Blabbermouth — This past May, GREAT WHITE announced that it had parted ways with singer Mitch Malloy and had replaced him with Andrew Freeman (LAST IN LINE). Malloy had been in GREAT WHITE for nearly four years, having joined the group in 2018 following the departure of Terry Ilous. Asked in a new interview with Metal Edge if he and his bandmates ever considered the possibility of bringing original GREAT WHITE singer Jack Russell back into the fold before getting Andrew, GREAT WHITE guitarist Mark Kendall said: “No, only because he is not 100%. He sits on a stool when he plays and I’d rather just remember him in his heyday when he was flying around on the stage and singing like a bird. I can’t have him sitting on the stool onstage; it’s not the kind of show I want to present. If we were playing acoustics and were all sitting on stools, that would be a different story.”

Kendall also addressed the fact that Jack is continuing to play shows with a band called JACK RUSSELL’S GREAT WHITE, which features Russell alongside Robby Lochner (FIGHT) on guitar, Dan McNay on bass, Tony Montana on guitar and Dicki Fliszar on drums. Asked if it bothers him that there are two versions of GREAT WHITE out there touring, Kendall said: “Not too much, because they [JACK RUSSELL’S GREAT WHITE] don’t play that often as it’s just a way for him to make a living. I didn’t want Jack to just call his band JACK RUSSELL; I wanted people to know what they were going to see when they went to a show, and because the guy has his surname attached to GREAT WHITE, this way they know it’s Jack Russell, the past singer from the band GREAT WHITE. Whereas this band is not like MARK KENDALL’S GREAT WHITE — it’s just GREAT WHITE only. We just wanted him to be able to make a living and that was the settlement we made.”

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