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Lead up to the Album:

• Young Guitar, Japan – November 1995
  • – How did you find the band members?
  • RB: We walked around the city at night, looking for musicians. We went to different bars and asked: “Can you play bass or drums? We have a place in the group “(laughs).
• Ritchie on why he assembled Rainbow again in interview on Finnish Radiostation Metalliliitto – September 27, 1995: “I wanted to go back to the music I played when I first created Rainbow. For this, I have selected guys who can do a good job. And I was very unhappy with what I was doing at Deep Purple. This is why I wanted to build Rainbow again.”
• On why he recruited unknown musicians in interview on Finnish Radiostation Metalliliitto – September 27, 1995: “Yes … I thought about the old guys, but not longer than a couple of seconds, because I think that I did everything I could with all of them in this style. Ronnie Dio is a great vocalist, but he is very limited in the styles that I want to hear. Therefore, I did not contact him. Some suggested Joe Lynn Turner to me. Joe is a good singer, but now he has problems with his voice. So I didn’t call him, I wanted a vocalist who could sing like Ronnie Dio and like Joe Lynn Turner and had a bluesy voice like Paul Rogers.
• And I like working with unknown musicians, it’s kind of a protest against the system. Many people prefer to confidently recruit bands of musicians who are known to be good performers and reliable people, but I like to take risks and work with new musicians. And I like it when there is fresh blood and enthusiasm in the group. It’s nice to tour with musicians for whom this is all a novelty, who are not tired of it yet. And working with professionals who have been doing this for many years is a bit boring.”

Core Band:

• Bass – Greg Smith (6)
  • Has played with Ted Nugent, Alice Cooper (2), Rainbow, Blue Oyster Cult, Dokken, Vinnie Moore, Joe Lynn Turner, Wendy O. Williams
  • Young Guitar, Japan – November 1995: ”Greg Smith I saw in one bar, he was just a strong enough hard rock bass player that I was looking for. I immediately decided to take him to the group because I liked him as a person.”
  • “No (laughs)! However, when Greg brought his beer to rehearsals, I was impressed, it was an interesting, very strong beer that he brewed himself. That inspired me (laughs).” 
• Drums – John O. Reilly
  • Played with Joe Lynn Turner, Blackmore’s Night, Trans Siberian Orchestra.
  • Young Guitar, Japan – November 1995: ”The drummer… actually, we changed him two weeks ago. The album featured John O’Reilly, a great drummer, but he has a slightly inappropriate playing style. He didn’t know how to swing, swing the way I would like… Instead of him we have now Chuck Burgie, who already played in Rainbow. As soon as Chuck joined the band, rhythms that we could not work with before became available to us, it’s amazing. He does a great job with the syncopation that I play a lot.”
• Guitar – Ritchie Blackmore
• Keyboards – Paul Morris
  • Played with Doro, Joe Lynn Turner.
  • Young Guitar, Japan – November 1995: “I met him about ten years ago. He got my attention back in 1981 when I auditioned keyboardists for Rainbow. But then I decided to take David Rosenthal, even though Paul showed a good result. He reminds me of Beethoven. There is a lot of fire, aggression in his playing, he is a very passionate and quick-tempered musician. This helps him a lot in self-expression, music conveys the life and emotions of a person. Sometimes he pisses me off, but he is a real musician. In Deep Purple, everyone completely lost their aggression, they had no feelings for music, and I believe that musicians should have a temperament, for a musician it is necessary. Nobody knows when he will explode, but he can play! It suits me. I also explode sometimes (laughs).”
• Vocals – Doogie White
  • Had played with Alex Parche and Midnight blue. Went on to Yngwie, M3, and Michael Schenker.
  • Ritchie on Doogie from Stefan Wach, Gitarre & Bass, Germany – 12/1995:”Yes, no question, these guys are great musicians and have a lot of creative potential. Our keyboardist has hundreds of ideas and Dougie, our singer, is incredible. And imagine – I can have fun with a singer! (laughs) The guy can sing anything from Scottish folk songs to spontaneous blues. You can also laugh heartily at him. I’ve never had such a relationship with a singer. Ronnie (James Dio – Ed.) was also a great singer, but outside of the band he always wanted to be left alone. With him you couldn’t go to a bar and have fun. Dougie, on the other hand, is very extrovert and is always out for nonsense.”
  • Ritchie in Young Guitar, Japan – November 1995: “I heard Doogie’s voice on some recording when I was sorting through the pile of accumulated tapes. I liked his voice, and I asked my girlfriend: “What kind of tape is this?” His London phone number was written on the cassette, and we told him that we would very much like to see him in our project. Like that.”
  • On Ritchie’s criteria for choosing a singer and voice from Young Guitar: “ First of all, the singer must be a good person and sing from the heart. Let’s just say I would like the vocalist to become my voice. But it seems to me that now there are not enough good singers. Many are recruiting groups of friends! Because of this, it is impossible to listen to many vocalists, because they are only required to be good friends. It was the same with The Beatles, but they were lucky in this (laughs)! When a person does not know how to sing, and friends tell him that he has a cool voice, this will not add charm and skill to his voice. Jeff Beck, one of my idols, once said: “All singers are masturbators!” Of course, he has the right to say so – he worked with Rod Stewart! After that, I would stop working with vocalists altogether. I agree with him. It is rare to find singers who really know how to sing. So I was lucky to find Doogie.”
  • On Doogie’s melody-writing process: “He made a big contribution to the creation of the album. This surprised me. Once I played one riff to him and asked: “Can you sing along to this?” Two days later, he brought a cassette tape containing eight different vocal melodies for this song. It amazed me. “How about this? So wait, I still have another option. ” Each option was interesting in its own way. It’s not often that you meet a person who has so many good ideas. Then I realized that he could be useful to us.”

