12 Comments to “Wherever You May Go”:

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   Uwe Hornung says:

   Even a friggin’ cynic like me cannot help but be moved by this. Yes, it’s twee, but also beautiful. And reassuringly devoid of dragons and renaissance fairies. Good haircut he had back then too.

   To this day I don’t understand why Into The light didn’t do better and find him a new audience, sort of the people who go to Bon Jovi concerts, there is a whole bunch of them. It was an earnest attempt to create music for grown-ups. The whole “resurrected Whitesnake”-phase that followed was actually retrogressive and retarded.

   September 5th, 2024 at 20:03
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   Uwe Hornung says:

   Not to forget this nugget here, beautiful as well, great vid too:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEVreJliL2w

   There was good, adult stuff on Restless Heart as well:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwLiN3YHV_8

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJk38e0BaMo

   And it has to be said: The blond hair always looked silly on him, I much preferred him dark (before he turned grey which is perfectly fine).

   September 5th, 2024 at 20:16
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   Max says:

   It’s a bit sad, like with Blackmore, Uwe. Wasted talents indeed. DC stated in an interview around 1990 how ridicolous it all had become, the blonde hair, the dresses et al and quit short after that. Only to return to that mode in the 2000s … when, let’s face, it had become even more ridicolous becauise it wasn’t even en vogue anymore – and the man himself certainly had not gotten any younger. But it sold obviously. I wish he had chosen a more soulful and grown up path. He could have done it. Even the Whitesanke albums that followed showed some promise buit were overproduced with walls of guitar and screeching and stuff. Well that it clearly not the case with Blackmore’s offerings… 😀 …but a waste of talent they document as well. Just imagine the two of them sitting on a stool (each their own of course) and play an accoustic version of Soldier of Fortune or what ever. And even if you put that wet dream of some kind of reunion aside … both of them could have done so much more music worth writing home about. given their incredible talents. On the other hand you can’t blame them. Snapshot by RG and many other examples show that it just won’t pay the bills for the gardener to record some decent music. So it’s the so called fans to blame … you can’t say they didn’t try but a lot of those albums we treasure, dear Uwe, just didn’t sell. So back to the same old same old … or in Ritchie’s case: release music for Fernsehgarten.

   September 6th, 2024 at 08:03
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   Jaffa says:

   It’s a nice mix and a nice song. There is a short clip of Northwinds and Lady on David’s Twitter feed. They sound great, worth the remix. The vocal on Northwinds sounds like an alternative vocal to me.

   Didn’t Into The Light suffer because it was on his own label and distribution wasn’t great?

   September 6th, 2024 at 11:37
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   Uwe Hornung says:

   Yes, Jaffa, he couldn’t – just like with Restless Heart – even find a proper US company to distribute it for him.

   That just tells you that in the US he had been typecast as this glamorous blond-maned Whitesnake singer with the stadium lion roar – a relic from the 80s – and not as David Coverdale, the artist, who from humble beginnings went on to front Deep Purple, growing into a bona fide songwriter + doing interesting work also outside of WS or DP.

   Not that David was entirely blameless for this, given how he let his and Tawny’s images oversaturate the US public in the late 80s. He wanted US fame, created a larger-than-life, yet shallow image for it (bending over backwards to do it) et voilà: He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword.

   September 6th, 2024 at 13:28
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   Henry Fortino says:

   I notice there are a lot of Coverdale bashers on this site,

   September 6th, 2024 at 16:40
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   Rock Voorne says:

   @ 3

   Albums like Snapshot sit comfortably on my shelf next to Lordys last (classical)solo albums.
   But I think a collaboration Lord/Blackmore doing SOA instrumentals or a med evil/classical infuzed one would have sols well.

   Does anybody know how Lords solo albums have done since they were released?

   September 6th, 2024 at 21:26
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   Svante Axbacke says:

   @6: Quote one thing in these comments that is DC bashing.

