Whitesnake - Unzipped: Super Deluxe Edition Oct. 2018

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  1. Kiss73

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    After WHITESNAKE finishes its current summer tour with FOREIGNER, the band will revisit some of its best acoustic performances with "Unzipped: Super Deluxe Edition". This five CD/DVD collection brings together unplugged and acoustic-based performances recorded over the past 20-plus years, including rare and unreleased studio and live recordings, acoustic demos, concert videos, interviews and more. The extensive set will be available on October 19 for $59.98. On the same day, Rhino will also release "Unzipped" in three other formats: single-CD ($7.98), double-CD ($19.98), and double-LP ($29.98). All of the music will be available digitally and via streaming services.

    The first disc from "Unzipped: Super Deluxe Edition" mixes rare and unreleased versions of songs like "Summer Rain" and "Forevermore" from the band's recent studio albums, "Good To Be Bad" (2008) and "Forevermore" (2011). Also included are songs like "Love Is Blind" from Coverdale's solo album, "Into The Light" (2000); and a previously unreleased song, "All The Time In The World". All 11 tracks are available on the single-CD, double-CD and double-LP versions of "Unzipped".

    In 1997, Coverdale and guitarist Adrian Vandenberg played an unplugged concert in Tokyo that was recorded and initially released exclusively in Japan as "Starkers In Tokyo". That recording has been remixed and will make its North American debut on the second disc of "Unzipped: Super Deluxe Edition". The acoustic performance touches on the different stages of Coverdale's career, from his time in DEEP PURPLE ("Soldier Of Fortune"), to his solo albums ("Too Many Tears"), and, most famously, with WHITESNAKE on unplugged versions of hits like "Is This Love" and "Here I Go Again". These 12 tracks, along with all the music on the single-CD version of "Unzipped", will also be available on double-CD, and double-LP.


    "Some of my favorite love songs are on disc one of this collection… and I LOVE, love songs," says Coverdale. "Though reluctant at first to go 'unzipped' in public, the shows I did with Adrian Vandenberg in 1997, and then Doug Aldrich in 2006, were incredibly memorable… primarily because it gave me an opportunity to be 'at one' with the crowd… some songs ask for a softer touch… and those are the songs we have here in this collection."

    "Unzipped: Super Deluxe Edition" has even more of unreleased, unplugged recordings, including more performances from Coverdale's 1997 tour with Vandenberg, plus several later shows featuring Coverdale and guitarist Doug Aldrich. Plus, more than two dozen of Coverdale's unreleased, acoustic demos are also included in the collection.

    A DVD completes "Unzipped: Super Deluxe Edition" with live, unplugged performances filmed around the world between 1997 and 2015, including a complete acoustic show recorded at the Cutting Room in New York in 2008. A highlight for U.S. fans will be the North American debut of the 1997 concert video "Starkers In Tokyo", which has been remixed in 5.1 and Stereo exclusively for this new collection. Additional bonus features include an interview with Coverdale and Vandenberg, bootleg videos, the "Love Is Blind" music video and a slideshow.

    Coverdale continues: "These songs are some of the most personal I've been involved with through my almost five decades as a professional musician, singer and composer…This is me at my most unguarded… innocent… writing, as I still do, for the fun… the expression… the poetry… all LOVE songs."

    "Unzipped: Super Deluxe Edition" track listing:

    Disc One: Unzipped… In The Studio: The Love Songs

    01. Love Is Blind
    02. One of These Days *
    03. All The Time In The World *
    04. Wherever You May Go
    05. Easier Said than Done *
    06. Fare Thee Well *
    07. Summer Rain
    08. Forevermore
    09. 'Till The End Of Time


    Bonus Tracks:

    10. Wherever You May Go (Instrumental) Strings only *
    11. Love Is Blind (Instrumental) Strings only *

    Disc Two: Starkers In Tokyo

    01. Sailing Ships
    02. Too Many Tears
    03. The Deeper The Love
    04. Love Ain't No Stranger
    05. Can't Go On
    06. Give Me All Your Love
    07. Don't Fade Away
    08. Is This Love
    09. Here I Go Again
    10. Soldier Of Fortune

    Bonus Tracks:

    11. Only My Soul (Acapella) *
    12. Fool For Your Loving (Excerpt) *

    Disc Three: Snakeskin Boots: Starkers In Europe Starkers In Warsaw (Poland, April 18, 1997):

    01. Intro
    02. Sailing Ships
    03. Too Many Tears
    04. Here I Go Again

    Starkers In Stockholm (Sweden, December 2, 2006):

