Here I go again, writing about another concert I went to on my own. This time it was Whitesnake, my third encounter with the legendary band, or what is left of it.

As I wasn’t that interested to see David Coverdale from up close, I took my place somewhere in the middle of the crowd, in the perfect spot from where I could see the whole stage and enjoy the music. I’ve known Whitesnake since I was little, I still remember when my brother bought the vinyl record (“1987” album) on our trip to Bucharest in 1990, and they’re a part of those many bands that I listened to growing up and started to pay attention to when I began following the rock scene up close in my high school years, when I actually discovered that I know the lyrics to some of their songs. That pretty much makes them a band I consider worth seeing live.

For the concert in Gröna Lund I think I was more eager to hear their classics and they made this possible because they played a lot of them. I am sure everyone knows “Fool for Your Loving”, the cover for “Ain’t No Love In the Heart of  the City”, “Is This Love”, “Give Me All Your Love”, “Here I Go Again” (my favourite version of it, the USA remix) and “Still of the Night” which has that amazing guitar part that is absolutely WOW! Unfortunately they didn’t play “Looking for Love” which was a bit disappointing but I guess I can live with it and always listen to it on repeat on Spotify just to make it up for not hearing it live.

I first saw Whitesnake in 2008, still have the post about that concert here, then again in 2011, read about it here (in Romanian). From our 3 meetings the middle one was the only time when they blew my mind. First time Def Leppard stole the show and now the show was stolen by the three guitar players that waved their locks on stage. In my opinion they are the ones that made the show worth seeing, them and David Coverdale’s charisma and charming smile because his voice was somewhere else at the moment of the concert. I am really sad to say this because, as impressed as I was at the previous concerts by his ability to go through the chorus of “Soldier of Fortune” and give everybody goosebumps, I now believe that the hardest part of the concert was carried out by the other band members. But with this concert Whitesnake enters the select club of bands I’ve seen more than twice and stays in the exclusive collection of music acts I’d go and see live again and again and again.