The Purple Tour (Live) Whitesnake

• 1 Burn 08:00
• 2 Bad Boys 05:32
• 3 Love Ain't No Stranger 04:19
• 4 The Gypsy 05:24
• 5 Give Me All Your Love 04:28
• 6 Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City 06:38
• 7 Mistreated 07:56
• 8 You Fool No One 05:17
• 9 Soldier Of Fortune 03:47
• 10 Is This Love 04:38
• 11 Fool For Your Loving 04:22
• 12 Here I Go Again 05:43
• 13 Still Of The Night 08:30
• Total Runtime 01:14:34

Info for The Purple Tour (Live)

Auf der neuen Live-Platte transplantieren Whitesnake ihren ureigenen Sound auf Songs von Deep Purple-Studioalben, die mit Coverdale als Sänger entstanden: „Burn“ (1974), „Stormbringer“ (1974) und „Come Taste The Band“ (1975). Zu den Highlights der Live-Aufnahmen gehören „Mistreated“, „The Gypsy“ und „Soldier Of Fortune“.

Das Whitesnake-Line Up auf „The Purple Tour“ besteht aus Sänger David Coverdale, den Gitarristen Reb Beach und Joel Hoekstra, dem Bassisten Michael Devin, Schlagzeuger Tommy Aldridge sowie Keyboarder Michele Luppi. Laut Coverdale hatten Whitesnake nie die Absicht, sich mit den Original-Aufnahmen in Konkurrenz zu stellen:

Wir wollten diese verdammten Songs einfach spielen. Jedes Mitglied in der Band brachte sein unglaubliches, individuelles Talent und die echte Band-Identität in die Musik ein. Wir haben alle das Beste für dieses Projekt gegeben, mit dem größten Respekt für die Musik und das Erbe der MK3- und MK4-Formationen von Deep Purple.“

David Coverdale, lead vocals
Reb Beach, guitar, backing vocals
Joel Hoekstra, guitar, backing vocals
Michael Devin, bass, harmonica, backing vocals
Tommy Aldridge, drums, percussion
Derek Hilland, keyboards

Produced by David Coverdale, Michael McIntyre, Reb Beach

Whitesnake
After recording two solo albums, former Deep Purple vocalist David Coverdale formed Whitesnake around 1977. In the glut of hard rock and heavy metal bands of the late '70s, their first albums got somewhat lost in the shuffle, although they were fairly popular in Europe and Japan. During 1982, Coverdale took some time off so he could take care of his sick daughter. When he re-emerged with a new version of Whitesnake in 1984, the band sounded revitalized and energetic. Slide It In may have relied on Led Zeppelin's and Deep Purple's old tricks, but the band had a knack for writing hooks; the record became their first platinum album. Three years later, Whitesnake released an eponymous album (titled 1987 in Europe) that was even better. Portions of the album were blatantly derivative — "Still of the Night" was a dead ringer for early Zeppelin — but the group could write powerful, heavy rockers like "Here I Go Again" that were driven as much by melody as riffs, as well as hit power ballads like "Is This Love." Whitesnake was an enormous international success, selling over six million copies in the U.S. alone.

Before they recorded their follow-up, 1989's Slip of the Tongue, Coverdale again assembled a completely new version of the band, featuring guitar virtuoso Steve Vai. Although the record went platinum, it was a considerable disappointment after the across-the-board success of Whitesnake. Coverdale put Whitesnake on hiatus after that album. In 1993, he released a collaboration with former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page that was surprisingly lackluster. The following year, Whitesnake issued a greatest-hits album in the U.S. and Canada focusing solely on material from their final three albums (as well as containing a few unreleased tracks).

In 1997, Coverdale resurrected Whitesnake (guitarist Adrian Vandenberg was the only remaining member of the group's latter-day lineup), issuing Restless Heart the same year. Surprisingly, the album wasn't even issued in the United States. On the ensuing tour, Coverdale and Vandenberg performed an "unplugged" show in Japan that was recorded and issued the following year under the title Starkers in Tokyo. By the late '90s, however, Coverdale once again put Whitesnake on hold, as he concentrated on recording his first solo album in nearly 22 years. Coverdale's Into the Light was issued in September 2000, featuring journeyman guitarist Earl Slick. After a lengthy hiatus that saw the release of countless "greatest-hits" and "live" collections, the band returned in 2008 with the impressive Good to Be Bad. Coverdale and Whitesnake toured the album throughout Europe and Japan. The band returned to the recording studio in 2010 with new members bassist Michael Devin (formerly of Lynch Mob) and drummer Brian Tichy, who appeared alongside guitarists Doug Aldrich and Reb Beach, and guest keyboardist Timothy Drury (as well as Coverdale's son Jasper on backing vocals on various tracks). The band's 11th album, Forevermore, was preceded by the issue of the single, "Love Will Set You Free," and released in the spring of 2011. (ROVI)

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