Shot in the Dark

by Great White

Overview

1986's Shot in the Dark was Great White's sophomore album and major-label debut through Capitol, having attracted enough positive press during its initial independent pressing to help the So-Cal hard rockers leave their spawning grounds in the music industry shallows in order to dive into its deeper waters, as it were. No, Great White still wasn't quite ready to challenge bigger fish in the American glam metal ocean like Ratt or Moetley Cruee just yet, but in promising tracks like "She Shakes Me" and "Run Away," the fledgling group dispensed prime examples of the muscular, distinctly blues-infused sound they would carry on finessing towards platinum status over the course of subsequent albums, Once Bitten... and ...Twice Shy. For its part, Shot in the Dark also boasted a suitably glossed-up (but effective) power ballad in "Waiting for Love," and a meticulously assembled cover of Angel City's blues-rock anthem "Face the Day." At the same time, the album featured almost as many middling, overly sanitized rockers in the title cut and "Is Anybody There?" (both liable to waver between excellence and utter suckage, depending on individual feelings about the overall hair metal aesthetic); a similarly soulless cover of "Gimme Some Lovin'"; and a total washout in the stutter-paced, synth-accented, almost new wave-like "What do You Do?" Shot in the Dark was a mixed bag, in other words, but one that nevertheless represented yet another crucial step in Great White's steady evolution into top predators within their ever-widening hair metal ocean of the mid-'80s. ~ Eduardo Rivadavia

Product Details

Release Date:	06/02/2015
Label:	Imports
UPC:	4988005885685

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Great White   Primary Artist
Mark Kendall   Guitar,Vocals (Background)
Jim Lang   Keyboards
Michael Lardie   Guitar,Keyboards,Vocals (Background)
Jack Russell   Vocals
Donald Ducksworth   Vocals (Background)
Audie Desbrow   Drums
Lorne Black   Bass,Guitar (Bass)
Tyana Parr   Vocals (Background)

Technical Credits

Michael Lardie   Engineer,Composer,Producer
Wyn Davis   Engineer,Producer
Bill Russell   Photography
Martin Looner Zinc   Design
Stephen Williams   Composer
Robert Brewster   Composer
Anna Lynn Williams   Composer
Patrick Neeson   Composer
Cheryl Pawelski   Coordination
Mark Kendall   Composer
Michael Thompson   Composer
Mike Ragogna   Reissue Director
Alan Niven   Composer,Producer,Cover Art Concept
Muff Winwood   Composer
Terence P. Minogue   Coordination
Jim O'Connor   Artwork
Jerry Lynn Williams   Composer
Jack Russell   Composer
Rick Brewster   Composer
John Brewster   Composer
David Richman   Redesign
Spencer Davis   Composer
Steve Hoffman   Mastering
Steve Winwood   Composer
Kevin Flaherty   Coordination
Bob Russell   Composer
Michelle Azzopardi   Coordination
Frank Lopez   Coordination
Roy Baez   Coordination
Kevin Gray   CD Preparation
Doc Neeson   Composer