Quote from: FiorinaFury161 on Aug 17, 2017, 12:55:17 AMOkay. You guys have my interest in what's going on with Whitesnake. I remember they had some 80s hits, and seen some of their CDs at a shop today. What kind of rock are they (besides hair 
) and where should I begin? 80s Hair Rock/Metal never really drawn in my interests until y'all keep posting about them. Enlighten me, please.
Their early stuff is very 70s blues rock. Think lots of Hammond organ accompaniment. The Deep Purple heritage is very obvious (although ironically Whitesnake had none of the obvious funk/soul elements that Coverdale introduced to Purple when he was their singer).
Then they did an album called
Slide It In. For a bunch of reasons, it got redone for the US market after it's UK release - Coverdale hired a new guitarist who added some new guitar parts and the whole thing was remixed, giving the album a much more 80s sound. This turned out to be kinda prophetic, because after this Whitesnake dramatically changed its style and went full-on 80s hair metal. That's where the monster hits like "Is This Love" come from.
Traditionally people who are fans of early blues rock Whitesnake seem to hate the later hair metal Whitesnake, but I'm a bit of a black sheep in that I actually love both iterations of the band lol. That said, if 80s rock isn't generally your thing you should probably start with their earlier stuff. I'd recommend
Ready an' Willing as a good place to start, it's probably my favourite of their early records, but any of their first five albums will give you a good idea of what they were about back then.
