I just recently discovered who John Sykes is. Always loved Whitesnake but when I saw them live, they never sounded exactly like the records. When I began to learn some of Whitesnakes songs on the guitar, I discovered that it was John Sykes who is the true Talent behind that awesome sound. I wish I had found this out a long time ago! Watching every video I can now of Mr. Sykes. A truly impressive musician!
In 84, i had the opportunity to stand 4th row on the floor in front of him during their Slide it In tour. Amazing band. John got jypt from a great career, but he has the admiration and respect that DC will never attain. If you're reading this John, thank you for giving that 16yo kid a great show that night.
The funny thing is I've seen many Whitesnake live versions on this and I stumble upon this one and damn does this take the cake. Not only Sykes amazing guitar playing but Vocals as well, total genius, thank you.
@@laddeveritt8933 He is a really handsome boy but never ever better singer than DC. Don't compare them. One is a brilliant guitarist and second brilliant singer with a divine voice. BTW, DC is the hottest man in the world.
Sykes has the best fret hand vibrato I've ever heard. Sykes and Gary Moore have/had incredible vibrato and it adds so much more musical expressiveness to your playing. Big, wide and even shakes.
The thing is, Sykes is known for that really slow vibrato but he can actually do three or four different ones. For instance, they're all on display on "Is This Love". He also knows how to milk a note with no vibrato and then add it in. Most guitarists just don't pay enough attention to theirs.
riff is Blackmore actually. this came about when they found a cassette with lost demos Coverdale recorded while in purple. While I agree the song is a Sykes final product the original idea, chord progression and seed was Blackmore. Blackmore would have a good chance of winning the lawsuit if he so chose to claim credit on this song. and would have made a nice chinck of change too
@Paul Camp. It would be a bit rich of Ritchie to put a claim in with the amount of stuff he stolen in the past by his own admission. I love Ritchie btw.
@@pa2camp riff is half blackmore, half jimmy page. the first half of the riff is derived from the burn riff (or the outtake youre talking about), and the 2nd half is literally the immigrant song riff
Underrated guitarist and songwriter. He plays and sing on the same time . I try , impossible for me . I follow since tyger of pan tang . Long life John Sykes .
I just freakin love him as a vocalist. He's one of the only metal (or hard rock... whatever) singers whose voice never even approached cheeseball territory. At his peak, his style & voice's unique sound was brilliant. Fucking brilliant. Just the way he sang a word like 'night'... listen and notice the annunciation. Totally unique and original.
Holy cow! All of that from essentially 3 man band - I know they're is a keyboard on there somewhere. And Sykes singing and playing. Whole new respect for him.
I had to return again to this video to listen for probably the 100th time, glad it's still up! I HIGHLY RECOMMEND headphones/earphones 🎧 for this. It's a transcendental performance.
There was Simon and Garfunkel, England Dan and John Ford Coley, Loggins and Messina, ect.. ect... Then there were Sykes and Mendoza... The originators of "Still of the Night".. Underrated as hell..
So underrated.....Its strange, being a huge Randy Rhoads fan, one quote of his always rings in my head about him talking how he loves "Leslie West and the way he bends".,...that is how I feel about Sykes....just love his bending of the notes....
@@flickdasher1775 nah. never had a record as successful as 1987 long before and long after, which only atests and confirms to the importance of sykes's writing and playing to its success.
@@snoo50 it attests to the fact that in an effort to increase sales, coverdale changed the line-up from the blues rock original, less attractive one to to a more telegenic, pop-orientated one. sales prove only that an artist's output chimes with the record buying public's tastes at a certain time. the same artist may release something better or worse at another time and it's success or failure will depend on whether they are in fashion or not.
The thing I find amazing about John is he can play the guitar parts, do vocals, all at the same time, and he is FUCKING FLAWLESS. There isn't a lot of people who can multi-task like that, I sure can't !
Hmmm, comparing guiitarists is difficult i suppose. they were both great. Gary wasd more blues orientated and had more feel. But this shit jJohn is doing here isn't easy, not at all.
gary was one of the best in rock and blues remember he was in thin lizzy. have a look at 'empty rooms live in stockholm 1987' and 'the messiah will come again'. guitar playing just doesn't come much better.
He has it all. Greatest guitar tone ever, best hard rock guitar player of that era, and a cool ass original voice. Shame nothing substantial ever came after those 2 Blue Murder albums.
Best tone ever belongs to Peter Steele and Kenny Hickey of Type O Negative. Listen to the studio versions of 'Christian Woman' or 'Bloody Kisses (A Death in the Family)'. Nothing can touch the thickness, distortion level and tone of those 2 playing together 6)
The true heart of Whitesnakes’s greatest hits revealed! And I LOVE you’ve got Mendoza on bass! He’s a beast! I covered him The Dead Daisies! We gotta talk about this!
