Whitesnake: 'Into The Light: The Solo Albums' - Stunning New Box Set!

[@63mckenzie]

Eeers a box set for ya!

[@GrahamSouthorn]

🤣

[@mickb44]

@@GrahamSouthorn 🤣

[@johnnythefox9830]

Yeah. Hardly Terry Thomas 😅

[@markorchard2272]

.....and then he introduces a song like he's middle-class😂😂

[@Bananenbennie]

🤣🤣🤣

[@davidbewick9208]

North Winds is a superb album, probably the best thing he's ever done.

[@RushfanUK]

1978 to 1982 that’s enough for me.

[@matthewtaylor7877]

Very tempted. Northwinds is a great album. Some reviewer somewhere said it was the moment in DC's career when he could have gone in a Joe Cocker direction or a a hard rock direction and he chose the latter. But Northwinds provides glimpses of what could have been. To me, it shows what a versatile performer he could have been if he hadn't put himself in the hard rock box. There's something primal about his singing on Only My Soul too, like a howl from deep down. Remarkable singing.

[@backrowbrighton]

Yes, Northwinds would be the major attraction for me here too.

[@earlgrey691]

Dug them in the early years but man they went full poodle in no time thereafter.Awesome Purple frontman though,a squandered legacy in many ways.

[@kenfrederick6223]

The "slither" of solo albums......I see what you did there, Great review! 🐍🎤🎸

[@davidgotteri]

The acoustic "Starkers In Tokyo" album was included on the "Unzipped" boxset.

[@will5150]

They asked Bob Rock who was the most amazing guitar player he's worked with, he thought a bit, and said John Sykes.

[@djacobmadrigal]

Just got mine today. Can’t wait to listen.

[@samdemic3373]

Starkers in Tokyo the unplugged album. Excellent. Also the track he did on Butterfly Ball....Behind the smile...he would give Nat King Cole a run for his money. Love whitesnake pre the American influenced albums

[@LEEFORDJAGG]

Did David Coverdale include the rejected artwork for ‘Northwinds’ album in the booklet? I have the Connoisseur CDs which were remastered back then. The outtakes of ‘Sunny Days’ & ‘Peace Lovin Man’ aren’t included in this set. ‘Sweet Mistreater’ and ‘Shame The Devil’ are present in their original mixes and remixed variants.First out the box for me will be the remix of ‘Blindman’. I have watched another review of this set and apparently the quiet mid-section of ‘Only My Soul’ has been chopped out of the remix. There has been additional musicians added on WhiteSnake & NorthWinds. The new with Strings version of ‘Time And Again’ is very well done! However if any extra guitar needed doing then it should have been Micky Moody who got first dibs. Micky’s original guitar parts on WhiteSnake & NorthWinds were great, and still stand up today.

[@danielshakesheff2223]

The acoustic Album You Are On About Was Starkers In Tokyo and That Was Remastered For The Unzipped Boxset

[@chrisneal4257]

I’ve bought almost all of the previous matching boxes (including the Unzipped one with your Acoustic In Tokyo on it), but the prices have doubled now, so I’ll be holding off for a while, like the last one - Good To Be Bad.

[@deanstanley5799]

Ah marvellous there’s nothing like David’s whitesnake to review 👌

[@ElaineJones-w5e]

Looks like a decent box set 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@independenceltd.]

dammit! I had been patting myself on the back for skipping the Tull Christmas boxset and then dodging the Vanilla Fudge boxset, but this one I can't skip. "White Snake" and "Northwinds" themselves go for the price of this boxset alone.

[@garyh.238]

Have you got the original versions of those?

[@ivozanette7010]

I've had this on pre oder for over a monrh. Can't wait!!!

[@srvuk]

I still have Coverdale's early solo albums on cassette. But 100 quid for 6 audio discs and a small book? Insanity.

[@chrismoyse3529]

First two albums are great. If you have the 2000 editions, save yourself £99.99. They were plenty good enough.

[@GlennMcloughlin-y5r]

It look like a great box set Barry,I love DC,s early stuff just after he finished with Deep Purple,great blues and soul and what a voice!! Cheers Glenn Sydney 🍺

[@billbez7465]

Thank you. Always love the early unboxing vides.

[@uweborsch1946]

Starkers in Tokyo, which is just him an Adrian Vandenberg on acoustic guitar.

[@peterdoherty652]

Hi, only recently discovered your channel and have been enjoying the videos. I don't know if you've already covered it, and I don't know how to search the channel.... but if you haven't then I'd highly recommend the recent Thin Lizzy '1976' box set. Would love to hear your opinion! (And while you're at it, Live In The Air Age would deserve a mention and some exposure). Cheers, Pete

[@backrowbrighton]

Barry, I hope somebody in the know acts on your suggestion of an expanded version of 'Live in the heart of the city'. That is begging for the box set treatment.

[@Pws-m8x]

Painting in the back ground is interesting i still have a recording of whitesnake playing donnington. It was recorded from radio one over 35 years ago god im old

[@kleemusic546]

baz - many thanks for turning me onto Solstice - most excellent!

