Before Whitesnake, Dave Coverdale was a member of this "colorful" "Smoke On The Water" group
But I think most people know only Smoke on the water and the 
hits ..... the boy sang the Coverdale-Page song (much worse than David) .... but 
mixing music with politics I find it stupid, and for a group like U2 I .... As I 
mentioned before, I find some peoples attitudes to Purple very frustrating.