In a world of shredders and constant appegios..this is what it is about....Soul, feeling.....Don't have to be the fastest....just got to have the "feel"
What...!!??...Hes filling up half of Coverdales band and still sounds like a wall of sound. And he does it well.. If youd ask me he had to go out WS because of this undenialble raw talent and got too much attention
Probably the best version of this song I've heard.. definitely can tell this is his song. Coverdale can steal and take all he wants but we know who put this one together
Dang, this is a trio and they sound like that? Sheesh. They sound 100x better than the white snake band of 5! Damn! If I closed my eyes this sounds like a 5 man band. This guitarist is a bad man! The bassist is awesome as well and so is the drummer. Just wow.
there are some guitar players that just hearing or seeing them REALLY make one want to go play and inspire in the moment to play their own guitar. Sykes is certainly one and he doesn't do enough for us fans and if we didn't have youtube we wouldn't have hardly anytbing from him. Prince was another - his passion for the guitar and music- he wasn't technically a shredder but after I saw purple rain as a teen I knew I was playing. EVH maybe, Randy Rhoads and Page for certain. I don't care for him that much, but I can't deny Yngwie does it to me and one of the best concerts I ever saw was him in '86 at Long Beach Arena with a very young but killer Jeff Scott Soto. Blackmore is definitely not this California boys thing, but I can't deny even as weird as he looks sometimes playing (the way he twists his head, jerks, etc just is odd to me) and his reputation (has anyone ever heard ANYTHING nice about him outside of his guitar playing?. I'd hate to be the guy no one can stand) he somehow inspires watching him and he made maybe millions pick up the guitar - kudos there. Who else? The younger Vivian Campbell maybe, especially DIO days still gets me. I know WHY he's great, but Clapton never did it to me nor Jeff Beck. EVEN my Brit heritage does it get them that much. and of course the original could do it - Jimmy Hendrix
Strange... The second the guitar sets in, you exactly know whose tone it is and who played the original on the record. No matter what anyone else says... As much as I like this, I actually love the Tygers of Pan Tang, the One Night Only Thin Lizzy tribute (and listen how dangerously close John's timbre is to Phil Lynott's) and the Blue Murder stuff. Also, John has a phenomenal taste to pick the right bass player (yes, Marco Mendoza, Tony Franklin,...). It's a crying shame we do not get to hear what he is up to these days.... 😢
This man is an amazing guitar player and composer of some really great songs!! Just heard an interview with Eddie Trunk where he said that John has been very reclusive as of late. He was supposed to have music released with an Australian company but something happened and nothing has been released yet.
I just recently discovered who John Sykes is. Always loved Whitesnake but when I saw them live, they never sounded exactly like the records. When I began to learn some of Whitesnakes songs on the guitar, I discovered that it was John Sykes who is the true Talent behind that awesome sound. I wish I had found this out a long time ago! Watching every video I can now of Mr. Sykes. A truly impressive musician!
WHAAAA??? Just recently??
One of my My primary influences, Mr. Ramsey.
Yes for sure the guy is one of the best Rock guitarists in the world!His playing in Thin Lizzy was awesome!!
Coverdale's inability to keep a band together is so annoying.
They should have let him put down the leads like this .. on the studio recording . Much better than Coverdale's baby baby talking in it's place .
This is just unbelievably awesome
I love how the bass guitar sounds here!
Yes indeed, Marco Mendoza is a phenomenal player too 👍 🎸
Fretless!!!
I hate 2024. I want to go back to that summer of 1987 and just stay there
Not only You, dude. Not only You.
Can I come too…
1989 , Toronto was the Rock place to be!! Born, lived , educated, played, performed and had the time of my life!!
Me too. I was 14 and having the time of my life 😢
Humanity peaked in the summer of 1987
2024 who's here in October ❤🎉loving them still of the night 💖🌉 🌃❤🎉
You have to be nuts to get rid of a Guitar player like John Sykes, the total package.... what an incredible musical talent
Masterpiece. Sykes is one of the bests ever
Sykes is the most underrated guitarist of all time. Took 2 guitarists to replace him and here he proves the singer Coverdale was also expendable. 🤣🤘🏿
Criminally underrated musician
Sykes and Mendoza, a dream duo❣️
Miss this decade of Rock 🤩
In 84, i had the opportunity to stand 4th row on the floor in front of him during their Slide it In tour. Amazing band. John got jypt from a great career, but he has the admiration and respect that DC will never attain.
