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  • Coverdale was purples best singer by a long way

  • cand n au ce face oamenii trebuie sa se contrazica ,nu?Sunt ai dracu de buni amandoi mi ar fi greu sa aleg intre ei

  • Compared to Ian Gillan there is no David Coverdale! I mean, live Gillan blows Coverdale off stage, and Gillan is a master in so many different styles of singing; Highway Star, Child In Time, Fools, Place In Line, Anyone's Daughter, No Laughing In Heaven, Black Sabbath (Live)... - My opinion!

  • @DeepPurpleOL Davids greatest live appearances are the best vocal live appearances of all time. no other voice can match his natural talent and thats my opinion ;)

  • @MilesAnastasios87 Great ;)

  • @MilesAnastasios87 Great ;)

  • @MilesAnastasios87 Great! ;)

  • @MilesAnastasios87 Great ;)

  • IAN GILLAN! The best singer of DEEP PURPLE.

  • they are great...great voices@@

  • gillan doesnt sing sldier of fortune so....

  • Gillan is one the greatest voices in rock history!!

  • Coverdale's a way, way, way better singer. Big Purple fan, but Gillan is annoying.

  • Женщина-ковердейл просто отсасывает у Гиллана.....

  • THAT'S EASY,,,GILLAN,,,,LOOK AT THE HISTORY.

  • I chose both for both of them

  • I'll just say.... coverdale never sang in jesus christ superstar.... just saying

  • Freddie mercury

  • Robert Plant did not leave Rock, he is Rock. Just because he's recording different genres right now, doesn't take away the fact that he is an amazing singer no matter what genre he delves into. I think Coverdale is a good singer, just not up there with Plant or Ian Gillian.

  • Ian Gillan is a real singer/musician, not just a pretty face with hair.

  • Ian Gillan all the way.

    Notice how the Whitesnake songs were the studio versions, yet the Gillan Purple tunes were live versions. Probably because Coverdale can't hit the notes consistently.

  • Hard =/

  • DAVID =MORE TALENTED!!!!!!!

  • @ianeira1000 Joke?

  • son diferentes.!!! los dos son grandes singers

  • Gillan wanks all over Coverdale.

  • theres no doubt ...david coverdale,he can sing anything,he got the guts and suppotrs alone,gillan is like plant...things of past

  • @diegoleonization I don't know what planet you live on but Plant is still recording and touring. Coverdale is the one who is a thing of the past. Gillian's music is real, not just 80's hair band bs

  • @pragmaticalpaula123 maybe you leave in a different dimension but Whitesnake's Forevermore was nominated as rock album of the year 2011 and its in the top10 in every serious Rock Magazine! also in 2008 Good to Be Bad voted best rock album of the year and WS named best band of the year 2006 in Classic Rock. Plant records different type of music nowadays, singing with chicks and playing country music, while WS plays Hard Rock. David remained true and never quitted Rock music..

  • Gillan

  • ian gillan

  • ian gillan imbattibile

  • What a silly game to compare two of the best singers of rock music ? I like Coverdale better but that doesn't mean Gillan is not an equal good singer. And btw. your choice of songs who is singing what: I like the songs better you chose for Gillan but still I like Coverdale's timbre better. Comparing a fantastic Scotch to a unbelievable good Malt - Useless senseless :) Sorry...

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  • You cant compare A and A....they are both A..

  • Really tough decision but I'm gonna have to go with Coverdale because his voice is flawless.

  • Glenn Hughes. 

  • I really like Dave's voice in 70's, he was great singer, but Gillan... folks, Gillan is a God, not a singer, it's a sin to compare him to other "ordinary" rock singers. There was just one person with equal voice quality like Ian. This person was Ronnie James DIO.

  • @loldacz I saw Purple in the mid 90s twice in Switzerland with Satriani on guitar & Gillan fuck up so bad my heart was aching. Two years ago I saw Whitesnake in Germany & David was fanfuckingtastic.... & same thing last year in GB.

  • david coverdale is more of a rockstar and sounds awesome

  • Can I vote for Rod Evans?

  • @dbrylinski my band opened for DP..April 1969......

    I cant picture Rod or David...doing justice to Hiway star...