Additional Personnel:

• Candice Night – backing vocals
• Doogie White – backing vocals
• Mitch Weiss – harmonica
  • https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/Mitch_Weiss/426379
  • https://www.discogs.com/artist/2401337-Mitch-Weiss?type=Credits&filter_anv=0
  • https://www.facebook.com/mitchweissmusic/
  • https://www.broadjam.com/mitchweiss?fbclid=IwAR3FCoJ89ia02IPyYxXSr5dqcfV0_dxvR8OCKoZmgKnszDxJGV7MB-6ddgs
    • . . . His original jazz and blues compositions blended with the Latin rhythm section of the “New Earth Rhythm Band”. They were regulars on the home-grown music scene at the Quiet Knight, appearing with the likes of Levon Helm and Jan Hammer. Mitch’s original composition was featured on “The Best of Chicago” LP in 1977.

Technical:

• Mastered By – Vlado Meller
  • https://vladomastering.com/
  • Thousands of entries on Discogs.
• Produced by Pat Regan:
  • https://www.discogs.com/artist/325356-Pat-Regan?type=Credits&filter_anv=0
  • Played keys with Quiet Riot, also performed on Weird Al’s “Dare to be Stupid” and “Polka Party!” albums.

Album Art & Booklet Review

• Photography – Frank Ockenfels
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_W._Ockenfels_III
  • https://www.fwo3.com/
  • Photography for R.E.M, Mary Chapin-Carpenter
• On the album title:
  • Ritchie on the album title from Young Guitar, Japan – November 1995: “This is a phrase from the song “Black Masquerade”, these words mean that there is an inner stranger hidden in each of us. I believe that anyone who thinks they know themselves is not really aware of themselves. I know this from myself – sometimes I myself do not understand why I did some actions, it was as if there was another person inside me in those moments. Was it me, or was it some other person? It seems to me that it has something to do with the soul. Yin-Yang, good and evil, white and black… two elements, completely opposite to each other. People often ask themselves, “Why did I do this?” This all is “the stranger in each of us” who constantly accompanies us. It is a mysterious distorted world that we cannot control.”
  • When the interviewer said he would like to meet this stranger, Ritchie responds: “I meet with him all the time. But in my case it seems to me that this is a woman. I’m looking for my man (laughs).”

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Album Tracks:

Side One:

1. Wolf to the Moon (Blackmore, White, Night)
2. Cold Hearted Woman (Blackmore, White)
3. Hunting Humans (Insatiable) (Blackmore, White)
4. Stand and Fight (Blackmore, White)
5. Ariel (Blackmore, Night)
   • From Young Guitar Magazine: “I wrote this song at home, in my bar. I came up with the instrumental part, and my fiancee wrote the lyrics, she sang the chorus at the end. She has great musical ability and helped us a lot with the album. She wrote the lyrics for this song in five minutes! This is surrealism, a mermaid comes out of the sea and awakens the depths of the sea, stuff like that. As you know, I am not very good at poetry (laughs), I only listen to the texts of Bob Dylan, and the poetry of other poets does not interest me. Therefore, I respect people who can write good lyrics. At first we planned to use this song in our future medieval project. However, it sounds so good in hard rock processing, I thought it was perfect for this band and decided to include it on the album.”

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Lead up to the Album:

• In Gillan’s book “Child in Time” Gillan describes Colin: “We were a goodish band with sufficient image and appeal that people (men and women) were even turning up at gigs looking like John, with hair shaved and stick-on beards. We had climbed from the bottom to the top and stayed with our label for over ten releases, most of which were successful.Colin was transformed from teh teraful day at Kingsway when we said goodbye to fusion rock and, on stage, the flashing bow-tie was a great sight to his sound,. Janick became and instant favourite with the fans, although the going of Bernie cropped up from time to time and seemed to still rankle a bit. Mick and I had known each other for so long. IT was mic that we should be having such a good time, most of the time.
• Gillan goes on to talk about troubles brewing when rumors came out that Ian was in talks to reform Deep Purple. The botched 1982 attempt to reform did not end up happening.
• Colin Towns came in number two that year just below Jon Lord as best keyboard player and they came in one above Rainbow at #6 as top band in Sounds magazine.

