UM I MADE THIS HAPPEN

OK this rumor first popped up on April Fools' Day and I assumed I was being made fun of in a really accurate and cute way but fuckin-A this shit is actually happening. That's according to the rather suspect Deep Purple Appreciation Society. I mean, whom do we count among this society? If we're talking Bruce Dickinson and the other guys from Skunkworks, it deserves credibility. But, just as likely, these appreciators of the deep and purple are grody bald guys with ponytails. Anyway, the good news!

The 20th anniversary re-master of Whitesnake's Slip Of The Tongue is set for release in mid-June. Both are the combined CD/DVD type and come in nice digipacks. The DVD content is a mix of promos and live tracks. 

Slip Of The Tongue:

•  The original 1989 masterpiece

• "Now You're Gone" (U.S. Remix)
  
• "Fool For Your Loving" (The Vai Voltage Mix)
  
• "Slip Of The Tongue" (Live At Donnington 1990)
  
• "Kittens Got Claws" (Live At Donnington 1990)

Slip Of The Tongue DVD:

• "Fool For Your Loving" (promo clip)
  
• "Now You're Gone" (promo clip)
  
• "The Deeper The Love" (promo clip)
  
• "The Deeper The Love" (Live Acoustic 1997 from Starkers In Tokyo)
  
• "Sailing Ships" (Live Acoustic 1997 from Starkers In Tokyo)
  
• "Judgement Day" (Live 2006 from Live... In The Still Of The Night DVD)
  
• "Slip Of The Tongue" (Live At Donnington 1990)
  
• "Kittens Got Claws" (Live At Donnington 1990)
  

So it looks like those countless nights lying on my back with my eyes squeezed shut and this record cranked, praying for a thunderous, cacophonous remaster of the mind-bending guitar orgy that is Slip Of The Tongue have paid off for all of us. Unfortunately, those countless nights lying on my back with my eyes squeezed shut, praying for Slide It In to be wiped from the very annals of history have not paid off. All the same, I'm intoxicated by these newfound powers and have tyrannically deleted any allusion to that chunk of shit in the excerpt up there -- and performed surgery on the cruddy PR copy. Now I gotta invoice frontman David Coverdale for 1.5 hours. Or we could settle right now with a new SotT to play and one to stitch into the lining of my coffin.