Guitarist
Mick Moody is best known as a member of the inaugural lineup of
Whitesnake, though he actually began his career years earlier as a member of
Juicy Lucy. After exiting
Juicy Lucy,
Moody played with Snafu for a few years, as well as on several session gigs, before joining
Whitesnake in 1978. When bandleader
David Coverdale began tinkering with
Whitesnake's lineup in the mid-'80s,
Moody resumed his prior career as a session guitarist; he also formed a blues-rock outfit called the Moody & Marsden Band with
Whitesnake cohort
Bernie Marsden, which released an album titled Never Turn Our Back on the Blues in 1994.
Moody and Marsden reunited again in the
Whitesnake-affiliated supergroup Company of Snakes in 2000, and
Moody released his first solo album, the bluesy I Eat Them for Breakfast, in 2001. ~ Steve Huey