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Whitesnake charmer (David Coverdale praises Obama)
Boston Herald ^ | July 5, 2009 | Jed Gottlieb

Posted on 07/05/2009 6:53:59 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Here he goes again on his own. Going down the only road he’s ever known.

OK, David Coverdale isn’t totally on his own. The 57-year-old singer has a new Whitesnake lineup behind him. But he is going down the only road he’s ever known on an old-fashioned, heavy-metal double bill: Whitesnake and Judas Priest play the Comcast Center on Tuesday.

As Coverdale pointed out in a phone interview from his Lake Tahoe home, “You’re not going to listen to Whitesnake for environmental songs or to change your life. You’re going to listen to Whitesnake for hard rock.”

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: coverdale; heavymetal; jp; judaspriest; kitaen; rock; rockandroll; tawny; tawnykitaen; whitesnake
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1 posted on 07/05/2009 6:53:59 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

I sure hope Judas Priest is headlining.


2 posted on 07/05/2009 6:57:08 PM PDT by Canes101
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Old, washed-up, 80s has-beens.


3 posted on 07/05/2009 6:57:43 PM PDT by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Hard rock my a$$! Altho they released a few decent songs early in their career (BEFORE they hit the big time), once they started getting radio airplay they became nothing but another cheesy hair metal pop band.


4 posted on 07/05/2009 6:57:48 PM PDT by ChrisInAR (The Tenth Amendment is still the Supreme Law of the Land, folks -- start enforcing it for a CHANGE!)
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To: Canes101

I would go just for them, and leave when their set was over.


5 posted on 07/05/2009 6:58:37 PM PDT by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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To: Canes101

Me too, love Priest!


6 posted on 07/05/2009 6:59:36 PM PDT by Islaminaction
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

The loon became a citizen so he could vote for Obama. Hmm. I think I’ll go become Chinese because I don’t like the way they do things over there.


7 posted on 07/05/2009 6:59:44 PM PDT by SlowBoat407 (Achtung. preparen zie fur die obamahopenchangen.)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Coming from a guy whose entire career was based on a video of a hot chick on the hood of a car.


8 posted on 07/05/2009 7:01:16 PM PDT by catfish1957 (Hey algore...You'll have to pry the steering wheel of my 317 HP V8 truck from my cold dead hands)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

He should stick to music.


9 posted on 07/05/2009 7:01:34 PM PDT by Islaminaction
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To: catfish1957

She WAS hot though!


10 posted on 07/05/2009 7:03:47 PM PDT by Canes101
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To: Canes101

WAS


11 posted on 07/05/2009 7:04:08 PM PDT by Canes101
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

This can only come from a Ma/Barney Frank area paper.


12 posted on 07/05/2009 7:05:56 PM PDT by taxtruth
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
...But (the Bush years) were extremely difficult years for any artist to express themselves truthfully because the odds were stacked against them. Anytime they made any political statement, the hard right was on them like flies on poop. It was insulting to artists’ dignity not to have the freedom of speech this country is so highly regarded for.

Really? I could have sworn there was an awful lot of anti-Bush "artistic expression" spewing from the piehole of many an entertainer. Aside from the Dixie Chicks (who were morons for ticking off their country fanbase), none really faced any repercussions. Poor, wounded Coverdale is rewriting history. Who even knew he was still alive?

13 posted on 07/05/2009 7:06:41 PM PDT by TXBlair (White-knuckling my way through the next three and a half years.)
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To: catfish1957

VH-1 aired a show recently about the Reagan years and music. Dee Snider of Twisted Sister blasted Republicans often while he and the narrator mentioned how conservatives tried to limit artists free speech. Meanwhile, the video portion of the footage showed Tipper Gore. D’oh.


14 posted on 07/05/2009 7:06:55 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09".... um, what happened?)
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To: catfish1957

Coming from a guy whose entire career was based on a video of a hot chick on the hood of a car.


Yeah and she ended up dumping Coverdale and dating OJ.


15 posted on 07/05/2009 7:09:12 PM PDT by chasio649 ( Palin 2012...'nuff said!)
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To: TXBlair

The hard right was on anyone who disagreed with Bush. Un huh. And how did this silence them? They make it sound as if they somehow ended up in prisons or re-education camps. You just know though if the left tries to do that to us, these voices for “free expression” would go right along with it.


16 posted on 07/05/2009 7:12:56 PM PDT by TNCMAXQ
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To: catfish1957
Coming from a guy whose entire career was based on a video of a hot chick on the hood of a car.

And married said hot chick who turns out to be a total whack job. Time has not been kind to her:


17 posted on 07/05/2009 7:20:02 PM PDT by capydick (''Life's tough.......it's even tougher if you're stupid.'')
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To: darkangel82; Canes101; Islaminaction
Judas Priest is obviously the headliner of this show. Whitesnake isn't even fit to shine their studded guitar straps.
Most fans won't even enter the venue until Judas Priest is preparing to take to the stage.

18 posted on 07/05/2009 7:21:33 PM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

No joke, but David Coverdale did get dumped and divorced by the coke snorting, husband abusing, crazy as a loon (but once upon a time terribly hot hot hot chick) Tawny Kitaen.


19 posted on 07/05/2009 7:26:42 PM PDT by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out)
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To: Islaminaction

I LOVE Priest, although I’ve only started noticing as an adult how incredibly gay thier videos were and think to myself, “how did I not know???”


20 posted on 07/05/2009 7:27:51 PM PDT by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out)
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