| DJ WILL: | So Doug, how you doing? I know you've been
back from Australia. So how are
things
with you? And let's talk about the
new CD. |
| Doug Aldrich: | Hey you guys. I just want to say "hey".
I'm happy to be here. And we're
just
gearing up for tour. We finished up
"Good
to be Bad",and we're really excited
about it. And I've kinda got a little
break
a couple days before we get in rehearsal
for the real tour to start. So it's
a good
time to catch up with you. |
| DJ WILL: | Now this time around since there's been a
little hiatus with Whitesnake, you've
toured
the last couple years or so. Now you've
got
an opportunity to promote the brand
new CD.
And you've finally have put your signature
mark guitar work on this....now there
were
4 new songs on the previous release
but this
time around it's a full length CD.
Talk a
little bit about working with Coverdale
and
putting everything together with the
new
line-up. |
| Doug Aldrich: | Well actually, everybody put their stamp
on it. The whole band did a great job and
David's performance on the record is just
killer, man. It's just so inspiring to hear
him on these new songs. It's been awhile
since the last Whitesnake release. But to
answer your question, working with David
was really natural. It just kind of exploded
and we got on a really good roll writing-wise.
We started actually right at the end of 2006,
right after I went up to this place. We're
always banging around ideas backstage and
we had written a little bit over the years
that I've been working with him. But
this was like a very focused and intense
writing that we started. And the first couple
of things that we did demos for were
really cool and inspiring and we just went
from there. |
| DJ WILL: | So the writing process has been workable
in the sense that you've been able
to come
up with some good riffs? David's been
aproachable
in terms of "hey, this is
what
I came up with, what do you think?"
type thing? |
| Doug Aldrich: | He plays guitar, too. He contributed lots
of riffs and music stuff, not just
vocals.
He's a complete songwriter. He had
some ideas
that he wanted me to try and develop,
and
I did work on that stuff and obviously
the
majority of the stuff that we did together,
we did it from scratch, starting at
that
time at the end of 2006. With me, he's
been
very generous it's been an inspiring
experience
working with him and hopefully it's
been
the same for him with me. Because it
seems
we've been on the same page musically
and
the new songs kind of speak for themselves. |
| DJ WILL: | Let's dive into something more from the new
CD "Good To Be Bad". This
is "A Fool In Love". Come
back,
we'll talk with Doug, if we work out
the
bug and the kinks. You're listening
to brand
new Whitesnake here on the loudest
dot.com
on the planet KNAC.com. |
| Doug Aldrich: | Yeah! |
| "A Fool In Love" plays .... |
|
| DJ WILL: | That is the latest from Whitesnake, "A
Fool In Love" and joining me on
the
phone is the guitarist in the band,
Mr. Doug
Aldrich. Sounding good, man.
Sounding
real good. |
| Doug Aldrich: | Thanks, bro. It was really fun to make that
stuff. It was truly rewarding. When
you're
writing, creating songs and stuff,
it doesn't
matter what's going on in your life.
Once
you play back that demo for the first
time
after you've put all the bits on it
and everything,
it makes you feel really good. Then
you gotta
start from scratch on another idea.
Like
I said, we got on a good flow and it
was
about 4 months of writing, something
like
that. |
| DJ WILL: | All together? |
| Doug Aldrich: | Yeah, off and on. We had little breaks where
we'd work on something together. We'd
get
excited about it. Then we'd start to
experiment
with different arrangements. And then
I'd
start to do some work at my place on
it,
send it to David. He'd do some work
on it,
send it back to me. And we'd get together
and kind of hash out the finished arrangement
and then re-do the demos. Some of those
songs,
well some of 'em were demoed 'em once.
And
it was "this sounds good".
And
then other songs, we had to demo the
song
3 or 4 or 5 times. |
| DJ WILL: | 'Til you get it right? |
| Doug Aldrich: | And we experimented with different keys.