If you're reading this John, thank you for giving that 16yo kid a great show that night.
The funny thing is I've seen many Whitesnake live versions on this and I stumble upon this one and damn does this take the cake. Not only Sykes amazing guitar playing but Vocals as well, total genius, thank you.
Sykes is not just a better musician than Coverdale, he's also a better vocalist. That's the hard truth.
He's an unreal talent, his finger prints are all over 1987, and ya, what a great vocal tone
a lot better than the current dave 'growler' coverdale.
Well Said!
@@laddeveritt8933 He is a really handsome boy but never ever better singer than DC. Don't compare them. One is a brilliant guitarist and second brilliant singer with a divine voice. BTW, DC is the hottest man in the world.
Sykes does what one guitar what two with Whitesnake could barely do with two, he owns this. And he's singing...
Sykes has the best fret hand vibrato I've ever heard. Sykes and Gary Moore have/had incredible vibrato and it adds so much more musical expressiveness to your playing. Big, wide and even shakes.
Sykes along with Norum and Viv Campbell learned at the feet of Gary
@@jayrusnakTrue, Gary was their hero.
@@gfgranja I know the feeling.
The thing is, Sykes is known for that really slow vibrato but he can actually do three or four different ones. For instance, they're all on display on "Is This Love". He also knows how to milk a note with no vibrato and then add it in. Most guitarists just don't pay enough attention to theirs.
People say Yngwie Malmsteen has the best vibrato ever. Hear it urself
Brilliant!! This is John's song ...he's a guitar god and a terrific composer...
Amen brother
riff is Blackmore actually. this came about when they found a cassette with lost demos Coverdale recorded while in purple. While I agree the song is a Sykes final product the original idea, chord progression and seed was Blackmore. Blackmore would have a good chance of winning the lawsuit if he so chose to claim credit on this song. and would have made a nice chinck of change too
@Paul Camp. It would be a bit rich of Ritchie to put a claim in with the amount of stuff he stolen in the past by his own admission. I love Ritchie btw.
@@pa2camp riff is half blackmore, half jimmy page. the first half of the riff is derived from the burn riff (or the outtake youre talking about), and the 2nd half is literally the immigrant song riff
@@hotdogwater7037 also sounds like black dog riff
Bass line exelent
Sykes is one of the few who can play the guitar in an erotic way. What a vibrato. Guitar porn.
Underrated guitarist and songwriter. He plays and sing on the same time . I try , impossible for me . I follow since tyger of pan tang . Long life John Sykes .
sykes is a monster!!!
Best guitarist that was in WS hands down! I wish he would start touring again!
120% agreeded
YEP
Coverdale don't forgive he fucks townie kitaen 🤣
nick rock and roll nothing you said makes sense. And he fucks WHO??????? TOWNIE?!?!?!
yngveskarphedinsson AGREEDED?!?!? Ha!!!!
I just freakin love him as a vocalist. He's one of the only metal (or hard rock... whatever) singers whose voice never even approached cheeseball territory. At his peak, his style & voice's unique sound was brilliant. Fucking brilliant.
Just the way he sang a word like 'night'... listen and notice the annunciation. Totally unique and original.
because he’s british! he’s got his very own voice, nobody sounds and plays like him. Lots of imitators, none can match him
Who the hell keeps saying John Is underated John is the best of the best none better been that way for years
even with one guitar, it's still damn powerful! Sykes is legendary.
Holy cow! All of that from essentially 3 man band - I know they're is a keyboard on there somewhere. And Sykes singing and playing. Whole new respect for him.
A good guitarist!
And also plays effortlessly! That interlude and guitar solo always gives me chills
Thanks for the memories of Streetfighter John. You were a beast even in the pubs of Lancashire.
I had to return again to this video to listen for probably the 100th time, glad it's still up! I HIGHLY RECOMMEND headphones/earphones 🎧 for this. It's a transcendental performance.
Like this much more than any version with Coverdale. Doesnt hurt that John Sykes is a ninja on the guitar either.
John Sykes, one of my favorites. Perhaps the best heavy hair song of the generation. What do you think?
the world needs some more music from John Sykes!
Sykes is THE man
There was Simon and Garfunkel, England Dan and John Ford Coley, Loggins and Messina, ect.. ect...
Then there were Sykes and Mendoza...
The originators of "Still of the Night"..
Underrated as hell..
Mabuhay John Sykes fan from 🇵🇭 Philippines 🎸😍🤩❤️
Marco Medoza on the Bass ! Sykes and that bass are a tandem force and that drummer...nice jam.