    05. Intro
    06. Give Me All Your Love
    07. Ain't Gonna Cry No More
    08. Only My Soul (Acapella)
    09. All I Want Is You
    10. Dog
    11. Here I Go Again

    Starkers In Cologne (Germany, November 24, 2006):

    12. Intro
    13. Give Me All Your Love
    14. Ain't Gonna Cry No More
    15. All I Want Is You
    16. Slow & Easy
    17. Dog

    Starkers In Paris (France, November 30, 2006):

    18. Give Me All Your Love
    19. Ain't Gonna Cry No More
    20. Northwinds (Acapella)
    21. All I Want Is You
    22. Dog
    23. Blindman (Acapella)
    24. Here I Go Again

    Disc Four: More Starkers Promo Tour Rehearsals (2005):

    01. If You Want Me *
    02. Give Me All Your Love *
    03. Slow & Easy *
    04. All I Want Is You *
    05. Judgement Day *
    06. Ain't Gonna Cry No More *
    07. Dog *

    Starkers In New York (New York City, April 10, 2008):

    08. Give Me All Of Your Love
    09. Can You Hear The Wind Blow
    10. All I Want All I Need
    11. Lay Down Your Love
    12. Fool For Your Loving
    13. The Deeper The Love
    14. Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City
    15. Here I Go Again

    WSTV Jams Excerpts (2012):

    16. Easier Said Than Done
    17. Fare Thee Well
    18. Love Will Set You Free
    19. Mistreated
    20. Slide It In
    21. 'Till The End Of Time
    22. Shake My Tree

    Made In Japan Soundcheck Versions (2011)

    23. Good To Be Bad
    24. Tell Me How

    Disc Five: Up Close & Personal

    01. Wherever You May Go (Demo Version) *
    02. Surrender *
    03. Ain't No Doubt About My Girl *
    04. Scat Man Blues *
    05. Love's A Crazy Game *
    06. I Will Love You *
    07. Oh Baby You're The One *
    08. So Long (Acapella) *
    09. So Long *
    10. It Would Be Nice *
    11. Slide Thingy Blues *
    12. Down To The River *
    13. Feel Your Love Grow Stronger *
    14. Blues Jam Riff *
    15. Fun Lick Blues *
    16. Don't Wanna Change The World *
    17. It's So Hard *
    18. River Song (Early Version) *
    19. Let's Have A Drink Before I Go *
    20. Can You Ever Forgive Me *
    21. So Much To Live For *
    22. Another Lick While The Missus Is Busy In The Kitchen *
    23. Just The Two Of Us (Together You And I) *
    24. Oh S___ Blues (featuring Jessica) *
    25. Seasons *

    DVD Starkers In Tokyo (1997):

    01. Sailing Ships
    02. Too Many Tears
    03. The Deeper The Love
    04. Can't Go On
    05. Is This Love
    06. Give Me All Your Love
    07. Here I Go Again
    08. Soldier Of Fortune
    09. Love Ain't No Stranger
    10. Don't Fade Away
    11. Only My Soul (Acapella)
    12: Fool For Your Loving (excerpt)

    Starkers In New York (2008):

    01. Give Me All Of Your Love
    02. Can You Hear The Wind Blow
    03. All I Want All I Need
    04. Lay Down Your Love
    05. Fool For Your Loving
    06. The Deeper The Love
    07. Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City
    08. Here I Go Again

    Starkers In Warsaw (Poland, April 18, 1997):

    09. Intro
    10. Sailing Ships
    11. Too Many Tears
    12. Here I Go Again

    Starkers In Stockholm (Sweden, December 2, 2006):

    13. Intro
    14. Give Me All Your Love
    15. Ain't Gonna Cry No More
    16. Only My Soul (Acapella)
    17. All I Want Is You
    18. Dog
    19. Here I Go Again

    Starkers In Cologne (Germany, November 24, 2006):

    20. Give Me All Your Love
    21. Ain't Gonna Cry No More
    22. All I Want Is You
    23. Dog

    Starkers In Sofia (Bulgaria, November 24, 2015):

    24. Soldier Of Fortune

    Starkers In Paris 2 (France, June 4, 2009):

    25. Blindman

    Starkers In Wolverhampton (England, June 16, 2011):

    26. Fare Thee Well

    Starkers In Glasgow (Scotland, June 15, 2011)*

    27. One Of These Days

    Bonus Features:

    - One-on-One with David Coverdale and Adrian Vandenberg discussing "Starkers"
    - Poor Albert's Last: Photographic Slideshow (featuring audio from "Sailing Ships")
    - Purplesnake's "Forevermore" Video
    - "Love Is Blind" Music Video

    * previously unreleased

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  2. Kiss73

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    That's is a wealth of unreleased material...and quite a set....

