Coverdale and Page
Coverdale / Page was a 1991 project launched the two British musician David Coverdale and Jimmy Page. They released one album under this name, and put the project then no longer continue.
History
Jimmy Page had several projects started after the end of Led Zeppelin ( 1980), with whom he was more or less successful, including XYZ, The Honeydrippers, or The Firm, before finally in 1988 began his only solo album entitled Outrider. Besides, he had variously worked as a guest musician on albums of other artists, even on the 1988 also released album Now and Zen of his former Led Zeppelin Robert Plant colleagues.
David Coverdale was known in 1973 as the successor of the singer Ian Gillan in Deep Purple and had subsequently founded Whitesnake. With this group he had 1987 (1987) and 1989 ( Slip of the Tongue ) worldwide celebrated great success and reached the Top Ten of the respective album charts, among others, in the UK and the USA. In 1990 he was a guest musician on the album Passion and Warfare of guitarist Steve Vai, and had the song Last Note Of Freedom recorded for the soundtrack to the film Days of Thunder.
In 1991, Coverdale and Page got together. The reason for this, some critics suspected that Robert Plant had backed out during a scheduled comebacks of Led Zeppelin and Page wanted to annoy him by working with Coverdale. Plant himself said in interviews repeatedly mocking Coverdale / Page, when he was asked to do so.
The album, which Coverdale and Page with producer Mike Fraser and the musicians Denny Carmassi (drums, formerly Montrose ), Jorge Casas ( bass), Ricky Phillips (bass ), John Harris ( accordion ) and Lester Mendez (keyboards) worked was built between 1991 and the early winter of 1992 in various studios in London, Vancouver, Miami and Hook City and was released in March 1993 under the title Coverdale / Page.
It reached the charts in the UK, the U.S. and Germany and other countries and has been awarded in Canada and the USA with platinum for more than 100,000 ( Canada ) or more than 1 million ( U.S. ) albums sold. Despite this initial success, the album quickly disappeared from public view; a planned tour of arenas in the United States had to be canceled.
In December 1993, Coverdale and Page were able to go on tour in Japan, where the band by the musician Denny Carmassi (drums), Brett Tuggle (keyboards ) and Guy Pratt ( bass) were completed. On this tour, also known songs by Led Zeppelin ( Rock N ' Roll, Kashmir, Black Dog ) and Whitesnake ( Still of the Night, Here I Go Again) played alongside the songs from their joint album.
After the end of the Japan tour, the project was considered a failure. Page was formed almost immediately with Page & Plant Robert Plant; they published in 1994, the album No Quarter. Coverdale teamed up again with his former guitarist Adrian Vandenberg together and published in 1997 the CD Restless Heart, which was originally planned as a solo album, under pressure from the record company but again under the name "White Snake " was released.
Discography
- Over Now (USA)
- Pride And Joy ( USA)
- Shake My Tree (USA)
- Take Me For A Little While (USA, Europe)