David Coverdale performs in front of a near capacity crowd in Costa Mesa.
Eighties rock legend Whitesnake slithered through a hit filled show at the Pacific Amphitheatre last night. As part of the OC Fair's 2009 Summer Concert Series, Whitesnake performed for close to 75 minutes which kept the crowd on their feet the entire night.
Thirty years belting out vocals has not been nice to front-man David Coverdale, as he had trouble hitting the high notes during many portions of the show. However the musicianship of the band was phenomenal. Guitarist Doug Aldrich performed an amazing and entertaining show, while Uriah Duffy drove the tempo with his driving bass lines.
Opening the show with a brief intro the band quickly broke into "Best Years" off their 2008 release, the first in over a decade, "Good to be bad." This would be one of only two tracks, the other being "Lay Down Your Love" that were not from the 2 mega albums of the eighties.
"Slide it in" released in 1984 quickly rose to a double platinum rating, while producing the hits "Slow an' Easy" and "Love aint no stranger" both of which were performed last night. The band however spent a majority of their show performing songs from their 8x platinum 1987 selftitled album, which was just fine with the near capacity crowd in Costa Mesa.
The end of the show was power packed with sing along favorites "Cryin in the rain," "Is this love?" and "Give me all your Love." After some brief banter with the crowd, Coverdale and company rocked through their Number 1 hit "Here I go Again" before closing the show with "Still of the Night."
Although Coverdale had challenges with not hitting the high-notes, they managed to put on one phenomenal show that had everyone singing and dancing in the aisles.
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