{"id":755,"date":"2003-02-20T05:15:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-20T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=755"},"modified":"2024-03-28T05:15:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T05:15:55","slug":"whitesnake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=755","title":{"rendered":"Whitesnake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Here I Go Again: The Whitesnake Collection<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsreview.com\/media\/images\/articles\/featured\/2020\/07\/14384-01.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This compilation includes three entire albums\u2014<em>Slide It In<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Whitesnake \u201987<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Slip of the Tongue<\/em>\u2014plus B-side and album outtakes. The first two albums featured the songwriting and heavy-handed guitar work of the gifted John Sykes. Even \u201cYou\u2019re Gonna Break My Heart Again\u201d and \u201cLooking for Love,\u201d tracks that didn\u2019t make the cut for the band\u2019s breakthrough album, are easily better than any current or classic-rock fare. Unfortunately, the latter album found singer David Coverdale struggling not only with his identity as a songwriter but also with his bandmates. His short-lived all-star studio and touring troupe\u2014featuring Steve Vai, Tommy Aldridge, Rudy Sarzo and Adrian Vandenberg\u2014lasted only a short time before album and ticket sales forced it to disband. This year\u2019s touring configuration is even less impressive. It\u2019s time for a\u00a0<em>real<\/em>\u00a0Whitesnake reunion, not a self-indulgent, money-grubbing affair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(SN&amp;R)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here I Go Again: The Whitesnake Collection This compilation includes three entire albums\u2014Slide It In,\u00a0Whitesnake \u201987\u00a0and\u00a0Slip of the Tongue\u2014plus B-side and album outtakes. The first two albums featured the songwriting and heavy-handed guitar work of the gifted John Sykes. Even \u201cYou\u2019re Gonna Break My Heart Again\u201d and \u201cLooking for Love,\u201d tracks that didn\u2019t make the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}