Besides David, Tommy is the longest lasting member of the band. 74 and still hitting hard.

This cat Lewis has a great outlook ... integrity, talent,and wisdom \,,/ Life is short... art lasts forever

Speaking of bitter

I'm sending prayers 🙏 up for John Sykes to get better and leave the things that bring him down.keep going

Coverdale hired this group simply as guns for hire. Was never a long time interest. I feel bad for all involved.

Vandenberg seems like a great guy, but Slip of the Tongue is an absolutely awful record. Filled with bad cliches and tired double entendres. Vivian Campbell was lucky not to have anything to do with that album.

Why don't you ask "honest honorable" Phil WHY he blatantly STOLE Paul Mars Black's music (with help from Tracii Ulrich-Guns' help of course) and then proceeded to change some lyrics and call it his own. The band then used majority of that stolen material to create (and sell loads of) their first album. But that's not all. Phil continues to this day to badmouth, run down, and demean Paul Black's artistic talents, his singing ability, and his so called "reason for being kicked out of L.A. Guns years ago", in the media. To this day, this guy Lewis is sooo insecure and ungrateful for what he was literally handed on a silver platter, he can't help himself from discreditting the guy he replaced and stole music from. Phil wasn't satisfied with just stealing Black's songs, his vocal style, and his place as lead singer of L.A. Guns. That wasn't enough. He actually has the audacity to criticize Black (unprovoked) for years everywhere in the media. Paul's life, his career (being buried in lawsuits for years over the stolen songs cost him any chance to further his musical way with later bands), his everything was destroyed by L.A. Guns, and specifically the band's label,Tracii, Phil, and even Steve Riley later on. These guys are as dishonest, disrespectful, and pathetic of human beings as you can ever find. Yet their "fans" gloss over all the bands' shortcomings and act as if they are some class act. This band has had absolutely NO integrity or care or respect for other musicians or human beings in general. And I am only making reference to thir horrible treatment of Paul Mars Black. L.A. Guns has hurt, mistreated, and betrayed MANY other musicians/artists over the years. But hey, they must think that their rewriting of their own history/past/bio will cover their asses for all the horrible things they've done and all the people they used and hurt over the years...>

Phil in Tormé After He Left Girl

Coverdale wanted to fire Sykes (the entire band actually) after the "Slide It In" tour, but was convinced to keep him by David Geffen. Suffice it to say that Coverdale wasn't a huge supporter of Sykes and Sykes likely knew this and didn't give him the support he felt he needed when he was going through his vocal issue. Sykes actually sounds rather dismissive of it and said he just had nerves. I can believe that he tried to convince DGC to replace Coverdale because neither had any loyalty to one another.

Heheeheeee- lol... Jeff 😎🤘🤘✌.

We all would’ve loved for Sykes to stay but cmon, anyone who knows about those days knows he was arrogant and pushy towards the recording process, super difficult to work with and had to have all this crazy gear which ended up sounding out of tune (pitch manipulated chorus effect), it’s a damn shame it ended too soon because the music was amazing! But people have to work together, and it’s David’s band everyone knows that 🤨🎯

Vivian is completely on the level. Sucks he got screwed early on but he’s phenomenal in Def Lep and Last in Line. Such a genuine guy and just talented.

The Vai album is horrible. No balls. To me Vai ruins everything he touches. He should’ve kept Vivian. Viv got the last laugh

I am sure those two things along with Phil Lynott's death brutalized him.

Sykes WAS Whitesnake and Coverdale couldn’t have that.

How come Don doesn't speak about his Xanax popping and drunkeness

Sykes in thin lizzy .....amazing stuff....what a guitarist

Their albums were jusy ok...thats the problem just like quiet riot after their first album

Whitesnake went crap after John left I stopped buying there albums

I love these shorts, great stuff Full In Bloom + please keep making these !

He made that album. His playing is legendary. I hope he's okay. We have sure missed out on some great music he would have made. He was on his way to superstardom. Coverdale is a singer, they all have LSD . Lead Singer Disease .

I love Tony but MTV would not have cared if there was no single available for Valley

I've been in bands and can imagine the egotistical and shitty ppl. in something that big with that much money involved. Lol. It'd be a hard life unless it was your own band but then YOU'D probably be the asshole. Lol.

Jelly Roll was a killer song.

