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.
30 Responses
There is nothing funny about this. The future of the GREAT WHITE moniker is at stake here and YOU are making cigarette references. The intersection is spot on for GREAT WHITE is at a crossroads. They should duke it out on reality TV for the title GREAT WHITE. 55 Year old buffoons on high wires swinging pool noodles at each other as they fall into a vat of David Coverdale s seman. Last dry man standing gets the rights to the name.
You are completely forgetting the original base player Lorne Black. That guy hasn’t been in the band for years, but could show up at any minute with GWIV. This street fight could turn into appointment TV. White Lion (with just Mike Tramp) could be the opening act and then that could turn into a spin off show when Vito Brata finally shows up after all these years with VITO BRATA’S WHITE LION!
How about Great Whitesnake Lion? Seriously, this is some of the funniest shit I’ve read in a while! Keep up the good work everyone. Carry on. Jesus loves you.
LOL. You re mocking WHITE LION and rightfully so but next to GREAT WHITE that sh*t is like RAINBOW RISING or SABOTAGE. I wonder which GW would be more apt to cover EVERYBODY WANG CHUNG TONIGHT? or 80s era JEFFERSON STARSHIP? Couldn’t t hurt. How bout 2 WANG CHUNGs one of which are actually Chinese guys? Maybe a white LIVING COLOR? An all Jewish STRYPER and METAL CHURCH? DAVE MUSTAINE S METTALICA? GLEN HUGHES’ BLACK SABBATH FEATURING TONY IOMMI WITHOUT TONY IOMMI?
LMAO – holy crap richman that last rant was the best of all. A Jewish Stryper?! I’m going to have to stop reading your takes when I’m in my office. I’ve got tears coming out of my eyes from laughing so hard.
QUEEN + PAUL ROGERS – PAUL ROGERS = QUEEN. PAUL FREHLEY + STANLEY EISEN = PAUL STANLEY and ACE FREHLEY. WTF. CROSBY STILLS NASH YOUNG – CROSBY STILLS NASH YOUNG = 0. WHITE LION + GREAT WHITE × 2 = SOMETHING F@#KING AWFUL
This has been a great day and I hope you guys liked my writing. One place JRGW is playing is called FUBAR. That says it all.
Hey DR, all those guys you mentioned are broke and will play Holiday Inns. They signed K-Y contracts in the 80’s and are paying for it now. Vito Bratta could form a band with Banali, Juan,Blotz & Jack. Coming to Dingbats in Clifton in ’14 or Elm’s Lounge in Iowa. Maybe a cruise from Jersey City to Brooklyn.
Lee, I like were your going with that. If you use those 4 guys and use the initials of their names the way you did, you get BJ’s. Or they could go with BJ’s Squared. Or BJ’s and more BJ’s. Are you in marketing?