Cheap an’ Nasty Interview (The Wagging Tongue Edition)

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[Spoken Word: David Coverdale & Steve Vai] The other thing with "Slip of the Tongue", of course, is that's probably going to be the show opener (Right) You know, and if we have any legs at the end of that, any breath left, we'll probably be, you know, do a ballad or a drum solo Yeah, "Cheap an' Nasty" is a kind of marriage of, uh, "Slide It In" and "Slow Poke Music" Um, a very sexy little piece of Whitesnake stuff, I think And that's one of the major tongue-in-cheek, you know "You make my four wheels rock with your back seat roll" You know, as I'm saying, women are coming off very, very strong, very positively It's a very optimistic and positivе album, you know Even the blues is, uh, is tеmpered, you know, the dark, darker side But when you, I mean, presumably, when you're putting the album together when you're writing stuff, I mean Do you have an overview that something like "Cheap an' Nasty" is going to be a good song performed live in a stadium environment or? There's always that type of consideration No, it's always that, this time, it's very difficult to actually describe this process But because it'll sound like it was, um, forced, you know We're didn't compromise our musical integrity at all We've just sat down and looked what we felt Whitesnake was missing And the good parts of Whitesnake, which ought to be continued Uh, and that was the feeling of "Cheap an' Nasty" But there's never a guarantee, we've just wrote, and God beams me signals of themes I mean, I was literally in bed, I'm going, "Oh, fuck" Dude, it's like your mama don't know and your daddy don't care, you know, stuff like working lyrics And I could not get an interesting punch and I'm just about to fall asleep up in this wonderful place in Tahoe And I suddenly go, "You're cheap an' nasty, all you want to do is give it up, give it up" You know, going right across the tempo And it was just God beams me with this stuff, I really don't know where it comes from God just sends those signals down, it happens to be my wife's favourite track