Like sometimes a song would start in
1 key,
and then by the time we actually recorded
it was in a totally different key,
which
mostly worked out great. Because it
would
force me to find new ways to play the
riff
in a different key and use different
tunings
and stuff. |
| DJ WILL: | Don't you just love the recording process
these days, where if you can't be in
1 studio
at any given moment, you could sort
of Frankenstein
it out, where as people could sort
of submit
their parts and then put it all together. |
| Doug Aldrich: | With technology you can email a track to
somebody, have them do their work on
it.
And then they email you back their
parts.
If somebody's out of the country or
in a
different state or whatever. But generally
when we're demoing, we would do whatever
came up to make the demo sound right.
Then
we had to record it properly. And in
that
situation we had to record with the
basic
tracks with the band to capture the
vibe.
And then we did some overdubs in various
studios. |
| DJ WILL: | Again, I'm speaking with Doug Aldrich, guitarist
of Whitesnake who have a new CD out.
Which
of course you're hearing first, pure
rockers,
on the KNAC.com. Well I'm liking what
I'm
hearing, so far. I think the beautiful
thing
is the collaboration you've been able
to
craft these new songs and obviously
with
the name recognition of Whitesnake
eventually
take 'em out on the road and people
get to
hear them live. So that is something
that is always....you look forward
to that.
You look forward to the live settings.
So
I imagine yet you're looking forward
to going
back out on the road, too, Doug? |
| Doug Aldrich: | Yeah, we started a few weeks ago. We had
a show in New Zealand that was like
a festival.
It was a great show. It was Kiss, Ozzy,
us,
Poison, and Alice Cooper. And so we
were
over there to do that one show, and
although
the record wasn't out it was something
we
wanted to do, obviously. And then while
we
were there we did a few shows in Australia.
And we did play 3 of the new songs
off the
record in the set. So it was really
cool
to see how those things went over.
And even
though people hadn't really heard them,
except
for 1 of the songs they heard on the
radio,
they really got into it. And I think
it's
cool to play new stuff sometimes instead
of playing the same things that people
would
expect. |
| DJ WILL: | Sure. And you want that acceptance for all
the hard work you put into the new
songs
because that's what it's all about.
Because
a lot of bands, if they have a great
volume
of back catalog, they could play all
their
hits. But at the same time you want
to mix
in the new stuff so people can say
"hey,
I like this too. Maybe 10-15 years
from now,
this will be one of their greatest
hits also."
And learn to appreciate new music because
these days, if bands are still gonna
go out
there and tour and play, it's like
you want
to eventually hear new material. That's
my opinion. |
| Doug Aldrich: | It keeps it fresh. You can't do the same
thing every year. We had been touring
for
about 5 years and we were changing
the set,
and we were adding some older songs
and we'd
do different things. We might revisit
some
Purple stuff, or something that David
had
done. And that was all good, but then
it
got to the point where it was like
alright,
let's just see what we've got? It was
very
natural. We didn't try and rush anything.
It wasn't like we were forced to make
a record
or felt that we had to. We just felt
that
we wanted to. We were ready to try
some experimentation
and just see what came out. And we're
really
happy with it. |
| DJ WILL: | Outstanding. Now I noticed that, well obviously
I've been playing them and I've had
them
for since it came out......the release
you
did a little while ago, "Live
In The
Shadow of The Blues", now there
were
4 new songs at the time on that release.
Are you going to incorporate any of
those
songs into the set that you're doing
on this
tour? |
| Doug Aldrich: | Probably we're gonna focus on the stuff off
of "Good To Be Bad", I would
think.
And then I really want to see if we
could
find some old gems from Whitesnake
that haven't
been played live, or at least haven't
been
played live for awhile. That first
leg that
we did in the Down Under area, we didn't
have as much time as we normally do
to rehearse
for it. So we just kind of worked on
the
new stuff, and then we did the classic
Whitesnake
songs...."Still Of The Night",
"Here I Go Again". But for
South
America, Europe and the rest of the
world
wherever we go, we got a new set that
we're
working on. And also, we had to work
in a
new drummer that played on the record,
Chris
Frazier. He did an amazing job
on the
record and then later joined the band
as
a member. He's kickin' ass, it's great. |
| DJ WILL: | Outstanding. I'm speaking with Doug Aldrich,
guitarist of Whitesnake. "Good
To Be
Bad", out April 22nd here in America,
also the rest of Europe April 18th
and 21st,
respectively. Of Course Germany, April
18th.
