Whitesnake Tour 2009

We got to the venue about 6:45 and headed into the backstage entrance. Great evening in so. cal we saw some old friends, made some new ones which is always enjoyable. John "The Baron" and his lovely lady friend Jinnifer were the first people we saw. We hadn't seen him and Adrian Galysh, Roy Z and DJ Will since Uli Jon Roth shows. For those of you that saw the fantastic display of multicolored toms by DW at the 2008 Namm show, I did meet the guy, Garrison, responsible for that, we were just chatting and I told him about this great display I saw and he's like "That was me!" We had a good laugh over that. Other peeps we saw Rob Zombie, Fred Coury (Cinderella drummer) thanks for taking a picture of us Fred! Gregg from Rockline and Adam a friend of Pabla's who is the Guitar hero you all play. He does the facial and body movements for the game. We went inside to check out the merch quickly before Whitesnake takes the stage, handed out some Primal Fear flyers to a few fans. If you like Priest you'd like PF www.primalfear.de check them out.

VIP tickets and passes thanks to the ever wonderful Mr. T.B. Sky box vip, never been in there but what a view! Comp bar and snacks and the greatest feature... a private restroom! LOL We missed Pop Evil's set so I hope to catch some of their tunes Wed. in Costa Mesa. Whitesnake took the stage in a flash and we were up and rockin! Singing along and playing our air guitars,leaning on each other and during the slow jams of course swaying to the music with me and my girls! The guys looked great, sound was good, drums could've been turned up a bit more but overall very exciting and fun! OMGosh when Doug took off his shirt I swear everyone could hear me howling throughout the entire arena!!! LOL I really enjoyed the guitar dual, who couldn't when two fantastic players are feeding riffs back and forth! At the intermission Troy and Mark told us they could see us girl rockin' out from the stage, that made us feel good!

(the following is from the Costa Mesa show)
At the intermission we went backstage to the meet and greet. I got to see Doug again, why I keep forgetting to ask for a plectrom is beyond me!! Someday I hope to catch one, the dude was zingin' them out! Doug, Uriah and Tim signed my cd liner notes. Sadly Reb and David were not back there that I saw. I have this rockcard I've been trying to get signed by Coverdale for over 20 yrs! I'll keep trying! All in all was a fantastic night!

whitesnake set list
1. Bad Boys
2. Fool For Your Lovin'
3. Love Ain't No Stranger
4. Slow An' Easy
5. Lay Down Your Love
*Guitar spotlight with Reb Beach and Doug Aldrich trading off solos*
6. Cryin' In The Rain (with extended Drum solo in the middle)
7. Is This Love
8. Give Me All Your Love
9. Here I Go Again
10. Still Of The Night

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