Coverdale/Page

[KevShmev]

Anyone else have this CD?  I hadn't listened to it in years, but I busted it out recently, and it sounded pretty cool.  Some very tasty tunes on there like "Pride and Joy," "Over Now," "Take Me for a Little While" and "Easy Does It."  Anyone else a fan?

[hefdaddy42]

Yes. I actually listened to this again recently as well.  There is some incredible riffage in this album.  I wish they had done more together.

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

Outstanding album.  Coverdale sounds suspiciously like Plant in a number of places on this album.  In the video for Pride and Joy, he even seems to mimic some of Plant's poses/moves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K1imlqZiOw

[KevShmev]

Coverdale always has had that hint of Plant-wannabe-ness to his voice, for lack of a better term, so that is almost to be expected!

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

Absolutely.  I figured if Plant ever died and the remainders tried to do a Zeppelin show of some sort, the only person who would do the vocals proper justice would be David Coverdale.

[thecrowing]

Who did the harmonica in that track?

[TAC]

While there is some some filler on this album, there is 5 or 6 very awesome songs. Just hearing Page play hard rock again was worth it. Whisper A Prayer For The Dying is one of my favorite 90's rock songs. Too bad they never toured this in the US. I'm left with the Japaneese boots.

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

Who did the harmonica in that track?

Credits say it was Page.

[ytserush]

Wasn't this album an effort to get Page and Plant to get together again? (which they did shortly after).

I had this album for a while, sold it and went without until I decided about 5 years ago that I REALLY like the in-your-face and modern production. I still like to crank this one up once or twice a year (I'm probably due to hear it again soon). Much of it sounds fresh even today.

 

[Orbert]

Wasn't this album an effort to get Page and Plant to get together again? (which they did shortly after).

How would that work?  Page gets to play with someone who reminds him of Plant so much that he actually hooks up with Plant for an album?

There was a lot of Plant influence in Coverdale, which probably bugged the shit out of him to hear all the time, especially if he didn't exactly do it intentionally.  Great singer in his own right.  But yeah, he was practically a clone, albeit an imperfect one.  My buddies and I used to joke that Ann Wilson of Heart was a female Robert Plant, and David Coverdale was a male Robert Plant (cheap shot at Plant).  I don't know, it seemed funny at the time.

[KevShmev]

Dang, I am really getting a lot of mileage out of this CD in the last week.  This is better than even I thought it was back in the day.

Also, the main riff in "Shake My Tree" sounds fairly similar to the main riff in "I Am the Spirit" from Alex Lifeson's Victor album that came out three years later.  Looks like, even in his 40s, Lerxst couldn't resist borrowing from Jimmy Page a little bit.

[King Postwhore]

Dang, I am really getting a lot of mileage out of this CD in the last week.  This is better than even I thought it was back in the day.

Also, the main riff in "Shake My Tree" sounds fairly similar to the main riff in "I Am the Spirit" from Alex Lifeson's Victor album that came out three years later.  Looks like, even in his 40s, Lerxst couldn't resist borrowing from Jimmy Page a little bit.

I may have to dig this out and load it on my computer.  It's been a long, long time.

[TAC]

I still like to crank this one up once or twice a year (I'm probably due to hear it again soon). Much of it sounds fresh even today.

I busted this out over the summer.

[ytserush]

Wasn't this album an effort to get Page and Plant to get together again? (which they did shortly after).

How would that work?  Page gets to play with someone who reminds him of Plant so much that he actually hooks up with Plant for an album?

There was a lot of Plant influence in Coverdale, which probably bugged the shit out of him to hear all the time, especially if he didn't exactly do it intentionally.  Great singer in his own right.  But yeah, he was practically a clone, albeit an imperfect one.  My buddies and I used to joke that Ann Wilson of Heart was a female Robert Plant, and David Coverdale was a male Robert Plant (cheap shot at Plant).  I don't know, it seemed funny at the time.

I seem to recall that the record industry was trying to force a Zeppelin reunion at the time.  Plant also released his Fate Of Nations    album in 1993 (not sure which came first). Maybe the question arose from both working at the same time?  

I remember Plant didn't have a lot of time for imitators (Lenny Wolf anyone?). He seemed to dimiss that kind of thing quite a bit back then.

[yorost]

I've never heard this album, but I have distinct memories of a used cd store near my home being overrun with copies of it.  They had some kind of snafu in their system that didn't stop their clerks from purchasing it.  They had probably no more than 2 copies of most albums but at least 15 of this one.    Anyone I knew that went there knew the album, but we all had the distinct impression it was terrible.

[King Postwhore]

Ytse,  GET IT ON!!!!!!!!!

I also loved Lenny in Stone Fury.

[kingsXrocks]

ok... whisper a prayer for the dying... sounds just like System of a Down's aerials.. mainly the guitar intro... doesnt anyone else hear it??

btw i used to listen to this album as like a joke, not really taking it all to seriously... but it grows on you.. great production, great songs, page's playing shows restraint, coverdale's voice sounds great, the drumming is GREAT.

[Orbert]

It was a joke at first, wasn't it?  I found Coverdale to be ridiculous.  I mean, who does he think he is, Robert Plant?  And then it finally occurred to me: Yes!  And since Plant was doing some rather uninteresting shit at the time (I don't remember what... it was uninteresting), and Zep was gone, Coverdale/Page was the closest we were going to get.  And yeah, it grew on me.

[TAC]

Ytse,  GET IT ON!!!!!!!!!

I also loved Lenny in Stone Fury.

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