Part 2Question: The band consists of musicians who played in bands like Dio, Ozzy Osbourne, Alice Cooper. Does that mean that the next album will have heavy, metallic sounding?
Girl translated, David, not hearing well says: “could you speak louder?”
then inviting her with a hand to come closer says: “oh, come on, here”
and tells turning to the audience: “this is the new keyboard player!”
everybody laughsDavid: No, it’s gonna sound like these players work with me. It’s not gonna sound anything like Alice Cooper, it’s not gonna sound anything like Dio, it’s not gonna sound anything like Ozzy Osbourne, it’s gonna sound like fucking Whitesnake!
A guy asks question, David replies: “yes, sir!”
everybody laughs
Guy continues: Who was Tommy Bolin for you? Do you play any songs in concert dedicating to him?David: from Tommy? From that time? No, but we are playing some…
audience says: “for Tommy”<br>David: No, I hold those memories in my heart. I don't play anything for Cozy Powell either. These things are personal and in my heart; it's nothing to do with these musicians.
Question: Ok, a question here. As it is known in 1969 Jon Lord, Deep Purple keyboard player, was interested in you as a vocalist. Do you remember that? Were there any interesting moments during that meeting? It was when you were singing with The Government.
Girl starts to translate: “In 1969…”
David exclaims: “I wasn’t even born!”
A big laugh.David: Oh, no, no – that was too early… oh, God, it may have been 1969! I was opening for Deep Purple just after Ian Gillan and Roger Glover joined the band, they hadn't made any records and I think Jon and Ritchie were not sure if it was gonna work out. I was just an opening act, it was Sheffield university in England.
The guy who asked the question started to say something in English and David said pointing at him: "You speak English?!"
[everyone laughs] David wanted to add something but some girl said: “We all speak English”
David turns to her and exclaims: “Well, speak English!!!”
then turns to the guy with the question and continues: Oh, no, it was just extremely exciting for me. This is very funny...hopefully...well, I think it's funny, I'll try to explain it. Jon Lord was, well, he was very very nice to me. Jon Lord is a very nice man. If any of you ever meet him, it's a very charming man, very articulate man, of course a great musician. He said: “Wow, you got a great voice”. Well, for me this was just incredible. I was a kid, you know, still at college just…whatever…So this was really exciting that a star gave me such a compliment. And Ian Gillan said: “Oh, what a pity, your microphone is all distorted!”
[laughs] Bastard!
[everybody laughs hard]. Which word for "Bastard” in Russian I don’t know?
[everybody laughs, a guy says something] David replies: Is it okay? Bastard will be fine, Okay.
And says again: “Bastard!”
then continues: yes, so, and I watched my letterbox for
[waves hand] weeks, hoping a letter would come: “Dear David, come and join Deep Purple.” However, you know, I got my opportunity later, so I'm very grateful to that.
Then turns to the audience: “only in English por favor!”<br>
Girl started to translate in indecision, David says: "No, it’s okay, no"
While she translates David says something to Doug and Marco, they smile. When she finished, David said: "I’m sorry, I was so long."
The guy said: “Thank you very much."
David: Thank you.
Someone started to ask, David said: “yeah, could we ask him
[pointing at Marco] something, this exotic dark flower, this orchid, this orchid on base? When you see him tomorrow you'll be going: "oh, God, why didn’t we ask him a question?!"
Question: About tomorrow’s concert…<br>David: We’ve…we’ve met before, you and I, have I seen you before?
Guy says yes.David: I thought so.
I say [YEVGENY]: David, a question. I’m from your bulletin board.
Organizer interferes asking to speak in Russian so David doesn’t hear me and says: "from?"
I repeat in English: from your bulletin board.
David points at me surprisingly and exclaims: Yevgeny! How are you? Kak dèla?
Me: Thank you! I wanted to ask you: when you started your Whitesnake.com site could you expect such enormous benefits in fans sense?
David: Well, first let me say how...what a pleasure it is to meet you, to actually see you.
To the audience: we have… for those of you here… we have whitesnake.com, a very busy website. I have been very private in my life - very public in my music, but very very private in my life for my entire career. I’ve never been wanting to go for celebrity things. So, when everybody was making websites, my assistant Michael McIntyre said: “We’ve gotta start…a website” and I’m going: “Why?” I had no idea what we were going to do, he showed me other websites which I, I just didn't like who...that didn't feel any warmth any...
Me: yeah, and your site grew into such a big…machine.
David: oh, it was, all technical bullshit. I said whatever we do has to be personal, it's got to reflect who...who I am or whatever, and the music of course and be respectful to this. So first we got involved with a big American company called Artist Direct which was supposed to be like this big happening, exciting company when really it was the Titanic of websites and it sank like five minutes after…
[turns to Doug] we had a website for three months and they did nothing to it, there was one fucking posting, I was like: “Oh, my God!” and then…I got Poor Albert, he’s a webmaster, and now we get a million hits, it’s just ridiculous. He’s great, a lovely man and a great human being... It’s very hard for me, I got tendonitis in my shoulder, I can’t type so a lot of people are disappointed for the most of this tour, I’ve just got to keep my energy for the shows, nobody seems to notice in concert but it’s extremely uncomfortable. But to… to sit at the computer, to type answers to questions, I have to wait till I get home and get this fixed.
Me: you’re still using your small computer?
David: the laptop? Yeah. And also this time I…
[turns to the audience] it’s…join in if you like!
[everybody laughs] – because this tour is so long I have a facility now…you know from my website I love my family, it’s extremely hard for me to be away from my family, my son, so we have video conferencing now which is...apart from this fucking place! The best hotel in Europe, they don't have it, you know
[waves hand] go figure.
Finishing his answer turns to me: Nice to meet you.
Me: Very nice. I also wanted to thank these two lovely guys [Doug and Marco], they were very hospitable at the airport today and it was such a pleasure to meet them.
Marco nods.Doug: You too.
David: They’re good guys, great players and good guys.
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