My fellow metal head, I work in a deli in a small town in California. One day Tommy walked in, didn't realize it the drum god himself in front of me, my bad but i knew his face for some where. I asked a co worker does he remind u of someone and thats when i found out it was him.... Honest to god i see him every week for his sandwich meats and cheese
that's right!!!! i read an earlier post saying he's one of the best drummers of all time,,no he isn't!! he is the best(GOAT) of all time!!people don't understand ,,there's no second or third or fourth best.either your the best or not!! he's the best i've heard! if you have someone you think can do better than him..i'd like to hear it!! GOOD LUCK WITH THAT,,HA,HA,HAAAAA!!!!! GO TOMMY!!!!!!!
Tommy has been a huge influence on my style of drumming since i first saw Him with Oz in 1982 live with Gillis (just missed St. Rhoads by 6 months).. After seeing this performance! I'm AGAIN convinced He's One badass Slammin drummer ever to take a stage.. God bless U Tommy
Say what you want about Coverdale, but he was a genius for surrounding himself and picking the best talent available for each era of Whitesnake...and Aldridge arguably the best rock drummer ever- pure power and so solid...just amazing
I bought Tommy'a Hotlicks video (yes a VHS!) when I was about 19 years old in the 80's. I loved it, but never did I think that 35 years later (now in my 50's) that I would be still worshipping this incredible drummer. Finally got to see him live in London in 2022. Total bucket-list job.
Well said. He did the US Festivql with Ozzy in ‘83 (just after losing Randy) and one could wel would have thought it the pinnacle of a man’s life. 41 years later, he looks exactly the same and is better maybe, now a veritable god among distinguished men.
He has cut his solo duration by half these days which is fully understandable when you are 69 years old. He is still a machine, in fact I think Tommy is the real Highlander, he seems immortal...
I'm sure doing half his solo with his bare hands has started to take its toll but the man is a rolling freight train for sure,,a machine since the Black Oak Arkansas days
@@ludwigguy380 A few days ago, I watched a new video of him soloing, and was surprised to see him still beating the shit out of his kit bare handed. I'm 10 years his junior, and sometimes my hands hurt just fluffing up my pillow. The man's a beast. Gotta love him.
@@162534283746 He is a beast absolutely..he beats his drums like they owe him money! I'm right behind you in age and my hands hurt just watching his solos
Whitesnake. Love them. Their gift for performance and execution of rock music is incredible. I love you Tommy, God bless you. My favourite drummer in the WHOLE world. 🐉WHITESNAKE🐉God bless you all and forever.
The amazing thing to me is. I remember listening the Whitesnake as a kid in the mid 80’s to the early 90’s! He was a badass drummer then! He has got to be pushing 70 by now. He has lost nothing and is as badass now as then!! This shit kicks ass makes me want to grow my hair back out and find me another Whitesnake T-shirt live that life again
@@Rlimaaaa Yes, but he is no longer playing. But, also an incredible drummer. I loved Rushs' late 70's and early 80's stuff. I always thought that his drums sounded the best when he was playing Tama. The Signals album is my favorite.
A song I listened to 10 000 times when I was seventeen and it was released. Heavy and groovy at the same time. And even if I am more into Slayer and other more obscure death metal bands this fucking rock so much🔥
You hang out with the wrong crowd; Aldridge is appreciated as fuck. He's a legend. I realize that the only people who give him credit are rockers, but his discography is almost exclusively rock and roll, so it's no surprise that he has a somewhat limited fan base. That's been his choice. To rockers, Tommy Aldridge is fucking appreciated.
@@162534283746 unless you get deeper into discussion with people that know music in general he's not really brought up all that often. People with surface knowledge, basically consumer knowledge, really have no clue who he is.
@@fritzcolburn True. I guess I should have said that among people I'd care to have more than one, brief, conversation with about music, he's appreciated.
