Slip of the Tongue

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Track listing

1. "Slip of the Tongue" – 5:20
2. "Cheap an' Nasty" – 3:28
3. "Fool For Your Loving 89
   Fool For Your Loving
   
   "Fool for Your Loving" is a song recorded by United Kingdom hard rock band Whitesnake. It was originally released on their fourth album Ready an' Willing where it reached #13 on the British charts and #53 in the U.S....
   " (Coverdale, Micky Moody
   Micky Moody
   
   Micky Moody is an English people guitarist, and a former member of the hard rock band Juicy Lucy and Whitesnake. After Juicy Lucy split Micky co-founded Snafu which combined his Brit-rock guitar style with some down-home stateside grooves....
   , Bernie Marsden
   Bernie Marsden
   
   Bernie Marsden is an English people rock guitarist. Having played with Glenn Cornick's Wild Turkey in 1974, he then played with Babe Ruth , from 1975-76, before becoming an original member of Paice, Ashton & Lord in 1977 and then joining the hard rock band , Whitesnake....
   ) – 4:10
   • The "89" is not part of the song title. However it is included here to avoid confusion with the original 1980 version.
4. "Now You're Gone" – 4:11
5. "Kittens Got Claws" – 5:00
6. "Wings of the Storm" – 5:00
7. "The Deeper the Love" – 4:22
8. "Judgment Day" – 5:15
9. "Slow Poke Music" – 3:59
10. "Sailing Ships" – 6:02

Singles

• "Fool For Your Loving 89
  Fool For Your Loving
  
  "Fool for Your Loving" is a song recorded by United Kingdom hard rock band Whitesnake. It was originally released on their fourth album Ready an' Willing where it reached #13 on the British charts and #53 in the U.S....
  "
• "Now You're Gone"
• "The Deeper the Love"
• "Judgement Day"rsonnel

• David Coverdale
  David Coverdale
  
  David Coverdale is an England rock vocalist most famous for his work with the English hard rock band Deep Purple, and his later band Whitesnake....
   – vocals
• Steve Vai
  Steve Vai
  
  Steven "Steve" Siro Vai is an United States instrumental rock guitarist, songwriter, vocalist, record producer, and actor. After starting his professional career as a music transcriptionist for Frank Zappa, Vai would also record and tour in Zappa's backing band starting in 1980....
   – Guitars
• Adrian Vandenberg
  Adrian Vandenberg
  
  Adje van den Berg is a Netherlands Rock music guitarist, best known for his tenure as lead guitarist in Whitesnake during their successful late 1980s period....
   - Guitars (credited, but does not appear on album)
• Rudy Sarzo
  Rudy Sarzo
  
  Rudy Sarzo is a bass guitarist born Rodolfo Maximiliano Sarzo Lavieille Grande Ruiz Payret y Chaumont in Havana, Cuba on November 18, 1950. He emigrated to the United States in 1961....
   – bass
• Tommy Aldridge
  Tommy Aldridge
  
  Tommy Aldridge , is a veteran heavy metal music and hard rock drummer. Aldridge is noted for his work with numerous bands and vocalists, most notable being Black Oak Arkansas, Pat Travers, Ozzy Osbourne, Whitesnake and Thin Lizzy....
   – drums

Guest Musicians

• Glenn Hughes - backing vocals
• Tommy Funderburk
  Tommy Funderburk
  
  Tommy Funderburk is one of the most hired background singers in the history of rock. He has recorded with artists such as Jon Anderson, Laura Branigan, Coverdale-Page, Melissa Manchester, Magnum, M?tley Cr?e, Steve Lukather, Richard Marx, Rick Springfield, Starship , REO Speedwagon, Whitesnake, Yes and many others....
   - backing vocals
• Richard Page
  Richard Page (musician)
  
  Richard Page , was the lead singer and bassist in 1980s U.S. band Mr. Mister, and is now a songwriter....
   - backing vocals on "Now You're Gone"
• Don Airey
  Don Airey
  
  Don Airey has been the keyboardist in the rock band Deep Purple since 2002, succeeding Jon Lord. He has had a long and productive career, playing with such acts as Gary Moore, Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull , Whitesnake, Colosseum II, Sinner , Michael Schenker, Uli Jon Roth, Rainbow , Divlje jagode and Living Loud....
   - keyboards
• David Rosenthal
  David Rosenthal
  
  David Rosenthal may refer to:*David Rosenthal , American keyboardist, music producer, and songwriter*David H. Rosenthal , American author, poet, editor and translator...
   - keyboards

Other credits

• Produced and engineered by Keith Olsen
  Keith Olsen
  
  Keith Olsen, born in a small town in South Dakota then moving to Minneapolis, Minnesota at the age of twelve, received a very Midwestern United States cultural education grounded in common sense and defined by reality....
   and Mike Clink
  Mike Clink
  
  Mike Clink is a record producer who started his career as an engineer at Record Plant Studios, recording such bands as Triumph , Guns N' Roses, M?tley Cr?e, Megadeth, UFO , Jefferson Starship, The Babys, Heart , Eddie Money and many others....
  
• Assisted by Noel Golden, Gordon Fordyce, Shay Baby & Allen Abrahamson
• Mixed at Record Plant Studios
  Record Plant Studios
  
  Record Plant Studios were three famous recording studios which were started and run by Gary Kellgren and Chris Stone . The first opening of the Record Plant was in New York, New York at 321 West 44th Street , in 1968....
   by Mike Clink and Keith Olsen
• Mastered by Greg Fulginiti
  Greg Fulginiti
  
  Gregory Fulginiti is an American recording and mastering engineer. He spent his childhood in Wildwood, New Jersey. With Bob Heimall's recommendation, Greg began his career in the mailroom at Elektra Records in 1969....
   at Artisan Sound Recorders
  Artisan Sound Recorders
  
  Artisan Sound Recorders was one of Southern California's premier disk mastering facilities. It was founded by Bob MacLeod in the 1960s and acquired by Kent Duncan in 1979 when MacLeod retired....
  
• John Kalodner
  John Kalodner
  
  John Kalodner is a retired USA A&R executive. His achievements included signing Foreigner , AC/DC, Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins to Atlantic Records in the seventies....
  : A&R

• Due to an injury, Adrian Vandenberg
  Adrian Vandenberg
  
  Adje van den Berg is a Netherlands Rock music guitarist, best known for his tenure as lead guitarist in Whitesnake during their successful late 1980s period....
   was unable to perform on this recording. Steve Vai
  Steve Vai
  
  Steven "Steve" Siro Vai is an United States instrumental rock guitarist, songwriter, vocalist, record producer, and actor. After starting his professional career as a music transcriptionist for Frank Zappa, Vai would also record and tour in Zappa's backing band starting in 1980....
   played all guitars on the album. However, Adrian Vandenberg
  Adrian Vandenberg
  
  Adje van den Berg is a Netherlands Rock music guitarist, best known for his tenure as lead guitarist in Whitesnake during their successful late 1980s period....
   was credited as a bandmember and included in the group photoshoot in the album sleeves.
• David Coverdale's wife (1989–1991), Tawny Kitaen
  Tawny Kitaen
  
  Julie "Tawny" Kitaen is an United States actor and media personality in Southern California. She became famous in the 1980s for appearing in several Heavy metal music music videos, most notably Whitesnake's "Here I Go Again", where she appeared in 1987 with her future husband, David Coverdale, to whom she was married from 1989-1991....
   was on a video for the song "The Deeper the Love".
• Adrian Vandenberg has revealed in several interviews he thinks Vai's flamboyant guitarplaying was somewhat inappropriate. He thinks a more bluesy approach would have suited the album better.

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