The 1986 Listening Post - Great White - Shot in the Dark

Great White - Shot in the Dark

#114/1279

March 1986

Great White

Shot in the Dark

Genre: Is this RATT?

3.25 out of 5

Highlights:

Is Anybody There?

Contained in this review: words about middling power chords, pentatonic scales and high pitched vocalists peacocking and epic lead guitar solos strung together in a way to make you understand what you are listening to and keep you from spending any money on it. 

WHY ARE METAL BANDS COVERING “GIMME SOME LOVIN’”?!?!?

This is the second one THIS MONTH. It’s just as bad. But it has more echo. 

I was really hoping this would give me a different reason to think about Great White. I’m beating them up here but this is really just pedestrian hair metal. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gODA_HsWIrA

The 1984 Listening Post - Great White - Great White

Great White - Great White

#209

1984 Housekeeping

Great White

Great White

2.5 out of 5

Somewhere, in some record shop, there must be a cutout bin of just 80s bands who all wanted to be Van PriestSnake. I sometimes wonder, did they all hear the same records and decide to be THAT band? Was it organic? How did this genre take shape. If I was a documentarian that is the movie I’d be interested in making. Not the one that describes the origin of Metal. We all know that story, or some version of it. Yarburds, Zeppelin, Sabbath, blah blah blah. 

No, the story that is fascinating is the SECOND generation. The ones who heard it and decided to be that. Krokus, Survivor, Great White, Fastway, Venom, Saxon, Dokken, Helix, Kick Axe, etc. What was that defining moment that gave birth to the exact same band over and over and sent the to clubs to ply their Plant voiced, Eddie Axed craft? 

Well, anyway, here’s Great White. 

Just another one. The cover of The Who’s “Substitute” draws no line between Mods and GlaMetal. In fact, it proves the opposite. 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39Qv9rMe_-w