Core Band:

• Bass – John McCoy
• Drums – Mick Underwood
• Guitar – Janick Gers
• Keyboards – Colin Towns
• Vocals – Ian Gillan

Additional Personnel:

• Management – Phil Banfield
• Producer, Engineer – Mick Glossop
  • http://www.mickglossop.com/
  • Over 700 credits on Discogs including Frank Zappa (Joe’s Garage), VAn Morrison, and many more.
  • In Kerrang! Issue 22 in August of 1982 it was stated that Gillan wanted to give up on outside producers after Double Trouble but Virgin Records persuaded him to use Glossop.

Technical:

• Engineer [Assistant] – Bob Broglia
  • Credited on Wizard’s Convention, Ian Gillan Band (Scarabus and Clear Air Turbulence), White Spirit (Jannick Gers connection).
• Executive-Producer – Kingsway Recorders Ltd.

Album Art & Booklet Review

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  • Art Director at The Design Clinic
  • Did covers for XTC, The Human League, UB40
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  • David Dragon
  • http://www.thedragonboys.com/
  • Did album covers for Jimmy Cliff, Glen Campbell, Linda Rondstadt, XTC, UB40.

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Album Tracks:

Side One:

1. What’s the Matter (Gillan, McCoy, Gers)
2. Bluesy Blue Sea (Gillan, Gers)
3. Caught in a Trap (Gillan, Towns)
4. Long Gone (Gillan, Towns)
5. Driving Me Wild (Gillan, Towns)

Side Two:

1. Demon Driver (Gillan, Towns)
2. Living a Lie (Gillan, Towns)
3. You’re So Right (Gillan, McCoy)
4. Living for the City (Wonder)
   • Released as a single before the album in reaching #55 in September, the month the album was released.
5. Demon Drive (reprise)  (Gillan, Towns)

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Bustin’ Out The Spreadsheet

Reception and Charts:

• They were playing a lot of shows through the autumn. One show saw them in Bangkok where Gillan got the inspiration for the song Mitzee Dupree.
• Gossip began to run around about the disbanding of Gillan.  Ian says that “harsh words were exchanged.”  Gillan had been advised by doctors to rest his voice.
• From Stargazer issue 26 November 1982
  • As we go to press Ian has just confirmed that the current UK tour will be his last for some time. He has had a throat problem diagnosed which needs a complete rest otherwise his voice could be permanently affected. In fact he was advised to cancel the UK tour but decided not to. The band will take a break for around a year after which he’ll see how things are.
  • I had a brief chat with lan after the Gillan show in Sheffield, and he agreed to write out a little note to explain the current situation himself (reproduced here).
  • Gillan’s Note:
    • Hello All,
    • Got a bit of a sore throat – it’ll take around 6-9 months to repair – so see you all late in ‘83. In the meantime I’ll be thinking of y’all. Think positive and send me some good vibes – I need it.
    • Love – peace + thanks
    • Ian Gillan
• Gillan states that talks to reform Deep Purple broke down because Jon Lord was loyal to David Coverdale. Ian Paice was in between gigs. But Roger and Ritchie were tied up with Rainbow.
• Previous stories tell the story of Gillan showing up very drunk to talks and Roger and Ritchie saying they didn’t want to deal with it.
• The reunion would, of course, happen, but not before a brief stint with Black Sabbath.

Reviews:

• From Stargazer issue 26 November 1982
  • “I’ve got the new Gillan album and it’s all left me pretty fed up. The first song – ‘What’s The Matter’ works well as a set opener. ‘Bluesy Blue Sea’ has grown on me so that it’s OK rather than rubbish but it’ll be a pain live. ‘Caught In A Trap’ has a great start from lan and Colin. lan’s lyrics are head and shoulders above anyone else’s in this field. Colin’s solo too is exciting and different. ‘Driving Me Wild’ starts like a Foreigner song and seems pretty uninspired for a Gillan/Towns composition, until they reach the “what can you do” bit where things get a bit meatier with another good keyboard solo. The lyrics to ‘Demon Driver’ put me off before I’d even heard it. A good heavy beginning leads into some typical Gillan style music – the ending I can’t stand. ‘Living A Lie’ confuses me, sort of an up tempo ‘When A Blind Man Cries’ but I really miss lan’s soft vocals – which would have suited this. Overall maybe I expected too much with all those credits for Gillan/Towns tracks.” Mike Bumett.

