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Live: In the Shadow of the Blues

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This is one of the best live rock bands ever. This release as well as Live... In The Still of The Night can atest to that as can anyone who as ever seen this band live. You won't find any "I forgot how this solo goes" (Ace Frehley) or "I can't sing all of these lyrics without passing out" (Vince Neil) at a Whitesnake show. This is an excellent two disc summary of the bands catalog and the performance is fantastic. The four new songs with Aldrich on guitar are in the classic Whitesnake vein and are not just thrown together for this compilation. They are very strong tracks that sound like they could have come out of the Sykes/Vandenburgh era. I have only two minor complaints here. One, the price is a little excessive. Two, the sound on this live effort is just fine but it is not as good as the sound on Live....In The Still Of The Night. The sound here is a little more polished than needed but that's only realized after hearing Live.....In The Still Of The Night.

The other individual who reviewed this CD ... is irritating. A musically narrow-minded person who can't just judge the album on the album, who like (the minority of) other WS fans felt left behind when 'Snake hit it big in the US with "Slide It In" and "1987". It's the same with the Metallica fans who say Metallica sucked after "And Justice for All" ... (in other words ripping the BLACK album) ...

Coverdale's voice is pretty good (not the best it's ever been, but strong) and Doug Aldrich is awesome on guitar, playing the Sykes solos very well --- Anybody who reads that really negative review should see it through the true perspective: that some felt it wasn't 'their' Whitesnake anymore when WS made it huge on the trilogy of albums they put out on Geffen ... So if one has the premise anything they've done since the

"Come and Get It" days is junk, there's NO WAY a live album largely consisting of post-1984 material (with a couple new tracks) is gonna get a

normal review. And WS was great pre-1984? But not after?? B.S. - the

1987 album is a metal work of art (even though I didn't like "Is This Love"), a masterpiece of mood ... and while they contained great songs the production of the 3 WS albums, "Ready and Willing", "Come and Get It", and even "Saints and Sinners" is TERRIBLE, sounds like 3 guys jamming in a garage on 40 Watt amps.

Of particular note on this live album is the smash-mouth drumming, in the live songs ... the drummer does a superb job, gives this lineup of WS a really solid backbone. One other note of contention - Coverdale has in fact been given the runaround by certain folks in the American record industry, since Whitesnake's return to the scene 3 years ago. Easy to see why as most short-sited music execs these days all they are looking for is the next NICKELBACK (like Hinder), and couldn't care less about emotionally powerful music anymore. This is a kick a-- CD ...

"Coverdale has nothing to offer" in '06-'07? Well according to some he hasn't had anything to offer since 1982! (when I was in bloody middle school) ... So yeah why would Cov have anything to offer in 2006. Go figure. Anyway the 4 new tracks are really good.

GREAT CD. {And btw for commercially released live CDs pretty much all bands go in and fix a mistake here and there, vocal and guitar ... it isn't like Ashley Simpson on Saturday night live ...}

Everytime I am buying a new album from a 80's band, an inevitable doubt crosses my mind: Is this worth to buy or just another desperate attempt to get some more money before they dissappear forever?

With Whitesnake is not the case, this is the kind of band that gets stronger with the years, even when they crossed through the 80's hair metal era, David Coverdale has been always a talented musician bringing new and fresh ideas in every Whitesnake record, but at the same time being consistent and clear on the sound he wants.

I felt confident to buy this record because I had the opportunity to see them performing live on this tour as opening act for Judas Priest in Mexico City and loved the show.

This is a good summary of the Whitesnake career, Coverdale keeps his great voice, excellent mix of songs between the old records and the 80's-90's era, great musicians line-up... and the band sounds mature and stronger than ever. Like good old wines, getting better with time.

The unreleased songs at the end sound good and fresh,definitely worth to listen, they sound more like a preview of an upcoming Whitesnake record rather than old cut tunes that didn't make it to previous records.

For metal fans that started in the early 80's like me, this record is an oasis, without tags, without molds, without crossovers, just an uncompromised pure rock album from a band that stills enjoys to play. I have really enjoyed listening this record from beginning to end.

Ironic, but good old bands sound fresh these days....

Anyone's who's a Whitesnake fan or a fan of good, straight forward rock will love this cd...The four new songs are classic Whitesnake...hopefully a new album is in the works.

The rock scene today is in shambles and its nice to hear classic Whitesnake singing these songs along with the four new additions...Coverdale's voice is strong and in fine form.

This cd is better then most of today's rock cd's that's for sure!

After the unrepeatable "Live in the Still of the Night" DVD, I thought that it would be hard to get another live album of the same quality. But, I was wrong. Whitesnake surprised us again with this double live CD that include most of the Whitesnake's hits. I was glad to see that songs like "Slide it in", "Slow and Easy", and "Walking in the Shadow of Blues" were on a song list. The reason I am rating this CD with 4 stars is that the sound quality was not as good as on the DVD, but it is still better than in the most live albums that are being produced. I was curious to see how the new songs will sound. Whitesnake fans were waiting new songs for a long time and I think that it was worth waiting that long. Ready to Rock, If You want me and Dog are classic hard rocker tunes, while the All I want is You is a typical Coverdale's powerful balad. I think that Whitesnake gave us a small taste of what we should expect from their full studion album announced for this year. It tastes great...

If you are a fan of live rock albums then trust me - buy this one.

if you're a Whitesnake GET THIS!! it'a great album,all their great songs & some new kick butt one's! I checked all of the other web sights,the album was backorder on ALL of them, it probaly still is...Whitesnake said Amazon.com has it NOW, I thought yea right... I ordered it from here and had it in 3 days!! I still have friends that have NEVER seen it anywhere, if you know what you want you will find it on Amazon...thanx again, look forward to my next purchase from you ! Bill..

Brilliant - what would you expect for this top band

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GCD

This is a great Live Double CD from Mr. Coverdale and the Boys. Great Song List and the 4 Studio tracks are really good, a lot harder then I was expecting. The packaging is perfect and thank you for Amazon selling this CD. As many may know, the album does not have a US release and had the CD in hand 4 days after ordering. If your an Old Coverdale / Whitesnake fan you will enjoy this very much!!

I purchased this Whitesnake CD for my boyfriend for Christmas and he absolutely loved it. Says that there are four songs on this CD that have never been released before. I'm glad that I purchased it on Amazon...inexpensive and fast!

Thanks

One of my fav live albums. All the hits are here and David Coverdalev vocals are stellar.

Cov has the great band of Reb Beach, Dough Aldrich, Marco Mendoza, Tommy Aldrdge and Tim Drury.

ALl excellent players in their own right. This band is extremeley tight and sound BIG!

Anyone who never heard Whitesnake before it all here (with afew Cov classics from Deep Purple days) and there is a 4 new studio tracks as well.

Also this is available on DVD and it is simply masterful. Filmed by the legendary Wayne Isham in London it captures audience and band brilliantley