  • @B3TerTer Funny you say that you hear Coverdale with Deep Purple singing Highway Star, and I think Glenn Hughes had to do all the High Notes because Coverdale could not handle them. lol, no way does Coverdale compare to Gillan. Why does anyone think that when with Deep Purple you never see a recording of Coverdale trying to sing Child In Time, because he can't!!!!!!

  • Ian Gillan. Coverdale is blah!

  • It's just like, what do you like more a violin or a cello. Complete useless comparison.

  • @edtepas Thats a lousy comparison !!

  • @B3TerTer

    Coverdale is no touch!

    

  • Child in Time: greatest song in rock history, performed in a way that noone can beat, Highway Star: is simply one of the greatest songs, I think Ian Gillan will make the best singer, (despite that Burn and Mistreated beats Highway Star)

  • coverdale because he is the best singer ever

  • hard songs he's GILLAN

  • DAVID COVERDALE the best singer ever ever in hard rock end number 2 DIO king

  • yes both are very good singers but...my apologies David i chose Ian :S

  • In my opinion, after leaving Deep Purple, Coverdale has achieved more success, than Gilan. But both are good.

  • I love Ian Gillan, but David Coverdale is too strong

  • When we can ask "who's better: Ian Gillan or David Coverdale?" it only shows those days are over and far behind us. Now we just can ask "who's worst?". Sad but true. These two? Both amazing, can't choose.

  • both are amazing in they´re own styles.and both are a great contribution for music,and that´s what matters.

  • David Coverdale by far, as much as i like Gillan in his own way

  • David Coverdale !!!!!!

  • besser? beides gute sänger, wobei das umfangreichere stimmvolummen mit sicherheit ian gillan hat

  • I prefer DC sould voice than Ians screams :P i mean... Ian is cool, but i dont find much passion as i can with DC... my opinion :)

  • I like this video just because two incomparable great singers is together \º/.

    Whos is better? OMG.

  • in the 70's Ian Gillan was better, bout now Coverdale wins, because he took care about his voice and Ian lose his voice at the end of the 80's, after the Perfect strangers album. Both are and were amazing. Both are living legends

  • According to this video I would think that Coverdale is superior to Ian. But the truth is opposite. Gillan is powerhouse.

  • D A V I D C O V E R D A L E ¡ ¡ ¡

  • ian gillan....the best ..

  • ian gillan...a gift from god.....

  • ian gillan ....gillan is deep purple....

  • They are both great at what they do... 2 different styles: David on the soulful side and Ian the screamer -- love them both and both put their stamp on the Deep Purple table ---- now, it's just a matter of taste and opinion.

  • Are you joking? How can even think about comparing a warm blues and dynamic voice like Coverdale's with a plate and static voice like Gillan's? Ian Gillan had the only skill to be able to go very high, and sometimes he could even be a little more expressive that the usual; besides that, he had such anonymous timbre. When you think about Deep Purple, the last thing you think is amazing is Gillan's voice. In Perfect Strangers he had a more original timbre, but less hight.

  • @PietroRumenta What a load of old cobblers!! It was because of Gillans marvelous voice that Purple became as big as they did. If Gillan hadn't left the band DC could still be working in a clothes shop in Redcar!! Coverdale is a marvellous singer, but his timbre is very close to that of Paul Rodgers (no bad thing) but please dont put your amatuer remarks on here about possibly the greatest hard rock vocalists of all time. you just look like afool!!

  • los dos son grosos , y los estuvieron en deep purple

  • Coverdale, Hands Down!

  • David Coverdale is excellent, but he suffers when compared with Ian Gillan.

  • Gillan forever!

  • Gillan by a country mile!

  • Imagine if Coverdale did Highway Star...Do you think it would be memorable as Gillian's? Gillian made Machine Head a timeless classic and I personally was not impressed with DP after he left. Blackmore forever!!

  • Coverdale every time, Gillan sounds like a third rate cabaret singer, that awful vibrato. he can't sing scales he's not fluid he just goes heh-heh-heh.

  • Ian gillan papà!

  • Gillan

  • Ian Gillan. Better in both love and hard songs. His voice is epic!

  • Never mind!!!! Ian or David both great -FOREVER!!!

  • Gillan FTW!

