― dave q, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― duane, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Saxon & Judas Priest in the heydey of NWOBHM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip0G-DQr5l4
Not sure what the program is.
― moley, Friday, 23 November 2007 00:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Whitesnake loses by default. Whitesnake would even lose to White Lion.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 23 November 2007 00:49 (sixteen years ago) link
SAXON!!!
― chad, Friday, 23 November 2007 01:33 (sixteen years ago) link
http://cdn.last.fm/coverart/300x300/1418634.jpg
― chad, Friday, 23 November 2007 01:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Which is the best Saxon album in your opinion?
― moley, Friday, 23 November 2007 02:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Denim & Leather is the most anthemic. Wheels of Steel is next and was Saxon's unanimous UK charting success. Strong Arm of the Law has the best bite down hard riff in the entire catalog in ita title track although the rest of it rather compales in comparison.
Not the best horse race to rate. Byf was never as good as David Coverdale. Plus, Whitesnake was, at one point, Deep Purple incognito.
Whitesnake was huge in the US. Saxon was an opening band, at best, in the US. Whitesnake cycled guitar heroes -- Sykes, Vai, Vandenberg.
― Gorge, Friday, 23 November 2007 02:52 (sixteen years ago) link
That'd be 'pales in comparison' -- Thanksgiving bubbly working.
― Gorge, Friday, 23 November 2007 02:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Awful comparison, actually. Whitesnake was actually a bunch of bands. Saxon was always Saxon until the 21st century. There was the Whitesnake that was blooz rock continuing on from Deep Purple after Come Taste the Band, ejection of Glenn Hughes, etc. Records made never released in the US until much later on. Then John Sykes, Cozy Powell and such were dragged in as sidemen to Coverdale. Hooked up with big producer to make Slide (Slip?) it In which actually did accomplish something in the US.
Then entire band was sacked and Coverdale hooked up with Hollywood session hacks Dan Huff (still producing modern country hits for Keith Urban) and Heart/Montrose drummer Denny Carmassi. Made the huge single which you all know at which point another band -- Sykes in again, I think, was assembled to make the album which featured Coverdale's then squeeze, Tawny Kitaen, in its major video. The album was sold on videos with Steve Vai as guitarist.
Whitesnake's entire US success was build on pop songs and ad hoc session work.
― Gorge, Friday, 23 November 2007 03:04 (sixteen years ago) link
There is a lot of bullshit talked on this thread.
Anyway: Saxon for rocking out, Whitesnake for Ladies' Night.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 23 November 2007 16:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Strong Arm of the Law for me. "20,000 Feet" still destroys.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 23 November 2007 16:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, "Strong Arm of the Law" kills. It's ripe for someone minor to redo it. "Dallas 1 PM" also merits mention.
― Gorge, Friday, 23 November 2007 16:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Hell yeah.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 23 November 2007 16:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Pre-Sarzo/Vandenberg/Scottish dick from Dio-era Whitesnake MOP THE FLOOR with fuckin' Saxon. "Slow N' Easy" shits over the entire Saxon catalog from a great, brown, splattery height.
― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 24 November 2007 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, but tell us what you really think Alex.
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 24 November 2007 19:44 (sixteen years ago) link
SAXON. (early.)
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Sunday, 25 November 2007 09:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Been listening a lot to both Saxon and pre-Tawny Whitesnake lately and they're both really solid. Neither blows me away with any consistency, but both at their peaks were better than the shit impression left in their wakes as time wore on. Long slow skidmark into oblivion.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 18 June 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
Whitesnake 78-82 wipe the floor with any era of Saxon. But the comparison is a bit apples and oranges - although both became successful in the UK off the back of NWOBHM, they've got very little in common. It's a bit like comparing Talking Heads and Jayne County on the basis that both were CBGB punk bands.
― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens), Monday, 18 June 2012 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think "wipe the floor", but as you say very different bands. Both worthy of praise.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 18 June 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
early Saxon is hella fucking fun fuiud
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 24 July 2014 02:13 (nine years ago) link
EZ Snappin says "Long slow skidmark into oblivion."
Seriously, thanks. I've been laughing for a few minutes at this.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 24 July 2014 21:45 (nine years ago) link
yeah that was a good one
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 24 July 2014 21:55 (nine years ago) link
Sadly, one of my few moments
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 24 July 2014 22:37 (nine years ago) link
Slow N' Easy" shits over the entire Saxon catalog from a great, brown, splattery height.
― Alex in NYC, Saturday, November 24, 2007 1:01 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^classic alex
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 24 July 2014 23:03 (nine years ago) link
how could dave q hate on rainbow :(
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 25 July 2014 00:30 (nine years ago) link