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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 04 2018 at 06:14
I lost what I wrote twice, slow internet, errors and access denied. 

The people that laugh at Whitesanke are those who know only their MTV videos or their 1987 album. But Coverdale and Whitesnake are so much more. Their albums from 1977 to 1984 are great. I don't mind their commercial period either. 
And then there's Coverdale's collaboration with Page, so underrated it hurts. There's a blues number Don't Leave Me This way that, to me at least, is better than anything ZZTOP ever did. 
Restless Heart is another album that is bluesy and the song to top them all is Take Me Back Again. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 04 2018 at 12:12
ZZ Top for sure.....their first 3 or 4 albums were damn good blues rock imho...after that even though they wrote some 'radio hits'.,  they became a parody of themselves.
Whitesnake was a parody of them selves from day one.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 04 2018 at 12:15
Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Whitesnake was a parody of them selves from day one.
say what?
what does this really mean? 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 04 2018 at 12:18
I like Whitesnake before 1987, but Top is just greater.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 04 2018 at 12:18
Think Spinal Tap......does that clear it up...?

;)

parody
noun
  1. 1.
    an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
    "the movie is a parody of the horror genre"
    synonyms:satireburlesquelampoonpastichecaricatureimitationmockeryMore
verb
  1. 1.
    produce a humorously exaggerated imitation of (a writer, artist, or genre).


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 04 2018 at 12:21
There has been countless Spinal Taps in RīN`R (quite many also in prog). Many of them has anyway done great albums.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 04 2018 at 12:23
Mortte.....as usual you completely missed the point......LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 04 2018 at 12:26
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 04 2018 at 12:26
Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Think Spinal Tap......does that clear it up...?

;)

parody
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    an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
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    synonyms:satireburlesquelampoonpastichecaricatureimitationmockeryMore
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    produce a humorously exaggerated imitation of (a writer, artist, or genre).

thank you for the English lesson
what you say still makes no sense to me
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 04 2018 at 12:56
hahahha.. you are in rare form today Doc....
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 04 2018 at 14:30
the mystery of Whitesnake being a parody of themselves from day one will never be solved...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 04 2018 at 15:00
ZZ Top. What a poll lmao.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 04 2018 at 15:06
Originally posted by Frenetic Zetetic Frenetic Zetetic wrote:

ZZ Top. What a poll lmao.

Don't laugh at other people making polls here. I'm sure you would not like someone laughing at yours. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 04 2018 at 15:08
Whitesnake and ZZ Top both saw their best days before their mid-1980s sellout albums that catapulted them in the Top 20 with "Legs" and "Here I Go Again."

Whitesnake devolved from a solid Purple-derived hard rock outfit, anchored by the late great Jon Lord, to an AquaNet & blow-dryer-fueled candyass band on par with Poison ...but still better than those guys! After all, Whitesnake at one time or another boasted John Sykes, Vivian Campbell and Steve Vai in the line-up. But Rudy Sarzo should have never, ever frosted his hair. LOL!

ZZ Top likewise took a few steps back when they streamlined their no-BS dusted down hard blues sound into a scruffy pop-blues-rock b*****dization of what had put them on the map. The omnipresent drum machine was so awful, too. They still had some good songs strewn across those albums Eliminator and Afterburner, though.

But ZZ started making good music again, while Coverdale is simply cashing checks by having his band ride the coattails of their glory days.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 04 2018 at 15:16
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

hahahha.. you are in rare form today Doc....

Yes...well it's lost on some apparently.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 04 2018 at 15:19
Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

But ZZ started making good music again, while Coverdale is simply cashing checks by having his band ride the coattails of their glory days.

not true 

since his glory days, as you say it, Coverdale has been doing a few things

1993 - collaboration with Jimmy Page - Coverdale Page album
1997 - Whitesnake - Restless Heart
2000 - David Coverdale - Into the Light
2008 - Whitesnake - Good to Be Bad
2011 - Whitesnake - Forevermore
2015 - Whitesnake - The Purple Album


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 04 2018 at 15:30
Whitesnake........really..? 
A second rate hard rock band with  a singer who wanted to be Robert Plant but isn't fit to be his roadie.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 04 2018 at 15:34
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 04 2018 at 15:35
Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Whitesnake........really..? 
A second rate hard rock band with  a singer who wanted to be Robert Plant but isn't fit to be his roadie.


;)

wow...
I give up
I regret bumping this thread, i thought it would get a good discussion, but it seems I was wrong. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 04 2018 at 15:46
never be a slave to regret Cristi...  that a bane of lesser men... learn an important life's lesson from the Big Mick

revel in your f**k ups..  they build character.. and provide entertainment
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