   September 7th, 2024 at 00:20
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   Iwe Hornung says:

   Haters, Henry? No, more like estranged lovers willing to forgive the past. DC’s voice is a gift of nature and he can be justly proud of his DP triumvirate of Burn-Stormbringer-Come Taste Taste The Band. There was a time when I preferred Mk III/IV to Mk II because as a teenager DC’s warm machismo appealed to me. Of the three major split-off bands, Whitesnake was the one closest to my heart though GILLAN was perhaps more interesting.

   When DC left DP in 1976, he said he was “done screaming his balls off”. Yet his attempted detours from that image proved all commercial failures and his three most successful albums 1987/Slip Of The Tongue/Coverdale Page all contain plenty of songs well outside of his natural range. That doesn’t keep 1987 from being a fine hair metal pop album at the time, but it’s not really music that a 70-year-old can credibly perform.

   So I wish Into The Light Had done better and led him on a path where he could have aged more gracefully then he did with Whitesnake on the tours of the last quarter century, that’s all.

   But I don’t hate anyone from DP, why should I? It’s tragic that DC seems to have lost his voice, I wish he would find it again and sing more sparsely arranged music in more intimate venues in his rich baritone.

   https://youtu.be/lw1T0t2wLaM

   September 7th, 2024 at 21:24
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    MacGregor says:

    Just to keep some things in perspective here regarding words & their possible meaning. A recent comment on 5 Sep 2024, number 6 at the “a-third-youth-and-almost-a-masterpiece’ section from Uwe. “I don’t get the Ezrin-bashing either. I think his production and musical directorship has added something to DP they never had before – an overall finesse perhaps?” A comment I began to reply to & then deleted as I thought, surely it isn’t that way, a misrepresented word (bashing). It could very well mean ‘a pile on’ perhaps or ‘singling someone out’? Picking on someone unfairly perhaps? However here @ 9- Uwe has replied that possibly there are some ‘Haters’? Henry @ 6 – did not use that ‘hater’ word & neither am I implying that Uwe suggests that he did. Although we will leave that interpretation for others to pass judgement on. I don’t like the basher or bashing word either & I would prefer to use another word. I did initially take umbrage at Uwe’s comment on 5 Sep & then decided to let him off with a ‘caution’, he he he. However after reading these last few comments I feel the need to balance things a little. And while I am at it, hate or haters is a dramatically overused social media trend word if ever there was one. So of course this evidently raises the question your Honour, are the people who don’t like Bob Ezrin’s production on DP records, haters? (I am going for the jugular here) What did Uwe mean by using the word ‘bashing’. It must simply be for people who don’t like something for whatever reason & they then talk about it occasionally. Sometimes it happens, we use the incorrect word or some might say it is the correct word. All rise, Court dismissed. Cheers.

    September 8th, 2024 at 03:56
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    Uwe Hornung says:

    Dearest Herr MacGregor, I use the terms “bashing” and “hater” strictly in a banal young people social media lingo sense. Hopefully, nobody here truly “hates” anybody for their contributions to music, whether they appeal to you or not. I could just as well write “critics” or “detractors”.

    Real hate is a psychotic state. As damaging to the hater as to the hated. Go to the Middle East and see what real hate does – on both sides.

    But since it seems to rub my Tasmanian friend the wrong way (and I HATE doing that), I’ll gladly use “detractors” (to my ears a bit technical of a term) or something similar in the future.

    “Bashing” is to me a harmless term, it is to me heaping critique on someone for something without any objectivity regarding the good things he’s/she’s done or his/her specific situation. Along the lines of “Bob Ezrin can’t produce shit and is the reason why DP doesn’t sound like it used too”. DP and JP albums were regularly bashed in the music press, JP actually only caught my attention after I read a particularly bashing review in the NME – I became a lifelong fan, so even the bad review was a good thing for them. Take in everything you see, but do ‘t believe everything’s without checking the truth (or at least a different view) against it.

    September 9th, 2024 at 16:27
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    MacGregor says:

    not worried about it at all Uwe, thanks for the response & as I said I thought it a word most probably used as in a ‘a pile on’ or similar. ‘Everybody getting stuck into’, that sort of thing. All good. Cheers.

    September 9th, 2024 at 23:02

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