"Ready an' Willing" my favorite Whitesnake recording and I truly feel they were at their peak of their blues-rock era! OUTSTANDINGD bassist Neil is!!

Not many bluesy hard rock bands like this era of WS anymore. This was prime stuff.

Saw them in Dublin on this tour.. Great line up.. Great gig. RIP Cozy Powell and John Lord.

I remember my mate saying his uncle was in whitesnake when we where kids , and I never acknowledged what he said, David marsden bernie marsden RIP

This is awesome- we need the long version!

He is the best on history of blues rock ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉🎉❤🎉 David Coverdale.

J'ADORE DAVID COVERDALE ❤❤❤❤❤

Ready and willing is absolutely a great great album to me. With 1987 it went wrong imo.

Superb documentary..thank you.

Excellent documentary, so far. Thanks for that.

Slide it in was the end of the beginning. And the beginning of the end. Ready an' Willing is hands down the best album.

First time I saw Whitesnake was the Slide It In tour and all after.

Gambler is a Great track!!

Lost all respect for DC for the way he treated Murray and Sykes. He shafted Murray twice and didn't seem bothered when he stopped being paid because DC was refusing to record what became 1987 due to tension with Sykes who he was becoming jealous of and the album was delayed. The fact Sykes told DC to hire Tommy Aldridge but he refused because he didn't want Sykes to have any real say in the band only to hire Aldridge for the 1987 tour shows what the others had to deal with. Murray is a mild mannered gent who got screwed. The band was never as good after this line up was disbanded.

I never really listened to any early Whitesnake, but I was in high school in the mid 80's when they were having a lot of success and I loved their music. Listening to the live version of "Slow and Easy" on this documentary, there is a part at 12:14 that sounds almost identical to a section in "Still of The Night." They must've put that in there on purpose. I wonder whose idea it was?

Мілий Девід і Whitesnake.Хочу туда.

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Slide in in is my favorite WS album

Although Blackmore and Coverdale didn't make up until 2012, RB really liked the Slide It In album. Gary Bushell had grudges on Coverdale, Schenker, Glenn Hughes, and a few others, and slagged them off accordingly, but I don't think Blackmore influenced him with regard to DC. Bushbaby just didn't like him, possibly because he championed Purple Mk.2 only. Thin Lizzy were a big influence on Whitesnake from Day 1. The Time Is Right For Love, from Trouble, was a ringer for For Those Who Love To Live (Fighting). Bad Company too - hear Trouble itself and imagine it on Straight Shooter.

Sick !!!

Amazing Album to this Day!,.and the Tour was so Good!,…Hit after Hit!,..X

Ready an Willing is, imo, song for song WS’s best album. But the ‘87 version was ok too.

RIP Bernie

28:50 That's interesting... This is only '85 or so and Coverdale is struggling hard with Slide It In, not a very challenging song for him. Of course, it's probably well into a tour, but I'm always trying to pinpoint when he started having serious voice troubles.

Interesting video discussing a transitional period for WS. Songs were very hit and miss, but that is caused by personnel changes and a lack of direction caused by Coverdale. How could anyone rate Slide it in above Love Hunter or Ready and Willing 🤣🤣

ahah coverdale is a poet ! in french " glisse le dedans " ! mais quel texte ! quels lyrics ! "glisse le dedans " une aventure ! un ordre à suivre bonbon !

Coverdale sang amazing on Slide it in album. But on the 1984/85 tour... he sounded a bit stressed.

Murray❤

Perfect band

JE NE COMPRENDS PAS L'ANGLAIS COMME PAS MAL DE PERSONNES 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

Oh yeah, when slide it in was released in late 1983, it was with the band that had a bassist named Colin Hodgkin's (sorry if I spelled it wrong) that really didn't fit in with the music the group was trying to become also, you have two members with huge egos (David & Cozy Powell) but it would be this album that really started to open doors for the band in the USA.

John Sykes truely is a fernominal guitarist!

I loved the early Whitesnake, although never saw them live. I have seen them twice since, once in around 2008 in Sydney, where the show was not so bad (the Enmore in Sydney), and the second time supporting The Scorpions in around 2019 in Sydney. Whereas the Scorpions were professional, still sounded great and wowed the audience, Whitesnake were disappointing. Coverdal's vaoice has largely gone, it looked as though he has had a few facelifts, and he had metal type guitarists.