That would have been the perfect time to see WS & GW with their best albums "Once Bitten" & self-titled "Whitesnake" but hated to see Coverdale let Sykes go before that tour. It wasn`t the same with Vandenburg & Vai.
Same stuff he’s been doing for 100 years.....and I would STILL pay to see him. One of the greatest dbl bass players of all time, the guy always shows up to play...HARD!! Love this Whitesnake line up....Coverdale can still get after it.
My idol! Stole every lick I could from him. His fills with double bass on Tribute and Speak of the Devil are a masterclass of taste and technicality. Legend. He needs to write a tell all memoir.
Tommy Aldridge was 54 Years Old at The Time of this Concert!!!,This Guy is Right Up There With The Greatest Live Rock Drummers of All Time!!!!,and To this Day,at Almost 73 He's Still Beating The Skins Like No Other!!!!,Rock On Tommy!!!!!
Yep, for some unknown reason some idiotic video editor started doing this and then, for some unknown reason, many more video editors followed suit and became idiots. If you asked 1000 people if they liked this idiotic (and completely pointless) editing habit, 990 would say no, 5 would say yes, and 5 would say I don't know (10 idiots). Haha
Clearly, Doug's alt account. Doug, give some love to Reb, who was an actual innovator of the 80s instead of being in Hurricane that did cheese metal. Btw, how much did you pay the camera man to ignore Reb, the greater of you two.
Damn! I was not expecting the footage to be that awesome. That's a pretty amazing guitar playing and drumming. Makes me wish that I could have been old enough to see a concert like this at the time.
That's not what he sounded like when they played this live. They rerecorded the vocals back at the studio and swapped out the live recorded vocals to make this video.
What’s so amazing about Tommy is the shear number of bands he has played in. And all truly amazing Rock Bands. One of the best and his yrs playing is vast.
1 of the greatest bands to ever exist i love WHITE SNAKE i grew up listening to these guys and boy i tell you what great sounds and percussion plus persistence what a awesome band and Tommy is by far my favorite his drumming technique is outstanding HELLYEAH YOU GO WHITE SNAKE .....
The 1st time I ever saw Tommy perform live was in February 1982 with Ozzy, Randy Rhoads and Rudy Sarzo on The Diary of a Madman Tour just 5 weeks before The Great Randy Rhoads was tragically killed in a small plane crash in Florida!!!!,I just remember what an Outstanding show it was with Tommy paired with Randy, Rudy, and Ozzy!!!!,He's always been one of the Greatest Rock Drummers of All Time!!!!!
Saw Whitsnake live yesterday in Oberhausen, part of The Farewell Tour. Goosebumps. They dont make this kind of music any more. Still it's timeless and heartwarming.
Have to put Tommy in the top 5 drummers of all time, seen Tommy with BOA way back in the day and with Ozzy. Love it when he would play his solo with out the sticks and play with his bare-hands 👍
Tommy is giving a demonstration of how much dedication and hard work it is to be in a top notch hard rock band. He is the best hard rock drummer alive right now and one can see why when they witness a performance like this !!!!!!!!!!!!
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My fellow metal head, I work in a deli in a small town in California. One day Tommy walked in, didn't realize it the drum god himself in front of me, my bad but i knew his face for some where. I asked a co worker does he remind u of someone and thats when i found out it was him.... Honest to god i see him every week for his sandwich meats and cheese
Man I wish I was there I've been listening to Tommy since 79 I'm a drummer he is a god
Just saw a vid of him playing Still Of The Night at age 73 and he beats those drums like they owe him money!
Which fcking town? I want to visit
Get the autograph because we all don’t last long. He’s an absolute legend.
Great story!
I got to meet him in the Amphitheater in St Louis. When he played with Ted Nugent. Cool guy!!
One of the wildest and most energetic drum solos I've ever seen. Tommy Aldridge is a machine .
in his 50s !!!!!!!
73 now, and hasn’t lost a thing! Still one of the best!!!
