WHITESNAKE - GOOD TO BE BAD - The White Snake rocks again as Anno 1987

For eleven years took David Coverdale with his band WHITESNAKE before he could bring himself to a studio disc again - and he sounds as if he had never been away. After RESTLESS HEART rather calmly held (which was already planned rather than a David Coverdale solo album, but then appeared for legal reasons as Whitesnake disc) rocking the latest moulting British rock legend back as to the best times.

Sound technically linked the band again clearly on the mega-hit "1987" to. In principle, Good to be bad is the album that WHITESNAKE before or after slip of the tongue should have brought out. The new songwriting partner Doug Aldrich makes a very good job, and tailors band leader COVERDALE crunchy rock songs and hymn-like ballads on the body.

To view the two openers BEST YEARS and CAN YOU HEAR THE WIND BLOW directly, where to go for GOOD TO BE BAD - produces clean, with plenty of power behind the White Snake rocks again as best in the 1987 periods. Also on your guitar tone of the excellent acting duo Doug Aldrich and REB BEACH clear echoes are hard to miss the days of John Sykes (example only times for the solo in BEST YEARS).

In general you have to say that the band (with the two newcomers URIAH DUFFY on bass and drummer CHRIS FRAZIER) harmonizes wonderfully. Only keyboardist TIMOTHY DURY seems to be somewhere lost in the mix, he can be heard almost nothing (except a few spherical inserts in the background).

The bond to the bluesy times before mega-success in 1987 (as shown in some reviews) are really only with much good will to discover (at about LAY DOWN YOUR LOVE). Therefore is good to be BAD supporters of the "old" WHITESNAKE only partly recommendable, as if they might in 1987 and slip of the tongue.

However, here and there determine some slight similarities to 1993's album COVERDALE / PAGE, for example at GOT WHAT YOU NEED and TIL THE END OF TIME. Of course, nothing of what DC and band present here new or surprising, who had expected that the need to ask yourself whether those expectations were realistic. What is the beautiful proverb? An old dog (COVERDALE) brings you with new tricks (varieties).

Playing tips for this album, in addition to the opener BEST YEARS, the wonderfully catchy riff-monster CAN YOU HEAR THE WIND BLOW and casual then grooving A FOOL IN LOVE nor the beautiful ballads All I Want All I Need and Summer Rain.

The fact remains, in any case, that Good to be bad has exclusively high quality songs. Not a single song is a letdown or filler. On the positive side in this regard also to be noted that the four-appetite bite of LIVE IN THE SHADOW OF THE BLUES can be found on this CD is not. However, since these are also of very excellent quality, also the acquisition of this double live CD worth.

Now the fan again has the choice between the "normal" single-CD and the price slightly more expensive variant, which is still accompanied by a bonus disc: it contains are a truly wonderful acoustic version of Summer rain, also a 40 minutes seconds shorter radio edit of All I Want All I Need and a live version of TAKE ME WITH YOU, which is however already included on the Live-CD LIVE IN THE SHADOW OF THE BUES. In addition, there is the video for Ready to rock (one of four bonus tracks on the already mentioned several times live CD). In addition, the fan in nice cardboard box gets even a poster of the cover, a postcard-sized band photo and a sticker. What you choose is almost no matter, regret rock fans buying definitely not.