★★★★★
After having released a couple of lame and tame studio albums, I have to admit that I wasn't particularly looking forward to a new cd from these old sharks, let alone a live album! Indeed, what we get here from Great White is an 11-track live album in celebration of 30 years of activities in the rock biz. I don't know what you think about the band now, but I (will) always associate them with vocalist Jack Russell, who determined the GW sound...
- www.rockreport.be
2013-04-01
★★★★★
I called "Rising" (Great White's last studio album, released in 2009) "too lame and too tame", so I wasn't particularly interested to hear new stuff from the (teethless) sharks, even though I knew that they had recruited ex-XYZ Terry Ilous as the successor to Jack Russell. "Elation" is the band's 12th studio effort filled with blues-drenched hard rock songs, but once again I can't escape the feeling that the automatic pilot is still on...
- www.rockreport.be
2012-05-31
★★★★★
Between all the hype and hair of the Eighties Sunset Strip glam rock, it's hard to remember that their were some bands that had an edge. Great White was one of the them, thanks to their ambitious integration of blues and boogie into their melodic hard rock. Sure, they didn't quite rise to the level of their peers, but they've stayed true to form. Great White: do you see the shark sneaking up? With little doubt you can hear this on their 12th album, Elation...
- www.dangerdog.com
2012-05-14
★★★★★
Sound: Led Zeppelin! No matter if you love them or can't stand the one thing everyone can agree on is they are one of the biggest bands of all time. Many vocalist have come along trying to match the range of Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant, and very few have been able to succeed. One of the vocalist was able to do is Great White vocalist Jack Russell. In 1998 Great White released a live album from a Led Zeppelin tribute they did in 1996 at the Galaxy Theatre in Santa Ana, California...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Sucked into the business when their girlfriends took them to see This Is Spinal Tap, they're the most physically unprepossessing glam boys in history except Kiss, and beneath the red satin and airbrushed navels are workaday attitudes, riffs, and yowls...
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-17
★★★★★
Great White is a grown-up hard-rock band. That's not to say that its music isentirely for adults ? it wouldn't be rock & roll if it were. Nor doesit mean the band's members act particularly grown-up. Singer Jack Russell's notorious hard-living, two-fisted antics are a testament to that. Great White's emerging maturity is found in its growingreliance on a polished, mid-tempo sound and the rough 'n' tumble tales of bad romance found on such tunes as "The Original Queen of Sheba" and "Heartbreaker...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Does it seem like 1987 to anyone else, or is it just me? I swear to god, there have been more rebirths over the last two years of horrible bands then ever before. If the sixties gave us bad leaders, the seventies bad fashion sense, then the eighties gave us bad rock and roll bands...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-22
★★★★★
A lackluster mixture of live tracks and covers of Led Zeppelin, Humble Pie, and Jimi Hendrix, Recovery: Live! is a slight addition to Great White's catalog.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
With their self-titled second album, Great White improved on the faceless boogie of their debut, yet they still lacked material strong enough to earn them a large audience.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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