70 years old and still Kicking Ass! Tommy Aldridge is One of the Best of All Time🐍
YES !! YES !! YES !! TOMMY ALDRIDGE THE ROCK DRUMMER IN THIS TIME AND FOREVER.
He's a MONSTER.
@@michaelb.42112Agree with u mate
Wow!! Tommy is just a monster HOWEVER, Ive never heard David Coverdale sound so good!! MANNN hes on
Tommy Aldridge is a human time machine and will always be untouchable
that's right!!!! i read an earlier post saying he's one of the best drummers of all time,,no he isn't!! he is the best(GOAT) of all time!!people don't understand ,,there's no second or third or fourth best.either your the best or not!! he's the best i've heard! if you have someone you think can do better than him..i'd like to hear it!! GOOD LUCK WITH THAT,,HA,HA,HAAAAA!!!!! GO TOMMY!!!!!!!
@@cattowne4646im not a drummer but mikkey dee… his drum solo after sacrifice beats this
@@ElevatedLevetator Dee cant touch the socks of Tommy A. Im a drummer (45 years of experience).
@@HR2635 im not a drummer but i disagree
Neil Peart was far better in all aspects of drumming. Period
One of THE best rock drummers EVER!
I agree 100%
Damn right!!
Duh
No THE best rock drummer alive
Tommy has been a huge influence on my style of drumming since i first saw Him with Oz in 1982 live with Gillis (just missed St. Rhoads by 6 months).. After seeing this performance! I'm AGAIN convinced He's One badass Slammin drummer ever to take a stage.. God bless U Tommy
Absolutely 1 of my favorite whitsnake songs. I know Tommy is the focus but damn Doug is a beast on that 6 string.
One of the most underrated of all time!
His power stance during that solo was also peak performance!
THE MAN IS POSSESSED!!!! ❤️🤟❤️
Tomy Aldrige a master, a legend, a legacy.
Any relation to Tommy Aldridge?
@@bangosdemangos416 How is your question relevant?
That’s how you play drums in a rock and roll band!!!! Go Tommy!!!
One of THE greatest drummers in rock history...Tommy Aldridge!!!
Criminally underrated Tommy was a monster! Top 10 ever.
Love how Doug played within the original framework of the Sykes solo. He knows perfection when he sees it
Nailed it! That Les Paul was smoking a cigarette afterwards….
Cleanest cymbal chokes your gonna find!!!!
No that title goes to Sugarfoot.
Say what you want about Coverdale, but he was a genius for surrounding himself and picking the best talent available for each era of Whitesnake...and Aldridge arguably the best rock drummer ever- pure power and so solid...just amazing
I love Neil but he ain't got shit on Tommy! Holy fuck!!!
Your right Neil is so much better it's not even close. Tommy does one thing over and over and over, boring. Neil Peart ( RIP ) Rock God !!
Tommy is a monster!!!! The energy...!!!
and his not a young man anymore, but you would tell by listening to this solo
I swear to god, Tommy will be 95 and still rocking out like he's 20.
Facts
Got to see him with BOA in 76 and White Snake 15 years later. Great performances!
I’m noteven sure if he even needs drums to drum
My speakers just exploded from sheer awesomeness.
Tommy Aldridge is amazing !!!!
They are all KILLIN' it ! 70 years old and they're like, "Yeah, so what ?" Tommy always delivers the goods, and Coverdale sounds better than ever.
In this vid they are in there 50 s
70 years old. And still has power.
Such a killer band...and what a drummer.
Unbearably good...
I bought Tommy'a Hotlicks video (yes a VHS!) when I was about 19 years old in the 80's. I loved it, but never did I think that 35 years later (now in my 50's) that I would be still worshipping this incredible drummer. Finally got to see him live in London in 2022. Total bucket-list job.
Well said. He did the US Festivql with Ozzy in ‘83 (just after losing Randy) and one could wel would have thought it the pinnacle of a man’s life. 41 years later, he looks exactly the same and is better maybe, now a veritable god among distinguished men.
