WHITESNAKE Guitarist Doug Aldrich Talks About Joining The Band
November 8, 2006, 17 years ago
WHITESNAKE guitarist Doug Aldrich (ex-DIO, HOUSE OF LORDS, HURRICANE) spoke to Metal-Rules.com recently about a number of topics including getting the call from Whitesnake mainman David Coverdale. An excerpt from the very lengthy and informative chat (found here) follows:
"When David asked me," Aldrich remembers, "originally I was working with Ronnie, we were on tour with DEEP PURPLE and THE SCORPIONS and I heard that David was sending someone to some shows to do some filming of me. Meanwhile, the Scorpions were asking Dio, 'Hey we’re gonna go on tour with Whitesnake in 2003, do you guys wanna go?' Ronnie said, 'No fuckin’ way.' Me and Jimmy Bain (bass) were like 'Yeah let’s do it, that would be great!' You know, (John) Sykes (ex-BLIUE MURDER, THIN LIZZY) is gonna be back. I have a lot of respect for other musicians, you know, I mean I really do, Sykes is a great guitar player and a great singer. So we were like, that would be a really cool tour. So then I get a call from David, 'Hey come up to my house, I wanna meet you.' So I go up and meet David, he’s like 'I’ve seen you play, I want you to be in the band.' I said 'Well, I don’t really think that me and Sykes together is gonna work for me, you know,' and he says 'I’m talking about you doing that job,' and I said 'Well what about Sykes,' and he goes 'Well I don’t want Sykes, I want you.' So I said 'Well let me see what my schedule is.' At the time I was in Dio, so… and then it turned out that David and I really got a mutual thing going, it was cool."