Tell you what, let's play another track
from
"Good To Be Bad", and you
want
to set this up, Doug? This is "Can
You
Hear The Wind Blow?" Will you
set this
up a little bit for me? |
| Doug Aldrich: | Yeah, this is a song that's kind of got a
little bit more of....maybe a little
more
of a modern sound to Whitesnake. And
lyrically,
it's really cool. It's something that
I hadn't
really hear David do before, and he
sounds
amazing on it. And it's a cool tune,
"Can
You Hear The Wind Blow". |
| DJ WILL: | You are listening to The Vault, here on KNAC.com.
Come back we'll talk with Doug....this
is
brand new Whitesnake, here on The Vault,
KNAC.com. |
| "Can You Hear The Wind Blow" plays
.... |
|
| DJ WILL: | On the phone with me is Doug Aldrich, performing
the guitar work along with Reb Beach
on that
track. Sounding good, man. Real, obviously
a bluesy feel, it doesn't have to be
all
in your face. This is Whitesnake, it
should
have a good groove. |
| Doug Aldrich: | As David says "that's rock 'n roll".
It's the roll that is the effect, the
groove
thing. |
| DJ WILL: | Absolutely. So the recording process with
"Good To Be Bad", talk a
little
bit about your approach with obviously
your
technique, but your playing style.
Did you
do anything differently this time around,
outside of having more input with the
songs.
But did you do anything different
this
time around? |
| Doug Aldrich: | Oh yeah. There was a lot of experimentation,
as I was saying, with different keys. And
through trying different keys I was experimenting
with (can't understand) and different tunings.
And so we ended coming up with a couple different
things that, in fact 1 tuning... it was really
cool that I had never really seen before
that I used on "Lay Down Your Love",
which is the first single, I guess. With
Whitesnake, it's weird because you got the
classic "old guard" fans in Europe
that love the bluesy Whitesnake, the more
rock 'n roll Whitesnake stuff. And then in
the States, people are more familiar with
the "Slide It In" era and the '87
record. I love both of them and that's kind
of how my style is naturally. I tried to
incorporate some slide guitar that maybe
hasn't been as much on Whitesnake records
in recent years, and like I said the tunings.
But mostly, guitar-wise, it's Les Paul, Marshall,
Strat. And then I picked up a couple special
guitars. I picked up a Dan Armstrong, one
of those plexi-glass guitars that was great
for slide and for overdubs. And a 12 string
danelectro that I used on some stuff. But
it's pretty much down to just those songs
were all written basically on acoustic. David
and I would sit down and bang through stuff
on acoustic guitars to see if the song was
working. And then we'd work on doing our
parts and overdubs and that kind of thing. |
| DJ WILL: | How is it working with some of the newer
members? You had mentioned the new
drummer,
and how was it working with Uriah also?
Reb
has been with you pretty much from
the get-go
in this version of Whitesnake. How
are the
new members working out? |
| Doug Aldrich: | Yeah well, Reb and Timothy the keyboard player....Timothy's
especially, well on the record and
live,
he's a big part of the sound. |
| DJ WILL: | Yeah, can't forget Timothy, which I think
I just did! |
| Doug Aldrich: | Oh, it's cool, man, he's understanding. But
anyway, he's a great singer and Reb is also
an amazing singer as well as being an amazing
guitar player. But Uriah and Chris, new drummer
Chris Frazier...well Uriah came in 2005 and
he started on a U.S. tour that we did. He's
a really talented bass player. He plays a
lot of different styles. He's worked with
a lot of different artists, like Christina
Aguilera. And he's got a band called Lyricsborn
that he jams with sometimes. It's kind
of like a heavy rap thing. And so it was
interesting to see how he would appoach Whitesnake.
