''Let it Rock'' is the eighth studio album by the American
hard rock
Hard rock or heavy rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and distorted electric guitars. Hard rock began in the mid-1960s with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements. Some of the earliest hard ...
band
Great White
Great White is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1977. The band peaked with several albums during the mid-to-late 1980s, including the platinum-selling records '' Once Bitten'' (1987) and '' ...Twice Shy'' (1989), and those albums ...
, released in 1996. It was recorded after their split with long-time manager and co-writer
Alan Niven
Alan Niven is a New Zealand-born band manager best known for his tenure as manager of Guns N' Roses and Great White.
Biography
Niven became the manager of Guns N' Roses, serving from 1986 to 1991. He was fired from his post just prior to th ...
. After the acoustic sound of 1994's ''
Sail Away'', the band was determined to return to their hard rock roots.
Track listing
#"My World" ''
(Don Dokken
Donald Maynard Dokken (born June 29, 1953) is an American singer and musician. He's best known for being the lead singer, occasional guitarist, and founder of the glam metal band Dokken. He is known for his vibrato-laden, melodic vocal style whi ...
, Matthew Johnson, Mark Kendall, Michael Lardie
Michael Lardie (born September 8, 1958) is an American musician and record producer known for his memberships in the rock bands Great White and Night Ranger.
Early life
Lardie was born on September 8, 1958, in Anchorage, Alaska and raised ...
, Jack Russell)'' – 5:28
#"Lil Mama" ''
(Kendall, Lardie, Russell, Dave Spitz
Dave "The Beast" Spitz (born February 22, 1958) is an American musician best known for having played bass guitar for the heavy metal group Black Sabbath from 1985 to 1987, appearing on the albums ''Seventh Star'' and being credited for (but not ...
)'' – 4:27
#"Where is the Love" ''
(Lardie, Russell)'' – 4:22
#"Hand on the Trigger" ''
(Lardie, Russell)'' – 5:17
#"Easy" ''
(Kendall, Lardie, Russell)'' – 4:26
#"Pain Overload" ''
(Audie Desbrow, Kendall, Lardie, Russell)'' – 4:41
#"Lives in Chains" ''
(Kendall, Lardie, Russell, Spitz)'' – 6:20
#"Anyway I Can" ''
(Teddy Cook, Desbrow, Kendall, Lardie, Russell)'' – 6:07
#"Man in the Sky" ''
(Todd Griffin
Todd Griffin is an American musician and a former member of The Graveyard Train. He is pursuing a solo career and gained fame as the singer of the first version of the theme song to the popular American television series ''That '70s Show
'' ...
, Russell)'' – 4:38
#"Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady" ''
(Floyd D. Rose
Floyd D. Rose (born 1948) is an American musician and engineer who invented the ''Floyd Rose Locking Vibrato systems for guitar, Tremolo'' System in the late 1970s, eventually founding a company of the same name to manufacture and license his pr ...
, Scott Palmerton)'' – 2:45
#"Miles Away" ''
(Kendall, Lardie, Russell)'' – 5:32
Japanese edition track listing
#"Lil Mama" – 4:27
#"Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady" – 2:45
#"My World" – 5:28
#"Pain Overload" – 4:41
#"Easy" – 4:26
#"Lives in Chains" – 6:20
#"Man in the Sky" – 4:38
#"Hand on the Trigger" – 5:17
#"Where Is the Love" – 4:22
#"Anyway I Can" – 6:07
#"Burnin' House of Love" – 3:52 (bonus track)
#"Miles Away" – 5:32
Personnel
Great White
*
Jack Russell – lead and backing vocals, producer
*Mark Kendall – guitars, backing vocals
*
Michael Lardie
Michael Lardie (born September 8, 1958) is an American musician and record producer known for his memberships in the rock bands Great White and Night Ranger.
Early life
Lardie was born on September 8, 1958, in Anchorage, Alaska and raised ...
– guitars, keyboards, banjo, flute, backing vocals, producer, engineer
*Audie Desbrow – drums
Additional musicians
*
Dave Spitz
Dave "The Beast" Spitz (born February 22, 1958) is an American musician best known for having played bass guitar for the heavy metal group Black Sabbath from 1985 to 1987, appearing on the albums ''Seventh Star'' and being credited for (but not ...
– bass
*Cody McDonald – harmonica
*Steffen Pressley – alto sax
*
Alicia Previn
Alicia Previn (also known as Lovely Previn) is an American violinist, songwriter, recording artist and author. She is the daughter of André Previn KBE, the conductor of the Houston, Pittsburgh, and London Symphony Orchestras and the Royal Philh ...
a.k.a. Lovely Previn – violin
*Don Teschner – viola
*
Martin Tillman
Martin Tillman (born 6 November 1964) is a Swiss cellist and composer.
Biography
Tillman was born in Zürich, Switzerland, in 1964. He arrived in the US in 1988. He has since performed/composed on numerous films, television shows, commercials and ...
– cello
Production
*
Dito Godwin
Dito Godwin (1955–2021) was an American record producer and executive, best known for his production works with Mötley Crüe, Peter Criss and Ace Frehley of Kiss, Great White, and more recently No Doubt, Kevin Carlberg, The Stick People and ...
– producer
*Ulysses Noriega, Darian Rundall, Stacey Hanlon – assistant engineers
*Steve Hall – mastering
References
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Great White albums
1996 albums