![]() Kendall got the nickname due to his naturally white-blonde hair, white Fender Telecaster guitar, white jumpsuit, and white Capezio shoes. Niven suggested the name change from Dante Fox after seeing Kendall stick his head out of a car window while driving by the Troubador and some kid in the crowd said "there goes Great White". From left: Lorne Black, Mark Kendall, Jack Russell, Audie Desbrow.Īfter recording several demos, the band chose as manager Alan Niven, who had worked for the independent distributor Greenworld in Torrance, California, and had dealt with Mötley Crüe's debut self-release. They played their first gig with Russell at The Troubadour in Hollywood, California. Later they found out that Russell was released from prison after serving only 18 months of his sentence and Russell talked Kendall into an audition and he got in the band by a two to one band vote. They played their first gig in 1979 with singer Lisa Baker and played around Orange County and the Los Angeles area for six months with Lisa, until she joined George Lynch's band Xciter and Butch rejoined briefly. ![]() The name they decided to go with was Dante Fox. They auditioned several singers including John Bush from Armored Saint, They then got a singer named Butch Say whose style was similar to that of Rob Halford, but finally settling on a female singer Lisa Baker. ) and drummer Tony Richards (later a member of W.A.S.P.). He recruited bassist Don Costa (later a one-time member of Ozzy Osbourne and also briefly in W.A.S.P. The band went its separate ways and Kendall was left to start over. Then in 1979, Russell was arrested for shooting a live-in maid in a botched robbery attempt, and sentenced to eight years in prison. They decided to form a band together and they called it Highway later changing it to Livewire and then played one final show as Wires. Vocalist Jack Russell met guitarist Mark Kendall in 1977, and Kendall asked Russell to join his band. History Early career and first two albums (1977–1986) Malloy left four years later and was replaced by Andrew Freeman.Īs of August 2008, Great White estimated they had sold around eight million records worldwide. Great White has since continued on without Russell, who was first replaced by XYZ vocalist Terry Ilous, who stayed in the band until 2018 when Mitch Malloy replaced him. After more than three decades as their singer, Russell left the band in 2011, again using the moniker Jack Russell's Great White. By 2006, Jack Russell's Great White had reverted its name to its original name Great White. Great White disbanded in 2001 the next few years, the band performed as Jack Russell's Great White, which also made headlines when, in 2003, their show pyrotechnics set a Rhode Island nightclub on fire, leading to the deaths of 100 people, including band member Ty Longley. They charted two Top 40 hit singles on the Billboard Hot 100, with "Once Bitten, Twice Shy" and "The Angel Song." They continued to release new material into the 1990s. Twice Shy (1989), and those albums' singles " Rock Me" and " Once Bitten, Twice Shy" received considerable airplay through radio and MTV. The band peaked with several albums during the mid-to-late 1980s, including the platinum-selling records Once Bitten (1987) and. Great White is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1977.
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