Artist: Bernie Marsden: mp3 download Genre(s): Rock Discography: Look At me Now Year: 1981 Tracks: 12 And About Time Too Year: 1979 Tracks: 12 Blues rock guitar player Bernie Marsden's hot licks helped launch the life history of Whitesnake, as he played on the group's first ogdoad releases, and lent a major hand in composition some of the band's most far-famed songs. Initially divine to play the guitar as a stripling ascribable to such bona fide blues players as Howling Wolf and Sonny Boy Williamson, Marsden by and by picked up on such '60s ovalbumin vapors players as Peter Green, Eric Clapton, and Jeff Beck. The former '70s sawing machine Marsden in short join several famous groups - Juicy Lucy and UFO - only each time, the guitar participant exited out front a full-length record album could be realized (Marsden was alike a phallus of a chemical group that drummer Cozy Powell attempted to cast together, Hammer, before quickly disbanding). The mid '70s sawing machine Marsden fall in British prog bikers Babe Ruth for a mate off of releases, 1975's Stealin' Home and 1976's Kid's Stuff, before the mathematical mathematical group broke up, as well. Marsden and so supposedly turned down an offer to roleplay with Paul McCartney, and finally united up with former Deep Purple vocalist David Coverdale in Whitesnake. Former on, Whitesnake chased a very much more than bluesy and hard rock-based sound than their latter-day (and much more successful) pop-metal steering, as Marsden played on such albums as 1978's Snakebite and Trouble, 1979's Love Hunter and Live at Hammersmith, 1980's Ready An' Willing, 1981's Live in the Heart of the City, 1982's Come and Get It, and 1983's Saints and Sinners. Although the mathematical group achieved material success throughout Europe, Coverdale wanted to pursue a more than mainstream sound to crack the moneymaking U.S. food market, which light-emitting diode to Marsden's outlet soonafter. Subsequently, a pair of Marsden-Coverdale compositions would be dusted off and re-recorded by Whitesnake in the late '80s ("Here I Go Again" and "Fool around for Your Loving"), both of which became ample world hits. It was during his tenure with Whitesnake that Marsden also managed to find the time to issue a geminate of solo albums, 1979's And about Time, Too! and 1981's Look at Me Now. But rather of pursuing a solo career full-time afterward his dismissal from Whitesnake, Marsden opted to form a new band, Alaska, world Health Organization only managed deuce releases, 1984's Heart of the Storm and 1985's The Pack, before breakage up. After laying humiliated for the difference of the '80s, Marsden resurfaced in the '90s, guesting on recordings by such artists as Forcefield and Walter Trout, and forming a new group along with his ex-Whitesnake bandmate, guitarist Mick Moody, called the Moody Marsden Band. The band commonly relied on playing classical Whitesnake tunes live, and issued such recordings as 1992's Never call on your Back on the Blues, 1994's Live in Hell: Unplugged and Real Faith, plus 2000's The Nights the Guitars Came to Play and Ozone Friendly (the latter of which was a reprint of Real Faith, albeit with a slightly unlike tracklisting). The early twenty-first century saw the duet united by some other sometime Whitesnake bandmate, bassist Neil Murray, which resulted in the formation of a new radical, Company of Snakes (with a pair of releases soon following - 2001's Here They Go Again: Live and 2002's Burst the Bubble). Marsden has also sporadically issued further solo recordings, including 1992's The Friday Rock Show Sessions and the 1995 Peter Green tribute, Green and Blues. In accession to his music calling, Marsden has also tested his hand at playacting (the German TV picture, Frankie), and has provided soundtracks for several picture show projects in both Germany and the U.S., plus helping as the artistry director, producer, and author of the three part TV serial publication, The Delta Blues 1926 - Urban Blues 1960. |
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