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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
He was only a hired gun and never appeared on any Whitesnake record.
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His name appeared in the liner notes and I was like 12. To me, he was "in the band".
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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
I'm a huge fan of Coverdale and Whitesnake, outside of the record he did with Vai.
Early Whitesnake is very bluesy. The original version of "Here I Go Again" is borderline Gospel music. The last two records have been very cool, mainly due to Doug Aldrich.
Listen to "Sailaway" on the Deep Purple album, Burn, and you'll hear Chris Cornell's biggest influence.
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I probably would have been a Coverdale fan had I discovered Deep Purple BEFORE Whitesnake. Or even if I had been exposed to earlier Whitesnake more heavily.
As it is, my first taste of Whitesnake was "Still of the Night" and all that Led Zeppelin rip-off shit.
EDIT: I should note that I WAS exposed to Deep Purple before Whitesnake but not the Coverdale version. My Dad used to listen to "Machine Head" all the time. "Highway Star" is still one of my favorite songs of all time.