-xr1eg

10 ай бұрын

It's done, you can stop crying now.

the problem with Whitesnake has always been Coverdale's songwriting. Every album has 2 great songs and a load of filler, until 1987. Slide it in was a step in the right direction but still way too much filler. I would say the Slip of The Tongue was his peak as a writer, even though I can't stand the guitar on that record.

@putterokk5156

Жыл бұрын

Slide it in is the most perfect album side by side with The headless cross!! Not the best albums but most perfect once! :-)

Slide it in, not slade. Who writes these titles?

@CB-xr1eg

10 ай бұрын

The video poster I guess, but it's changed, you can stop crying now.

So, where and how do we find the full version of this?!

@sisibond

4 ай бұрын

You Tube blocks the full version

@alexkx8599

4 ай бұрын

@@sisibond May I ask why?

@sisibond

4 ай бұрын

@@alexkx8599 Copyright

so where is the long version?

@sisibond

Жыл бұрын

KZread blocks it.

I like the updated sound of slide it in but i actually think saints and sinners was a better album. It had swing and better songs

Never got into Whitesnake………………………..or Beyoncé. What’s wrong with me? I feel so alone.

Jerry Ewing, the Jack Black look alike - is an dope. You can eliminate him from the whole video, and it would be better. This is the short version, still very repetitive. I have both versions of the CD, and the American version is better, and the proof is that it sold more.

@glengamble526

Жыл бұрын

‘Is an dope’? 😂

@NealVio

Жыл бұрын

@@glengamble526 ah - you got me. Is A dope

The band went to pot after Sykes was sacked absolute crap

Saints and Sinners is class

David Covergirl Ian Girlan

@TravisBickle212

4 ай бұрын

SillyShame3804

99% of Whitesnake songs are love songs. Gets a bit boring, tedious & predictable. A variety of subject would have been better.

@alanlafromboise3156

Жыл бұрын

Music sounds all the same!

@chriskroll4166

Жыл бұрын

Then move on and listen to something else. Did someone force you to listen to whitesnake. 🤡

Dave was Deep Purple. That was his best version of himself. It’s a shame he completely burned John Sykes. John was the best guitarist of WS.

He is no Icon of good will he shafted John sykes because John was getting more attention from the guitarists and the girls out there and Coverdale was jealous so John had to go and I will never forgive that hairspray addicted ponce for ruining the career of John sykes.

@CB-xr1eg

10 ай бұрын

At one point all of Whitesnake were using plenty of hairspray and had perms like poodles.

@lorewilhelm9182

2 ай бұрын

peterprice-No. Coverdale has always been flamin' hot and a super soulful singer. To me Sykes isn't soulful or sensual at all. His playing doesn't do anything for me Scales aren't soulful at all. He might try and stick in an up bend at the end of the scale/hammer-ons but he blows that too. 22:20

I’ll take Marsden over Sykes all day. I don’t give a F who thinks he’s good looking lol

@patrickbooten9149

Жыл бұрын

Same with me

@chriskroll4166

Жыл бұрын

It's more than looks. Unless that's what you're into. 😳

@DannyGadish

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, all that shredding that Sykes does sounds like noise compared to Marsden and Moody's soulful playing

@dannymcmince

Жыл бұрын

Whitesnake never would have global success if Marsden had of stayed in the band...but it's a personnel choice!

@DannyGadish

Жыл бұрын

@@dannymcmince True, I am happy they were able to find more success. But listening wise, I’d much rather listen to the original whitesnake

I have heard "Whitesnake" twice: First a concert on cassette in the year 1982 in a bus for the pupil exchange from Germany to France. Just terrible noise and that usual guitar solo at overlength. ABBA took over after that. Then I saw them on TV with "Here I Go Again". Cheesy hair metal sucking in excess. At school we, the boys, were into Hard Rock and Heavy Metal, but no Whitesnake fans anywhere. It must have been a girls´ thing like Def Leppard. Dave´s shlong, so long, so what?

Slide it In is a brain-deadeningly awful record. Who knew it was possible to come up with anything worse than the title track? They managed. Spit it Out is a contender for the most crassly stupid and offensively dumb record ever made. Weirdly, however, Guilty of Love is a gem. Like the best songs from previous albums you could imagine The Four Tops singing it. The rest of it is witless, bloodless dross with terrible arrangements, or just toe-curlingly derivative: Slow an' Easy.

@CB-xr1eg

10 ай бұрын

6 million copies sold worldwide but you think it's "brain deadeningly awful". Ok.😐 The Four Tops singing Guilty Of Love? In your parallel universe maybe, but not in this one.

@StonefieldJim4

10 ай бұрын

Agreed. And yes, it's f***king execrable. Moody and Marsden share(d) my opinion. Shame on them, eh?

@CB-xr1eg

10 ай бұрын

@@StonefieldJim4 Hmm, now why would Moody & Marsden dislike this album? Could it be...because they were no longer in Whitesnake and therefore not on the album?

Gambler is one of the best songs on it! Slide It In the song is awful.

Coverdale…. overrated… also a bit dumb… his over use of the F word, crap lyrics…riding on the coat tails of talented guitar players… compared to Plant and Daltrey… second tier by comparison

Never liked or listened to Whitesnake. The only cool thing about Whitesnake was Tannie Catain spread eagle on the car hood.

@andrewthorpe7882

2 ай бұрын

If you never listened to whitesnake how do you know what they sound like to say whether you liked them also you must have watched whitesnake videos to know who the girl was on the bonnet of a car oh and her name wasn't tannie cataine either it was tawny kitean

Too much focus on Coverdale - it was Sykes that delivered that band to commercial success

@sisibond

Жыл бұрын

100% Agree!

@NealVio

Жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, if it wasn't for Sykes, Whitesnake wouldn't have had the same amount of success. In my opinion, Sykes belongs in Whitesnake and should have remained in the band.

@howarddavis6802

Жыл бұрын

F'n aye....

@magnusjmvc8895

Жыл бұрын

It’s criminal what DC did to JS and to the whole band after recording 1987

@magnusjmvc8895

Жыл бұрын

@Abe Froman please elaborate!

so depressing as fans, see Coverdale by years now, being the ghost of himself, completly embarassing vocally, allowing backing vocalist and bandmates, do his job . I'd much more appreciate him , if he'd retired with dignity as any man should do ,facing his own decline.

@chriskroll4166

Жыл бұрын

I'm sure he loses sleep every night over the fact that you don't appreciate him . Stoop 🤡