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Purple album, gold edition

Whitesnake’s The Purple Album will be reissued on October 13, 2023, via Rhino Records. It will be available as 2CD, 2LP on gold vinyl, Blu-ray, and digital. Of particular interest in certain quarters would be the second CD that will feature the 4 tracks from DC & The Fabulosa Brothers tape that landed him the […]

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Coverdale’s guitar up for sale

David Coverdale has donated his 1974 Yamaha FG-160 acoustic guitar to the Download 20 Auction for Heavy Metal Truants to be auctioned for charity. It is claimed to be the very guitar used to write nearly every song ever written by DC for Deep Purple and Whitesnake. The minimum bid is £1,000. The auction will […]

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Get this man a string quartet

David Coverdale was a guest on The SDR Show and spoke. A lot. The whole thing is almost an hour long, and (full disclosure) we didn’t have time to sit through it. But Blabbermouth has some quotes that sound promising: Well, there’s something we’ve got planned, obviously. It’s a very, very big year. I’ve got […]

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Invoking ghost of Sharon Osbourne

David Coverdale appeared on Paltrocast promoting the Still Good to Be Bad reissue. Some of it you may have heard before, and some other probably not. I can’t not be honest about this, that and the other, who’s the inspiration for this song, who was that… it would be a spilling of the beans, which […]

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A freshly coiffed DC

David Coverdale recently appeared on That Rocks! podcast. He talks about flying in hairdressers, the future of Whitesnake, brutalist architecture, and the “nether region”, among other things. Some of which you may or may not have heard previously. The episode is over 1 hour and 20 minutes long, and David joins about halfway into it.

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Buffet of all the sounds

David Coverdale spoke to the Metal Edge magazine, mostly about the ’87 self-titled Whitesnake album. Coming out of Deep Purple, what was your vision for Whitesnake? And how have you expanded on that since the ’70s? David Coverdale: It’s a buffet of all the sounds that I love. Some of the arrangements are symphonic because […]

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The wonders of technology

David Coverdale appeared on the Rock of Nations podcast. We are thrilled and delighted to have #Whitesnake mainman #DavidCoverdale back on the show! This time he’s talking about the brand new boxed set “Still Good To Be Bad”, featuring remixes and remasters of the heavy 2008 classic album. And of course Dave and Shane get […]

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No touring for DC in 2023

Ultimate Classic Rock spoke to David Coverdale and from the looks of it, the future of Whitesnake is up in the air. The band had to cancel their ‘Farewell’ tour halfway through the European leg in July 2022. Subsequent North American dates were cancelled as well. Last year, I was so incredibly compromised by, without […]

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Whitesnake cancels North American dates

Whitesnake is pulling out of their 2022 joint tour of United States and Canada with Scorpions. The following message from David Coverdale has appeared on the band’s website today, August 5: It is with profound disappointment and a heavy heart that I must announce that Whitesnake will no longer be able to join The Scorpions […]

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Whitesnake’s dual-guitar attack

Premier Guitar has a tutorial on a subject rarely covered in such publications — Marsden/Moody era Whitesnake. Whitesnake’s self-titled album is a pinnacle of ’80s hard rock, instantly making them one of the biggest rock bands of the era. It was a departure from their previous six albums due to significant lineup changes. Both original […]

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