Great CD.
Padraic | East Lansing, MI | 01/23/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"The other individual who reviewed this CD ... is irritating. A musically narrow-minded person who can't just judge the album on the album, who like (the minority of) other WS fans felt left behind when 'Snake hit it big in the US with "Slide It In" and "1987". It's the same with the Metallica fans who say Metallica sucked after "And Justice for All" ... (in other words ripping the BLACK album) ...
Coverdale's voice is pretty good (not the best it's ever been, but strong) and Doug Aldrich is awesome on guitar, playing the Sykes solos very well --- Anybody who reads that really negative review should see it through the true perspective: that some felt it wasn't 'their' Whitesnake anymore when WS made it huge on the trilogy of albums they put out on Geffen ... So if one has the premise anything they've done since the
"Come and Get It" days is junk, there's NO WAY a live album largely consisting of post-1984 material (with a couple new tracks) is gonna get a
normal review. And WS was great pre-1984? But not after?? B.S. - the
1987 album is a metal work of art (even though I didn't like "Is This Love"), an emotional masterpiece of mood ... and while they contained great songs the production of the 3 WS albums, "Ready and Willing", "Come and Get It", and even "Saints and Sinners" is TERRIBLE, sounds like 3 guys jamming in a garage on 40 Watt amps.
Of particular note on this live album is the smash-mouth drumming, in the live songs ... the drummer does a superb job, gives this lineup of WS a really solid backbone. One other note of contention - Coverdale has in fact been given the runaround by certain folks in the American record industry, since Whitesnake's return to the scene 3 years ago. Easy to see why as most short-sited music execs these days all they are looking for is the next NICKELBACK (like Hinder), and couldn't care less about emotionally powerful music anymore. This is a kick-a CD ...
"Coverdale has nothing to offer" in '06-'07? Well according to some he hasn't had anything to offer since 1982! (when I was in bloody middle school) ... So yeah why would Cov have anything to offer in 2006. Go figure. Anyway the new ballad rocks.
GREAT CD. {And btw for commercially released live CDs pretty much all bands go in and fix a mistake here and there, vocal and guitar ... it isn't like Ashley Simpson on Saturday night live ...}"
Whitesnake - Live in the shadow of the blue
Mr. Gordon C. Davies | Sandymoor Cheshire UK | 02/12/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Brilliant - what would you expect for this top band
Best Regards
GCD"
Track Listings (13) - Disc #1