2. Waiting On You
3. Take Me For A Little While
4. Pride and Joy
5. Over Now
6. Feeling Hot
7. Easy Does It
8. Take a Look At Yourself
9. Don't Leave Me This Way
10. Absolution Blues
11. Whisper a Prayer for the Dying
Coverdale - Page
| 1. Shake My Tree 2. Waiting On You 3. Take Me For A Little While 4. Pride and Joy 5. Over Now 6. Feeling Hot 7. Easy Does It 8. Take a Look At Yourself 9. Don't Leave Me This Way 10. Absolution Blues 11. Whisper a Prayer for the Dying |
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| Recent Releases None, this was a one time deal, they haven't recorded another album together |
Related Albums (in members): David Coverdale - Northwinds (1977) Plant - Page - Unledded (1995) |
| In 1993, guitar legend Jimmy Page and Whitesnake frontman David Coverdale hooked up and recorded Coverdale/Page. Okay, this is like mixing a golden retriever with a Labrador retriever, it's almost the same dog. Listen to any Whitesnake album and you can tell that David Coverdale was hugely influenced by Led Zeppelin, which is just fine. Many bands were influenced by Zeppelin, more or less, but Whitesnake does it better than most. I'm only a casual Whitesnake fan but David Coverdale has written some damn good Zeppelin-influenced songs over the years. So with Coverdale/Page, we get a dream team of sorts, it's Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin and David Coverdale, of the Zeppelin-like, bluesy hair metal band Whitesnake and it ends up being an excellent pairing. It helps that David Coverdale is a better singer than Robert Plant (even though Coverdale imitates Plant pretty effectively on the album). I don't know how the writing duties were split but I get the sense that Coverdale wasn't just writing the lyrics but was co-writing the music as well. Some of the songs are very Whitesnake-like (which may not mean much, considering the circumstances, Whitesnake-like = Zeppelin-like). Anyway, the collaboration works, we aren't talking about a great album but it is a good, fun album. |
The fast-paced, up-tempo
songs like "Shake My Tree", "Pride and Joy" and "Absolution
Blues" fair better on the album more than the slower-paced songs do. "Shake My
Tree" and "Pride and Joy" are equal parts Led Zeppelin and Whitesnake and
"Absolution Blues" sounds like classic Zeppelin (the long intro is a classic).
These three songs end up being the best on the entire album, though there are some other
standouts. The slower ballad-like "Take Me For A Little While" and "Whisper
A Prayer For the Dying" are both good songs but are perhaps a bit too long and
repetitious while the mid-tempo "Easy Does It", the chugging "Waiting On
You" and the equally-chugging "Over Now" get a little too tedious at times.
"Feeling Hot" is a good, fast Whitesnake-type song, the ballad "Take A Good
Look At Yourself" is a decent tune and the slow, plodding "Don't Leave Me This
Way" is too slow and plodding. But, despite the album's weaknesses, Coverdale/Page is
an interesting album, a must have for fans of David Coverdale but Zeppelin fans may not
appreciate Coverdale's Robert Plant-like howling even though Jimmy Page hasn't sounded
this good since his Led Zeppelin days. When it comes right down to it, I'd give my right
eye to see Page and Coverdale paired again. |