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WHITESNAKE Frontman Interviewed By His Granddaughter (Video)

Posted by aliblackdiamond on August 30, 2012
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WHITESNAKE mainman David Coverdale was interviewed by his granddaughter Georgina for the first episode of Whitesnake TV. David talks about his life and career as the founder of WHITESNAKE. Check out the 10-minute clip below.

WHITESNAKE is currently mixing and editing a live album and a separate in-concert DVD from the “Forevermore” world tour, plus mixing special expanded editions of “Into The Light” and “Restless Heart”.

WHITESNAKE‘s latest album, “Forevermore”, sold around 12,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 49 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD was recorded, produced and mixed by Los Bros Brutalos (Coverdale, Doug Aldrich and Michael McIntyre).

WHITESNAKE‘s “Live At Donington 1990” DVD/live double CD set was made available on June 3, 2011 in Europe and June 7, 2011 in North America via Frontiers Records.

WHITESNAKE 1990 featured guitar greats Steve Vai and Adrian Vandenberg, bassist Rudy Sarzo, drummer Tommy Aldridge and, of course, incomparable frontman David Coverdale. The “Live At Donington” 1990 DVD also includes a substantial gallery of never-before-seen stills of the band on the “Liquor & Poker World Tour 1990”, plus an intimate behind-the-scenes documentary of the making-of the “Slip Of The Tongue” album.

 

 

Source: Blabbermouth.net 

SAMMY HAGAR, DAVID COVERDALE, GEOFF TATE Honored At ‘Vegas Rocks! Magazine Music Awards’

Posted by tarjavirmakari on August 28, 2012
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The third annual Vegas Rocks! Magazine Music Awards 2012 rocked the Joint on Sunday, August 26 at the Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. Vegas Rocks! Magazine celebrated its eighth anniversary in a big way as the rock ‘n’ roll royal red carpet was rolled out for some of the biggest stars in the music business.

Many national artists were honored at the event, including Sammy Hagar (CHICKENFOOT, VAN HALEN), David Coverdale (WHITESNAKE) and Michael Schenker (UFO, SCORPIONS), Geoff Tate (QUEENSRŸCHE), Vinnie Paul Abbott (PANTERA, HELLYEAH) and Levi Benton (MISS MAY I). Also in attendance presenting/performing were Michael Anthony (CHICKENFOOT, VAN HALEN), John 5 (MARILYN MANSON, ROB ZOMBIE), Eddie Trunk (VH1 Classic’s “That Metal Show”), Kip Winger (WINGER), Mark Kendall ( GREAT WHITE), Blas Elias (SLAUGHTER), Nick Oshiro (STATIC-X), Marq Torien (BULLETBOYS), Ron Jeremy, SIN CITY SINNERS, Ron Keel (KEEL), and many others.

Sammy Hagar was honored with the prestigious “Voice Of Rock” award for the evening; David Coverdale was honored with the “Lifetime Achievement In Rock N’ Roll” award; Michael Schenker received the “Rock Guitar Legend” award; Geoff Tate received the “Voice In Progressive Heavy Metal” award. Vinnie Paul received the “Drum Legend Icon” award; and Levi Benton received the “Male Metal Star Of Tomorrow” award. Sammy Hagar also took the stage to perform a tribute for Ronnie Montrose and led the all-star celebrity performance for the grand finale for the evening.

Vegas Rocks! Magazine Awards was hosted by the “publishing queen of rock and roll,” Sally Steele.

Video footage of the red-carpet arrivals/interviews, soundcheck and the actual show can be seen below.

For more information, go to www.vegasrocks.com.

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Source: Blabbermouth.net

WHITESNAKE Mixing Live Album, Concert DVD From ‘Forevermore’ Tour

Posted by tarjavirmakari on July 8, 2012
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WHITESNAKE frontman David Coverdale has issued the following update:

“We are busily mixing and editing a live album and a separate in-concert DVD from the ‘Forevermore’ world tour, plus mixing an special expanded editions of ‘Into The Light’ and ‘Restless Heart’. Plus archiving so much audio and visual material and content from so many years. But [we’re] definitely not [working on] a whole new studio album at this time. Quite simply we wouldn’t have time to write and record a new studio album. It was never on our agenda for 2012.”

WHITESNAKE‘s new album, “Forevermore”, sold around 12,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 49 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD was recorded, produced and mixed by Los Bros Brutalos (Coverdale, Doug Aldrich and Michael McIntyre).