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For Further Information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_(Gillan_album)
• https://www.discogs.com/release/537667-Gillan-Magic
• Child in Time by Ian Gillan
• http://www.deep-purple.net/DPASmags/stargazer26.htm
• https://rockronologia.blogspot.com/2019/07/1982-magic-gillan.html
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Let Glenn Hughes ring in the new year . . .

• Glenn Hughes – Auld Lang Syne

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• …And Vol. 4 All

This week we’re joined by hall of famer Rich as well as Mark and Pete (The Gardow) from the 70’s Weekly Countdown with Mark and Pete podcast!  We participate in a Yankee Swap and talk about all things Christmas and Purple.

The Gifts:

Blackmore’s Night – “It Came Upon A Midnight Clear” (Official Lyric Video)

Steve Morse – It Came Upon A Midnight Clear

Glenn Hughes – Winter Wonderland

Merry Christmas – Danorama

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  • Oh, you’re too kind! Deep Purple are my all-time favorite band, so when Pod Of Thunder mentioned your podcast, I couldn’t believe my luck. Happily listening through the episodes from the start. Love the show, keep doing what you’re doing. (One of the things I miss most from my younger years was sitting around & listening to full albums w/ friends. Ian Paice is the reason I started playing drums.) I wish I had some kind of cool or creative shoutout, but the best I can offer is keep up the amazing work! Best wishes from Pennsylvania,
  • Wilhelm
  • (PS had an afterthought- my old guitarist Austin would probably get a good laugh out of me discovering your podcast, because I never shut up about Purple back when we were bandmates. Anyway, take care!)
  • Oh and fun aside: my old drum teacher played w/ Yngwie Malmsteen for a few years, and Yngwie’s Blackmore worship is well-documented, so I’ll email John & see what ridiculous stories he remembers. Might be some relevant ones, who knows?

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• Featuring a note from Rhode Island this week!

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• So Far, So Pod . . . So What!
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• …And Vol. 4 All

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1. Highway Star
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1. Anya
2. The Battle Rages On
3. Lazy
4. Space Truckin’
5. Woman From Tokyo
6. Paint It Black
7. Smoke On The Water

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For Further Information:

• Deep Purple – Nasty Piece of Work by Jerry Bloom
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Hell_or_High_Water
• https://www.discogs.com/release/1034806-Deep-Purple-Come-Hell-Or-High-Water
• https://www.discogs.com/release/4775022-Deep-Purple-Come-Hell-Or-High-Water
• https://www.discogs.com/release/1861155-Deep-Purple-Live-In-Europe-1993
• https://www.thehighwaystar.com/specials/CHoHW/
• https://www.thehighwaystar.com/specials/CHoHW/story.html
• https://www.thehighwaystar.com/specials/CHoHW/dougm.html
• https://www.thehighwaystar.com/specials/CHoHW/palamara.html
• https://www.thehighwaystar.com/specials/CHoHW/franzman.html

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Apple Podcasts Reviews:

• Rosebud Jack – Australia
• 5 Stars!
• DP Podcast
• A great review of an awesome band. Nate and John banter back and forth and cover every inch of the topic. My only complaint- Highway Star only 4 stars. Seriously? Jack

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• The Podcast Will Rock
• Back Tracks: Aerosmith Revisited
• So Far, So Pod . . . So What!
• The Tom Petty Project

Lead up to the Album:

