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3 Years Later, Great White Nightclub Fire Series of Events Comes to An End

  • 30-09-2006 6:06pm
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    GREAT WHITE lead guitarist Mark Kendall told The Associated Press the Southern California group — once Grammy-nominated for the 80s hit "Once Bitten, Twice Shy" — has re-formed with its original members. Kendall and singer Jack Russell have written 15 new songs for an as-yet untitled album to be recorded in Los Angeles and Salt Lake City by year's end.

    It's the group's first full album of new songs since 1999, and everyone is "pumped," Kendall said. The band will begin touring in January.

    Just after the the 2003 Rhode Island nightclub fire at GREAT WHITE concert that left 100 dead and injured many more, bassist Dave Filice and drummer Eric Powers left the group. Kendall — 49 with a shaved head and white goatee — stopped performing, turned to Christianity, went through intensive therapy and surrounded himself with his wife Bridget, three sons and one stepdaughter.

    The draw of GREAT WHITE's music proved too strong for Kendall and Russell. Several months after the blaze, they returned to touring, contributing proceeds to The Station Family Fund.

    Six months ago, the guitarist and his family packed their things into storage and left their home in Palm Desert to help take care of his ailing mother-in-law in Ogden, Utah. Kendall has been busy producing local artists, including hip-hop group BOMB CITY. In 2005, Kendall released a spiritually minded solo CD.

    Russell, the band's lyricist and a recovering alcoholic, underwent a facelift earlier this year, documented by the TV show "Extra". News of the facelift — which Russell told "Extra" he wanted in order to get rid of his "jowls" and "double eyelids" from years of hard living — angered relatives of those who died in the fire and its survivors who felt he didn't show enough remorse.

    Read more from The Associated Press.

    There is also this piece from MTV News yesterday on the sentencing of the club owners
    http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1542118/20060929/index.jhtml?headlines=true


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    The funny thing is that this band announced they were quitting a few years before this, around 1999, recorded an album called 'Thank You, Goodnight' and called it a day before being lured back out of retirement only a few years later. Hopefully, if this did one thing, it taught club owners to be more vigilant against the stupid accidents that can happen from a simple indoor pyro explosion.

    Heres the only thing that YouTube hasnt deleted on the topic
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMyQ5xPOHF0


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