Great Drummer 70 years old Coverdale is 65 Both sound amazing
Tommy Aldridge is my favorite drummer of all time he is so talented and has so much power WOW !
Jackson, Mississippi in the house♥️💯
Hard to believe the guy is 69 here
@@mikeloomis2091 "Inconceivable!" ... ^v^
The band sounds great. Tommy has always been a great drummer.
Keeping the Sykes style and tone alive. Doug is a beast and Tommy is an eternal drum machine in his 70's. Incredibel
How are you leaving out someone who was influential in the 80s; Reb Beach? He was one of the innovators of that era.
I don't know how Tommy does what he does he is a machine .
He has cut his solo duration by half these days which is fully understandable when you are 69 years old. He is still a machine, in fact I think Tommy is the real Highlander, he seems immortal...
Machine....exactly...
I'm sure doing half his solo with his bare hands has started to take its toll but the man is a rolling freight train for sure,,a machine since the Black Oak Arkansas days
@@ludwigguy380 A few days ago, I watched a new video of him soloing, and was surprised to see him still beating the shit out of his kit bare handed. I'm 10 years his junior, and sometimes my hands hurt just fluffing up my pillow. The man's a beast. Gotta love him.
@@162534283746 He is a beast absolutely..he beats his drums like they owe him money! I'm right behind you in age and my hands hurt just watching his solos
I saw him multiple times with Pat Travers...they were great...Mars Cowling and Tommy were so tight. enough said
That's what's called giving it 110% on that drum solo!!!
Two words........Tommy Aldrige!! Whitesnake is on fire here. Coverdale got's some lungs. Awesome band.
These snare hits are like gun shots.. Hell yeah Tommy
When mr Alderdige❤playing no words to explain he’s on fire 🔥
Killer song...insane drums....very cool...
Insane Tommy you rock!!!!
TOMMMY & COZY... Killer Drummers !😉🤟
Whitesnake. Love them. Their gift for performance and execution of rock music is incredible. I love you Tommy, God bless you. My favourite drummer in the WHOLE world. 🐉WHITESNAKE🐉God bless you all and forever.
Best song Whitesnake has every written. Awesome vid.
I saw Tommy play with Pat Travers in the late 70's. Blew me away!
yep, Snortin Whiskey tour
Heat in the Street!🔥
So much energy in his body
The amazing thing to me is. I remember listening the Whitesnake as a kid in the mid 80’s to the early 90’s! He was a badass drummer then! He has got to be pushing 70 by now. He has lost nothing and is as badass now as then!! This shit kicks ass makes me want to grow my hair back out and find me another Whitesnake T-shirt live that life again
He’s a anomaly it’s amazing
Simply the most Amazing heavy rock drummer alive today. To still be able to play at that intensity level at almost 70 years old is breathtaking.
You forgot that Neil Peart still alive
@@Rlimaaaa Yes, but he is no longer playing. But, also an incredible drummer. I loved Rushs' late 70's and early 80's stuff. I always thought that his drums sounded the best when he was playing Tama. The Signals album is my favorite.
TA is 55 in this video-still amazing-people relax this is 2004; He is 69 in 2020
@@shanegriffin2215 I play everyday…not that it’s any of your biz.
A song I listened to 10 000 times when I was seventeen and it was released. Heavy and groovy at the same time. And even if I am more into Slayer and other more obscure death metal bands this fucking rock so much🔥
10 001- i sing that along while i am work..
Tommy Aldridge has got to be one of the most under-appreciated and under-rated drummers out there.
You hang out with the wrong crowd; Aldridge is appreciated as fuck. He's a legend. I realize that the only people who give him credit are rockers, but his discography is almost exclusively rock and roll, so it's no surprise that he has a somewhat limited fan base. That's been his choice. To rockers, Tommy Aldridge is fucking appreciated.
Actually, I think he's overrated
@@RockbertoRocks I think you're going to hell for that
@@162534283746 unless you get deeper into discussion with people that know music in general he's not really brought up all that often. People with surface knowledge, basically consumer knowledge, really have no clue who he is.