And I said to him "with Whitesnake,
to me, it's like the bass really drives the
band in a lot of sense. Like on the
earlier stuff with Neil Murray playing bass,
he was just like slammin' the groove and
it was a big part of the sound. And Uriah's
fit into that really well and he gets better
everytime I hear him play. He's more and
more on top of it. So we had him and Tommy,
and then when we were working on the record
there was a schedule conflict with Tommy,
and we just really were so excited about
getting recorded.....and we kind of wanted
to get the record done so we could potentially
do some touring. So the schedule was a little
bit conflicted and we were kind of forced
to move on with Chris Frazier. And
at that time it was almost like a session.
As long as David's there, it's gonna be Whitesnake.
So that's what we ended up doing. Chris
did such a great job on the record. He's
got like flavors of Ian Paice, and flavors
of Cozy Powell. And of course we miss Tommy
but Chris brings a totally new different
thing to the band. And the groove is really
fat with those 2 guys, with Frazier and Uriah. |
| DJ WILL: | Yeah, holding down the bottom end and of
course not replacing legendary drummer Tommy
Aldridge, but at the same time Chris has
his own flavor as you mentioned. And you
have to feed off of that. Obviously with
the situation being as it was, moving on,
but at the same time you got a guy who can
keep a solid meter. And that's what you need. |
| Doug Aldrich: | Yeah, there's no way to replace someone like
Tommy. You have to go on a little bit
different
direction. And the thing that was cool
about
it was it kinda leans a little more
towards
the classic Whitesnake, the way that
Frazier
plays. And the other thing is, if you're
that guy that's gotta step into those
shoes,
you gotta bring something to the party.
You
can't just coast, so he really stepped
up
his game and it's cool working with
him.
He's a great guy, too. |
| DJ WILL: | I'm speaking with Doug Aldrich. You can go
to his website dougaldrich.com as well
as
whitesnake.com. They'll be heading
off to
Europe very very very soon, and hopefully
hitting the States at the tail end
of 2008.
You figure, what, around August or
September
around that time, Doug? |
| Doug Aldrich: | I would say probably like September. Well
first it's South America. We got that
first.
We gotta get those immunization shots
for
down there just 'cause there's some
stuff
like yellow fever and whatnot that
you've
got to get a certificate saying that
you've
been immunized. |
| DJ WILL: | Yeah, to even get through customs and also
too. It's not like you just do down
there,
plug in, and rock out to the crowd.
It's
all about taking care of your own self. |
| Doug Aldrich: | We did. We went down there in October of
2005. We were down there with Judas
Priest
doing a bunch of shows. And we didn't
have
to do it at that time. I think the
reason
is that our first gig is really close
to
the Amazon, and the mosquitos carry
the yellow
fever, and there's sometimes hepatitis
A
and different things. So just to be
safe,
we're gonna get a bunch of shots, all
of
us. And mainly you have to have the
certificate
for yellow fever, 'cause if you get
that
then the tour shuts down. So South
America
first, then Europe for the summer.
And I
know that the powers-that-be are working
on dates in the U.S. We definitely
want to
be in the U.S. since we haven't been
here
for about almost 3 years. |
| DJ WILL: | Yeah, that's right. |
| Doug Aldrich: | Yeah, and then we've got some stuff in Japan,
I think. And we'll just take it from
there. |
| DJ WILL: | Yeah, it's like a far cry from being a rock
band, you have to take care of these
important
matters, 'cause it's a domino effect,
Doug.
If you don't have this particular paperwork
to have this particular thing done,
you have
to deal with cancellations, there's
a crew,
the staging, everything involved. So
if one
thing doesn't happen, if you don't
take care
of a, b, and c, then it's a whole domino
effect from there. |
| Doug Aldrich: | Absolutely. The Whitesnake crew is instrumental
in making the show what it is. If my
guitar
tech, his name is Kevin, he's a great
guy,
if he gets sick than that throws me
off 'cause
I gotta work with somebody new or whatever.
