virtuosity. And the audience is a lot smarter than you think; they're very intuitive and perceptive and if you try to pull anything over on them — like biting someone else's thing — you'll get beat up for it.". On this tour Whitesnake fired on all cylinders.

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"Adrian's such a great player, but the injury made it so he couldn't really sustain for too long because of the pain.

The fan favorite turned 30 last year and Rhino celebrated with several new versions, including a colossal seven-disc boxed set. WHITESNAKE scored the band's third consecutive platinum record with its eighth studio album, "Slip Of The Tongue".

All tracks are written by David Coverdale and Adrian Vandenberg, except where noted.

But you could hardly even call them a band at the time, since guitarist John Sykes, bassist Neil Murray and drummer Aynsley Dunbar were collecting unemployment checks before the record even left the pressing plants.

"You cheat yourself when you try to do that and play like someone else. 5, December 02 1989", "Whitesnake – Fool for Your Loving (song)", "Top Singles - Volume 51, No. It had taken Whitesnake leader David Coverdale 10 long years to break his band in the U.S. with their self-titled 1987 album. "If I had tried to sound like Yngwie [Malmsteen] when I had joined ALCATRAZZ, it just wouldn't have worked because I'm very satisfied with the way I play, but I also can't play like Yngwie.

Following the eight-times-platinum success of its eponymous album in 1987, WHITESNAKE returned two years later with "Slip Of The Tongue".

I had no choice but to express my own voice because that's all I know.

But it's the bright cosmetic makeover applied to the Whitesnake warhorse 'Fool for Your Loving' that best gauges the sheer scope of the album's excessiveness. It was a departure for what WHITESNAKE was normally known for in the guitar department.".

"There's no way those records would've been accepted if I didn't have some kind of rock integrity, but I knew what the songs needed and I knew what the audience was expecting and there's a side of me that I knew could deliver that. If they share any particular trait, it's the stuffing of every available space between the notes with lush synthesizers, cat-in-heat squeals and Vai’s look-at-me! [1][2] Four singles were released from the album: "Fool for Your Loving", "The Deeper the Love", "Now You're Gone" and "Judgement Day". Two exhausting but rewarding years later, Whitesnake’s League of Nations lineup (Coverdale was British, Vandenberg was Dutch, Campbell was Irish, Sarzo was Cuban and Aldridge was American) were all set to record Slip of the Tongue – until Coverdale and Campbell had a falling out and Vandenberg broke his wrist.

[3] Slip of the Tongue has sold over one million copies in the US, reaching platinum status.[4]. 03.02.90 [ ] Rochester War Memorial New York, USA - support Kix.

02.02.90 [ ] Fairfax Patriot Center Virginia, USA - tour support Kix. The songs on Slip of the Tongue range from the widescreen pomp-metal grandstanding of the title track and "Wings of the Storm" to the lascivious Sunset Strip-approved sleaze of "Cheap an' Nasty" and "Kitten's Got Claws," to the requisite syrupy love songs "Now You're Gone" and "Deeper the Love" to the majestic Led Zeppelin rewrites "Judgement Day" and "Sailing Ships.". I've stayed pretty close with Adrian over the years and I see him whenever I'm in Holland, and when I spoke to him a couple of years ago, he was still having that wrist problem — but they located the source of it to his neck. Then again, as Coverdale himself later admitted, the songs they recorded for Slip of the Tongue didn’t have all that much in common with Whitesnake’s earlier, and distinctly flash-free, heavy blues-rooted music. 10 on the U.K. and U.S. album charts thanks largely to its two Top 40 hits — "Fool For Your Loving" and "The Deeper The Love". Following the eight-times-platinum success of its eponymous album in 1987, WHITESNAKE returned two years later with "Slip Of The Tongue". If a new comment is published from a "banned" user or contains a blacklisted word, this comment will automatically have limited visibility (the "banned" user's comments will only be visible to the user and the user's Facebook friends). BLABBERMOUTH.NET

"Fool for Your Loving" originally appeared on the album Ready an' Willing, but it was re-recorded for this album.

Some material, including the title track, had already been written while on tour and some lyrics were finished by Coverdale in Bora Bora.

BLABBERMOUTH.NET "The foundation of WHITESNAKE's sound was rooted in rock blues, and there's a whole culture that emanated from Europe in that traditional solid rock blues guitar playing that had a real authenticity to it.