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22 ноя 2025
REB BEACH Pays Tribute To DAVID COVERDALE – “Thanks For Helping Shape The Sound I Carry In My Fingers And Heart”
“Today, David Coverdale announced his retirement from the music world. It’s the end of an era, and it made me sentimental. I wanted to say a few words.
I was driving in my beat-up Subaru when I first heard ‘Still Of The Night’. I almost ran right into a tree. I had never heard a voice like that or riffs like that. If that kid had known he would be on stage for twenty years with that band, well, lets just say it’s totally ‘Charlie And The Chocolate Factory’. Over the years, David and I shared stages across the world — from the pounding music and flashing lights of arena shows to the quiet moments around the kitchen table. We wrote songs, I cooked dinners, we shared everything going on in our lives, we laughed until our sides ached, and I loved every minute of his stories of Deep Purple, Jimmy Page, and Whitesnake.
He brought a voice to hard rock that is unmatched, yet I think his favorite thing was hanging out with the band. At every gig, he would come right to our dressing room as soon as he got there and ask how everyone was and just hang out until it was time to get ready.
I loved that the show was front and center in his mind on every gig day. I remember a gig we did outdoors in the freezing cold. The high wind and freezing rain were unbearable for me. David performed like it wasn’t even there. I have never seen such a combination of focus and showmanship and determination to rock the audience. It was one of the greatest gifts I could ever have witnessed — let alone been part of.
Here are some pictures of David and me that might give you a tiny feel for what it was like to be up there with this legendary singer. I got goosebumps on my goosebumps when he would hit those notes over those awesome riffs. Yet, he would make me laugh almost every night onstage in front of 10,000 people.
To David I say,
Thanks for trusting me with your music, your stories, your laughter. Thanks for helping shape the sound I carry in my fingers and heart.
And now that you’ve chosen to call it a day… to hang up the platform shoes and step off the stage of that incredible five-decade journey, I think you should go and enjoy every minute, every quiet hour, every moment of peace you fought so hard to earn. Then I think you should have a big expensive party with a big jam and invite me.
Here’s to you, my friend. To your voice. To your heart. To the legacy you leave behind—not just in the records, but in the friendships, the memories, and the lives you touched (mine in an unforgettable way).
When people ask me what it meant to stand onstage with you, I’ll tell them this: it meant everything.
Rock on, with love and gratitude.”
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