Episode 34 - Jack Russell
b'Jack Russel of Great White joins us this week to discuss a career that has spanned the highs, lows, and everything in-between.\\xa0\\n\\n\\n\\nLast week was a busy week in the press for Russell between\\xa0dodging drunk boaters\\xa0and having to\\xa0clarify remarks\\xa0about former manager Alan Niven. He takes a few minutes to discuss these stories, as well as where the current legal case with the rest of the band stands, with us before we launch into career-talk.\\n\\n\\n\\nAnd what a career it\'s been. From their early days in 1978 as Dante Fox, Jack tells us how the name\\xa0Great White\\xa0came about and how it relates to albino guitar players.\\xa0\\n\\n\\n\\nWe get Jack\'s recollections of the Sunset Strip in the days before it exploded which included flyer wars with Nikki Sixx and Motley Crue as well as his thoughts on how the internet has pretty much squashed the chances of a regional thing on that level happening again.\\n\\n\\n\\nWe discuss the reversal of touring to sell albums shifting to recording an album as an excuse to tour and Jack\'s thoughts on what downloading has done to deplete potential income and the presence of record stores.\\n\\n\\n\\nChris asks Jack to explain why the first two Great White albums sound so distinctly different from everything that followed and we find out why all of those keyboards appeared on the\\xa0Shot in the Dark\\xa0album. You\'ll hear Jacks memories of touring with Whitesnake in the U.K. for Great White\'s first european tour as well as a story about the members of Judas Priest playing volleyball in Biloxi, MS while on the Defenders of the Faith tour.\\n\\n\\n\\nRussell tells us how he had to fight to get\\xa0Save Your Love\\xa0included on the\\xa0Once Bitten\\xa0album after the producer and record company went cold on the song; a gamble that paid off for Russell and the band as the song received widespread radio airplay.\\xa0\\n\\n\\n\\nFollowing the breakthrough success of the\\xa0Once Bitten\\xa0&\\xa0Twice Shy\\xa0albums, the tide started shifting in popular music with "party" rock bands beginning to multiply to the general public\'s disgust causing the overnight change of pace with grunge music taking over the airwaves. Jack gives us his memories of this period of time and how it hit the hard rock scene like a freight train and did much damage to the prospects of success for their then-new album\\xa0Psycho City. He also tells us about Great White\'s experience opening for KISS during 1992\'s Revenge tour and getting a front row seat to the media machinations of one Gene Simmons.\\n\\n\\n\\nAfter venturing into\\xa0solo territory, Russell and guitarist Mark Kendall began performing again as Jack Russell\'s Great White with Kendall leaving the band again. With new guitarist Ty Longley, the band played The Station nightclub in Warwick, Rhode Island where pyrotechnics caused a\\xa0fire\\xa0that killed one hundred people including Longley. Jack Russell tells why he\'s decided to no longer comment on the incident.\\n\\n\\n\\nWe wrap up the conversation with some talk about the band\'s\\xa0amazing cover\\xa0of Led Zeppelin\'s Babe I\'m Gonna Leave You and why they decided to record an entire album of Zeppelin covers songs as well as the upcoming\\xa0America Rocks 2012\\xa0tour that Jack and co. are undertaking this summer along with Faster Pussycat, Bulletboys, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Lillian Axe. Jack also makes it a point to thank his legion of very supportive fans that helped to bring him back from a horrific physical state to rocking stages all over the world again.\\n\\n\\n\\nSpecial thanks to Dave Hardin and Valerie Ince for helping arrange this interview.\\n\\n\\n\\nCheck out Jack Russell\'s\\xa0website\\xa0for tour dates, news, and messages from Jack himself.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'