Coverdale and Page (album)
Occupation
- Song: David Coverdale
- Guitar: Jimmy Page
Coverdale / Page is the title of the only album of blues-rock project of musician David Coverdale ( Whitesnake, vocals) and Jimmy Page ( Led Zeppelin, guitar), published in 1993.
Formation
1991, decided David Coverdale, former lead singer of Deep Purple and Whitesnake, and Jimmy Page, former guitarist of The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin to record an album together. They wrote together numerous titles, of which seventeen were from the fall of 1991 a complete package to the early winter of 1992 and were recorded.
For the images, especially the "Little Mountain Sound Studios " of the Canadian producer Bruce Fairbairn in Vancouver ( Canada ) and the "Abbey Road Studios " in London ( UK ), were used. Other recordings took place in Miami (Florida, " Criteria Studios " ) and in Hook City (Nevada; " Highbrow Productions " ) instead. In addition to the eponymous musicians Coverdale and Page, Mike Fraser, the sound engineer Bruce Fairbairn, who is responsible for the production of the album.
When the album was released in March 1993, it contained eleven tracks. Ceased included the recorded title Good Love, saccharin and Southern Comfort.
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The cover showed a diamond-shaped, fictitious trade sign a black, upward-pointing arrow on yellow background. The arrow is obviously the merging of two paths to a symbolize, as well as the usual straight line in the midst of another, in an arc uniting with the main line line is to be seen. In this direction also David Coverdale said in interviews.
The sign is shown in the booklet to the album repeatedly. Thus it can be seen, for example, mounted between two rows of logs and on a cattle pasture, stands in front of the Pyramids of Giza, in front of a pile of scrapped cars or in the surf of a roiling sea by storm.
In the U.S., four singles were released, namely Over Now (ranked 24 in the " Mainstream Rock Charts " ), Pride And Joy (1st place), Shake My Tree ( 3rd place), and Take Me For A Little While ( 15th place). However, none of the singles on the Billboard Hot 100 was placed. In the UK, two singles who were able to reach the charts, that is Take Me For A Little While ( 29th place ) and Take A Look At Yourself ( No. 43 ) published.
It was the time of the release of the album suggested that Page, the project started to irritate his former Led Zeppelin Robert Plant companions, who had shown himself reluctant to work again with Page. In interviews from that time, Plant expressed mostly mocking the cooperation of Page and Coverdale.
The album was re-released in 2001.
Reception
The reactions to the album were mixed, but mostly positive. Often compared to the Led Zeppelin was tried, which was also true. So recognized Stephen Thomas Erlewein from the website Allmusic.com that " everything around Coverdale / Page around the attempt to capture the pompous majesty of Led Zeppelin. Of course, this does not succeed, but the album leaves all other Zep clones in the dust. "
The Audio magazine wrote:
" The Remains of the box set of Led Zeppelin songs, Jimmy Page mixed recently for another box from new. This inspired the guitarist apparently the project with David Coverdale, former vocalist for Deep Purple and Whitesnake. The roars almost as brutal as once los Robert Plant, phase-wise ( Pride & Joy) confusingly. Also, a power ballad like Take Me For A Little While converts versed on the ridge between yesterday and today. Not only those who missed Led Zep, comes with the two full- juice - rockers at his expense. "
The German magazine Rock Hard awarded 9 points for the album and ruled:
" The result is approximately to that mixture of both background, which was a priori most likely. Time stamps the story à la " Slide It In " straight through the countryside, topped by the inimitable Coverdale'schen Schmachtfetzengesang, sometimes dominate the grooves from the patents of John Bonham in conjunction with the capricious squeezed out, mystical Page leads. The melodic orientation of the numbers ( consistently good to excellent songs ) is a successful symbiosis between the "commercial" vein dar. Coverdale and the like always easy gruftigen Zeppelin - Touch "
In Canada, Coverdale / Page was awarded a platinum record for more than 100,000 albums sold in the U.S., it received the award for more than 1 million albums sold.
Title list
All tracks were written by David Coverdale and Jimmy Page.
Musician list
- David Coverdale: vocals
- Jimmy Page: Electric guitars, acoustic guitars, bass, dulcimer
- Denny Carmassi: Drums
- Jorge Casas: Bass
- Ricky Phillips: Bass
- John Harris: harmonica
- Lester Mendez: Keyboards
- Tommy Funderburk: Backing Vocal
- John Sambataro: Backing vocal