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UMe – 2006

The band does a flawless live performance of "Bad Boys" with Aldrich & Beach capturing some incredible guitar work to go with Coverdale’s lead vocals. It’s so cool to hear the bluesy "Love Ain’t No Stranger" with this band supercharging it. Coverdale does his thing in "Ready An’ Willing." The fifth track takes us back to the band’s huge 1987 ballad "Is This Love."

Tommy Aldridge’s slow purposeful beat is completely infectious in "Judgement Day." This leads into "Blues For Mylene" which is where Doug Aldrich goes off. Aldrich makes the most of the time to shred up his Les Paul. The band joins him to give him background blues to continue the fret onslaught in "Snake Dance." But Aldrich mixes it up playing in beautiful emotional tones that would make Neal Schon smile.

"Crying In The Rain" is beautifully rendered with scorching guitar by Aldrich and Tommy Aldridge’s active percussion. In fact, Aldridge pounds the heck of his kit with stick and his bare hands during his drum solo which takes place during this tenth song.

Coverdale gets the crowd to sing along and then take over the chorus of "Ain’t No Love In the Heart Of the City." The band seems real relaxed and comfortable in "Don’t Break My Heart." The guitar sound in the beginning of "Fool For Your Lovin’" is wicked.

Coverdale leads the crowd to join in and sing "Here I Go Again." Then Coverdale grabs maracas to lead the band into the funky opening of "Take Me With You."

Whitesnake finishes off the night with a killer version of "Still of the Night." Aldrich and Beach’s guitar distortion is plain wicked. The band gets the slow down part with strings leading into the guitar solo just right. You‘ll get goose bumps and feel your hair stand up. Coverdale is just amazing in the song and the song will leave you feeling completely energized on a high note.

This DVD comes with a documentary that is sure to interest any fan of the band or just the casual rock and roller. It tells the story of how this concert came together and the line-up of musicians involved. Tommy Aldrich really respects that David Coverdale is able to retain his vision of he band with all the line-ups over the years. Doug Aldrich says that David Coverdale contacted him a few years ago and said he would be reforming the band, Aldrich replied that he would absolutely be interested. Reb Beach states that there isn’t many gigs that a player like him can look to be part of but Whitesnake is one of the few and so he basically stalked Coverdale to be in the band. Timothy Drury was a fan of the band growing up and loves being part of this group of guys. Marco Mendoza says that DC is a singer’s singer. Behind the scenes technicians tell how they set the lights and the sound for the show and it’s interesting to see how involved they get to prepare for the show. Reb Beach talks about his guitar, stating it was his first guitar for a Twisted Sister session. It cost him $1,800.00 and 5 years to pay off. Speaking of guitars, Doug Aldrich shows the initials JP on the back of one of his Les Paul guitars, which came from Jimmy Page carving his initials with a fork. I enjoyed hearing the DVD Director Hamish Hamilton talk about how he approached his direction to capture the show. Hamilton’s goal was to put the viewer right in the middle of the audience. There is also a Photo Gallery presented as a movie with "Here I go Again" playing as the pictures stepping through on their own. I like photo galleries like this the best because you don’t have to do any work.

WHITESNAKE – LIVE IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT is a stellar presentation that is easily one of the better DVDs I’ve seen this year.

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