Whitesnake is still awesome
And by awesome I mean awesomely stuck in the 1990’s.
I realize that the last 18 years have been tough for 1980’s hair bands. Grunge comes along to rape and pillage your careers. But this Internet thing comes around to let you link up with your few remaining fans. So you come up with this:
In 1996, this is a state of the art band website. While most of the Internet universe is still making their way out of Gopher, CompuServe, and Prodigy, Whitesnake moves past the AOL universe into something that would even make the most accomplished HTML nerd on Geocities stand up and take attention.
Once again, however, Whitesnake is overtaken by the inertia of history. The Internet moves on…Geocities dies, AOL tries to destroy TimeWarner, the advent of Flash, Java, The Google, and Facebook. What is a over-the-hill rock band to do? Sure, they would’ve liked to invest money into a new website, however, the casinos and tractor pulls they’ve been playing sporadically over the past decade just don’t pay the bills like sold out arenas once did. They are touring with Judas Priest this summer. Perhaps Rob Halford can give the guys a loan to get their website at least into this century.