@@fritzcolburn True. I guess I should have said that among people I'd care to have more than one, brief, conversation with about music, he's appreciated.
Saw them in 87 with Great White...Tommy is da shit!...🤘🏼
I was there as well, one of my favorite concerts
Reunion Arena in Dallas. Great concert!
That would have been the perfect time to see WS & GW with their best albums "Once Bitten" & self-titled "Whitesnake" but hated to see Coverdale let Sykes go before that tour. It wasn`t the same with Vandenburg & Vai.
Just insane!!!!
I'm so glad to have been born in the 60s & witnessed many great rock bands.
Yo naci en 1956 y amo el rock ES VIDA ..ES ENERGIA ❤❤
Tommy Aldridge is one of the main pioneers of the double bass drum rock drummers!!!
Two words for WS.... NEVER OLD.. AWESOME...
That's 3 words, genius.
@@Hellwyck
No.. genius for Deep Purple
Never has a finer drummer lived🎉
So very true
Same stuff he’s been doing for 100 years.....and I would STILL pay to see him. One of the greatest dbl bass players of all time, the guy always shows up to play...HARD!! Love this Whitesnake line up....Coverdale can still get after it.
I lost 6 pounds just watching.
There is only one Tommy.... Tommy Aldridge: The Man, The Power and the Glory 👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🤘🤘🤘🙏🙏🙏
Holding up the Cross of Christ 🙏. Thanks Tommy ❤
What a performance! What a guitar solo! What a drum solo! Beasts on stage!
My idol! Stole every lick I could from him. His fills with double bass on Tribute and Speak of the Devil are a masterclass of taste and technicality. Legend. He needs to write a tell all memoir.
Aos 70 anos Tommy Aldridge ai ainda é o METAL GOD da bateria.
Never get tired of watching him...Amazing drummer...
one of greatest ever live ...❤❤
The dude's an animal! Great song! great drum solo!
I saw Tommy Aldridge playing drums for Pat Travers band! Portland, Oregon in 1980. Soloed bare handed!
The epitome of a polished routine. Love me some whitesnake !
Tommy Aldridge was 54 Years Old at The Time of this Concert!!!,This Guy is Right Up There With The Greatest Live Rock Drummers of All Time!!!!,and To this Day,at Almost 73 He's Still Beating The Skins Like No Other!!!!,Rock On Tommy!!!!!
One of the most underrated drummers I ever heard.
Thanks for changing the camera angles 20 times per second!!!
That.. exactly that
Arnt you a whining complaining little bitch
@@paulthesoundguy1 I agree 100%. If you had half a brain, you would notice, but you must be out to lunch.
Yep, for some unknown reason some idiotic video editor started doing this and then, for some unknown reason, many more video editors followed suit and became idiots. If you asked 1000 people if they liked this idiotic (and completely pointless) editing habit, 990 would say no, 5 would say yes, and 5 would say I don't know (10 idiots). Haha
@@joestrummer9507 my pet peeve is live audio with screaming crowds edited in THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE SONG.
eg KISS. Cinderella.
I was 20 years old when this music came out. New WHITESNAKE and I was a goner, they became a fast friend !!!
Incredible stamina for being 70 absolute legend will never be duplicated 🥁🥁🥁
Playing heavy metal in a blues feel...thank you!
Doug Aldrich is a beast 🤘💀🤘
Clearly, Doug's alt account. Doug, give some love to Reb, who was an actual innovator of the 80s instead of being in Hurricane that did cheese metal. Btw, how much did you pay the camera man to ignore Reb, the greater of you two.
Damn! I was not expecting the footage to be that awesome. That's a pretty amazing guitar playing and drumming. Makes me wish that I could have been old enough to see a concert like this at the time.
Bare handed solo. Never seen that in all of the concerts I've attended. Love our old school rock. Nothing better.
Don Brewer from Grand Funk Railroad used to play solos with no sticks.
