Great White and co-founding member/original lead singer Jack Russell have announced that they have entered into an agreement settling their pending litigation over the “Great White” name.
In March, 2012, Russell sued his former band-mates Mark Kendall, Michael Lardie and Audie Desbrow over their continuing use of “Great White” after Russell had taken a leave of absence from the band for medical reasons. The band countersued, and the parties have been involved in contentious litigation for the last year. After three days of closed-door mediation before U.S. Magistrate Judge Carla Woehrle, the parties reached a comprehensive agreement. While many of the terms of the agreement will remain confidential, it can be revealed that, going forward, the current Great White band will continue to use the name “Great White”‘ and Russell will perform under the name “Jack Russell’s Great White.”
Jack Russell’s Great White has hit the high seas to embark in a two month two moth voyage across the Nation until early Fall.
Multi-Platinum original singer of Great White still brings it to the stage belting out all the original beloved songs that made the band take a place in rock history. Russell will be performing all their greatest hits from Save All Your Love, One Bitten Twice Shy, Rock Me and more.
Jack Russell’s Great White Tours Dates – More to be added~
7/23/13 Fargo, ND The Windbreak – ** Venue Change
7/24/13 Dickinson, ND Army’s West Sports Bar
7/26/13 Royalton, MN Halfway Jam Festival Grounds
7/27/13 Savage, MN Neisen’s Sports Bar & Grill
7/28/13 Thunder Bay, ON Crocks
7/31/13 Oklahoma City, OK Chameleon Room
08/2/13 St. Louis, MO Fubar
08/4/13 Etobicoke, ON The Rock Pile
08/8/13 Sturgis, SD Glencoe Camp Resort
08/9/13 Sturgis, SD Eeasyrider’s Saloon
08/10/13 Hazel Green, WI Sandy Hook Tavern
08/12/13 Clifton, NJ Dingbats **** New Show
08/13/13 Allentown, PA Crocodile Rock
08/15/13 Clarion, PA Wasteland Live
08/16/13 White Marsh, MD House Of Rock
08/17/13 Lancaster, PA Village Nightclub
08/19/13 Warren, PA Holiday Inn (Acoustic Performance)
08/20/13 Luzerene, PA Brews Bros West
08/22/13 Appleton, WI Luna Lounge
08/23/13 Viroqua, WI Vernon County Fiargrounds – JAMMIN
08/24/13 Muscatine, IA Elms Supper Club & Lounge
08/27/13 Little Rock, AR Revolution Music Room
08/29/13 San Antonio, TX Boozehounds
08/30/13 Dallas, TX The Boiler Room
08/31/13 Houston, TX Concert Pub North
09/2/13 Milwaukee, WI Milwaukee Harley
09/7/13 Clovis, NM Curry County Events Center
09/8/13 El Paso, TX Pop’s Cantina
09/14/13 Versailles, OH BMI Indoor Speedway
09/20/13 San Juan Capistrano, CA The Coach House
09/21/13 Corona, CA Marquee 15
09/28/13 Macon, GA Cox Capital Theatre
10/18/13 North Platte, NE Sculley’s Shooters – Skull Fest
(JACK RUSSELL OF GREAT WHITE ACOUSTIC)
11/29/13 Agoura Hills, CA The Canyon
For more information, please visit www.jacksgreatwhite.com or www.facebook.com/jacksgwpiratespage.
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Would you rather make $7.70 an hour @ WALMART or $5.00 an hour for playing bass for the non Jack Russell G W or $6.00 an hour for JRGW? Imagine a grouppie who only bangs JRGW not GW? We need more DIO DISCIPLES cause DIO rocks. Imagine gang wars between East Coast GW and. West Coast GW.
OK wait a second. I’m pretty sure you’d make the $6.00/hr for the ‘Great White’ Great White, and $5.00/hr playing for the ‘Jack Russell’s Great White’ Great White. Jack Russell would be playing the salad bar at the Holiday Inn, while Great White would be in the Lobby of the Holiday Inn as guests walk in (and then promptly running out). To suggest otherwise is highly offensive. But just wait, I’m sure there will be other musicians we actually know getting into both versions of these bands. Like Jack’s version will one day get Juan Crocier on Bass or Frankie Banali on drums, while the ‘Great White’ Great White will soon have Carlos Cavazo on guitar and Bobby Blotzer on drums.
I think Cavazo is booked by Eddie to be guest guitarist on TMS season 19. So hold your horses there pal. This whole sordid affair takes on a more sinister tone when you look @ Jack Russell s pic and realize that he is stealing Bret Michael’s look. How dare you? How dare you Jack Russell? What next, DON T EVEN THINK OF COVERING TALK DIRTY TO ME! THAT IS A TIMELESS CLASSIC AND YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO. NONE NONE
Appreciate this tour while it lasts, Jack Russell is on the short list of VELVET REVOLVER hopefulls. He is also linked to LED ZEPPELIN MICHAEL JACKSON and though a longshot Tony Soprano in a new version of that show.
BREAKING NEWS… RICHIE SAMBORA IS FORMING HIS OWN GREAT WHITE CALLED GREAT WHITE 3D WITH THE GUYS FROM WAS (WASP OFFSHOOT NO JOKE), LISA MARIE PRESLEY, BILL WARD (IF OFFERED A SIGNABLE CONTRACT), AMANDA BYNES AND RICHARD DREYFUSS AS HOOPER.
You guys crack me up. I would think at this point in time Great White could book a phone booth and there’d still be room for me to walk in a make a call. Arguing over the name Great White is like bickering over a cigarette butt at an intersection. As far as I’m concerned you can throw in Kingdom Come and White Lion for starters.