[@lexpeters735]

My copy is on the way as we speak. I was disappointed to hear your comments regarding Only My Soul, as it's one of my favourite Coverdale songs also. I guess I will have to judge for myself. It really does like a remarkable set. Cheers.

[@stephen-truthseeker]

Thanks for the upload

[@augmentedhat16]

I like your Jethro Tull shirt 👍

[@normthebaker7305]

I just reread Zoot Money's obituary. Perhaps a profile featuring his live box set. Thanks for the entertaining reviews.

[@duringthemeanwhilst]

DC in Heep - now that would have been quite some coup!

[@orchidcarpetcleaningrp6061]

Love Northwinds love your channel .Really deep honest reviews

[@orchidcarpetcleaningrp6061]

Those plastic cd covers Just like creamy clear plastic you got with a lot of Polydor records nice

[@peterdelaney7061]

Starkers In Tokyo is the acoustic record with Vandenburg. I'm sure you know this, but Northwinds is not a Whitesnake record. Not sure why Into The Light is listed correctly as a David Coverdale solo album. Just seems a bit odd. Nevertheless, I have been a fan of David's since Burn and I applaud his efforts in enhancing his legacy. Thanks for the unboxing

[@JIF882]

I believe that the original recordings are listed with DC's name, but the remixes say Whitesnake

[@markorchard2272]

'Only My Soul' is my fave DC song ever! To hear your critique stopped me from hitting 'BUY NOW'🤦🏼‍♂😜

[@classicalbum]

It is worth having for the remastered and demos

[@johnlangdon4338]

I buy box sets for the music. I enjoy seeing such ephemera as tickets and posters, but I HATE paying for reproductions. This format with its modest size and photos in a reasonably sized book is more my style. I don't need a scarf or marbles or buttons. Give me lots of music, and a decent companion book and save my money.

[@skivtonten294]

My favourite music from DC is from these Solo albums. This box should be essential to me but why the ”safecard” of naming it ’Whitesnake’??

[@stormbringercoming8105]

I love Northwinds, but there’s a lot fluff to justify NOT plonking down $65+ hard earned dollars. Now, if DC would get down to giving the box set treatment to all the Whitesnake albums up to Slide It In. I know that there was one a couple of years ago, but it went out of print quickly, and there could’ve been so much more.

[@ElfGoblin]

I was a bit disappointed with the lack of double-entendres which are obligatory when discussing Whitesnake. I was at least hoping to see Barry placing the book back into the box whilst saying "You've got to slide it in, right to the top." Still, it was good seeing a mention of The Enid in the book. I never really got into them but I was always intrigued when Tommy Vance played them on the Friday Night Rock Show.

[@GrahamSouthorn]

Yeah, some of those Whitesnake album covers - no contemporary band could get away with that. They probably wouldn't want to either!

[@ElfGoblin]

@@GrahamSouthorn I remember being in Woolworths in the mid 1980s and they sold those cheap Fame reissues of Whitesnake's early lps. My friend explained to me the Come An Get It cover. I was amazed and I would never have guessed. Still, I was only about 13 !

[@GrahamSouthorn]

@@ElfGoblin Ha ha, I think I was a bit older than that when I worked it out. And Lovehunter. What were they like? They'd have to sell those albums in brown paper bags these days 🤣

[@ElfGoblin]

@@GrahamSouthorn It's the healthy honesty that I like. They were young men who liked women and sex and what's wrong with that? And if the album covers were a bit Spinal Tap-ish well, that's all part of the fun! And funnily enough lots of women liked them. Speaking of Spinal Tap, one of them said, after talking about the Smell The Glove album cover, "there's a fine line between sexy and sexist." and we all laughed. Actually it's a very interesting thing to say and you could spend the rest of your life thinking about it.

[@GrahamSouthorn]

@@ElfGoblin Very true. Times have changed - some of my old 1980s D&D fantasy books I would not be able to have in the house these days. Mind you, I am married now 🙂

[@EduFirenze]

Never liked remasters or remixes, I don't want new or better, I want the records to sound like they always did. Same with directors cut or special editions of movies. Once the project is out, creators should leave it alone.

[@JIF882]

So, you like the cracks and pops? Remastering doesn't change the sound. So, you could be like Barry and just listen to the remasters

[@JohnSmith-x8s5g]

🐍

[@petedee123]

Shouldn't the box say Coverdale and not Whitesnake as its his solo albums?

[@justjim3687]

White snake, into the light, with the Jesuit seal, not too occult. We have no idea the world we live in.

[@blahblahblah742]

DC's CD's

[@Curseofsuperbowl49]

Wow you would be overdosed on DC if you listen to all that, sometimes less is more ,think I will just put on 1987 and Northwinds oooooh baaaby

[@richardobi-jh8jo]

must be getting commission for this advertising

[@classicalbum]

I don't get commission, but I do get the item. But I'm free to say whatever I like about it.