  • Coverdale the best!

  • I love gillan

  • Gillan, hands down!

  • wymagają obaj szacunku za twórczość a nie porównań..pozdrawiam

  • I think that Ian Gillan is nothing without Deep Purple, An David Coverdale can do nice things by himself. No contest, David is much better, but i like Ian´s voice too.

  • COVERDALE, NO CONTEST!!

  • how can you compare whitesnake love songs without Is This Love and Love Aint No Stranger.

  • RJ DIO

  • No contest. Coverdale is OK, but Gillan is one of the best ever.

  • @ukrfan

    That wasn't the question..read the description dumbass.

  • Coverdale......the best

  • I A N G I L L A N.

  • BOTH ARE A LIVING LEGENDS OF THE TRUE ROCK ROOTS.......

  • Sweet bariton = David The first screamin'= Ian

  • Ian Gillan of course !

  • my name is vince you can t ask someone to like better your mother or fauther right

  • @XaTan I def. vote for you :)

  • gillan is a natural performer, coverdale is not. ian has a powerful voice,david too but the accent of ian gillan cannot be equalled. listen to david singing songs of ian. David's voice is wreck and sounds like an old man. Anyway, just my opinion. But during the 70's ian's voice was never equalled.

  • @mikztal You nailed it!

  • why is this comparing ian gillan with deep purple and coverdale with some cheesey trendy 80s songs.. that white snake one.. here i go again on my own. is decent but whys that being compared to DP? wheres the clip with coverdale singing burn.. ok this video sucks thumbs down

  • gillan was the best in deep purple in 70's era, but david coverdale from 1984-1993.... ohhh man, no coments, it's amazing voice, have much more power than gillan's voice can offer... but... my opinion

  • Глупый топик. Каждый хорош по своему. Каждый из них привнес неоценимый вклад. Без обоих было бы скучно. Led Zeppelin и Deep Purple не хуже и не лучше друг друга. Они принципиально разные, но идеологически схожие.

    Автору незачет!

  • @psp90ful Согласен, бредовая идея сравнивать их! Такхе, как и битлов и роллингов, или Manowar и Iron Maiden/

  • In my opinion, Gillan.

    Why ? Because he developed a trademark. .

    David (a great singer) just was a follower in the Deep Purple's context.

  • ok i like them both but i wanna ask u something (the maker of this clip) WHY THE FUCK DO U USE STUDIO QUALITY ON COVERDALE AND LIVE FOR GILLAN?

  • GILLAN!

  • Gillian by far.Coverdale was a wimp.

  • David has the better voice anno 2011

  • david  is better

  • Why not compare just the work both did with Deep Purple, and leave Whitesnake out of it? That would be apples to apples.

  • @uncoveror I agree. A more fair comparison would be..say, Mistreated with Child in Time and Burn with Smoke on the Water (etc) I can't help but feel that, although the better singer, Coverdale basically sounds like any other Hair band vocalist in this vid. Gillian has a subtle delivery that is often understated, compared to DC's stronger tone.

  • @uncoveror Because that would render Coverdale a suffering donkey that he was at that time. When Coverdale sings the part of Christ in the Jesus Christ Superstar at all than we can talk comparison. Personal preferences aside, Gillan's voice has a measurably much wider range, his talent covers an array of many styles and singing manners, while the other one is a one trick pony. Gillan is an originator, the other one is an approximator. That is that and that is all.

  • Coverdale forever

  • david coverdale has the tone that most people would love to have, a gift from his parents,

  • David Coverdale 

  • dude, YOUNG Gillan with 70s songs... cant compare with 80s arrangements coverdale! honestly! Coverdales 70s stuff is much better, and Gillan sucked after Machine head

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  • Gillan all the way.

  • What pathetic moron would pick coverdale?

  • Ian Gillan

  • and the winner is mikael akerfeldt

  • I LIKE IAN BETTER

  • @hockpatooey Ha! ... no way ... (I hope you were kidding.)

  • Gillan, but at time they were VERY close. The are so different in style.

    Today Gillan is better, but Glenn Hughes are far better here in 2011.

  • David Coverdale!!absolutely...!!

