David Coverdale about the disaster at the BYH Festival in Ballingen 2006
Any
unpleasant memories from the tour, disappointments?...
DC...
Yes, unfortunately... I was very unhappy that the organizers
of the Bang Your Head festival didn't fully articulate, or
explain that it was not Whitesnake's fault that we went on
late & had to cut the show short by 5 songs... They had
trouble with their generators, I understand, just before we
were to go on... & while this was being fixed, I happily
had pictures taken with the promoter & the artist who
designed the festival logo, etc... & nobody said anything
about a curfew before the show... or that we would have to cut
our performance so drastically short... so, I didn't find out
until I came off for Doug's solo piece before 'Crying In The
Rain'... I had all these people around me, panicking...
telling me I had to stop before 11pm, or I & the festival
organizers would be charged 100,000 Euros a minute!
As you can imagine, that was rather sobering... so, I said to
Horst... the promoter... he should come onstage with me &
help explain the problem... but, he wouldn't... so, I tried my
best... in my modest German... to tell the crowd the
problem... I felt terrible... I could see a lot of them could
not understand why the headliner only played half a show...
Then afterwards, to be told it was our fault was beyond the
pale... I was most upset by this... The show had started off
great...