[@o8thman812]

Cant really explain it... I really dig Deep Purple💜& also Rainbow🌈 but I just never could get into Whitesnake❌

[@shipsahoy1793]

I don't think David Coverdale was ever in Rainbow.. the only album I know is Deep Purple "Burn" and I have to agree.. I always hated Whitesnake; for me, it's in the same class as all that bloated 80s arena rock carp.😂

[@LEEFORDJAGG]

Looking forward to getting this box set. Future Whitesnake guitarist Micky Moody handled all the guitar parts on the original albums, and in a perfect scenario it should have been Micky who handles the new guitar overdubs. I believe David has reached out personally to Micky to try and build some sort of a friendship again,but .. perhaps we will get to hear Micky’s take on that someday soon? It’s the remixes of David’s first two solo albums that I really want to hear.

[@michaelbennett6778]

@@shipsahoy1793that is true post 1985 but the early music before selling out, sacking his band mates and re branding in the USA, was wonderful blues based honky tonk hard rock

[@shipsahoy1793]

@@michaelbennett6778 that may be the case, but I never heard that stuff. Actually I even lost interest in Deep Purple at some point ..they never really had a whole lot of albums that resonated with me anyway, just machine head and made in Japan and maybe a few songs here and there,and the burn album I also liked to a degree, but that was about. I had moved on from heavy rock at some point, although I still listen to the old stuff occasionally that I always had an affinity for, and a bit of the 90's rock maybe, but the last 20 years not so much. I started my teens at the end of the 60s, so I'm sure it has something to do with my musical tastes chronologically.

[@shipsahoy1793]

@@michaelbennett6778 oh and the 80s was a tough time for rock bands, whether they were great or not, and drummers also took a tremendous hit. Keyboard lunies and drum and bass programs were all the rage, with every idiot and his mom looking for a new sound. I guess we can thank late 70's disco? Not sure..

[@Belfast-Biccy]

Too pricey for me, I have the North winds and White snake LP's, and Into the Light original release CD. Might buy it at half the price if it ever goes that price

[@shipsahoy1793]

🤔The ONLY David Coverdale recording that I'm familiar with is the Deep Purple album "Burn." 😂

[@kenjohnson604]

Bizarre

[@mickb44]

nice upload loved this band up until slide it in after which for me they became boring

[@classicalbum]

Yes, same here

[@mellotronin54]

Not sure his solo albums are worth it? Seen him multiple times between 1980 = 2022 and love some of his stuff. But this is not for me . If it is I am sure you will love it.

[@JIF882]

Your comment is confusing. You asked if they are worth it, then you answer your own question. A few advance tracks have been released. Listen to those and decide for yourself

[@zetectic7968]

£100, too much for me.

[@paulevans-b2j]

£100 is way too expensive for what you get, and i really don’t like the rebranding of this as Whitesnake, why change it?, just leave it as a Coverdale box set, i assume they think its better for sales having the Whitesnake name on it, if the acoustic album you are thinking of is “starkers in Tokyo” then it was already included on the acoustic box set.

[@smalltown2223]

I understand that David Coverdale has insisted on little bells be tied to his septum in order to garner mush woggles from the crying bin.

[@dchale1]

I think that if whitesnake disappeared from the history of rock, nothing would be lost. Generic rock music.

[@johngreen5293]

£99.99?! You'd have to a really rich fan to lay out that amount for remixes and remasters of the same core songs. These ageing rock stars are really trying to shore up their pensions. Enough's enough.

[@ChrisYossarian]

100 quid? In UK? Wow! Just checked at my German supplier who ships for free worldwide, and thee it is for 62 Euro. That’s less than half price. (Send me a personal message for the Link, i don’t want to publish it here.)

[@johngreen5293]

@@ChrisYossarian It's OK, thanks, Chris. I'm not that much of a fan. But I appreciate the gesture.

[@richardobi-jh8jo]

David was at his best in Purple Burn and Stormbringer - the Whitesnake poodle rock era was awful

[@nicklevitt6395]

If its his solo stuff why the f**k has he called it Whitesnake

[@deanstanley5799]

For the sales figures

[@JIF882]

Because Whitesnake has been his band from day one. I believe that Mel Galley plays on his first two albums

[@drpaulmasonphd]

@@JIF882 Micky Moody, not Mel Galley plays on and has writing credits on both White Snake (note, two words) and Northwinds. These were both very much solo albums released on Purple records, largely experimental (especially the former), with Roger Glover producing and an array of musicians used (Ronnie James Dio even lends backing vocals to Give Me Kindness). @nicklevitt6395 is absolutely right to question the use of Whitesnake and @deanstanley5799 is likely right also in his assessment. So yes, Whitesnake was DC's band from day one. But no, this has nothing to do with that band.

[@FVD]

​@@JIF882nah, that was Micky Moody.

[@diamondd2778]

That album is just terrible..... sorry

[@eddiemethot8925]

Whitesnake, not my cup of tea,I'm not into 80s hair bands.