One thing that music has been for me over the years is a way to escape the everyday hustle and bustle and often times take me to different places. Whether far away or ones I’ve been to before but may have seemed like such a distance memory. Last Friday Whitesnake took me back to a place in time when the only things on my mind were music and baseball - my senior year of high school.
This summer the Snake have just embarked on their Greatest Hits Tour and slid into Dallas on the second date of what will surely be one of the hottest tours to makes its way across the country. Less than a year since “The Purple Tour” made a stop in nearby Grand Prairie the Whitesnake faithful came out in droves to The Bomb Factory to relive the magic of a band who, behind one of the most charismatic, vocally captivating and titillating front-men in music - David Coverdale - have created some of the biggest arena rockers and sultry ballads to come out an era where hair was king.
My introduction to Whitesnake came in the form of 1984’s Slide It In, but it wasn’t until my senior year of high school that the band made the biggest impact with their release of their self-title here in the states, or 1987, as it is appropriately known. I saw the band 3 times on that tour: travelling to Dallas for the Texxas Jam, then a few months later when they supported Motley Crue who on the Girls, Girls, Girls Tour, before finally coming making their way back as the main act. I couldn’t get enough of them that year. “Still Of The Night” was a staple in my game day mix that I played every morning on the way to school during baseball season (you know, pitchers and their superstitions). “Here I Go Again” was voted our class song, so what does that say about the power of the Snake?