• From October-November of 1983 the album was completed at Musicland with Martin Birch.
• Hodgkinson quit the band sometime during these sessions.
• The UK tour dates were then canceled.
• On December 1, 1983 Neil Murray was asked to audition for the band.
• Between December 12-15 Sykes rehearsed with the band and is confirmed as the new guitarist.
• From January 19-28th in Los Angeles at Goodnight Studios Murray and Sykes do overdubs on the album.
• The album would be remixed by Keith Olsen.
• David Coverdale, from the Japanese US Remix version: “What happened was we finished the album in Europe and we were all delighted with the way it came out. However, the American record company said it was sounding European and not sounding American. Even when I said, ‘I am European”, they said, “However, we’d like it to sound American”, so I gave them carte blanche to remix in the U.S., on the condition that I could include John Sykes, who’d recently joined Whitesnake, and Neil Murray, who recently re-joined Whitesnake, and they accepted that premise. So I got what I wanted, and they got what they wanted. In essence, the difference is that you can hear the voice a lot better, and you have John Sykes and Neil Murray playing on it, whereas on the European mix, you don’t have them.”
• John Kaloder was the first A&R executive at the newly formed Geffen Records, headed up by David Geffen. Geffen had heard Coverdale was switching management and flew Kalodner to the UK to try to recruit Coverdale for Geffen.
• Kalodner said he worked very hard to sign Coverdale and eventually sealed the deal.  Kalodner said: “I thought they were a great commercial rock band. The problem is, that I told Coerdale, even though I really loved the other guys in the band, they weren’t as good as him. He was a superstar, and we were entering the age of Bon Jovi, you know, all of the big superstars, and I thought Coverdale’s voice and songs were better than anything.”
• Moody: “They ended up taking a lof of Mel Galley and me off of it and putting on John Sykes. I was gone by then, so I really can’t tell you anything further.” He goes on to say, “It wasn’t the same, let’s put it that way. That band in 1983 was not the Whitesnake that I knew and loved.”
• Moody goes on to explain that they never really tried to emulate other bands’ sound but that he could see that’s the direction they were headed.
• John Sykes was brought in as a flashy, good-looking new guitarist in the style of popular American bands despite being British.
• Coverdale had toyed with Michael Schenker and even Adrian Vandenberg who he offered the gig to but Vandenberg turned him down, finding success with his own band Vandenberg at the moment who had the hit “Burning Heart.”
• Kalodner felt strongly about Sykes from his past history with Tigers of Pan Zang and Thin Lizzy and thought his writing would also be the right fit for Coverdale.
• Kalodner talks a lot about Sykes’ appeal being his looks and hints that he would have wanted Galley out even without the injury.
• Coverdale describes Sykes’s audition and that Cozy didn’t like him but that Coverdale kept the idea alive despite Cozy writing him off.
• Coverdale said at this point he hadn’t really given in to the idea that they would have a “guitar hero” in the band.  He describes Kalodner as having to talk to him to tell him that no one else was in his league and he needed someone like this to complement him. He used other combos such as Jagger/Richards, Page/Plant, and Daltrey/Townshend as examples.
• Coverdale said he was subconsciously against it because of seeing the “abuse of power that Ritchie manifested.” He was nervous to go down that path again.
• Coverdale said when his mother first saw a picture of John Sykes she told him, “David, are you crazy? Now you’ll never get any of the girl.” “Up until then I really hadn’t thought about that, but he convinced me to get in the best shape of my life.  Getting John int he band not only revitalized us musically – he is an absolutely brilliant guitarist – but it gave us more motivation to make our stage show hot.”
• Coverdale said he was never crazy about keyboards and Jon Lord’s role in the band was minimal in the years leading up to this.  When he said he was going back to Purple Coverdale elected to just use them to round out the sound.
• Kalodner thought the UK version was too heavy on keyboards and wouldn’t cut it in the US.
• Kalodner and Coverdale had a big fight as Kalodner wanted to bring someone else in to mix the album, someone aside from Martin Birch.  He suggested Keith Olsen. He goes on to describe the problems with Martin Birch’s mixes and how “un-American” they sounded.
• Olsen first worked with Kalodner with Foreigner.
• Neil Murray said that Sykes was very much into Ozzy and Randy Rhoads.

Core Band:

• Bass – Neil Murray
• Drums – Cozy Powell
• Electric Guitar – John Sykes
  • Had been offered the job to replace Randy Rhoads but allegedly he never heard back from Ozzy after the offer.
  • When Ozzy did get back to him he had already accepted the job with Phil Lynott to join Thin Lizzy.
• Guitar – Micky Moody
• Guitar, Vocals – Mel Galley
• Keyboards – Jon Lord
• Keyboards – Bill Cuomo
  • Worked with Steve Perry, Rick Springfield, Kenny Rogers, Steve Perry
• Vocals – David Coverdale

Technical:

• Producer, Mixed By – Martin Birch
  • No “Big Ears” on this one.
• Mixed By – Keith Olsen
  • American version by Geffen Records, completely remixed by Keith Olsen
  • This version features some different guitar solos to the European edition, with the addition of John Sykes as a third guitarist layered on top of the original guitar parts recorded by Mel Galley and Micky Moody.
  • The original bass guitar parts recorded by Colin Hodgkinson were completely replaced by returning member Neil Murray’s bass guitar parts on this version and it also includes some new keyboard parts by Bill Cuomo, differing from the original recording.
• Mastered By – Greg Fulginiti

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Album Tracks:

This version features some different guitar solos to the European edition, with the addition of John Sykes as a third guitarist layered on top of the original guitar parts recorded by Mel Galley and Micky Moody.

The original bass guitar parts recorded by Colin Hodgkinson were completely replaced by returning member Neil Murray’s bass guitar parts on this version and it also includes some new keyboard parts by Bill Cuomo, differing from the original recording.