But at least we're in the summertime,
so
those old things of being on the bus
and
one guy passes it to the next guy,
to the
next guy, to the next guy, that probably
won't happen so much. We've just gotta
keep
those alien bugs out of our system. |
| DJ WILL: | I agree. Keep your health up, keep your health
up. |
| Doug Aldrich: | It's gonna be cool, man. South America is
amazing and the fans down there are
just
crazy. I'm so blessed to be able to
go to
some of these places that I would never
ever
be able to otherwise. So we're really
excited
about it. You know, Brazil, Chile,
Argentina,
and I think there's Peru and definitely
Mexico.
I don't know if I forgot anything else....Brazil. |
| DJ WILL: | Would you say that these are markets that
Whitesnake haven't played, well in
a long
time or played at all? |
| Doug Aldrich: | We were there in 2005..... |
| DJ WILL: | But prior to that. |
| Doug Aldrich: | It's not like you get to go there every year.
Like sometimes in the U.S. you can
do a tour
for a couple years straight, or in
Europe.
But the good thing was, originally
we were hoping to have "Good To
Be Bad"
out in like the fall of last year and
that
we would be able to do some gigs. But
on
the record, we had some setbacks during
the
recording. And so the record didn't
get done
until around Christmas time. But the
good
thing is that we took a break, and
so hopefully
people are excited about seeing the
band
together. Now we've got a new record
under
our belts so that's another thing to
talk
about. |
| DJ WILL: | I'll tell you what. Let's play something
else from "Good To Be Bad".
I'll
have you select the song. |
| Doug Aldrich: | You can try "Lay Down Your Love".
That's gonna be....I'm not sure if
they really
do singles now but I think they're
gonna
send that to some radio stations. It's
an
old kind of blues thing, that old call
and
response thing that bands like the
Stones
did and Zeppelin, where the singer
sings
the line and the band responds to it.
It's
called call and response. David did
it will
"Still Of The Night" and
that was
like the ultimate call and response
blues
riff. And it was actually almost metal.
It
was so heavy and cool. And with this
song,
it was kind of a structure, musically.
But
I wanted to make it a little more on
the
bluesy side with slide guitar and stuff.
And it's got flavors of kind of Coverdale-Page
in some of it, too. It's called "Lay
Down Your Love". |
| DJ WILL: | You heard the man. You're listening to The
Vault here on KNAC.com. Brand
new Whitesnake,
"Good To Be Bad" is the name
of
the CD. Out very, very soon. Check
this out....KNAC.com. |
| "Lay Down Your Love" plays .... |
|
| DJ WILL: | Pure rock, KNAC.com, the loudest dot.com
on the planet...."Lay Down Your
Love",
brand new pure rock from Whitesnake.
Joining
me on the phone, Doug Aldrich. Good
stuff.
Again, solid solid bluesy track there.
There's
a start, there's a middle and there's
a finish,
and it's really really solid. Really
really
solid. So...Doug? |
| Doug Aldrich: | Yeah, are you there? |
| DJ WILL: | Yeah, I'm here. You're here, I'm here. |
| Doug Aldrich: | I missed that last thing you said. Sorry,
bro. |
| DJ WILL: | It's o.k. I was giving "Lay Down Your
Love" some praise. It's a real
strong
bluesy number that has like a start,
a middle
and a finish. Obviously very catchy,
and
it's Coverdale. And obviously another
song
with the word "love" in it,
very
consistent with that. Sounding good,
man.
Sounding good. So we were talking off-air
just about the economics of the business
and what-have-you. I think it's great
that
a band like Whitesnake can continue
to tour,
continue to record and obviously this
is
a brand new CD, brand new material.
But at
the same time incorporating the hits
and
you're gonna have some new material
to play
for the fans all over. It's a tribute
to
staying power, being consistent, and
saying
"hey, we have something new to
offer". |
| Doug Aldrich: | Yeah, the thing of it is, what we were talking
about so everybody else can hear it,
is that
the business has changed a lot. And
you really just have to forget about
that
stuff and make music that you dig.
And that's
what we tried to do on this. There's
no way
that you're gonna try and recreate,
and we
don't want to recreate"'87",
or
"Slide It In" or whatever.
We just
tried to write some songs that we liked
that
made us inspired. And it felt good
to us
at the time that we worked on them.
