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GREAT WHITE Singer Talks About Possible Reunion Of Original Lineup

April 15, 2004

GREAT WHITE singer Jack Russell recently spoke to Norway's Metal Express about an Italian label's decision to release a GREAT WHITE CD with a title that seemed to refer to last year's tragic Rhode Island fire.

"Back in '92, we recorded an album that was going to be a follow-up to 'Recovery', which was a live studio album of cover song," Russell said. "So we recorded the songs and one of them was the X track 'Burning House of Love'. Umm, about six years ago we sold that record to a label in France. I think what happened is that they licensed it out to this Italian company. Once we got wind of it, we had our lawyers contact them immediately, and said, 'Look, it's not cool. You hurt a lot of people's feelings. What are you thinking about?' So they sent a letter back saying they are so sorry, we had no idea, and they removed the albums from distribution."

Russell also addressed recent reports that he and guitarist Mark Kendall were thinking about recording a new studio album with the group's original lineup.

"We may do that," Jack explained. "I talked, I spoke with Michael [Lardie], we threw that around a bit, and thought that sounds like a cool idea, it'd be fun. I'm pretty positive it's gonna happen … probably next year.

"We talked to some other people, and [former drummer] Audie [Desbrow] would not be a person I would want to play with ever again in my life. There were some bridges burned there that I just can’t forgive, and I’m a very forgiving person. I just can’t let that one go. I have to stand up for myself … I can’t let someone talk shit about me and come up to me and say 'Hey bro!' But we talked to Tony Montana, so you never know what's gonna happen …"

Read Russell's entire interview with Metal Express at this location.

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