Old Enough to Forget

Happy Valentine's Day (VD, har de har har). For today's listening enjoyment I decided to spin one of rock's greatest collection of love songs. This is not high art ... and I should be a little ashamed of what is about to happen. But I really have no shame, so here goes. Let's peek under the covers and listen to Whitesnake's 1984 release Slide It In . Like a lot of people, this was my introduction to David Coverdale and Whitesnake. Which puts me firmly in the camp of the great unwashed, but I didn't care. I didn't have a deep well of musical knowledge at the time, other than what I liked I liked. Even now I'm surprised that I wasn't reading Rolling Stone, or reading Guitar Player and stuff back then. Oh sure, I'd flip through them in the magazine rack when I was looking for my comics, but I wasn't spending my limited cash on them. I'd rather pore over the credits and listen to the records in my room. Which is what I did. Oddly, that's...