Side One:

1. Slide It In (Coverdale)
2. Slow An’ Easy (Coverdale, Moody)
3. Love Ain’t No Stranger (Coverdale, Galley)
4. All Or Nothing (Coverdale, Galley)
   • Longer fade out on US version.
5. Gambler (Coverdale, Galley)

Side Two:

1. Guilty Of Love (Coverdale)
2. Hungry For Love (Coverdale)
   • Early fade out on the US version, UK version is about 30 seconds longer.john 
3. Give Me More Time (Coverdale, Galley)
4. Spit It Out (Coverdale, Galley)
   • Guitar intro, full band on UK version
5. Standing In The Shadow (Coverdale)
   • Much longer fade out on the US version.

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Bustin’ Out The Spreadsheet

Reception and Charts:

• The US version of the album was released on April 16, 1984, postponed from April 2.
• The album peaked at #40 in the US on August 25, 1984.
• The album is certified platinum in November of 1987. 2x platinum in July of 1992.
• In 1985 the US remix would be released in the UK.
• Allegedly when a copy of the US mix had reached David and Mel they hated it.  Mel Galley threw the cassette against he wall.  Coverdale said “It sucks” and “It’s dynamically dull, it’s lost its British bollocks.”
• Simon Robinson goes on to describe a very long and difficult fight between the band and Geffen about the remix.

Reviews:

• Shortcuts
• In The Racks
• Daily Kent Stater
• Cumberland Sunday Times
• TV Host
• Arizona Republic
• The Morning Call
• Springfield Leader And Press
• Cumberland Evening Times
• The Newark Advocate
• The Desert Sun
• Albuquerque Metal
• Wichita Falls Sheppard Senator
• The Los Angeles Times
• The Pittsburgh Press

The Final Word:

• Straight from David Coverdale.
  • https://twitter.com/davidcoverdale/status/1515347748232388610

For Further Information:

• Help from the archives of Jörg Planer
• Help from the archives of Jeff Breis
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_It_In
• https://www.discogs.com/release/894863-Whitesnake-Slide-It-In
• Whitesnake: An Illustrated Biography by Simon Robinson
• Sail Away: Whitesnake’s Fantastic Voyage by Martin Popoff
• Dance With The Devil: The Cozy Powell Story by Laura Shenton
• http://www.gilmourdesign.co.uk/services/liner-notes/whitesnake-slide-it-in-25th-anniversary-emi-2009/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThere’s%20a%20fun%20story%20about,snake%20draped%20over%20her%20shoulders!

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Apple Podcasts Reviews:

• VoodooOoze – US – 5 Stars
• “Men In Time” would’ve been cooler.
• This podcast rules & if I had it my way, it would’ve been called that. Oh well, like Ozzy Osbourne said on his 1994 album “Rock And Roll Over”: “You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you get what you need.”

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• Deep Dive Podcast Network
• Sabbath Bloody Podcast
• Skynyrd Reconsydyrd
• The Deep Purple Podcast
• T-Bone’s Prime Cuts On The Other Side
• In The Lap Of The Pods
• The Magician’s Podcast
• Hawk Binge
• Maiden A-Z
• Diary of the Madmen
• Universally Speaking: The Red Hot Chili Peppers Podcast
• Metal Gods Podcast
• The Podcast Will Rock
• Back Tracks: Aerosmith Revisited
• So Far, So Pod . . . So What!
• The Tom Petty Project

Lead up to the Album:

• The album was recorded at Musicland Studios in Munich, Germany between April and May of 1983 with Eddie Kramer producing.
• In July of 1983 Coverdale did the vocals in America.
• In October 1983 John Skyes auditioned for the band in Germany back at Musicland studios.
• From October-November of 1983 the album was completed at Musicland with Martin Birch.
• Hodgkinson quit the band sometime during these sessions.
• Moody: “We recorded ‘Slide It In’ in Munich and it was kind of clinical to me and it was not the same sort of band that Whitesnake had been. At this end of the year, I left the band, after the end of a European tour in the fall of ‘83. I really didn’t have a particularly good time. You would have to ask David the rest of it. Geffen was interested in bringing him to the States and creating a new Whitesnake.”
• Moody described only being really involved with the writing of one sign, “Slow and Easy” and felt that he was really there more as a session guy.
• Micky Moody quits and The UK tour dates were then canceled.
• Mel’s brother, Tom, says that before Mel joined Whitesnake that he and Mel had worked up demos for a new Trapeze album.  He said David Coverdale heard the demos and wanted him in the band to replace Bernie.  They ended up using two of the songs for this album including “Gambler” which was retitled and “Give Me Just A Little More Time.”
• The other songs on that demo tape not used by Whitesnake would end up on Mel and Tom’s album “Phenomena.”
• David Coverdale talks about being excited to do this album because it’s the first one where he’d gotten rid of the old management.
• Coverdale was excited to work with Eddie Kramer but said it was very disappointing. He said the band didn’t like him at all.  He said he wasn’t very involved and said he was “an imposter.”
• Coverdale was very impressed with Kalodner, saying that he had a great track record for reinvigoraging people who were all washed up.  Getting Aerosmith back together and smoothing out the tension between Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, introducing them to Diane Warren.  He did similar things with Cher.