Don's solo output on Up From The Ashes makes me believe otherwise

Jeff Pilson 🤘

Hell yah!!! Tell um Jeff

Almost, by rule of thumb, Don wrote a lot of the lover’s lament stuff while the harder, more aggressive stuff was written by George and Jeff.

Mick Brown wrote everything! While doing blow with Werman, but memories are blurred.

Great song , interesting to hear how they collaborated..

Mr full in bloom always brings us the best interviews...

X marks the spot. Great interview.. ✌️

Just saw LA Guns in Philly area. They were great!!

Andrian, you wot toka boltyn.😮.Фантазер!-А как до дела,то за Ковердейла прячешься.-А я не за кого не прячусь,еще і врезать могу,за что то тебе.Нехер прідумивать,крейзі.Давно хотела так висказаться для тебя!

Steve is one of my HUGE Influences. Vivian did a great job with Dio but Lepp seems like the only time he’s been “Happy” in a band. Woulda been cool to see JUST Adrian in WS at some point.

Another example of Dave's ego ways fired Vivian because rock guitarist of the year 6 years in a row was Steve vai and Steve ripped that award right outta Eddie's hands after roth left VH cai was the big man on campus Coverdale new he was available and once again his ego fired Vivian and brought in v a I. Sarzo was brought in because he gained stardom with ozzy. You know if Rhodes was alive he would have tried to steal him. As nything for an altar lineup. He screwed John Sikes and John didn't even get a kiss

Thank you for posting this. Tony, in addition to being an incredible player, is a genuinely nice human being and a true gentleman. I've spoken with him several times and each time I've walked away feeling like a better person for it. There are not many people I can say that about, but he is one.

I worked with Viv on a guitar clinic in Mobile Alabama for MMI MusicWorld just post his leaving Whitesnake and just pre his release of the first Riverdogs album... he was EXTREMELY moody back then... did NOT want to discuss DIO at all!... that night, every time a kid would ask a DIO related question... I'd just be like damn.. this is gonna be a long night. He had a NightSwan that he'd removed the middle pickup out of and added a neck pup and sanded most of the blue/black graphic off the face of the guitar... he also had a red 50s strat that was beat and had been routed for all kinds of crazy experiments... same one in the "Stars" vid... I asked him about Whitesnake while tuning up... he said David had asked everyone to submit ideas/demos for the next album and when he gave David his demos... David told him .. "This is Whitesnake... NOT U2."... and told him he was going to run with Adrian's ideas. That was as far as we touched on that. lol. He really only wanted to talk gear and influences or not talk at all.... First question of the night... kid in the back.. "WHY did you quit DIO?!?".... Viv.. "because he's a dick.".. quick, dry, no emotion... next question... "Play the Holy Diver solo!"... Viv.. "I don't remember it... I don't listen to that stuff anymore."... and that was pretty much how the night went.

Campbell seems like he’s just a malcontent.

Poor Viv, made his name, working with difficult, elitist douche bag singers . His style pushed through that crap.

Love this band

Coverdale says it was a personality clash but he fired Murray and Dunbar also so that doesn't wash with me. He wanted hired side men and all the glory for himself

Vivian is great when it’s his project and he can play what he wants. In a group project like Whitesnake you’ve gotta have an all-around musician who can play what suits the music. Being a sideman is a completely different skill set than being the main guy. Eddie VH played on a studio session before the first VH album, and he stuck out like a sore thumb. Played some amazing stuff, but it just didn’t fit. You can find the clip on YT, sorry I can’t remember the name of the artist

Violin bow or heroin 🤷‍♀️

At the end of the day, Coverdale is a dick. He's been rehashing that album for decades.

I respect David, he admitted being arrogant, but he isn't the only one, looking back I'm sure he regrets some of his decisions, but look at all the great things that came out of it!!

This is a band i could never get into. Tried a few times. Just not feeling it. I like the song "Never Enough" a bit. I always kinda thought they were one of the bigger poser bands of the eighties. I have to hand it to them though. I never thought for a second that they could still be around all these years later. To me just another faster pussycat. Definitely jumped on the Crue band wagon.

Hair metal.

Hope we hear about you getting better. I pray God heals you. God bless ya

Phil is so talented. Unfortunately, he seems to come off smug and so critical of others. He's had such a great career and it's still going, so it's always a bummer to listen to him talk sh*t. ....not necessarily on this one.