It’s been nearly two months still Whitesnake backed out of its North American tour with the Scorpions — and singer David Coverdale still hasn’t recovered from the illness that forced the band to cancel.
That’s the word from Whitesnake bassist Tanya O’Callaghan, who says Coverdale is still feeling the effects of his upper respiratory infection. “David needs some time off the road to kind of heal up,” she says. “David just got this very persistent, like a sinus and throat upper respiratory thing that wouldn’t seem to shift. And he pushed through for a while. And doctors were, like, ‘I mean, you’re the singer. So anything up here for a singer, it’s, like, ‘This could end your touring forever or your recording or whatever.'”
That’s not to say the members of Whitesnake haven’t enjoyed their time on the road. “I look at everything from the positive,” O’Callaghan says. “We had a wildly successful European tour, and we hit it harder and longer than any band I know coming out of COVID. ‘Cause a lot of bands were dipping their toe in getting back to touring and doing, like, a month or six weeks. Including rehearsals, we were moving for four months. And we had a really, really solid run up until towards the end.”
