FIB MUSIC:  That was cool that you guys stuck with Alan even after the band got signed. Most bands part ways with their manager after they get signed. I didn't realize that you were Alan's first band.

Jack:  Oh, he was so instrumental, he was instrumental in the whole thing. I think the band would have eventually done its deal but it would have been a harder road. He was a great songwriter and he helped me out a lot. He really helped me become a better lyricist, a better songwriter. I give the guy mass credit. But these guys are trying to change the story. It's so well documented. I've got numerous magazine articles where Mark and I are talking about how the name started and how the band came up. I have the magazines! If he wants to perjure himself, more power to him.

FIB MUSIC:  Didn't Mark quit the band at some point?

Jack:  Yes. Mark quit the band and the corporation in 2000. He gave up all rights to it. Here's the timeline. 2000 Mark (Kendall) left the band. In 2000 I fired Audie (Desbrow) and Sean (McNabb) who was the bass player at the time. In 2001 I did a reunion thing. See John Kalodner with Sony.....I'm the one who got that record deal with Portrait. I went and met with John...he wanted to meet with me only, no managers, just me. He told me, 'I don't know if Great White has another album in them but I believe in you, I love your voice, I want to sign you guys'....I was thrilled. We got the deal and did a record. He wanted to do a second record.....I just couldn't hear the songs and I was kind of leaning toward doing the solo thing. So I told John, 'no, but thank you'.....he bought us out of the record deal....we did our 'Thank you....Goodnight' album, said bye and we were done. I went and did my solo thing, Michael (Lardie) went and played with Night Ranger and Mark went and did his choo choo train band or whatever it was called. My solo tour was rather lackluster as far as attendance went, so I thought, let me call Mark up and see what he's doing. I hired him as an employee to work with Jack Russell's Great White. Nobody said anything then. They didn't say anything when I dissolved the band because they couldn't; I own the band.

Then in 2005, Mark and I started a corporation called Shark Touring, which I am CEO....it's split 50/50....and then when I decided to reform the band, we hired Audie, Sean and Michael. They had been getting paid through that corporation until I fired them on December 10th, then they had to start a new corporation to get paid through, but even when I wasn't in the band, I was still in the band. Even by their own words.

In 1998 I reformed Great White Productions, which was our production company, it is solely my corporation. So from 1998 to 2001 when I dissolved the band, all of their checks were being cut from Great White Productions, which I am the sole owner of.....so they're employees of mine. I don't know how you can argue that, it is what it is. It right there on paper. It's really just sad that it had to come to this because we were all such great friends. Money became more valuable than a friend. I'm in the hospital with a perforated bowel, which means the contents of your bowel get launched into your body cavity causing a horrendous infection. I was in a coma for five days....they told my wife that they didn't think I was going to make it. During that time, not one of them called to check on me or to even see if I was still alive. That was truly sad.....ok, so I cost you a couple of grand, I embarrassed you but you know what, I was their friend. When they screwed up....they had their issues too. There was a time when Audie couldn't play on the record because of his addiction. He didn't play on the 'Can't Get There from Here' album. Mark missed part of the Scorpions tour because of his alcoholism but I was always there for them. So I get ostracized because they got sober before me? Now they just want some puppet on a string singer, a yes man, who is going to do whatever he says. They shouldn't call it Great White because it's deceptive, it's not Great White. I did the hiring, I did the firing, nobody else wanted to be there....I always had to do it all.....because it was my band. Then they file a statement saying that I have no right to use the name? What? What do you mean, I have no right to use it. I have every right to use it.

FIB MUSIC:  It is sad, mostly because you guys have stayed together for so long.

Jack:  It is sad....it's horrible. These guys are my really dear friends. I think about them all the time. I think about Audie when we lived at my parent's house and all the fun we had, I think about me and Kendall hanging out, everywhere we went, we were inseparable. It is really, really sad. The idea of us sitting on a porch one day talking about our old stories. It's not going to happen anymore.