The reward
is actually being around for the creation
of the song. You can't do it for money.
It's
like with Zeppelin. You know, "Zeppelin
4" was just massive and how are
they
gonna top that? I guess they came out
with
"Presence" next or something
and
maybe didn't sell as good. But "Presence"
is one of my favorite Zeppelin records
of
all-time. It just depends, but the
bottom
line is you gotta do it for the music.
You
can't really try and plan on making
a ton
of money or anything like that. It's
gotta
be about the music. |
| DJ WILL: | That should always be the forefront when
you're laying down these tracks and putting
everything together, and putting it out.
It really shouldn't be about the high
priced producer or what studio you used.
At the end of the day, it's the songs.
It's what's being heard. It's what's gonna
draw fans out, new and old, out to the shows.
It's just a different climate these days.
And also what we talked about, too, about some of your previous projects. That's how I came to know you and your guitar playing. And I also should say, Doug, I really appreciate the way you approach playing guitar as opposed to what's popular these days. You know, the 7 string, the downtuning. That's seems to be very prevalent these days in a lot of these newer bands. A lot of them have a little something, some nuances, but I personally prefer this traditional rock guitar. And you still kick ass. |
| Doug Aldrich: | Well, thanks man. I'm not against anything.
I'm open to anything. I love experimentation.
I've never owned a 7 string, so I just haven't
had the opportunity to play around with it.
But I do like some of those bands and 1 I
really dig is...I really like Alterbridge
a lot. A friend of mine from Germany kind
of.....well we had done some gigs with them,
too, in 2005. This friend of mine turned
me on to their new record and I really dig
it a lot. And it's got great tunes and really
great playing. I think he's doing a lot of
stuff like that with the guitars. His name's
Mark Trevasoni I believe. And then I like
Foo Fighters and bands like Nickelback are
cool. And then I love bands like the Black
Crowes. I actually got an opportunity to
go see them a couple weeks ago in Melbourne,
Australia. They're amazing, man. I
love that band. |
| DJ WILL: | Another band that's been at it for some time,
doing the bluesy, Rod Stewart/The Faces
little
sound in there. |
| Doug Aldrich: | I dig that. One of the things you bring up,
The Faces....David has the most amazing
music
collection. And he's got them all on
this
one huge wall down by his studio. So
I just
go down there and cherry-pick records
that
I wanted to listen to. And I found
some Faces
records that I had never heard before.
And
it really gave me a huge appreciation
for
Ronnie Wood to where I'm really kind
of discovering
him, really. I only knew him from a
few of
the Faces songs and what he's done
with the
Stones. But there were some songs like
"Summer
Rain" was inspired by some of
his guitar
playing, with some open tunings and
melodies.
So all that stuff is good with me.
And even
though times have a changed a little
bit,
maybe some of the younger fans that
listen
to music will hear perhaps what we're
doing,
or Black Crowes or something, and they'll
go "wow, that's sounds really
new."
That's really a brand new sound,
because
they haven't really heard it before.
So it
might end up being fresh again somehow. |
| DJ WILL: | Very quite possible. And obviously the influences
that you have, that's gonna be part
of what
you do and obviously is part of what
you
do. |
| Doug Aldrich: | Not to say that Black Crowes or Whitesnake
isn't fresh, 'cause David and I feel
that
this is really a hungry sounding record.
We were really excited about it and
we had
such a great time working on it, especially
the writing. I feel that it really
kind of
comes out in the music a lot. It does
sound
fresh, and it sound like we've got
something
to prove. So that's a good thing. |
| DJ WILL: | Well, Doug, I must say that it's been a pleasure,
technical difficulties aside. |
| Doug Aldrich: | That's cool, man. I really appreciate you
inviting me. I'm usually the last person
that should be talking on the radio
because
I have such a bizarre voice. Then again,
it was like when I first heard Eddie
Van
Halen talk on the radio. I felt "wow,
he kind of sounds different".
I don't
have that, somebody like David....when
he
talks, man, he's just got this massive
voice
that's got this crystal top-end. I
sound like I need to have nasal surgery.
