WHITESNAKE frontman David Coverdale recently spoke with Carol Anne Szel at Goldmine Magazine. An excerpt from the interview is availabe below:

Q: How have your musical inspirations changed over the years?

DC: "Well, you know, I’m not digging into the old negative. I did an album some years ago called Restless Heart (1997). A lot of the time the music comes first and then I make songs out of that. But some of the music was giving me inspiration for negative physical relationships. And I have such an incredibly positive relationship that I found I was digging back. You know, to get the kind of resentment vibe (laughing). For me, resentment is like taking poison and hoping someone else will die. I just do not recommend it. I can see that I was in a dark time because of that. And I made up my mind that I ain’t wastin’ no more time.

So I think that album was the last time I did one of those. Now it’s going to be a fun lyric like it is on “Good to Be Bad” and “A Fool in Love.” So it’s not that poisonous, venomous that woman sucks. You know, I don’t want that. That was then. That is just a theme that is not interesting to me anymore, and I feel a lot better going into something significantly more positive and legitimately where I am. I wrote a song on “Good To Be Bad” called “Best Years.” “These are the best years of my life.” Are you kidding? These are even better than when I wrote it!

So that’s what I have to celebrate. Music is a celebration. You know, naughtiness, search for direction, love on an assortment of levels. And all the elements are secure as they were from the very beginning. Which is hard rock, rhythm and blues, soul, melody, and tongue-in-cheek."

Go to this location for the complete interview.

As previously reported, Whitesnake headlined day three of this year's Sweden Rock Festival and invited former guitarists Bernie Marsden and Adrian Vandenberg on stage.

"He helped me start this band," Coverdale said about Bernie Marsden who joined the band for 'Ain’t No Love In The Heart Of The City' and 'Fool For Your Loving'.

"Please say hello to my Dutch brother," Coverdale. With four guitarists - including current players Doug Aldrich and Reb Beach - Whitesnake finished with their staples 'Here I Go Again' and the encore 'Still Of The Night'.

Check out video footage below:

DORO

SwedenRockStage.com.ua conducted an interview with German metal queen Doro Pesch when she took part in the Sweden Rock Cruise, which set to sail from Stockholm to Turku, Finland and back on April 7-8, 2011. You can now watch the chat below.

(Photo by John Harrell)