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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