Sykes❤

Having long hair was part of why I kept practicing, practicing and more goddamn practicing. In that era, without long hair, you'd be passed over at auditions before you played a note. I wanted my playing to reflect that my hair was not the reason I got the GIG, only the reason I got the AUDITION. Because I had big plans after graduation, I refused to cut my hair at age 14, starting at a Christian private school where long hair was "not allowed" on boys. I allowed myself, thank you very much, O Lord. It occurred to me that I didn't have to care WHAT was "allowed" or "not allowed" because I NEVER ASKED their opinion of long hair on males in the first place. The rule was enumerated in the student handbook which I found somehow even MORE useless than than God's infallible Word, the Holy Bible* itself. Imagine my heartbreak when I was forced to leave an institution of "Christian Education"-an oxymoron if there EVER WAS one-to join the "communist" public school system....where I did in fact study Marxism in Political Science, Senior year. *1 Corinthians 11:14~ “Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace for him?" Cool story, St. Paul!

29:45 😂 He’s total right. Americans just wanted to have carnal fun at that time.

whitesnake were a better band with moody marsden. their songs had more feeling. but skyes whitesnake was something different i guess.

Name a song other than Here I Go Again or Fool For Your Loving post Slide It In. Other than Still of the Night which was more Zep than Snake there isn't anything memorable. Kitaen's Got Claws is more of a hint towards a prenup but still

I was 16teen 😁

Sort that title out.

so where is the long version?

I like the updated sound of slide it in but i actually think saints and sinners was a better album. It had swing and better songs

Slide it in, not slade. Who writes these titles?

the problem with Whitesnake has always been Coverdale's songwriting. Every album has 2 great songs and a load of filler, until 1987. Slide it in was a step in the right direction but still way too much filler. I would say the Slip of The Tongue was his peak as a writer, even though I can't stand the guitar on that record.

Jerry Ewing, the Jack Black look alike - is an dope. You can eliminate him from the whole video, and it would be better. This is the short version, still very repetitive. I have both versions of the CD, and the American version is better, and the proof is that it sold more.

So, where and how do we find the full version of this?!

Never got into Whitesnake………………………..or Beyoncé. What’s wrong with me? I feel so alone.

Saints and Sinners is class

The band went to pot after Sykes was sacked absolute crap

David Covergirl Ian Girlan

99% of Whitesnake songs are love songs. Gets a bit boring, tedious & predictable. A variety of subject would have been better.

Gambler is one of the best songs on it! Slide It In the song is awful.

He is no Icon of good will he shafted John sykes because John was getting more attention from the guitarists and the girls out there and Coverdale was jealous so John had to go and I will never forgive that hairspray addicted ponce for ruining the career of John sykes.

I have heard "Whitesnake" twice: First a concert on cassette in the year 1982 in a bus for the pupil exchange from Germany to France. Just terrible noise and that usual guitar solo at overlength. ABBA took over after that. Then I saw them on TV with "Here I Go Again". Cheesy hair metal sucking in excess. At school we, the boys, were into Hard Rock and Heavy Metal, but no Whitesnake fans anywhere. It must have been a girls´ thing like Def Leppard. Dave´s shlong, so long, so what?

Dave was Deep Purple. That was his best version of himself. It’s a shame he completely burned John Sykes. John was the best guitarist of WS.

Slide it In is a brain-deadeningly awful record. Who knew it was possible to come up with anything worse than the title track? They managed. Spit it Out is a contender for the most crassly stupid and offensively dumb record ever made. Weirdly, however, Guilty of Love is a gem. Like the best songs from previous albums you could imagine The Four Tops singing it. The rest of it is witless, bloodless dross with terrible arrangements, or just toe-curlingly derivative: Slow an' Easy.

I’ll take Marsden over Sykes all day. I don’t give a F who thinks he’s good looking lol

Never liked or listened to Whitesnake. The only cool thing about Whitesnake was Tannie Catain spread eagle on the car hood.

Coverdale…. overrated… also a bit dumb… his over use of the F word, crap lyrics…riding on the coat tails of talented guitar players… compared to Plant and Daltrey… second tier by comparison

Too much focus on Coverdale - it was Sykes that delivered that band to commercial success

so depressing as fans, see Coverdale by years now, being the ghost of himself, completly embarassing vocally, allowing backing vocalist and bandmates, do his job . I'd much more appreciate him , if he'd retired with dignity as any man should do ,facing his own decline.