Company of Snakes

[sixxswine]

The line-up for this band sounds awesome, but do they live up to the expectations? Anyone fill me in on the records & the band?

 

[Wyvern]

Ex-Whitesnake guitars and bass players pissed at Dave Coverdale for keeping the royalties mostly. So they made this band based on Whitesnake music they composed, plus some original stuff I believe.
To me the most appealing thing would be Jorn Lande on vocals before he join Ark or even Millenium.

I have never heard the band per se but you can check here:

http://www.mp3.com/company-of-snakes/artists/433114/summary.html

http://www.musictap.net/Reviews/CompanyOfSnakesBurstTheBubble.html

 

[SickBoy]

Ex-Whitesnake guitars and bass players pissed at Dave Coverdale for keeping the royalties mostly. So they made this band based on Whitesnake music they composed, plus some original stuff I believe.
To me the most appealing thing would be Jorn Lande on vocals before he join Ark or even Millenium.

Wyv, you've mixed up the facts a bit...
COS has "vocalist Stefan Bergren", as it says on both of your links. However, Lande sung in the band called "The Snakes", featuring Moody and Marsden as well. Snakes had a great album "Once Bitten", pure great Whitesnake, as well as a live album, where Lande does his best Coverdale impersonation.

 

[Wyvern]

Wyv, you've mixed up the facts a bit...
COS has "vocalist Stefan Bergren", as it says on both of your links. However, Lande sung in the band called "The Snakes", featuring Moody and Marsden as well. Snakes had a great album "Once Bitten", pure great Whitesnake, as well as a live album, where Lande does his best Coverdale impersonation.

Aren't the Snakes and Company of Snakes the same band?

 

[Aethyrs]

Aren't the Snakes and Company of Snakes the same band?

Well, Moody and Marsden did a duo thing with Lande called The snakes. After that they joined with Neil Murray,Robert Heart (Bad Company singer), Don Airey and John Lingwood and did some touring. Stefan came in around 2001 for "Here they go again" live album..

 

[Wyvern]

I found it:

Micky Moody and Bernie Marsden have been playing together under different names since they met in Juicy Lucy. This time, they thought it was about time to remember their great times in Whitesnake. They join some Norwegian musicians, including a very good singer called Johnny Lande.

Johnny Lande (vocals)
Micky Moody (guitar)
Bernie Marsden (guitar)
Sid Ringsby (bass)
Don Airey (keyboards)
Willy Bendiksen (drums)

After parting ways with singer Johnny Lande and the other Norwegian members around January 1999, the rest of the band decides to team with Robert Hart (ex-Bad Company), hence the new name, Company of Snakes:

Robert Hart (vocals)
Micky Moody (guitar)
Bernie Marsden (guitar)
Chris Childs (bass, from Thunder)
Don Airey (keyboards)
John Lingwood (drums)

 

[Aethyrs]

Hmmm...didn't remeber that Don was in the snakes...thought he came after Lande.
Well, well....