From: Kevin Tarr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 12:36 AM 11/11/2003 -0500, you wrote:I think Whitesnake had enough talent to rise above the "Zep wannabe" label.
At least for their "Slide It In" album (my favorite), they had three Deep Purple
band members on board. They did have that Zep sound though: the first time
I heard them, it was my friend, saying "Check these guys out, they sound like
Zeppelin".
My head is going to explode.
Fire in the hole!
Glam rock started at least in 1968 and was nailed by David Bowie with Ziggy. I will admit ignorance here, if Whitesnake's early stuff was glam-like then so be it but I doubt it. If you meant instead a direct line to heavy metal, then that's wrong also, IMHO. If you meant Glam metal, I still think it's a stretch. Whitesnake of the 80's was not glam. Again this is all IMHO, but glam has to first be pretty boys and stage presence before music. Whitesnake had neither, except David Coverdale.
You don't seem to care too much for David Coverdale, do you? He's no Ian Gillan, but I think he's alright. I think most people never heard of Whitesnake before their "Whitesnake" album, and if you watched the videos for that, they could come across as glam.
"Slide It In" did not have three Deep Purple band members on the album. Paice was back with Deep Purple. In fact to call Coverdale Deep Purple would be like saying Blaze Bayley is Iron Maiden, and I at least recognize the different IM songs. (On the third hand, I didn't know IM had a different first singer).
My mistake, I was counting Cozy Powell as a Deep Purple member (I associate him with Blackmore and Rainbow and got them jumbled up). As for Coverdale, I didn't say he *was* Deep Purple, just a former member. My point being that some of those Whitesnake guys had some real experience, with band(s) with legit rock creds, rather than being Zep wannabes or a marketing-driven record company creation picked for their great hair. I knew that Iron Maiden had different a singer before Bruce Dickinson, but I couldn't have told you his name.
Since you know your Purple (much better than me), what would you
say their best album was? Best Song? (My vote: album - Made in Japan (live),
song - Child in Time (live version on Made in Japan). Yes I'm wierd).
I did some googling and came across some surprising info (to me at least, which shows how out of the scene I've been) - Cozy Powell died in 1998 - Deep Purple put out a whole batch of albums after the last one I bought (House of Blue Light), with an assortment of new band members. They're up to Mark IX now! - in fact, DP *just* released a new album in October that from the title "Bananas" and cover art looks like it would be more apt as a Jimmy Buffet album than a Deep Purple one. - Iron Maiden has released a *slew* of albums since the last one I bought (Somewhere in Time), including a new one in October.
Wow, I woulda thunk that even though I was really following those bands
anymore, I would have come across at least a few new songs on the radio
or whatever from the dozen or so albums they had released over the years.
I guess I've just been listening to too much Zamfir (Master of the Pan Flute!),
Boxcar Wille, and Slim Whitman (or is that Walt Whitman?)
I do hate the tag Zep wannabees. There was a band in the eighties that was practically a rip-off of Led Zeppelin and damn if I can think of their name now. But how much music is created in a vacuum?
Hmmm. Eighties Zep clone - maybe you mean The Cult? People have told me they were a Zep clone, but I've never really heard any of their stuff.
Some bands do have unique sounds but it'd be hard to point to a first album that was much different than what was released at the same time. Pink Floyd's early stuff was out there, but not far off from others. The Ramones or Devo could be exceptions. Maybe that's related to the music industry. A band isn't going to be signed if the label can't pigeonhole them, but after a few successful albums they can afford to be different.
I think that's the likely cuplrit. The same thing happened with all those grunge bands sprouting up in the nineties.
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