Marsden says the style of the album will call back to the Whitesnake Ready An' Willing era: "Kind of gone retro, but with a 2012/2013 sound, if you know what I mean," he says. "A young guy's producing it, and I'm very pleased for them to do it, because they bring a lot to the table. I just write the songs and play guitar, which is nice."

Marsden joined Whitesnake on stage in May to play Fool For Your Loving and Here I Go Again in Manchester, England. And his legendary '59 Les Paul Standard, nicknamed 'The Beast,' was the subject of Gibson Custom Collector's Choice #8 . In March Marsden told us the Beast came into his life in 1974 after spending time in the hands of Andy Fraser and Paul Kossoff of Free and, before that, Eric Clapton.