Watch Whitesnake's 'Here I Go Again' Video The latter had previously appeared as the lead single off 1982's Saints & Sinners its 1987 incarnation was given a new radio-metal sheen, a welcome lyrical amendment (" Like a hobo I was born to walk alone" was blessedly changed to "Like a drifter.") and a souped-up guitar solo from Adrian Vandenberg. But its performance paled in comparison to the record's next two singles, the bleeding-heart power ballads " Here I Go Again" and "Is This Love."
18 on Billboard's rock chart, getting the album's single campaign off to a strong start. There were a lot of people doing that widdly stuff, but they didn’t have the quality of those songs." I manipulated it to be electric blues, but how he performed was fabulous for his time and relatively unique because of the songs. "John hated the blues, so I had to work within those parameters. "I took it as far as I could, then gave it to Sykesy when we were in the south of France, and he put the big guitar hero stuff on there," Coverdale told Metal Hammer in 2009. It all heralded Whitesnake’s pivot from blues-rock to glam metal. Coverdale beefed up the demo and handed it off to Whitesnake's hotshot new guitarist, John Sykes (formerly of Thin Lizzy and Tygers of Pan Tang), who reshaped it with his acrobatic fretwork. See /privacy for privacy and opt-out information."Still of the Night" began as a demo that Coverdale and guitarist Ritchie Blackmore had worked on while Coverdale was still in Deep Purple.
Steve talks about his various experiences seeing the band around the time, and we touch on what happened in the scene when they vanished completely for 18 months after the record, which sets us up nicely for part 2! If you want to listen to us go in on the follow up, 2001’s Toxicity, then head over to /riotactpocast and sign up to our £5 a month tier to get access to all of our various bonus content. Starting with the formation of the band, and their various and wide ranging musical inspirations, we look at the nascent nu-metal scene that was building in LA around the time, their relationship with super producer Rick Rubin and the impact the band made when the record was released. In part one we look at the band's self-titled debut album from 1998.
It’s another double Classic Album Series podcast, and this week we go in on one of the weirdest multi-platinum selling bands in history Armenian/American metal oddities System Of A Down.
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