Hayes Dallas ...his bass contribution is awesome
wasnt he in twisted sister and the dictators too? 😜
John is vocally superb and a guitar god!!! He has tons of charisma...all the attributes of a phenomenal frontman!!
John Sykes slays! That extended jam in the bridge is just awesome.
So underrated.....Its strange, being a huge Randy Rhoads fan, one quote of his always rings in my head about him talking how he loves "Leslie West and the way he bends".,...that is how I feel about Sykes....just love his bending of the notes....
never heard a bass and guitar play so well together
Still one of the most beautiful rock tracks in existence.
His play fits very well with Marco's Jazzy bass. So coool!
This song and Cold Sweat ....two of the best rock / metal riffs ever written 🤘👍
With Syke's thick guitar sound, great job with the bass having clarity.
this is overdubbed as hell... still a great performance and recording, though
Wow, this is incredibly powerful music, especially for a Three piece. The talent level of the three is absolutely insane.
There's nothing like hearing Sykes play this, but that keyboard is HORRENDOUS!
John’s guitar prowess is truly EPIC!!! That solo did it for me....like OMG UNBELIEVABLE! 👍👍
John Sykes is behind WS sucess
don't be silly. WS formed in 77 and were successful way before sykes joined.
Flick Dasher these people and their idiotic comments.
@@flickdasher1775 nah. never had a record as successful as 1987 long before and long after, which only atests and confirms to the importance of sykes's writing and playing to its success.
@@snoo50 it attests to the fact that in an effort to increase sales, coverdale changed the line-up from the blues rock original, less attractive one to to a more telegenic, pop-orientated one. sales prove only that an artist's output chimes with the record buying public's tastes at a certain time. the same artist may release something better or
worse at another time and it's success or failure will depend on whether they are in fashion or not.
@@flickdasher1775 Do you prefer pre 1987 WS ?
The thing I find amazing about John is he can play the guitar parts, do vocals, all at the same time, and he is
FUCKING FLAWLESS. There isn't a lot of people who can multi-task like that, I sure can't !
gary moore does both better!
Hmmm, comparing guiitarists is difficult i suppose. they were both great. Gary wasd more blues orientated and had more feel. But this shit jJohn is doing here isn't easy, not at all.
gary was one of the best in rock and blues remember he was in thin lizzy. have a look at 'empty rooms live in stockholm 1987' and 'the messiah will come again'. guitar playing just doesn't come much better.
Holy Shit... I never heard this version until now... wow.. amazing... and I would have say this version is simply bad ass...
He has it all. Greatest guitar tone ever, best hard rock guitar player of that era, and a cool ass original voice. Shame nothing substantial ever came after those 2 Blue Murder albums.
Best tone ever belongs to Peter Steele and Kenny Hickey of Type O Negative. Listen to the studio versions of 'Christian Woman' or 'Bloody Kisses (A Death in the Family)'. Nothing can touch the thickness, distortion level and tone of those 2 playing together 6)
The true heart of Whitesnakes’s greatest hits revealed! And I LOVE you’ve got Mendoza on bass! He’s a beast! I covered him The Dead Daisies! We gotta talk about this!
In a world of shredders and constant appegios..this is what it is about....Soul, feeling.....Don't have to be the fastest....just got to have the "feel"
John's tone is absolutely out of this World!
John Sykes = Guitar God.
Forget Whitesnake. This is the best version!
When anyone plays ❤🎉 music 🎶 this way with so much passion ❤awe 💗🫢💗 I love it!❤!
John, you are the best guitarist ever...seriously.
Wow. Great voice. Better than Coverdale in Donington 90 and much more shows. John Sykes = Respect.
DC is a baritone, Sykes a tenor. Huge difference.
８４年のスーパーロックジャパン🇯🇵ツアーでボンジョビが来日公演で見に行ってその後ホワイトスネイクが来ていたことが知りませんでした。今となっては衝撃的な出来事でした。ジョンサイクスを見ました。ミッキーマウスの丁シャツを着てたことを覚えています。できればもう一度ゲストでホワイトスネイクのギター🎸プレイを拝見したいです。🎸🎤😎😎
One of my all time favorite albums is my cherished screaming blue murder! 🤘😎🤘
The Great Guitar John Sykes🎸👏👏👏
Greatest rock tone ever coming from a guitar! Joel Hoekstra comes close, but Sykes invented it. Love that sound!
Hes THE ABSOLUTE BEST MUSICIAN IVE EVER HEARD LIVE ANd….PERIOD !! Man. What I would give to jam with him and be his drummer man !!!!!!