    It does however mean the Slide It In Deluxe set has been shelved....which I was really looking forward too......

    Hope it keeps the same format as the 1987 set.
     
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    Single CD version on Amazon Uk for £6.43
    Double CD £14.61.

    No price for box set yet.....but 1987 set was £34.99 so would expect similar........
     
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  5. Jimmy Agates

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    I'd say the Slide It In set has been delayed rather than shelved...maybe temporarily shelved!!
     
  6. tinnox

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    I'm going to pass on this set, been waiting for the Slide It In set.
     
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    Earlier in the year Coverdale hinted that both Unzipped and the Slide it In set would see a 2018 release....however the impression I got was that the Unzipped set was only going to be a single or double CD set, whilst Slide It In being the deluxe set....

    My gut feeling is that they might also not want to release a set celebrating such a classic album so close to a new album coming out....your would maybe be asking for comparisons to be drawn if you did that. Maybe had the new album come out in June as expected, we would have still seem a Slide it In set at the end of the year...

    Coverdale has always stipulated that Slide it In and Slip Of The Tongue will receive sets....I guess it's just now waiting till 2019 for the next one.

    In the meantime, following an initial disappointment at the lack of the Slide It In set....and had time to digest....this is quite an impressive set.....especially if the "Snakeskin Boots" material is decent quality (and not 1987 set Snakeskin Boots standard). Plenty of unreleased material.

    I do note though that whilst each of the discs in the 1987 set came in gatefold sleeves, these look like very simple cardboard sleeves for each.
     
  8. Matthew Tate

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    any links for the usa?
     
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  9. Kiss73

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    The links were up on Amazon.com on Thursday....that's were I got the image....but it has since been taken back down for the moment and only the single CD is up...
     
  10. Matthew Tate

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    I want the bigger box for sure
     
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    I am really looking forward to the material with Doug Aldrich the most....and the disc with the demo's.....can only imagine how "Another Lick While The Missus Is Busy In The Kitchen" goes.
     
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    I saw this yesterday and it is quite a surprise really. I wouldn't have expected this to be the next release, especially a Super Deluxe treatment. However - this is an instant purchase - what a treasure trove of material!
     
  13. The Slug Man

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    What interests me most is Disc Five, the "Up close and personal," all previously unreleased songs. Awfully canny of DC to stick this only on the deluxe set. I already have Starkers on a bootleg DVD but I guess it will be nice to have it in a proper package.

    It seems like they keep pushing back the release of the new studio album. I can't believe it wasn't out in time for their recent US tour w/Foreigner but I guess it's not 1989 anymore. Has Joel Hoekstra even done any songwriting? It worried me when Doug Aldrich left, because I think he was a great writing partner.
     
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    There was a technical hitch with a hard drive which meant they missed the manufacture slot for the original release date of the new album.

    Now to be released early 2019 to coincide with Whitesnake headline tour - all to be announced.
     
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    Real surprised that with less than 2 weeks to go there hasn't been any press by Coverdale or any audio clips released.
     
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  17. Psychedelic Good Trip

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    Getting it. :agree:
     
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    AWESOME clip. David goes all out explaining this box set. Just hyped to get it.:winkgrin:
     
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  19. The Slug Man

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    All I could think was "Careful with that knife, DC" ;)
     
  20. Psychedelic Good Trip

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    Whitesnake
    Unzipped
    Super Deluxe Edition, Deluxe Edition
    5CD



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  21. Psychedelic Good Trip

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    Anybody order box or getting it today?
     
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  22. bartels76

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    I'm getting it today but won't be able to dive in until Sunday. Browsed some samples on Spotify this morning.

    I will probabaly get the vinyl of this as well a bit down the road. I usually don't bother with the recent Whitesnake live albums on vinyl but this is a bit a different.
     
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  23. Kiss73

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    Mines is due to be delivered today .......before 11pm apparently.

    Edit: just received a "sorry your package is running late" email from Amazon. Was sent on Wednesday with Prime.....how can it be running late???
     
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  24. johnny q

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    Yeah, but not without drama :) Stupid LaserShip had it marked delivered since 8am, but nothing was delivered. My neighbor, three doors down just walked it over. Nice package, book etc. I will report back later when I had a chance to sample the audio/video content.
     
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    Awesome
     
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