Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Bernie Marsden (Whitesnake) - 'Trouble' ft David Coverdale (+unseen Whitesnake footage)

BERNIE MARSDEN
…reveals video for ‘Trouble’ featuring David Coverdale
Which includes unseen live footage of Whitesnake from 1980

+ 14 date UK November Tour with Joanne Shaw Taylor

Watch ‘Trouble’ Ft David Coverdale here
  
In August, guitar legend Bernie Marsden released his new solo album ‘Shine’ on Provogue Records. At a rough guesstimate Bernie Marsden’s name appears on a hundred albums – maybe more. In addition to a long-running solo career the Buckinghamshire-born guitarist has been a recording musician since the early 1970s via membership of such groups as Whitesnake, UFO, Wild Turkey, Babe Ruth, Paice Ashton & Lord, Cozy Powell’s Hammer, Alaska, M3 and many more. Though there’s a tendency to pigeonhole him as a blues-rock guitarist, each of Marsden’s acts had its own individual flavour.



The video features unseen live footage of Whitesnake from 1980, talking about the video Bernie remarks; "This video is very special. A few months ago I was given a reel of film by a fan of a Whitesnake gig at Newcastle City Hall on the "Ready an' Willing" tour in 1980. It is unique and unseen footage of the classic early Whitesnake line up.  Having had the enormous pleasure of hearing David Coverdale as a guest vocalist, and Ian Paice on drums on the track it seemed a perfect time to release just a little piece of it. It's a little grainy, but it is the real deal,  watch Jon Lord in classic style on the Hammond organ.  Many thanks to the people of the North East in the film, and of course the whole of the Whitesnake army out there. Special thanks to Mark Smith for his camera work and great editing. Hope you enjoy it, those on tour Snake memories flood back!"

Devotees of the blues genre are unlikely to overlook the fact that ‘Shine’ is released on Provogue Records – home of Joe Bonamassa, Eric Johnson, Robert Cray, Jonny Lang, Walter Trout and others – and many are likely to have put two and two together regarding its contents. But let’s be clear, shall we? ‘Shine’ is NOT a dyed-in-the-wool-blues album.

“To me, it’s a classic rock album with a modern feel,” points out Marsden with customary good cheer. “When I asked the bosses at Provogue what type of album they wanted from me, they simply replied: ‘Make a Bernie Marsden album’. And that’s what I did.”

The light, airy commercial feel of ‘Shine’ is largely attributable to producer Rob Cass, who pieced together its contents in Studio 3 of the legendary Abbey Road facility, though the backing tracks for three of its selections were cut at Riverside Studios in Somerset. During the 1980s Cass had actually spent six months as the lead singer of Marsden’s group Alaska before carving a career as a successful producer with a wide range of rock, pop and classical artists. It was Cass who sought out Marsden, emailing him to suggest they catch up over a reunion lunch at the home of his production company, located at Abbey Road Studios.

“Rob wanted to thank me for having sent him an air ticket to come to London from Ireland [to join Alaska] and helping to get his career underway,” Bernie relates. “Coincidentally, I was looking for a producer because I’ve been writing, playing and producing for too long. I really liked the sounds that Rob gets, and that’s how the whole thing came together. If people think I was recording at Abbey Road because Whitesnake’s ‘Here I Go Again’ made 18 gazillion quid then they’re quite wrong… though it did make 17 gazillion quid!” he adds with a hearty laugh.

Marsden believes that the famous facility has a special atmosphere that permeates the sounds created within its walls – hence the fact that the album’s final instrumental song is titled NW8, after the studio’s postcode.

“The Beatles recorded Revolver, my favourite album of theirs, in Studio 3, so it has that sense of history,” he says, “but I honestly believe Abbey Road to be the best studio in the world.”

Although Marsden was right to be wary of flooding the credits with too many special guests, ‘Shine’ does feature some extremely well-known names, from Joe Bonamassa to Whitesnake singer David Coverdale and the Deep Purple duo of Ian Paice (drums) and Don Airey (keyboards). Jimmy Copley of Jeff Beck fame behind the kit and Mark Feltham of Nine Below Zero also supplies some breathtaking harmonica playing. “I can’t help it, I’ve got a lot of mates – and quite a few of them are guitar players”, Bernie laughs.


November UK Tour w/Joanne Shaw Taylor   

Sat Nov 1st             Norwich Epic - £17.50 Tickets
Sun Nov 2nd           Sheffield City Hall Ballroom - £17.50  Tickets
Mon Nov 3rd          Leeds Wardrobe - £17.50 Tickets
Tue Nov 4th           Manchester Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) - £17.50 Ticket
Thu Nov 6th           Aberdeen Lemon Tree - £19.25 Tickets
Fri Nov 7th            Glasgow Arches - £17.50 Tickets
Sat Nov 8th           Stockton Arc - £17.50 Tickets
Wed Nov 12th     Exeter Corn Exchange - £17.50 Tickets
Thu Nov 13th       Falmouth Pavilion - £17.50 Tickets
Fri Nov 14th         Salisbury City Hall - £17.50 Tickets
Sat Nov 15th        Birmingham Town Hall - £17.50 Tickets
Tue Nov 18th       Cardiff Globe - £19.25 Tickets
Wed Nov 19th     London Shepherds Bush Empire - £22.50 Ticket
Thu Nov 20th       Bury St Edmunds Apex - £17.50 Tickets








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