Sounds so much better than anything Whitesnake ever tried to play live. Without John Sykes these songs don't work
John Sykes Rock Legend
Nice to see that.... John, you are still one of the best writers and btw. very nice guitar player :-)
Damn ......I mean Tommy Aldridge on drums the one and only Marc Mendoza on bass....and The JOHN SYKES....WHATA YA EXCEPT
How come he doesnt' get the recognition he deserves? How awesome he is not only on the GEETAR but his voice is bad as too!!!
What...!!??...Hes filling up half of Coverdales band and still sounds like a wall of sound. And he does it well.. If youd ask me he had to go out WS because of this undenialble raw talent and got too much attention
Probably the best version of this song I've heard.. definitely can tell this is his song. Coverdale can steal and take all he wants but we know who put this one together
Coverdales ego couldn’t handle John
John is amazing !!!!!!!
I’d give anything to be Syke’s drummer!
John is making that Les scream! Even Jimmy Page couldn’t do this song justice! Always a Zep/ Page fan. But that’s just how good Sykes really is!
the one and only
Dang, this is a trio and they sound like that? Sheesh. They sound 100x better than the white snake band of 5! Damn! If I closed my eyes this sounds like a 5 man band. This guitarist is a bad man! The bassist is awesome as well and so is the drummer. Just wow.
Best bass lines ever heard
John Sykes is my favorite guitarist very underrated best sound too
there are some guitar players that just hearing or seeing them REALLY make one want to go play and inspire in the moment to play their own guitar. Sykes is certainly one and he doesn't do enough for us fans and if we didn't have youtube we wouldn't have hardly anytbing from him. Prince was another - his passion for the guitar and music- he wasn't technically a shredder but after I saw purple rain as a teen I knew I was playing. EVH maybe, Randy Rhoads and Page for certain.
I don't care for him that much, but I can't deny Yngwie does it to me and one of the best concerts I ever saw was him in '86 at Long Beach Arena with a very young but killer Jeff Scott Soto.
Blackmore is definitely not this California boys thing, but I can't deny even as weird as he looks sometimes playing (the way he twists his head, jerks, etc just is odd to me) and his reputation (has anyone ever heard ANYTHING nice about him outside of his guitar playing?. I'd hate to be the guy no one can stand) he somehow inspires watching him and he made maybe millions pick up the guitar - kudos there. Who else? The younger Vivian Campbell maybe, especially DIO days still gets me.
I know WHY he's great, but Clapton never did it to me nor Jeff Beck. EVEN my Brit heritage does it get them that much. and of course the original could do it - Jimmy Hendrix
also, love the work, he did in blue murder, incredible Guitar work
Great guitar great singer
Simply John "Fuck" James Sykes 🎼🎶🎸😎👊
Simply The Best Version This Song Alive🎸😎👊
かっこええなー。この曲。サイクスのセンスが光る。
にっこり笑っての演奏が好き。すべてにおいて美しい。
This song still sends shiversupmy spine as it is so awsome!
Exelent performance
I'm just going to say WOW!
Exelent voice
Я Тебе кохаю любий John ❤.Тобі есть до чого стремиться.Любов це насолода від життєвих труднощів.Я с тобой.
Great guitar, great voice :)
Mr. John Sykes Amazing Guitar🎸👏👏👏👏
John Sykes Great Guitar🎸👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
A beast holy shit
Wow!!! Killer as always!
Oh God, that fretless bass!
Strange... The second the guitar sets in, you exactly know whose tone it is and who played the original on the record. No matter what anyone else says...
As much as I like this, I actually love the Tygers of Pan Tang, the One Night Only Thin Lizzy tribute (and listen how dangerously close John's timbre is to Phil Lynott's) and the Blue Murder stuff. Also, John has a phenomenal taste to pick the right bass player (yes, Marco Mendoza, Tony Franklin,...).
It's a crying shame we do not get to hear what he is up to these days.... 😢
JOHN F###ING SYKES that's all is needed to be said!!!!!
Awesome!! If I don’t catch a Sykes live show in the next year, then I’ll know God hates me.
This man is an amazing guitar player and composer of some really great songs!! Just heard an interview with Eddie Trunk where he said that John has been very reclusive as of late. He was supposed to have music released with an Australian company but something happened and nothing has been released yet.
John makes it look so easy...god musician!
Marcos Mendozza is incredible...
GRANDE BIG SYKES .... THE BEST ... MELHOR GUITARRISTA DO MUNDO...
No one can touch Sykes...period.
Listen Bass of Marco Mendonça 👂👏👏👏👏
You like the sound to hear of bass play from Marco 🦶🦶🤔✌️🤷♂️