WHITESNAKE‘s “Live At Donington 1990” DVD/live double CD set was made available on June 3, 2011 in Europe and June 7, 2011 in North America via Frontiers Records.

WHITESNAKE 1990 featured guitar greats Steve Vai and Adrian Vandenberg, bassist Rudy Sarzo, drummer Tommy Aldridge and, of course, incomparable frontman David Coverdale. The “Live At Donington” 1990 DVD also includes a substantial gallery of never-before-seen stills of the band on the “Liquor & Poker World Tour 1990”, plus an intimate behind-the-scenes documentary of the making-of the “Slip Of The Tongue” album.

Source: Blabbermouth.net

SAMMY HAGAR, DAVID COVERDALE To Be Honored At ‘Vegas Rocks! Magazine Awards’

Posted by aliblackdiamond on June 6, 2012
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Legendary rocker Sammy Hagar (VAN HALEN, CHICKENFOOT) will receive “The Voice Of Rock” award at Vegas Rocks! Magazine‘s third annual Vegas Rocks! Magazine Awards! Also scheduled to be honored is WHITESNAKE/ex-DEEP PURPLE singer David Coverdale. The event will celebrate Vegas Rocks! Magazine‘s eight-year anniversary and will be held on Sunday, August 26 at the Joint inside the Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.

Vegas Rocks! Magazine Awards will be hosted by the “publishing queen of rock and roll” Sally Steele, Vegas Rocks! Magazine founder/CEO and will be preceded by a “grand rock and roll royal red-carpet media event” with appearances by some of the most famous rock artists in the music industry. Many national media outlets will be at the event’s rock and roll royal red carpet this year and the event will be filmed live for VegasRocksTV.com. The event will focus on the local Las Vegas rock scene as well as rock legends of the past and present to receive and present awards.

Tickets are only $26 and can be purchased in person at the Hard Rock Hotel box office (800-693-ROCK) or by calling Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000.

For more information, go to www.vegasrocks.com.

 

 

 

 

Source: Blabbermouth.net

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

Posted by Stargazer on April 22, 2012
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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

Happy Birthday Mr. Coverdale!

Posted by tarjavirmakari on September 22, 2011
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DAVID COVERDALE celebrates his 60th birthday TODAY on September 22nd “I’ve retired more times than Frank Sinatra – but it never lasted for very long…”

David CoverdaleLegendary Whitesnake singer David Coverdale will celebrate his 60th birthday on September 22, 2011. His latest studio record Forevermore released on March 25th shows experience, musical maturity and personality that is far from jaded after an almost 40 year career. Evidence shows that the career of the founder/singer/songwriter of Whitesnake is far from finished even if Coverdale has evoked the end quite a few times in the last years. “I’ve retired more times than Frank Sinatra but luckily I didn’t tell many people,” he laughs. “I am utterly blessed to be able to do what I do, but the music business can also be exhausting and destructive on a person. It’s important at times to step back and take stock of your situation and circumstances,” Coverdale confessed.

Today David Coverdale is happy that he never totally stepped away. He recently wrote a song called “Best Years” that he says perfectly describes his life with his upcoming birthday. He explains, “It’s great that I’m able to still work as a musician with continued consistency in my career while also experiencing a supportive and fulfilling private life. I really am experiencing the best times of my life these days, and believe me I’ve experienced a lot”

Forevermore is Whitesnake’s eleventh album, released on Frontiers Records. The band is still recognized as one of the most successful acts of all times with several platinum awards. Through his eloquent, always cultivated and charming British personality, David Coverdale is not only known as one of the “true” rock stars, but also as a highly regarded gentlemen within the rock business. Not a lot of musicians deal with love and passion as successfully in their lyrics as David does, and even fewer are able to highlight those lyrics so perfectly within thrilling blues and soul anthems.

Before Coverdale (who’s originally from Saltburn-by-Sea area) founded Whitesnake, he was the lead vocalist for Deep Purple. When Coverdale celebrates his 60th birthday on September 22nd he’s able to look back at a musical career that is almost 40 years long. “I’m going to celebrate my birthday with my private family and my musical family,” he reveals. “I plan on celebrating several times on several different continents actually! Even if it sounds a little un-rock and roll, I will use the actual day to reflect and be thankful for what I’ve achieved in my life so far. I’m incredibly grateful to still be experiencing professional success, and to be so physically active in what I do after all these years.”

Source: Whitesnake Official Website