David Coverdale

One of the first shows I ever saw, at 13 years of age, was Deep Purple's Burn Tour, featuring the (then) new singer, David Coverdale. It was awesome.
I never thought that someday, one of my best friends, Michael McIntyre, (who was the soundman, road mgr, and backbone of my band Terraplane) would, after working for Dokken, (Don would produce Terraplane's "Tell the Truth" www.myspace.com/terraplane1 ) and touring the world 8 times in Whitesnake, would become David Coverdale's Personal Affairs Mgr, and head up the Whitesnake Office in Incline Village, Nevada.
David would end up falling in love, and marrying my friend Cindy, from Reno. She's so awesome.
Michael McIntyre would call on me year, after year, to be involved with all kinds of Whitesnake Shenanigans. Most notably, when Jimmy Page came to Reno to make a CD with David, (1993's "Coverdale /Page) and I would be involved with all sorts of details in the achievment of the bond betwen the two English Kings, and the history of it's offering to the Rock World.
Jimmy is the coolest, most genuine, funniest, guy in rock. Jimmy is also a good friend. Not everyone gets to go drinking with the guy who wrote every great rock riff on the planet.
So I guess that's how I would wind up being (as David will call me), "The little brother he never wanted". David has been a mentor, whose leadership skills, business acumen, and artistic vision has, by osmosis seeped into my blood. 21 years later, we're still "ready and willing"!
David would continue to deliver giant epic rock, where his peers and contemporaries would waver and compromise, some sinking to the depths of obscurity, some doing "greatest hits tours" (and forgoing any new music), and some winding up becoming cartoon charicatures of themselves on reality television.
David's legacy of real world "guitar hero's" is the stuff of legends. From Deep Purple roots with Ritchie Blakmore, and Tommy Bolin, to Whitesnake's dawn with Mel Galley (rest his soul), Adrian Vandenberg, Steve Vai, Earl Slick, John Sykes, to the present day twin guitar attack of Reb Beach, and Doug Aldrich, Whitesnake is known the world over as one of the greatest guitar bands of all time.
Recently (9/3/08) David took over Rockline, the eternal "Talk to the Rockers" show hosted by 95.5 KLOS's Bob Coburn. This show has continued to be entertaining, informative, topical, and relevant, largely due to the ability of Bob being able to get Rock's hero's to open up and reveal themselves in a candid, casual arena, where you, the listener, call in and make the show. Hear the show, and watch video clips by going to www.youtube.com and typing in "David Coverdale + Whitesnake" Or just go to www.whitesnake.com and clicking on "Rockline" (keep in mind this website scrolls sideways, as do all snakes)
while you're at it, click on Whitesnake in our top friends, and add them,
You can add Terraplane too...
That's where it all began...
So, those of you, sitting on your couch, writing a song, a riff in your head, you never know where it will lead...
Cheers,
Max Volume
(I'm from Reno, Nevada...)