WHITESNAKE RULES!!!!

Aclaro tambien que el Whitesnake de los 80′s y actualidad tambien me gusta y bastante pero lo que ésta banda hacia antes del 1987 era maravilloso!!!

POR FAVOR DAVID… UN SOLO RECITAL Y NADA MÁS… GRACIAS

SOY HUGO RONCATTI

DE ARGENTINA

A título personal creo que estas polémicas las generan los mismos medios de comunicación para aumentar ventas ya que no saben que escribir. Aquí siempre desmentimos tal falacia. Me sabe mal porque siempre me ha gustado Joe Lynn Turner, y lo que queda claro es que ahora la relación entre ambos ha quedado bastante tocada. ¿Que pasaría si decimos que Joe Lynn Turner lleva peluquín? Porque yo juraría que lo lleva!

David Coverdale has fiercely denied Joe Lynn Turner’s allegations that the Whitesnake frontman mimes to pre-recorded tapes in concert (see story above), calling Turner’s claims “absolute balderdash”.

Coverdale told Classic Rock: “I have no idea what the hell the daft bugger’s talking about.

“I do not, have not and will not use tapes of my voice to mime in concert. My band and I perform and sing live in concert. Yeah… we’re that fucking good! What a total prick.”

Coverdale continued: “We had these rumours in Germany last year while we were on tour with Alice Cooper and we actually had a journo [Frank Thiessis] sit out at the front-of-house mix to verify the rumours were unfounded.

“It’s strange… this started on the internet last summer in Spain, then again in Germany. It persisted so much that SPV, my record company, proposed we get a ‘regarded German journalist’ to witness and report on the show, so we did.

“I’m not sure what you can do when something like this does the rounds. I’m still dealing with the ‘is it true you’re joining Van Halen’ rumours from years ago.

“If this continues, I’ll get a some of my professional associates to make statements about this nonsense.”

This was the statement translated from Frank Thiessis’s story in the German edition of Metal Hammer, following Whitesnake’s show in Munich at the Olympiahalle on November 26, 2008:

With regards to the accusations, people pretending David Coverdale to perform playback during the Whitesnake/Alice Cooper Tour, Metal Hammer had the exclusive chance to check in Munich.

Standing directly next to front-of-house person Bradley Johnson during the whole show, we found out the following:

Different phrasing, sometimes shorter and sometimes longer sung tones and variations in signal strength are all indications of performing live.

David Coverdale has a very unusual technique to hold the microphone far away from the mouth which may look very strange to some people.

Bradley Johnson, working for Whitesnake since 2002, explains this as follows: “David has always sung this way. His microphone has an extremely high input level, which makes it possible that the voice is still heard even from a huge distance.

“I have my finger on the gain control during the whole show to make David’s vocals sound as constantly as possible.”

Besides usual standard vocal effects like reverb or echo we’ve seen no additional technology and that David is supported by high-class background vocal singers.

And two more things to mention: Why bother to record any show of the tour for an upcoming live CD if it is quite obvious and absolutely necessary to do overdubs later on?

And quite honestly, if a rock icon and entertainment professional like David Coverdale would really perform with full playback, it would certainly be so perfectly organised and staged, that not even the slightest suspicion would arise, wouldn’t it?

This statement was compiled for WS.com release November 2008:

In light of recent comments regarding WS current live tour we felt it necessary to offer a technical explanation for Mr Coverdale’s microphone technique, which appears to be responsible for initiating various threads online on the subject of playback, here are some comments from Bradley Johnson, Whitesnake’s very highly regarded front-of-house engineer…

“It is the goal of every front of house engineer to provide the best quality audio to as many ticket purchasing patrons as possible.

“The factors that have a direct influence on this include: room acoustics; type, size and quality of the PA system: performance of the musicians: stage volume of the backline gear; even temperature and humidity.

“I work extremely hard to accommodate David’s mic technique. I endeavour to make every syllable and nuance of his vocal heard no matter how far the microphone strays from the sweet spot.

“Getting a vocal mic audible over a juggernaut guitar rig when it is three feet from a singers mouth is no small task. Some nights I win, some nights I do not. As far as running tracks live… ludicrous.”

“También tuve un sorpresivo encuentro con un tal Bernard Marsden, en la Terminal 5 de Heathrow, antes de volar hacia Praga al finalizar la segunda parte de las fechas británicas…
Resultó muy agradable…muy simpático…Le presenté a cuantos de la banda que estaban cerca…luego nos fuimos al Starbucks por un java y una charla para ponernos al día hasta que tuvo que irse para tomar su vuelo…Agradable…después de tanto años de tonterías y malentendidos…muy agradable…Disfruté mucho volver a verle”. (David Coverdale)