Alex Gitlin, questioned on "Moody-period-Whitesnake CDs to recommend":
"Trouble" (1978), "Lovehunter" (1979) and their pinnacle work, "Ready An'
Willing" (1980)"
Love Micky's work with Tramline, Whitesnake and Juicy Lucy. Fave cuts?
"Belgian Tom's Hat Trick" and the slide blues jam on the 1980 "Live... from
the heart of the city" by Whitesnake.
Paul Bradbeer:
Roughly concur with Alex - Whitesnake EP and first album was quite good
before they really got into hard rock material. This contains "Belgiums",
"Bloody Mary" "Stealaway" and "Ain't Love" (not live version) and after that
it's cherry picking. I was a massive Coverdale fan due to his voice but
unfortunately his lyrics are not specifically too good and consistently run
the same ground. Still Walking In the Shadow of the blues is good for Jon
Lord's contribution as I recall. Live I thought they were a bit drab apart
Jon Lord, some of the twin guitar interplay was neat, but as I recall they
were upstaged by their support band White Spirit, which featured Janick Gers
who I think joined Ian Gillans' Band.
Alex Gitlin again, building on Paul's info.:
The EP later came out on CD, in America, at least as "Snakebite", augmented
by 4 more solo songs from Coverdale's own solo album called "Whitesnake" in
1977.
I'd say live in the vintage years (late 70s/early 80s) they were excellent,
and I sorely miss out on having seen them in action in their prime. I have a
video to prove it, except it's from 1983, so Colin Hodgkinson (ACE player
himself) is on bass and Mel Galley is on guitar (in place of the departed
Bernie Marsden) along with Micky Moody.
Colin was in a top notch British jazz-rock band Back Door in the 70s, and
Mel, of course, in Trapeze and later Phenomena with Glenn Hughes.