I'm glad you invited me, man. Thanks
so much
for that. |
| DJ WILL: | Hey, man, you got it. Your cadence is fine,
my friend. Your cadence is fine. Like
I said,
I appreciate your guitar work. I appreciated
your work with Bad Moon Rising, Lion
of course.
Of course I'm gonna slip that in a
little
later once I let you go. A lot of that
stuff
is very underrated. And obviously your
solo
work. And it's just been a pleasure
to hear
you perform throughout the years. And
obviously
with Whitesnake, the new version of
Whitesnake,
this is coming along quite well. And
good
luck in Brazil. Bring your papers! |
| Doug Aldrich: | Yes. Well I appreciate your support, and
Long Paul was always a great guy to
us. With
Lion, he used to spin our records a
lot and
it was really helpful. It was cool
to hear
on the radio for the first time, you
know? |
| DJ WILL: | Well, of course. Damn right! "Dangerous
Attraction", "Trouble In
Angel
City", "Powerlove",
all solid
tracks with Kal Swan there on vocals.
You
ever hear from Kal? Is he still around? |
| Doug Aldrich: | I talk to him periodically. He kind of got
frustrated with the way the music business
was. |
| DJ WILL: | Yeah, take a number! |
| Doug Aldrich: | Yeah, but he had an opportunity to do something
else and he took it. But he was a great
guy
and the coolest thing was he was a
massive
Whitesnake fan. He turned me on to
a bunch
of old Whitesnake records before anybody
really knew about them in the States,
like
"Come An' Get It", "Ready
An' Willing", "Lovehunter".
And so it was kind of a cool thing
to have
that background of digging those records.
But he was a great singer and we had
a good
time together. We just had a problem
with
the business. The record never really
got
pushed. That first Lion record could
have
done better at the time. Now it's..... |
| DJ WILL: | Very sought after. |
| Doug Aldrich: | In fact, I'm sure it's old very sounding,
but at the time it was pretty cool. |
| DJ WILL: | Well again, got some powerful riffs there.
Kal's got some great pipes there as
well.
So hopefully, something becomes of
those
classic gems down the line. But we
shall
see. In the meantime, pure rockers,
Doug
Aldrich. You can find him on tour,
for those
of you in Europe. "Good
To Be
Bad" coming up literally in a
week's-plus
time. So you want to get that. For
more information,
whitesnake.com, also Doug's website
dougaldrich.com.
You can read up about Doug, all his
different
discographies, what he's played on.
And catch
him on tour as I mentioned. Doug, thank
you
for your time. We're gonna close out
with
a couple more from Whitesnake. This
is "Til
The End Of Time". Set this up
for me
and then off and running to the beach. |
| Doug Aldrich: | Alright, man, yeah. "Til The End Of
Time" is probably my favorite
song on
the record. David and I had gotten
through
writing a bunch of stuff and we were
starting
to get kind of burned out. And we were
really
excited about starting the recording
process
for real. I was driving home from his
place
and he called and said "you know,
maybe
he can do one more". And I asked
"what
do you think about doing something
different?
You know, something acoustic. And I
had this
idea that was kind of like inspired
from
Jimi Hendrix. He had a song that he
did live
in the studio one time called "Hear
My Train A Coming" . It
was a
12 string that he just did with him
and a
12 string guitar. And so that
was kind
of the inspiration for the song a little
bit, and the song just turned out beautifully.
I really dig it. And David's voice
is massive
on the track. It's the last song we
wrote
and it's a really special tune for
me personally.
So I kind of dig that one. |
| DJ WILL: | Outstanding. Excellent. Well, thank you Doug.
"Til The End Of Time", pure
rockers,
the latest from Whitesnake. "Good
To
Be Bad", go get it! |
| Doug Aldrich: | Thanks, you all. |
| DJ WILL: | You got it. You're listening to the loudest dot.com on the planet, KNAC.com |
Thanks, DJ WILL.
Special thanks to my friend, Gary!!
"The Vault" with DJ WILL on KNAC Radio
April 13, 2008 - 12:00 noon (PST)