Whitesnake Live at Donington 1990 [Deluxe Edition] [Box]

Personnel: David Coverdale (vocals); Adrian Vandenberg, Steve Vai (guitar); Rick Seratte (keyboards); Rudy Sarzo (bass guitar); Tommy Aldridge (drums).Audio Mixers: Doug Aldrich; Michael McIntyre; Bjorn Thorsrud.Recording information: Donington Park (08/18/1990).Editors: Tony Minter; Devin DeHaven.Photographer: Ralph Fitzgerald.One of the last hurrahs of the 1980s melodic hard rock and heavy metal era is chronicled on Whitesnake's Live at Donington 1990. The 2011 special-edition box set two-CD/one-DVD package was recorded and filmed in front of 72,500 fans at the Monsters of Rock festival in Castle Donington, England on August 18, 1990. Whitesnake headlined above Aerosmith, Poison, Quireboys, and Thunder, which tells you just how huge the band was at the time. But Whitesnake circa 1989-1990 was an interesting yet troublesome period for the band led by vocalist David Coverdale. He'd started the shift from earthy blues-rock to a more polished form of hard rock with 1984's Slide It In and