Core Band:

• Backing Vocals – The Big ‘Eads (tracks: B1
  • Only Whitesnake credits.
• Backing Vocals – The Fabulosa Brothers (tracks: A1 to A5, B2 to B5)
  • Only Whitesnake credits, calling back to 
• Bass – Colin “Bomber” Hodgkinson*
  • Credits include Jon Lord Blues Group, Ten Years After, and The Spencer Davis Group, Cozy Powell’s “Octopuss”
• Drums – Cozy Powell
• Guitar – Micky Moody
• Guitar, Vocals – Mel Galley
• Keyboards – Jon Lord
• Vocals – David Coverdale

Additional Personnel:

• Coordinator – Jools (3)

Technical:

• Producer, Mixed By – Martin “Big Ears” Birch*

Album Art & Booklet Review

• Artwork, Art Direction – Manfred Brey
  • http://www.breygraphics.de/
  • Only a handful of other album designs. High end designer based in Munich who has done a ton of work with high end clients and magazines.
• Photography By – Jürgen Barron Reisch*
  • http://www.jurgenreisch.com/
  • A small handful of album but gets credit for Prince’s debut album.
• On the cover shoot in the 2009 25th anniversary release Coverdale is asked about some of the ads and tour material that went around.  More here: http://www.gilmourdesign.co.uk/services/liner-notes/whitesnake-slide-it-in-25th-anniversary-emi-2009/
  • Magazine ads reckoned “It’s about time you had an honest 12 inches”, and tour laminates featured a banana and a girl’s mouth. These weren’t genuinely considered for the new release, were they? “Ha Ha!!!…No…it was something I knocked up with a graphic artist  for stage passes for fun…My God, I would have been murdered had I even considered that as an album cover!” And the advertising copy? “An honest 12 inches” was only a naughty attention grabber for promo ads in the music press…Just a bit of fun.” What can DC tell us about the creation of the Slide It In sleeve? “There’s a fun story about the photo shoot in Munich for the cover…it featured a beautiful, 17 year old girl, called Franzeska…It was her first modeling assignment & I have a bloody big snake draped over her shoulders! After a couple of shots the snake decided to seek out someplace warm & started to work it’s way, rather sexily, down her chest…Unfortunately, this was too much for Franzeska…& she fainted dead away…That was why I had to crop her face where I did…otherwise you would see the white of her eyes as she went down! We had to bring in another model for the shoot & the snake worked amazingly well with her…it even curled into a very similar ‘W’ from the early Whitesnake logo…We used those shots on the inner sleeve & for the cover of the ‘Fourplay’ video collection…I think we may swap it around for this anniversary issue…just for fun…” 

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1. Gambler (Coverdale, Galley)
   • Backing Vocals – The Fabulosa Brothers
   • Soloist – Jon Lord, Mel Galley
   • Written-By – Coverdale*, Galley*
   • David Coverdale from the Japanese release liner notes: “‘Gambler’ is an exercise in lyrical obliqueness, trying not to be so straightforward in words, not using words like ‘spit it out’, which is pretty straightforward. On ‘Gambler’, I just tried to be a little more poetic, and I’m delighted with the way that came out.”
2. Slide It In (Coverdale)
   • Backing Vocals – The Fabulosa Brothers
   • Soloist – Micky Moody
   • Written-By – Coverdale*
   • David Coverdale from the Japanese release liner notes: “‘Slide It In’ is more of a tongue-in-cheek. It’s about one of the aspects of the games people play in relationships and it regularly . . . I think a man and a woman can have a terrible argument and things, and particularly a woman can keep going on and on and on about it, and the only way I think I’ve ever found to remedy that situation is to get “anatomically conversant”, thereby being inspired to write a song called ‘Slide It In’. It’s actually not about bananas.
   • Coverdale describes Deep Purple as being a “deadly serious” rock band and that he really enjoyed having a little fun with songs and lyrics like these.
   • Coverdale said he wrote this and several other songs in Saint Lucia.  He said “My wife and I at the time were getting on very, very well and we were very physically active, which was certainly promoting a lof of those tunes.
   • About the negative comments from the press on the lyrics David Coverdale said: “Water off a duck’s back…that is of course if I bother reading the reviews.. If they don’t get it…fine…Unfortunate, but, not my problem. I do what I do, & they do what they do…for some reason I feel my contribution is more fun…more joyful…I don’t envy miserable people…they tend to try & drag you down to their level…Energy vampires…& I’m just not interested…It really is a waste of time to try & piss on my parade. Some of my lyrics are obviously written in fun…for a laugh…like the title track, and if they want to take them ‘seriously’, then that really is their problem…not mine. I remember when I was getting nailed as a sexist. I helped design the ‘Lovehunter’ cover…just to piss ‘em off even more!”
3. Standing In The Shadow (Coverdale)
   • Backing Vocals – The Fabulosa Brothers
   • Soloist – Mel Galley
   • Written-By – Coverdale*
4. Give Me More Time (Coverdale, Galley)
   • Backing Vocals – The Fabulosa Brothers
   • Soloist – Mel Galley
   • Written-By – Coverdale*, Galley*
5. Love Ain’t No Stranger (Coverdale, Galley)
   • Backing Vocals – The Fabulosa Brothers
   • Soloist – Micky Moody
   • Written-By – Coverdale*, Galley*
   • David Coverdale from the Japanese release liner notes: “‘Love Ain’t No Stranger’ is a song about some personal mistakes I made in my life, an attempt for me to analyze, for the reasons behind it.”
   • Cozy described this track as being “the best track he’d ever played on” according to Martin Popoff in “Sail Away.”

