Great White.....

Upscope was planning on going to see them play on the 31st. They are performing 2 miles from his home. But, after reading this there very well may be a change of plans for Upscope:

.........."Some friends and I were in the upper peninsula of Michigan this past weekend doing some snowmobiling. We happen to be in Sault Ste Marie and noticed that Great White was playing there that evening. We purchased tickets and went to the show. I will not bore the masses with a show recap, I will point out some things I did notice.

Show starts and Jack shuffles out and I mean shuffle, I think the only thing holding him up was the mic stand. Jack, the audience came to see you sing, it is fun to now and then hold the mic out to the crowd so they can sing a verse, not the whole fucking song as you pretty much did thru out the show. Jack did mumble something about having a sore throat but "didn't want to dissapoint the thousands of fans here tonight !!" Jack, there were about about 300 people there. During every solo and non singing part of a song he would turn around and bend over at the waist towards the drummer, looking like he wanted to throw up.

Show ends and we head to the bar in the casino. About an hour later the band minus Jack comes in and sits down to start drinking. We walk over to them and talk about the show, they were all real cool. The bass player looks up and says "Jacks here, this should be fun" Jack is sitting at a table in the middle of the bar next to a rather large girl, hell she was fucking huge. They were huddled together going over life strategies, actually she was holding his head up as he was slumped over the table. We watch this train wreck unfold for another half hour than decide to hit the trails again. We gather our stuff and head out, first we stop off at bar to pay our tab. While we are doing this Jack decides to get up also, only gravity takes a hold and "Down goes Frazier" He gets a couple guys to help him up and they then proceed to carry him under each arm to the hotel elevator.

Next morning we are standing in the lobby checking out when the elevator doors open up and Jack comes out of the elevator being pushed in a wheelchair by someone, he looked like crap"..........

Jack Russell seems to have been hanging w/ Jani Lane as of late?

'Scope

Reading that doesn't surprise me.

He was an hour late in "05".

But like Marshall Berle said: Rock & Roll is a dangerous profession.

The tragedy the band went through compounded with his addictions is taking its toll.

Marty wrote:

Reading that doesn't surprise me.

He was an hour late in "05".

But like Marshall Berle said: Rock & Roll is a dangerous profession.

The tragedy the band went through compounded with his addictions is taking its toll.

Too true!!

"Face the day" is a very cool number along with a few others, but ive never been fussed over his vocals, can't get on with his tone!..Respect though!

I've seen recent photo's of him & he does look cold bacon..

Shame!, nice post bro..


Matty

I saw Great White at Nottingham Rock City a few years back (before the station fire) in the middle of winter. Driving through heavy snow etc from Macc to Notts wasn't fun. Missed the support (CC DeVilles Samantha 7) so that pissed me off and then Great White came on and played for 50(!!! ) minutes and then lbuggered off!!!

Good show and all, but wasn't really worth risking life and limb to get their for 50 mins music!!!

Pete wrote:

I saw Great White at Nottingham Rock City a few years back (before the station fire) in the middle of winter. Driving through heavy snow etc from Macc to Notts wasn't fun. Missed the support (CC DeVilles Samantha 7) so that pissed me off and then Great White came on and played for 50(!!! ) minutes and then lbuggered off!!!

Good show and all, but wasn't really worth risking life and limb to get their for 50 mins music!!!

50 mins!!!!!! ...........Ohhh, thats well worth the drive & money..

Id have been pissed too Pete "big time"...Unless someone was really ill or something, its just not good enough..

Matty35 wrote:

Pete wrote:

I saw Great White at Nottingham Rock City a few years back (before the station fire) in the middle of winter. Driving through heavy snow etc from Macc to Notts wasn't fun. Missed the support (CC DeVilles Samantha 7) so that pissed me off and then Great White came on and played for 50(!!! ) minutes and then lbuggered off!!!

Good show and all, but wasn't really worth risking life and limb to get their for 50 mins music!!!

50 mins!!!!!! ...........Ohhh, thats well worth the drive & money..

Id have been pissed too Pete "big time"...Unless someone was really ill or something, its just not good enough..

I think it was a standard set time. No encore either if I remember correctly...

I saw them at Milwaukee Fest about 15 years ago. They were excellent then, but time has passed, I guess.