BLINDMAN

Song: Blindman

Artist: Whitesnake

This song is part of the Whitesnake's album called Ready an' Willing. 

It was the mid eighties when I got this, my first hard rock record. In a time when the internet was still to be part of our lives, the choice of a determined book or album was sometimes a matter of luck because of the lack of references or information. Perhaps I had just seen a guy wearing a T-shirt of the group and that triggered it all. Who knows!

However it was, that tape would become the reason why I am into hard rock music and that says a lot.

The album is a quite perfect one and within it we can find the song I introduce here. A sort of hidden gem among other most remarkable recordings of the band and I daresay among 70's and 80's hard rock songs.

David Coverdale founder of Whitesnake, composer and singer of the themes is in my opinion, the warmest voice of the genre and this particular song is a beautiful composition full of poetry that progressively grows and achieves climax conveying desperation when the happiness is light but you feel blind.

This song will ever be part of my path and a tune to lean on when in search of some light.

Here's a song for you… Blindman  by Whitesnake

https://open.spotify.com/track/1VbhZuhrTmghVOUWj2KLAz?si=OfK0igwaSMO7sxk3IB4ofg

Comments

Post a Comment

Please let your comments here!

Popular posts from this blog

A PAST AND FUTURE SECRET / THE SCRIPT FOR MY REQUIEM

Song: A Past And Future Secret / The Script For My Requiem Artist: BLIND GUARDIAN Here we are to celebrate the new year with Blind Guardian, one of the most successful German bands in Heavy Metal. And we do it with two songs in a row from one of their best albums. On other occasions, I have set an intro and its following theme. This time, the first song is not an intro. It is a standalone entity but creates the perfect atmosphere for the subsequent one. Thus, as the first theme is a delicate and bucolic melody, the latter is a power metal track that rolls out all the band's strength. And they do it with complex musical structures and choruses, as is usual with Blind Guardian. The whole album is a masterpiece inspired by well-known fantasy books. Do you fancy entering medieval times full of magic and spells? Places where swords rule. Here you are to face the blind guardian. https://open.spotify.com/track/6bN0ge8bHLzXxKrfUfIKtx?si=ptm48V_nSUmn8DP7j41fyw https://open.spotify.com/track...
Read more

BATTLE TO THE LAST

Song: Battle To The Last Artist: DARKNESS This month I want to dust off the music of Darkness .  Some may say there are many bands with that name, but for me, there's only one Darkness. For those who are not familiar with the band, they became, in the late 80s, representative of what we could now call the purest old-school German Thrash style .  Their first two albums are cult items which I was lucky enough to have in my hands. Their records feature underground-drawn artwork that matches their vision of a world in chaos.  What I like most about this band is their raw sound. Listening to their albums is like being at a live concert. The sound of all the instruments is like a jab right in your veins.  I think I was really fortunate to enjoy their music at a time when their aesthetics  clicked with a world where chemicals, nuclear menace , and West-East tension were commonplace.  You'd better run for cover, since here I bring you a perfect discharge of Thras...
Read more

YOU CAN'T KILL ROCK AND ROLL

Song: You Can't Kill Rock and Roll Artist: OZZY OSBOURNE This month I want to pay my respects to a real artist who passed away last month. Ozzy Osbourne will always be part of the history of Heavy Metal as one of the major names in the genre. And I'm not going to speak about him beyond his records and musical performance. I am not interested in the celebrity. There are enough people adoring his life off stage, and this is a blog about music. So, no more tickets for the circus. I remember, as a teenager back in the early eighties, when I first listened to the album Sabbath Bloody Sabbath , knowing little about him and his band, Black Sabbath . They were one of the big names pushing Heavy Metal into a golden era, as an evolution of 70s Hard Rock . And this is the true thing. Ozzy Osbourne was a real icebreaker, breaking through the righteous. And he did it with a priceless legacy, his voice. Thus, Ozzy is one of the best singers in the history of Rock. His voice was unmistakabl...
Read more