Side Two:

1. Slow An’ Easy (Coverdale, Moody)
   • Backing Vocals – The Big ‘Eads
   • Slide Guitar – Mel Galley, Micky Moody
   • Soloist – Micky Moody
   • Written-By – Coverdale*, Moody*
   • David Coverdale from the Japanese release liner notes: “‘Slow and Easy’ is a kind of Whitesnake track which we arranged as a kind of modern rhythm and blues vehicle. We structured the arrangement Cozy Powell at his dynamic best. This song has been accepted all over the place. It’s like a new Whitesnake anthem. We’re delighted, but the essence of Whitesnake is to try and accomplish modern blues in an ‘80s context.”
   • Coverdale: “Slow an’ Easy,’ I had written basically to replace ‘Lovehunter’ because I was bored sick of singing it. And it was going to be a vehicle for my then slide player Micky Moody.”
   • He says it was recorded during an alcohol-fueled jam in Munich and that most of the lyrics were ad-libbed then cleaned up for the recorded version.
2. Spit It Out (Coverdale, Galley)
   • Backing Vocals – The Fabulosa Brothers
   • Soloist – Mel Galley
   • Written-By – Coverdale*, Galley*
3. All Or Nothing (Coverdale, Galley)
   • Backing Vocals – The Fabulosa Brothers
   • Soloist – Jon Lord
   • Written-By – Coverdale*, Galley*
4. Hungry For Love (Coverdale)
   • Backing Vocals – The Fabulosa Brothers
   • Soloist – Jon Lord, Micky Moody
   • Written-By – Coverdale*
5. Guilty Of Love (Coverdale)
   • Backing Vocals – The Fabulosa Brothers
   • Soloist – Mel Galley, Micky Moody
   • Written-By – Coverdale*
   • David Coverdale from the Japanese release liner notes: “Just a very simple and honest love song, which . . . my daughter asked me, “Daddy, how can you be guilty of love?” and unfortunately I couldn’t give her an answer. It’s just an own-up song that I tried to be clever with words on, very simply. But it is just basically a very simple love song.

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Bustin’ Out The Spreadsheet

Reception and Charts:

• The UK version was released on January 30, 1984.
• It peaked at #9 in the UK on February 11, 1984.  It would reach #1 in Germany.
• Shortly after recording Galley was badly injured in a fairground accident and suffered nerve damage which left him unable to play the guitar.
• Jon Lord describes working with Eddie Kramer as being happy to work with someone new.  “I’m really chuffed with the album. Very, very chuffed indeed.”  He adds: “The songs, I think, are the best that David’s written for some time.”
• Lord goes on to say that he found it difficult to write with Whitesnake and that his role was more to be the best keyboard support possible.  Lord says, “To me, this is what Whitesnake has always been aiming at. It’s not so much your bog standard rock ‘n’ roll band, or a hard rock band, but a modern R&B band, which I’m glad to see is happening.  But the songs on the new album, I think will se the style for Whitesnake for the next coupld of years.”
• Lord describes the sound Kramer got for them as being bigger.

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For Further Information:

• Help from the archives of Jörg Planer
• Help from the archives of Jeff Breis
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_It_In
• https://www.discogs.com/release/1480619-Whitesnake-Slide-It-In
• https://www.discogs.com/release/575438-Whitesnake-Slide-It-In
• Whitesnake: An Illustrated Biography by Simon Robinson
• Sail Away: Whitesnake’s Fantastic Voyage by Martin Popoff
• Dance With The Devil: The Cozy Powell Story by Laura Shenton
• http://www.gilmourdesign.co.uk/services/liner-notes/whitesnake-slide-it-in-25th-anniversary-emi-2009/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThere’s%20a%20fun%20story%20about,snake%20draped%20over%20her%20shoulders!
• https://www.45worlds.com/vinyl/album/lbg2400001

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