Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41125 in DVD
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Original language: English

Customer Reviews

A Great Night Captured Brilliantly
I was at this gig in Hammersmith Apollo back in October '04 and it was a great gig to be at and this DVD captures the energy and the atmosphere very well. This is a very good, high quality live DVD of a band on form. As a bonus you also get a CD of the show, which is very useful for when in the car!!

I would strongly recommend this DVD to anyone with even the remotest interest in Whitesnake or guitar-based rock in general.

Are You Ready?!
I saw this show when it came to the NEC in 2004 and it just blew me away. Ever since I heard they were planning to release a DVD of the show I’ve been counting the days and, believe me, this was worth the wait.

David Coverdale delivers a stunning vocal performance putting him at the top of the rock-singer food chain, and US-guitarists Reb Beach and Doug Aldrich share the rhythm/lead duties - with Adrich putting in a truly superb performance as the main lead player. Every band member puts in a brilliant performance giving the impression that, like other great rock front-men Dio and Ozzy, Coverdale is a well-respected front-man who has the influence to select the best musicians available.

The show opens with a Burn/Stormbringer medley a la Coverdale’s time in Deep Purple. Older tracks such as Ain’t no Love in the Heart of the City and Ready an’ Willing are also there, as well as outright classics Still of the Night, Love ain’t no Stranger, Is this Love?, Here I go Again, and my personal favourite Cryin’ in the Rain. The performance is confident, full of energy and Coverdale sure isn’t shy on hitting on fans in front of an audience of thousands! I will be watching this time and again.

The DVD comes with extras and a CD of many of the tracks on the DVD. It’s only a shame I can’t give it 6 stars. This is an absolute must for any Whitesnake fan.

Here's a DVD for ya!
Sir David of Coverdale has been banging on for ages now, about how he's finally got a professional team on his side, and how everything is hunky dory in the world of the Whitesnake. Which would explain how three lots of different PR people promised me a review copy and a grand total of none arrived!

So, it was off into the world of web shopping, and a week long wait before I got my hands on a copy of the first ever Whitesnake DVD. Now me and Lord Coverdale of Redcar go back a long way, with my first Snake live encounter waaaaay back in the day. Ok, it was the '"eady An' Willing" tour, which dates me rather badly, but does give me the benefit of having travelled the road with him through the good, bad and indifferent incarnations of the 'Snake.

To be fair, he has usually had a nose for talented musicians to take up stage space with him, with only the horrors of the Warren De Martini live shows keeping me awake at night, screaming (and not in a good way). However, when I first saw the current version of Whitesnake back on the indoor Monster of Rock trek, they were pretty poor. Which is why it took a huge will of effort (and an unblemished record of tour attendance) to get me back for the 2004 tour. And I was delighted to see that some road work had actually turned them into a rather good band. Something reflected on this, generally, excellent release.

It's also good to see that Dame David has finally come to terms with his past, as this trek covered virtually every incarnation of the trousersnakes tortuous history. A quick shufty through the run home, post guitar solos gives you;

Cryin' In The Rain / Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City / Don't Break My Heart Again / Fool For Your Loving / Here I Go Again / Take Me With You (which still sends a shiver down my spine) and Still Of The Night.

Frankly, it doesn't get much better than that for an old rocker like me. And for the most part the band treat the music kindly, straight from opening number "Burn", which comes complete with a crack at "Stormbringer" for good measure. After a Purple opener, it's down to 'Snake business with Bad Boys (which still sucks) / Love Ain't No Stranger / Ready An' Willing / Is This Love / Give Me All Your Love and Judgement Day taking us to the toilet break when Doug Aldrich and Reb Beach do their whammy bar thang.

For those of you who understand the technical gubbins, this was shot in 1080/24PsF High Definition with no less than 13 cameras, mixing black/white and colour pictures, shot in high definition with four different audio soundtracks - stereo, 5.1 SRS Circle Surround, 5.1 Multi-channel, and 5.1 DTS.

Very sensibly they decided to record this at the Hammersmith Odeon (stuff that Apollo nonsense, it will always be the Hammy O to me), and they manage to pull off the trick of making you feel like you're there. something that would have been lost in the tin sheds that pass for concert venues these days.

Dear David hams it up like only he can, and although his voice has suffered over the years, he's professional enough to realise this and use the range he has. This was a treat from begining to end and as a first venture into the world of DVD, this is a winner and puts most major label efforts to shame. The only downer is the lack of extras with just a dull behind the scenes snippet masquerading as a documentary and some photos.

If you do the sensible thing and buy the 'limited' edition you'll also get a ten track CD with Burn / Give Me All Your Love / Is This Love / Love Ain't No Stranger / Judgement Day / Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City / Fool For Your Lovin' / Here I Go Again / Take Me With You and Still Of The Night for your bucks.