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I like Whitesnake before 1987, but Top is just greater.
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Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Whitesnake was a parody of them selves from day one.
say what?
what does this really mean? 
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ZZ Top for sure.....their first 3 or 4 albums were damn good blues rock imho...after that even though they wrote some 'radio hits'.,  they became a parody of themselves.
Whitesnake was a parody of them selves from day one.


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I lost what I wrote twice, slow internet, errors and access denied. 

The people that laugh at Whitesanke are those who know only their MTV videos or their 1987 album. But Coverdale and Whitesnake are so much more. Their albums from 1977 to 1984 are great. I don't mind their commercial period either. 
And then there's Coverdale's collaboration with Page, so underrated it hurts. There's a blues number Don't Leave Me This way that, to me at least, is better than anything ZZTOP ever did. 
Restless Heart is another album that is bluesy and the song to top them all is Take Me Back Again. 
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ahhh... one of the very few things you and I disagree with. They ain't bad darling... pretty good actually...but to these ears compared to authentic blues-rock like ZZtop... they are what they sound.. 2nd rate... whose only real concept of the blues and hard living...is having to go to tax exile because their f**king gov't is having to take their bread man.  
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Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Whitesnake by a mile, although only pre 1987. When Coverdale sacked the British band and reformed with a load of Scandinavian hair metal poodles they nosedived in quality so f***ing fast, when they hit the ground they were identifiable only through DNA analysis of their splattered remains. Their music was stripped of all emotion and originality. Awful terrible rubbish.

Never liked ZZ Top.


Couldn't agree more. Pre-1987 Whitesnake were a great hard rock-blues band, as witnessed by their outstanding live album Live... In the Heart of the City. The original versions of "Here I Go Again" and "Crying in the Rain" smoke those pitiful excuses for songs that were released in the late Eighties. Incidentally, I saw Whitesnake and ZZ Top on stage on the same day, at the 1983 edition of the Monsters of Rock festival in Castle Donington. Whitesnake (who headlined) were great, with Cozy Powell on drums and Jon Lord on keyboards - but ZZ Top almost put me to sleep, playing more or less the same song for 40 minutes.
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Whitesnake - but only when they were a great blues rock band with Moody, Marsden etc.
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hahah...  ummm hmmmm...   pffff.. this topic again..

lesson here kiddies...



the blues smokes metal.   Substance over flash...  
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ZZ Top and yes, they are beard metal.
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Whitesnake
and NO, they are NOT hair metal. 
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The Top.  No contest.
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Whitesnake by a mile, although only pre 1987. When Coverdale sacked the British band and reformed with a load of Scandinavian hair metal poodles they nosedived in quality so f***ing fast, when they hit the ground they were identifiable only through DNA analysis of their splattered remains. Their music was stripped of all emotion and originality. Awful terrible rubbish.

Never liked ZZ Top.
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ZZ Top, but Whitesnake has some good stuff too.
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ZZ Top were little more than a comedy band for me, I vote for Whitecock, I mean snake.
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ZZ is the Tops.
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Points: 6777 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 23 2017 at 18:43
Yeah, ZZ Top for me. Not only did they nail Texas blues rock, they're simply one of the most iconic bands on the planet. The beards! The car! The spinning guitars! What's not to love? 

Whitesnake always struck me as pretty generic hair metal, though I did enjoy the material Steve Vai did with them.
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Anything from Tres Hombres and Fandango blows away anything Whitesnake ever did.








Edited by The Dark Elf - February 23 2017 at 18:36
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ZZ Top obviously... but pre-MTV Whitesnake was pretty good stuff. Still nothing they did compares to that little ol' band from Texas!!
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ZZTop. What a fun band!
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When it comes to Whitesnake, Slip Of the Tongue was the high point for me. I did enjoy Steve Vai and Adrian Vandenberg on guitars.
I go way back with ZZ Top so they get my vote.
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