WHITESNAKE’s Doug Aldrich – “David Coverdale Is The Master…He Is The Greatest!”

Greece’s Rockpages web magazine conducted an exclusive interview with the WHITESNAKE guitarist Doug Aldrich during his brief stay in Greece for a series of guitar clinics recently. Here’s an excerpt of the interview:

Rockpages.gr: Your collaboration with David Coverdale has given so far two Whitesnake records that combine the early blues sound of the band with their late ’80s hard rock edge. How much did your playing and compositional style influence that direction and how does the whole thing work between you and David?

Doug Aldrich: “Basically, we write together all the songs. Sometimes, David plays some guitar parts and I sing to him…you know, trying to sing like David Coverdale (laughs). I can sing some background (vocals) but David is a master…he is the greatest. He trusts me and I trust him and we work really well together. It’s very inspiring and creative. We just basically try to write things that we like. For example, sometimes he sends me an idea, a vocal melody and I am trying to come up with a riff that will fit right into that idea. It just works…we didn’t plan on bringing the two sides together but since it started happening I am glad because I love the early Whitesnake….that’s the first Whitesnake that I’ve heard way before 1987. In USA, everybody learned the band from that record…well, maybe Slide It In but they didn’t even know about those early records. When I was in LION, we had the Scottish singer (Kal Swan) who was basically a David Coverdale freak! He had all the records and he was very much into THIN LIZZY, STATUS QUO…on the other hand, I loved DEEP PURPLE, ZEPPELIN, RAINBOW, UFO…all those excellent British bands. I love the groovy and the bluesy stuff of the early Whitesnake songs and all I am trying to do is capture that feeling in a more modern way. Definitely, everybody knows ‘Is This Love’, ‘Still of the Night’, ‘Here I Go Again’…and we are trying to write songs that will fit also with that Whitesnake mood. So, you are trying to write songs that could fit both in…let’s say…Slip of the Tongue and Come an’ Get It. It’s very difficult…”

Read the entire interview here.

Source: Bravewords