Slide It In
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| Studio album by Whitesnake | ||||
| Released | January 1984 (UK) | |||
| Recorded | 1983 | |||
| Studio | Musicland Studios, Munich, Germany | |||
| Genre | Hard rock, heavy metal, blues rock | |||
| Length | 40:40 | |||
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Geffen/Warner Bros. (North America and Japan) Liberty (Rest of the world) |
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| Producer | Martin Birch | |||
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| Alternative cover | ||||
25th Anniversary CD-Release.
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| Singles from Slide It In | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 8/10 |
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Slide It In is the sixth studio album by British hard rock band Whitesnake, released in 1984. It was the first Whitesnake album to be released by Geffen Records in the US, but was remixed for the release there. Because of this, two different editions of the album exist, each with its own unique qualities. It was their fourth top 10 album in the UK, peaking at number 9. In 1988 the album re-entered the US charts due to the success of the self-titled Whitesnake album (1987 in Europe), and is certified double platinum. It was the final Whitesnake recording to use the band's original "snake" logo. The album sold finally over four million records[1].
Recordings of Slide It In began in 1983 at Musicland Studios in Munich, Germany with producer Eddie Kramer, who had been suggested to David Coverdale by Geffen Records A&R executive John Kalodner. But things within the band were not the same as they were before, as stated by Micky Moody in a 1997 interview:
"(…) I realised that as soon as we started rehearsing and playing that it wasn't the same band, it never felt right. Mel Galley is very talented, a good singer, a great guitar player, but that band just didn't work out. Cozy [Powell] was a great drummer, I always had a lot of respect for him, but he just didn't have any feel for the old Whitesnake sound. Cozy Powell brought with him a bass player called Colin Hodgkinson. Me and David knew Colin in the North East back in the sixties. He was a great legendary bass player, worked with the jazz/blues styles, but he never struck me as the bass player for Whitesnake. It was more the heavy metal attitude, probably because of Cozy's influence. He was a more heavy drummer than Ian Paice. There were flames and explosions going on, not really my cup of tea. It seems to me now that maybe Cozy wanted the band to be much more heavier and flasher."
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