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The Quiet One 
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 Topic: Whitesnake vs Rainbow
Posted: June 09 2010 at 16:33 |
 Cristi wrote:
Tarquin Underspoon wrote:
Well, Steve Vai's riff in "In the Still of the Night" alone gives Whitesnake a fighting chance....
...but yeah, Rainbow wins relatively easily. |
Vai didn't play on that album  ; how do you get informed? |
Yeah, Steve Vai played on the following album, Slip of the Tongue not the s/t which features Still of the Night.
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Cristi
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Posted: June 09 2010 at 12:29 |
Tarquin Underspoon wrote:
Well, Steve Vai's riff in "In the Still of the Night" alone gives Whitesnake a fighting chance....
...but yeah, Rainbow wins relatively easily. |
Vai didn't play on that album ; how do you get informed?
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Pelata
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Posted: June 04 2010 at 15:28 |
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Easy pick for me....Dio-fronted Rainbow by a mile...
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Tarquin Underspoon
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Posted: June 03 2010 at 22:21 |
Well, Steve Vai's riff in "In the Still of the Night" alone gives Whitesnake a fighting chance....
...but yeah, Rainbow wins relatively easily.
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Posted: June 03 2010 at 10:18 |
Wow now that's an old poll... 
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DisgruntledPorcupine
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Posted: June 03 2010 at 10:14 |
 The one with colours.
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Green Shield Stamp
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Posted: June 03 2010 at 04:59 |
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Rainbow for me. I always felt that Whitesnake were merely a vehicle for David Coverdale's posturing.
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Haiku
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Posted: June 02 2010 at 08:29 |
Tough choice, I guess Rainbow, which I know better and listened more often. but Whitesnake sure has some great albums. totally loved Slippery When Wet
sorry this was a slip of the tongue. obviously I meant 1987
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Malve87
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Posted: June 02 2010 at 07:52 |
Rainbow!!! Love the first 3 albums, but I think that this one is really great too: 
Edited by Malve87 - June 02 2010 at 08:03
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Posted: October 03 2008 at 02:55 |
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Whitesnake had a few goodies, but when Dio was with Rainbow they were unstoppable.
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Posted: October 02 2008 at 08:24 |
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I like both. Both bands had a string of very strong albums, followed by some relative dross, but when weighed up, I think the Whitesnakes dross was worse than Rainbows.
So Rainbow has the vote..
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Posted: October 01 2008 at 14:26 |
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Rainbow is really good band.They both are bands from the ashes of Deep Purple,but I don't like Whitesnake.Rainbow is much better for me.
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The Quiet One
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Posted: March 15 2008 at 12:16 |
Zargus wrote:
DIO's Rainbow!  |
Coverdale's Whitesnake!
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Posted: March 12 2008 at 07:32 |
DIO's Rainbow!
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Posted: March 08 2008 at 15:25 |
Jared, I'm sorry, but this time you're wrong  ... I know both the album in question (and those before it) and stuff like Poison and Motley Crue, and I assure you they have nothing in common. I hate hair metal, but I do like old Whitesnake quite a lot. Album titles have often little if anything to do with the music within.
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The Quiet One
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Posted: March 08 2008 at 15:23 |
Cristi wrote:
fandango wrote:
Cristi wrote:
Does it sound like Motley Crue, Ratt, Poison or Bon Jovi to you?
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In all honesty, yes it does...with album titles like 'Slide It In' it can hardly be considered much else....I'm sorry, but Rainbow (esp the Dio era) were far superior to Whitesnake....  |
so just the title of that album makes the classification as "hair metal" right? and that album is just hard rock with a bluesy influence. |
Sorry Cristi but I agree that since Slide it in to Slip of the Tongue Whitesnake was already totally glam metal (hair metal). But I voted Whitenake even though, having such an album like Ready an' Willing, none Rainbow album can compare. Then we have Trouble, Lovehunter and Come an' Get it really good to. I can't take Dio's voice, just in very few dosis like in their debut, and maybe but maybe n Heaven and Hell. Then Bonnet and Turner's era has some good songs but nothing special, and much less prog.
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Cristi
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Posted: March 08 2008 at 15:14 |
fandango wrote:
Cristi wrote:
Does it sound like Motley Crue, Ratt, Poison or Bon Jovi to you?
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In all honesty, yes it does...with album titles like 'Slide It In' it can hardly be considered much else....I'm sorry, but Rainbow (esp the Dio era) were far superior to Whitesnake.... |
so just the title of that album makes the classification as "hair metal" right? and that album is just hard rock with a bluesy influence.
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Posted: March 08 2008 at 15:10 |
Cristi wrote:
Does it sound like Motley Crue, Ratt, Poison or Bon Jovi to you?
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In all honesty, yes it does...with album titles like 'Slide It In' it can hardly be considered much else....I'm sorry, but Rainbow (esp the Dio era) were far superior to Whitesnake....
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Cristi
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Posted: March 08 2008 at 15:04 |
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Lets see: the classic rock of Rainbow or the hairmetal cheese of Whitesnake.
That's a tough one! |
What "hair-metal cheese" are you talking about? Not even 1987 and Slip of the Tongue can be considered as hair metal. Does it sound like Motley Crue, Ratt, oison or Bon Jovi to you?
Your classic rock of Rainbow stops in 1978 because after that, not even I, less pretentious/demanding than many of you, cannot digest the Graham Bonnet and the JLT albums anymore (and i used to like those albums once).
All in all, i find Whitesnake's music more consistent than Rainbow's.
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The Quiet One
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Posted: March 08 2008 at 14:51 |
The Wizard wrote:
Lets see: the classic rock of Rainbow or the hairmetal cheese of Whitesnake.
That's a tough one! |
Duh!! Listen to their first 4 albums, they're great. Well you can only really enjoy them if you're a MK 3 and 4 DP fan. Really cool and great.
Especially Ready an' Willing, i recomend you to order it, you'll thank me.
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