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Great White - Latest & Greatest Audio CD

A fair review of the Great White "Latest & Greatest" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Great White reviews here, or go back to the Great White tabs.

Great White Band: Great White
Title: Latest & Greatest
Rating:
Release Date: 2000-06-20
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: In the Light [Live] 2: Rock Me 3: Face the Day 4: Once Bitten Twice Shy 5: Rollin' Stoned 6: Call It Rock & Roll 7: Save Your Love 8: Can't Shake It 9: House of Broken Love 10: Mista Bone 11: Angel Song [Live] 12: Lady Red Light

Not your daddy's best of...
However, knowing they still successfully put on a good live show I gave it a shot. Going in I knew that this was a re-recorded best of. I was immediately disappointed. Rather than start with the first track, I went straight to Rock Me and Lady Red Light. Classics from the Once Bitten album. My first response is what happened to the punchy in your face guitar work. The guitar sounded like it was filtered through a wah pedal and ended up real muddy. The singing is actually very good and the guitar work seems on, it's just that you can't really tell through the bad guitar sound and in the background mix. It's as if they preferred to highlight the drums and bass. Admittedly, if the guitars were better I wouldn't have been as disappointed but the guitar is what drove the songs originally, supplemented by the bass and drums (and some keyboard). If you have the originals, stick with them and pass on this rehash. (only exception - House of Broken Love).


Rationale for re-recording
Most of the rerecorded songs are very close to the original - only a slightly different guitar sound or a different type of vocal mike give it away and even then, it's only if you know what to listen for. Sure, a number of these tracks are re-recorded, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. Others, Face The Day for example - sound much better than the original recording. This song has always had a killer bass line when they play it live, and that wasn't easily noticeable on the original version, or on the Anaheim Live version either - the newer and higher quality recording finally gives one of my favorite GW songs the sound quality it deserves. Some of the early GW stuff was not always as well recorded as I would like - they have fixed that on the tracks that they re-do here. I already owned all of these songs on their original albums - and I STILL think this one was worth buying!!!.


Before You Buy
I liked the idea that "Mista Bone", "Lady Red Light" and at the time from their new '99 album "Rollin' Stoned" were on this compilation. When I first bought this Great White compilation, my only reason to get this was because I wanted to up my update from "Best Of Great White : 1986-1992". Well after i bought it, I soon realized that all of the old tracks were remixed (re-recorded for that matter), not just the drums, the guitars, the keyboards, the bass guitar and yes even the singing. Just stick to older best of comps and the albums. Great White pulled a fast one on me. The first example, listen to the drumming, it doesn't have a 80's bassy drum snare sound to it anymore. The sound is not digitally remastered, the reason why it sounds so clear like some mentioned before, well it's called re-recording, and for laughs let's package it like "best of". Whatever!.


great collection from an underrated band!
standout tracks are "Rock Me", Once Bitten, Twice Shy", and "The Angel Song", but the whole thing rocks as well. if you have a metal/hard rock collection, this is worth your salt to get. it is too bad that Great White is an underrated band, because they covered a big hit.


Correction to the March 2nd 2002 review
It was on 1999's Can't Get There from Here. Rollin' Stoned isn't new for this album.

I don't really understand the point of this album.


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