Tommy is the greatest.
This whole song is awesome.
Unreal that they get better like sweet wine. Singing is unbelievable! The rest as well. Tommy is a drum god, there is no doubt!!
Best drummer in the world!!!!
Hands down to Doug ...Ive known hm for years ans is such a great person and musician. My brother always
Fuck.....how good does David Coverdale sound?
Yeah Vince Neil needs to take lessons from him.
That's not what he sounded like when they played this live. They rerecorded the vocals back at the studio and swapped out the live recorded vocals to make this video.
Voice is recorded in studio, it's not the live version of his voice :)
@@internettoughguy I dunno, I was at Hammersmith that night and he didn't sound bad at all..
@@digitaldrive1192 Vince never could sing. Now he just never gives a fuck.
Holy smokes-- this entire video is absolutely amazing!!!!! Good God!!!!!!!!!!
You know this was done professionally right?
What’s so amazing about Tommy is the shear number of bands he has played in. And all truly amazing Rock Bands. One of the best and his yrs playing is vast.
When you combine talent, dedication, opportunity, and resources, there are no limits!
1 of the greatest bands to ever exist i love WHITE SNAKE i grew up listening to these guys and boy i tell you what great sounds and percussion plus persistence what a awesome band and Tommy is by far my favorite his drumming technique is outstanding HELLYEAH YOU GO WHITE SNAKE .....
This was absolutely incredible.
I've seen a lot of bands and this guy will forever be my favorite.
Those internal mikes really do a good job. Tommy always the kick ass.
I was noticing his tom sound during the solo, but hadn't looked for mikes. Yeah, his kid sounds great, and Tommy's a beast.
Blessed to still have his voice! Good job.
Extremely driven. Tommy you are the greatest drummer.
I love u Tommy !!!!
I've seen them a few times over the years And he has been amazing every time I've seen him
The 1st time I ever saw Tommy perform live was in February 1982 with Ozzy, Randy Rhoads and Rudy Sarzo on The Diary of a Madman Tour just 5 weeks before The Great Randy Rhoads was tragically killed in a small plane crash in Florida!!!!,I just remember what an Outstanding show it was with Tommy paired with Randy, Rudy, and Ozzy!!!!,He's always been one of the Greatest Rock Drummers of All Time!!!!!
I seen WhiteSnake🐍in 1988 at the Philadelphia Spectrum with Great White🦈 as the opening act..🎵👌
The guy that started my love for the drums.
Tommy Aldridge: totally phenomenal drumming!! An absolute joy to listen to!!
Tommy, after all these years you are still a powerhouse!!! How do you do it???
Saw Whitsnake live yesterday in Oberhausen, part of The Farewell Tour. Goosebumps. They dont make this kind of music any more. Still it's timeless and heartwarming.
Whitesnake had many lineups, but IMO this is the Best. Had the pleasure to them in Vegas
Set on the stage 1972 at my high school and seen him with Black Oak. I was 14 OMG blew me away. That was a long time ago.
Think about it, Tommy has been the driving force behind a lot of major rock bands. He is one of a kind and a rock legend. Keep Rockin Tommy!
Ozzy Osbourne, Whitesnake, Motorhead, Thin Lizzy, Ted Nugent, and Gary Moore. Great resume.
@@davidnissim589 unbelievable resume!
Incredible to be at the top of your game for decades, Tommy Aldridge amazing!
Have to put Tommy in the top 5 drummers of all time, seen Tommy with BOA way back in the day and with Ozzy. Love it when he would play his solo with out the sticks and play with his bare-hands 👍
Wow! Tommy is a beast. David sounds great. Aldrich shreds. What a fantastic band.
Oh thank you! Tommy Aldridge his the one !
Tommy is giving a demonstration of how much dedication and hard work it is to be in a top notch hard rock band. He is the best hard rock drummer alive right now and one can see why when they witness a performance like this !!!!!!!!!!!!
Tommy is a beast!