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Whitesnake - St George's Hall Bradford 20th June 1980
Setlist: Sweet Talker / Walkin' In The Shadow Of The Blues / Ain't Gonna Cry No More / Lovehunter / Trouble>Steal Away>Belgian Tom's Hat Trick / Mistreated / Soldier Of Fortune / Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City / Fool For Your Lovin' / Breakdown // Lie Down / Take Me With You / Rock Me Baby
NB. This is not an exact setlist but I think it is pretty close to what they did on the Ready an' Willing tour of 1980.
Ah, yes, Davo Coverwhore's Trousersnake... Would have been a better band without the walking ego that is the former boutique sales assistant from Saltburn-by-the-Sea. In fact, if Glenn Hughes had been in this band, it would have been dynamite!
NB. This is not an exact setlist but I think it is pretty close to what they did on the Ready an' Willing tour of 1980.
Ah, yes, Davo Coverwhore's Trousersnake... Would have been a better band without the walking ego that is the former boutique sales assistant from Saltburn-by-the-Sea. In fact, if Glenn Hughes had been in this band, it would have been dynamite!
As a Deep Purple fan, I always enjoyed the spin-off bands, as much as anyone. I had wanted to go and see an early incarnation of the band a couple of years earlier (around the time that Snakebite came out) but Coverwhore pulled the gig at the last minute because the stage wasn't big enough for his ego. That didn't go down well with me; the stage in question had been fine for many other bands. He was just being a dick. However, bygones, and all that...
June 1980:
Ready an' Willing was out and was as good as Lovehunter, if not better. (I have to say, even in 2010, it still rocks!) I am excited about going to see Whiteschlong. Apart from the singer, who is nowhere near as good as everyone believes, this is one of the best bands on the planet. Lord, Paice, Murray, and the twin guitars of Moody and Marsden, this is a band that is not only tight, but they are top musicians too.
The gig was pretty awesome. Gary Moore's G-Force should have played Bradford, but they pulled out and we got Raven, one of the better NWOBHM bands. Name, Rank, and Serial Number...
Whitesnake were just the dog's though. The singer was OK, but the guy just cannot sing the fast songs and I have never understood why he even tries; he just sounds drunk. He tries to scream like Gillan and he just sounds like Huckleberry Hound on heat. If he were more concerned with his singing and less with his hair and crotch, he would be have been so much less of an arse. Mind you, the blues stuff, he [still] sings well and sounds bloody good, but he wasn't Ian Gillan. That said, to see Lord, Paice, Murray, Moody and Marsden at the height of their powers was electrifying. Although the setlist above isn't exact, Moody was still doing his Snakebite stuff, Steal Away, Belgian Tom's Hat Trick, and Breakdown, which was just sublime. With Marsden being such an awesome blues player in his own right, this was classic stuff. Lord, Paice, and Murray, were so tight you couldn't have slid a Rizla between them.
As far as I remember they did Sweet Talker, Fool, and Ain't Gonna Cry No More from Ready an' Willing, for sure, but I think they also played the title track too, and possibly Black and Blue, maybe even She's A Woman. Perhaps that latter is just wishful thinking and a rose-tinted hazy memory though.
June 1980:
Ready an' Willing was out and was as good as Lovehunter, if not better. (I have to say, even in 2010, it still rocks!) I am excited about going to see Whiteschlong. Apart from the singer, who is nowhere near as good as everyone believes, this is one of the best bands on the planet. Lord, Paice, Murray, and the twin guitars of Moody and Marsden, this is a band that is not only tight, but they are top musicians too.
The gig was pretty awesome. Gary Moore's G-Force should have played Bradford, but they pulled out and we got Raven, one of the better NWOBHM bands. Name, Rank, and Serial Number...
Whitesnake were just the dog's though. The singer was OK, but the guy just cannot sing the fast songs and I have never understood why he even tries; he just sounds drunk. He tries to scream like Gillan and he just sounds like Huckleberry Hound on heat. If he were more concerned with his singing and less with his hair and crotch, he would be have been so much less of an arse. Mind you, the blues stuff, he [still] sings well and sounds bloody good, but he wasn't Ian Gillan. That said, to see Lord, Paice, Murray, Moody and Marsden at the height of their powers was electrifying. Although the setlist above isn't exact, Moody was still doing his Snakebite stuff, Steal Away, Belgian Tom's Hat Trick, and Breakdown, which was just sublime. With Marsden being such an awesome blues player in his own right, this was classic stuff. Lord, Paice, and Murray, were so tight you couldn't have slid a Rizla between them.
As far as I remember they did Sweet Talker, Fool, and Ain't Gonna Cry No More from Ready an' Willing, for sure, but I think they also played the title track too, and possibly Black and Blue, maybe even She's A Woman. Perhaps that latter is just wishful thinking and a rose-tinted hazy memory though.
As I write this, in late 2010, I still feel that it was a damn good gig. Even in later years, with Colin Hodgkinson, Vandenburg, Vai, Tommy Aldridge, and all the other top people who have been in the band of the same name, I don't think any lineup can eclipse this one.
I guess anyone reading this is wondering why I am so vituperative towards the singer. Well, there is a reason. I was absoultely blown away by the gig and waited at the stage door for the band to come out and I desperately wanted to meet them and get my programme signed. After about an hour, Coverdale came barging through the stage door, ignored everyone who was waiting and got into his car. He never even acknowledged the people standing there.
Wanker!
Mark L. Potts
The God of Thunder
December 2010
I guess anyone reading this is wondering why I am so vituperative towards the singer. Well, there is a reason. I was absoultely blown away by the gig and waited at the stage door for the band to come out and I desperately wanted to meet them and get my programme signed. After about an hour, Coverdale came barging through the stage door, ignored everyone who was waiting and got into his car. He never even acknowledged the people standing there.
Wanker!
Mark L. Potts
The God of Thunder
December 2010
