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Although I knew of the connections pre-Great White band Dante Fox had with the early L.A. metal scene, I never bothered to check out the earliest Great White stuff. I was vaguely aware they used to be less hair band-y, but as someone who really only knew "Once Bitten, Twice Shy," I was initially quite shocked. The faster tracks--opener "Out of the Night" (which easily bests all their other material combined) and closer "Dead End"--are straight up metal. The other songs are mostly mid-paced hard rocking stuff that I would compare favorably to the similar early material of Dokken or Ratt (Jack Russell really reminds me of a grittier Stephen Pearcy sometimes) even though it's not my kind of stuff. The cover of the The Who's "Substitute" is also pretty good. Even though Great White come off as consistently harder than either the Mötley Crüe or Kix debuts, this reminds me of cases like "Live Wire" or "Atomic Bombs," where a band's token heavy tracks completely overshadow everything else on their albums for me. Regardless of the direction they took later, cool to hear they had a couple of good heavy songs in them.
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