WHITESNAKE’s David Coverdale - “We Were Like... How Many People Tonight? 25,000? Make Our Hair Bigger!”
March 25, 2011, 13 years ago
Noisecreep recently conducted an interview with WHITESNAKE frontman David Coverdale. In the interview Coverdale talks about the hair metal scene, old work, and the band’s forthcoming 11th album Forevermore, which will be released March 29th. Excerpts from the interview are below:
“Before diving into a discussion about the new record, Coverdale reminisces about the 80s days when touring bands still packed cases of Aqua Net on their tour buses."You see, a lot of the bands that came up during that period – the glam hair bands – couldn't play for s---! What they could do was make great videos. So there were no kinds of chops behind it. You could give one of the bands a box of Ritz crackers and they could do an amusing, entertaining, and informative video. You give me a box of crackers and I would be like, 'Would you like a cracker, sir?'
"I do agree that the way we looked in the late '80s was over-flamboyant for the identity that I had created for Whitesnake," says Coverdale, sipping on a latte. "We were like, 'How many people tonight -- 25,000? Make our hair bigger!' It was mindless stuff, it was a giggle. The pictures, I don't really care for, but at least it amuses my child [laughs]. But I have no f---ing regrets about that period, it was great."”
Read the entire interview at this location.
Forevermore tracklisting:
'Steal Your Heart Away'
'All Out Of Luck'
'Love Will Set You Free'
'Easier Said Than Done'
'Tell Me How'
'I Need You (Shine A Light)'
'One Of These Days'
'Love And Treat Me Right'
'Dogs In The Street'
'Fare Thee Well'
'Whipping Boy Blues'
'My Evil Ways'
'Forevermore'
