Live... In The Heart Of The City Hagerstown MD

Live... In The Heart Of The City

Whitesnake

Geffen Records, 1980

http://www.whitesnake.com/

REVIEW BY: Christopher Thelen

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 07/04/1997

About the only good thing that comes out of a move is you get achance to rediscover some lost, forgotten treasures. With therecent move of the Pierce Memorial Archives, I have had a lot ofchances to "rediscover" stuff that I had forgotten I owned.

One such discovery was the catalog from the group Whitesnake.Despite what many people may think, this band was not born at thetime of "Here I Go Again" and videos featuring Tawny Kitaen. Leadsinger David Coverdale has spent a good portion of his career, bothwith Whitesnake and as the lead singer of Deep Purple, fine-tuninghis blues and hard rock-approach to his music.

The problem is that their entire early catalog has beencriminally ignored - for that matter, I don't think it's readilyavailable in the States anymore. That's a shame - 'cause their 1980release Live... In The Heart Of The City showed how solid this bandhad become.

At this time, it didn't hurt that Coverdale had two formerbandmates from Deep Purple sitting in - keyboardist Jon Lord anddrummer Ian Paice. The two-guitar attack of Bernie Mardsen andMickey Moody, as well as the bass work of Neil Murray, made thisundoubtedly one of the strongest lineups Whitesnake ever had. (Iknow I'm forgetting about Slide It In, one of my favorite Whitesnake albums.)