  • @kretenism Judgement Day...I think it is from Slip of the Tongue 'WHitesnake'

  • Gillian is more lyrical and technical capable and pioneered a new way of singing where as Coverdale is more soulful and blues; one cannot compare apples and oranges unless to say that they are both great fruits.

  • Each is good in their own right, end of.

  • RasenShuriken2323 rules!!

    , the most brain opinion

  • I think Bon Scott was not bad :)

  • How the hell can one choose between those two???

  • Both are very good.

  • RONNIE JAMES DIO!!

  • both

    

  • It's a hard dilemma ! I love both singers. But, at the end, I prefer David Coverdale,

    Because her voice is very ardent, right for melodic songs ("Soldier of fortune") and

    also for Hard pieces ("Sail Away", "Stormbringer", and others). This choice don't

    want to lessen Ian Gillan, a Legendary and unforgettable Singer !

  • Coverdale rocks!! Much better than Ian!!

  • sorry man love both

  • gillan is the best

  • ROBERT PLANT SHOWED BOTH OF THEM HOW TO DO IT.

  • @FirebirdSummer

    Robert...who?

  • @QueenReigns1

    Robert Plant...your grand daddy..who taught your Gillian and Coverdale how to sing..!

  • @faltrax

    What a load of CRAP.....Coverdale sings better now than plant pot ever did.

    And who is " Gillian "?

  • @QueenReigns1

    I gave you my opinion...you gave me yours....end of story..

  • David Coverdale

  • Ian is wonderful.

  • Like Gillan more than Coverdale. Do you remember Blackmore left Deep Purple after Coverdale joined. I still think that Coverdale need Glenn Hughes backup for singing. You can almost hear Coverdale always breathing in every song thru the mic. No breathing in the mic when you learn singing. Excuse my English.

  • Can't denied Coverdale still rock till now! Anyhow Gillan n Coverdale both are the legend!

  • Gillan for Hard songs. Coverdale for love songs.

    Crowdful examples: 1)Space Truckin. 2)Soldier of fortune.

  • @kretenism

    judgement day

  • How can u call child in time love song!?

    It's an anti-war song (vietnam war). You can google it everywhere and check its lyrics. And btw, Child in time is at some parts harder as Highway star.

    Come to think of it, highway star is more of a love song than Child in time O.o

    Check lyrics next time.

  • @DepLeRa He means love songs=ballads, hard songs=hard rock songs.

  • DEEP PURPLE!!!

  • Porra!!! mas nao tem nem comparação.. as vozes são muito diferentes, mas eu prefiro o David Coverdalle... disparado!! Tem mais potência vocal e atingi níveis mais baixos e mais altos com muito mais facilidade!!!

  • ,...SONG AT 2.00 IS A ``JUGDMENT DAY``from 89`

  • just listen to the album jesus christ superstsar....ian is and will always be the man

  • coverdale is just a wanna be ian gillan and robert plant.....look at him now looks like iggy pop and sounds like a drowning cat.

  • coverdale is just a wanna be ian gillan and robert plant.....look at him now looks like iggy pop and sounds like a drowning cat

  • I like Gillan' voice, but Coverdale is just the VOICE to me.Still to this day his voice is absolutely awesome.

  • Notice the song choices Gillans are live Coverdales are studio versions.

    I like both singers but if you listen to DP 2 and DP3 and 4 Live Gillan sings better.

    I judge on live performances so you dont get many takes and overdubs to get it right.

    Both great singers though.

  • while i agree Ian had a great higher relm and good vibrato - Coverdale is much more than one dimensional - he can sing low and soulfull / hard an raspy and occasionally hit the high notes with conviction as well - Coverdale is the better voice IMHO - now Coverdale vrs. Hughes would be a different story

  • IAN GILLAN FOREVER

  • david is absolutly better!!!!

  • Ian ovviamente :)

  • Gillan was amazing, but he's totally done now... and Coverdale still rocks better then ever

  • @Kirshach listening to 2011 whitesnake tour videos I can definitely say that Gillan is in better shape than Coverdale now...Gillan lost his high vocal notes in 2008, but he is stillgreat in low and middle range,,,

  • @nazzare79 I've been to both Deep Purple and Whitesnake concerts this year, and I was faaaar more impressed with the latter.