WHITESNAKE: 'Access All Areas: Live' Eight-CD Box Set Due In April
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Rhino Records will release WHITESNAKE's "Access All Areas: Live" on April 25.
Consisting of six live shows across eight CDs, "Access All Areas: Live" captures the raw excitement of WHITESNAKE in full flight, live on stage. Kicking off with "Live... In The Still Of Night", legendary rock singer David Coverdale is joined by Doug Aldrich and Reb Beach on lead guitar, longtime WHITESNAKE drummer Tommy Aldridge plus Marco Mendoza on bass. Recorded at London's iconic Hammersmith Apollo in 2004, the set includes the huge MTV hits "Is This Love", "Here I Go Again" and "Still Of The Night".
"Live... In The Shadow Of The Blues" on CD2 and CD3 was recorded on WHITESNAKE's 2006 world tour, and delves back to WHITESNAKE's earliest days with "Don't Break My Heart Again" and "Take Me With You". "Made In Japan" finds the band headlining the huge Loud Park festival in Japan in 2011, across CDs 3 and 4. "Made In Britain" unsurprisingly captures the band on David's home turf whilst on the "Forevermore" tour in 2011. "The World Record" was also captured in 2011 on the "Forevermore" tour, featuring hits such as "The Deeper The Love", as well as newer stage favorite "Can You Hear The Wind Blow".
This eight-disc set ends right back where David musical odyssey started, with "The Purple Tour". Now joined by lead guitarist Joel Hoekstra, WHITESNAKE power through songs from the earliest days of David's career with DEEP PURPLE, including "Burn", "The Gypsy", "Mistreated" and "Soldier Of Fortune".
Note: all material was previously released in the following sets:
* "Live... In The Still Of The Night" DVD/CD (Disc 1)
* "Live... In The Shadow Of The Blues" 2CD (Discs 2+3)
* "Made In Japan" 2CD/DVD (Discs 4+5)
* "Made In Britain"/"The World Record" 2CD (Discs 6+7)
* "The Purple Tour" (CD/DVD) (Disc 8)
In October 2023, Coverdale told SiriusXM's "Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk" about WHITESNAKE's future plans: "Well, my band and I are in touch all the time. There is still a WHITESNAKE and there are still offers coming. I can't entertain anything until I get my physical aspect together.
"I had a fall recently, which I don't think helped my… I've got two torn rotator cuffs, which would certainly compromise my performance," he explained. "But arthritis, all this kind of stuff's kicking in.
"My heart goes out to Steven [Tyler] after the [2023 AEROSMITH tour] cancelation. It's so awful, getting older and having this burden of responsibility to try to be as good as you can so you don't disappoint anybody. And I know how he feels and I sent my love to him through our friends, mutual friends.
"But I can't commit to anything until I know how my health is," David added. "The last thing I wanna do is go on tour and have to do what happened last year, which was come home, tail between my legs. It was heartbreaking. And being sick for a year didn't really help matters."
In May 2023, Coverdale told Rockonteurs about his respiratory infection: "That was really bad. When these things get on your cords, that just closes you down entirely.
"I spent a fortune keeping the guys [in my band] as safe as we could; we called it the 'COVID bubble.' Private jet wherever we went. And still COVID came in and took some of the crew out. It was really challenging."
Coverdale also shot down the suggestion that the WHITESNAKE farewell tour will drag on for many years to come. "I know contemporaries of mine that have been doing a farewell tour for 20 years," he said. "That's not it. I'm [73]. It's a number that I see and go, 'Really?' Because most of the time I certainly don't feel like that kind of age that would be the perspective we had growing up, when 20 looked old, 25 was ancient. 30? You're kidding. It's just fascinating to look at."
On June 28, 2022, WHITESNAKE scrapped three shows on its spring/summer European tour due to Coverdale's infection of the sinus and trachea. Three days later, the rest of the trek was also called off. At the time, David blamed the decision on "continuing health challenges, doctor's orders, and our concern for everyone's health and safety."
David was not the first member of WHITESNAKE to fall ill during the group's spring/summer 2022 European tour. Guitarist Reb Beach missed several shows on the trek in June 2022 after being "under the weather." On June 25, 2022, WHITESNAKE canceled its show at the Rock Imperium festival in Spain due to the fact that drummer Tommy Aldridge "went down" and "was bad enough at the time to have missed the first show ever in his career," according to Coverdale.
(Source: www.blabbermouth.net)
