"Hard To Say Goodbye", the new video from
GREAT WHITE —
Mark Kendall (lead guitar),
Scott Snyder (bass),
Audie Desbrow (drums),
Michael Lardie (guitar, keyboards) and
Terry Ilous — can be seen below. The clip was filmed on September 23 in Orlando, Florida and was helmed by the
Flatbush South production team.
"Hard To Say Goodbye" comes off
GREAT WHITE's latest album,
"Elation", which sold around 1,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release. Issued on May 22 via
Frontiers Records, the 12-song CD marks
GREAT WHITE's first effort with
Ilous following the band's split with founding singer
Jack Russell.
This version of
GREAT WHITE is not to be confused with
JACK RUSSELL'S GREAT WHITE, which features
Russell alongside
Robby Lochner (
FIGHT) on guitar,
Matthew Johnson (
DOCTOR M,
JACK RUSSELL) on guitar,
Dario Seixas (
FIREHOUSE,
STEPHEN PEARCY) on bass and
Derrick Pontier (
GREAT WHITE,
SAMANTHA 7) on drums.
Russell filed a lawsuit against his estranged bandmates in March claiming that they fired him and stole the group's name while he was recovering from surgery to repair a perforated bowel. Named in the complaint were
Kendall,
Desbrow,
Lardie and talent agency
Bigg Time Entertainment.
Kendall,
Desbrow and
Lardie responded with a 30-page counterclaim, filed on April 24 in a federal court in Los Angeles, accusing their former frontman of, among other things, "miss[ing] 80 performances in 18 months" before leaving the band; "irreparably damag[ing]" their "market reputation" by putting on performances that "are not up to the standard of
GREAT WHITE; and misleading the public by stating that the musicians in
Jack's new band "were once full members of
GREAT WHITE." They also accuse
Russell's new bandmates of "profit[ing] from their wrongful affiliation with the
GREAT WHITE brand."

