Musica: Still of the Night - Whitesnake

WHITESNAKE - STILL OF THE NIGHT

Whitesnake es una banda británica de hard rock fundada en el año 1978 por David Coverdale, después de su separación de la banda Deep Purple, de la cual formó parte durante el periodo 1973-1976. Durante sus primeros años, su música estaba esencialmente orientada hacia el hard rock, el blues y el soul, viendose el cambio algo drástico de su estilo musical durante los años 80s orientado al mercado americano. Un aspecto que ha caracterizado a la banda es la inconsistencia de sus distintas formaciones a lo largo de los años, involucrando a distintos músicos británicos o norteamericanos, con David Coverdale, fundador de la banda, como único miembro permanente.

Still of the Night" (also known as "In the Still of the Night") is a single released by Whitesnake, from their hugely successful self titled 1987 album. It reached #16 in the U.K., #18 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock Tracks and #79 on the Billboard Hot 100 when it was released on March 9, 1987. In 2009 it was named the 27th best hard rock song of all time by VH1. The song was written by lead singer David Coverdale and guitarist John Sykes, and proved to be one of the band's most popular songs. It combines the blues origins of the band with the more distorted, harder sound driving the song, making for a powerful hard rock song. The current Whitesnake lineup and John Sykes both play the song as their live encore.

In 2009, in an interview with Metal Hammer, Coverdale commented on the origins of the song:

"When my mother died I was going through the stuff at her house and found some early demo cassettes. One of them was a song that Ritchie Blackmore and I had been working on which was the basic premise of what would become "Still of the Night". It was totally unrecognizable, so Ritchie doesn't have anything to worry about... neither do I! Ha ha ha! I took it as far as I could then I gave it to Sykesy when we were in the south of France, and he put the big guitar hero stuff on there. John hated blues so I had to work within those parameters. I manipulated to be electric blues, but how he performed it was fabulous for his time and relatively unique because of the songs. There were a lot of people doing that widdly stuff but they didn't have the quality of those songs."

The song has been cited as sounding similar to Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog", a possible source of inspiration for Coverdale and Sykes. The cymbal and hi-hat work, as well as the distorted guitar noise and Coverdale's moans in the breakdown of the song have also been noted to bear a resemblance to "Whole Lotta Love," yet another comparison to Led Zeppelin.

Fuente: wikipedia

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