The new Whitesnake album is an album of Deep Purple covers. It’s not just any old Deep Purple songs though, it’s songs from the three albums that a young David Coverdale sang on – “Burn”, “Stormbringer” and “Come taste the band”. David Coverdale describes this album as a tribute to …
Read More »Sweet & Lynch – Only To Rise
It is not the first time a well known vocalist and guitarist have done a project together, the main example being when vocalist David Coverdale (Whitesnake) and Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) joined forces. Now two titans of classic 80s glam metal, vocalist Michael Sweet (Stryper) and guitarist George Lynch (ex-Dokken), …
Read More »Doug Aldrich, Revolution Saints interview, January 2015
I spoke to Doug Aldrich to talk about his new band, Revolution Saints. Planetmosh: You announced your departure from Whitesnake in May last year. After more than a decade in the band it must have been a big step to take. Doug: Yeah it was difficult. The thing is that …
Read More »Black Stone Cherry – Wembley Arena – 01/11/14
On 26th June 2008, my first real taste of live music photography was shooting Def Leppard and Whitesnake at Wembley Arena with their support band which to that point I did not know called Black Stone Cherry. Jump ahead six and a half years of hard work and not only has …
Read More »Whitesnake “Live In ‘84 – Back To The Bone” cd
Back To The Bone (Best Of The Bootlegs) contains 9 tracks recorded during the 1984 Slide it in tour, and If I remember correctly, this was the third time I had seen Whitesnake, though the first with new guitarist John Sykes. Opening with the trademark shout of “are you ready” …
Read More »Whitesnake announce new live DVD/CD with classic and rare performances
To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of WHITESNAKE’s multi-platinum ‘Slide It In’ album, Frontiers Music Srl, the Italian-based label, will release “Live In ‘84 – Back To The Bone”, a complete celebration of the group’s awe inspiring line-up during what many feel was the incredible beginning of what David Coverdale called …
Read More »Vandenberg’s Moonkings – ‘Moonkings’
Breaking a musical silence that – apart from a few live appearances and a song written for his local football team – has lasted 20 long years, Dutch axemeister Adrian Vandenberg has emerged from his self-enforced exile with a renewed fire in his belly and this new project with a …
Read More »Adrian Vandenberg interview
Dutch axemeister Adrian Vandenberg – best known to many rockers of a certain generation as one-time guitarist in Whitesnake – has recently broken a musical silence lasting nigh on a quarter of a century, with the imminent release of the self-titled debut album by his new Vandenberg’s Moonkings project. PlanetMosh recently connected …
Read More »Reuben Archer’s Personal Sin.
Album of the year and it is only August? You betcha and I’d even put my house on it (even tho it is rented). Reuben Archer,currently handling lead vocals with Stampede has taken some time out to record a solo album called Personal Sin with fellow Stampede member,guitarist Rob Wolverson …
Read More »Whitesnake-Made In Britain/The World Record
Whitesnake fans are the reason these cd’s exist, fiercely loyal who know what to expect at a whitesnake show and are never disappointed. So when they requested another live album, David Coverdale decided to go one better, and record every show on the upcoming Forevermore World Tour back in 2011. …
Read More »Wraith, Snakecharmer and Bonfire – Rock City, Nottingham
Back at Rock City again in Nottingham and Planetmosh was right at the forefront of the action, there to cover this classic three band gig on Sunday night. Three great bands coming together not for the first time, but a first for Nottingham’s ardent rock fans. First up on stage …
Read More »Hellfest 2013 Friday’s Pictures
Pictures from Friday at Hellfest 2013
Read More »Journey, Whitesnake & Thunder – Motorpoint arena, Sheffield, 20th May 2013
When you’ve spent three days at a music festival, it takes a special gig to make you want to go out the next night. Fortunately for me, I was heading to such a gig after three days at Bearded Theory – the arena tour of Journey, Whitesnake and Thunder. That’s …
Read More »Photos of Whitesnake at Sheffield Arena
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Read More »Doug Aldrich (Whitesnake/Burning Rain) – Interview
Doug Aldrich is best known as part of the twin guitar attack in Whitesnake. But, before he hooked up with David Coverdale – and, indeed, Ronnie James Dio before him – he played in a number of successful bands, including Lion and Burning Rain. The latter outfit released two highly …
Read More »Rough Cut – Rollin’ Thunder EP
Back in the early to mid-1980s, a band called Rough Cutt had everything that it could possibly to take to become the then “next big thing” – big hair, big tunes, a big record deal (with Warner Brothers) and big management (in the shape of one Wendy Dio). However, despite …
Read More »Whitesnake ‘Made In Japan’
Recorded during the ‘Forevermore’ World Tour on October 15th 2011 at the Saitama Super Arena in Japan, this is Whitesnake’s 5th live release, cheekily entitled ‘Made In Japan’. Sliding straight in with ‘Best Years’ taken from the ‘Good To Be Bad’ opus, opens the show before fan favorite `Give Me …
Read More »Burning Rain – Burning Rain / Pleasure to Burn / Epic Obsession
Formed by guitarist Doug Aldrich and vocalist Keith St John back in 1998, Burning Rain recorded two well-received albums – their self-titled debut and ‘Pleasure To Burn’ – before the six-string slinger left to team up (albeit briefly) with the late, great Ronnie James Dio, while the vocalist pitched his …
Read More »T&N – ‘Slave To The Empire’
The announcement last year that three quarters of the ‘golden days’ Dokken line up – guitarist George Lynch, bassist Jeff Pilson and drummer ‘Wild’ Mick Brown – were working together again had fans seeking a long-overdue reunion of the classic original incarnation of the LA rockers positively salivating with expectation …
Read More »The Goddamn Electric – ‘Snake Bite’
This self-released debut album from Manchester-based four piece The Goddamn Electric – or GDE as they like to be abbreviated to – bears all the hallmarks of a band brimming with confidence, not afraid to take a myriad of influences, from classic metal through southern blues to even sleaze rock …
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