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29 дек 2024 :	ANDREW FREEMAN Reflects On The 'Sneaky' Way He Was 'Dismissed' From GREAT WHITE
11 дек 2024 :	GREAT WHITE's AUDIE DESBROW On New Singer BRETT CARLISLE: 'He's Put A Great Fire Under Our A****'
26 авг 2024 :	MICHAEL LARDIE Says GREAT WHITE Singer BRETT CARLISLE Is 'Really Involved' In Songwriting Process For New Music
24 июл 2024 :	Watch GREAT WHITE's Entire Performance In Toledo
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11 май 2023 :	Watch GREAT WHITE Perform On This Year's MONSTERS OF ROCK Cruise
18 апр 2023 :	GREAT WHITE Is Demoing Music With New Singer BRETT CARLISLE
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2 мар 2026

MARK KENDALL Says GREAT WHITE Was 'Fully Supportive' Of BRETT CARLISLE's Decision To Audition For 'American Idol'

In a new interview with the Thunder Underground podcast, GREAT WHITE guitarist Mark Kendall spoke about GREAT WHITE singer Brett Carlisle's audition for "American Idol" on the episode broadcast February 9.

Carlisle, who joined GREAT WHITE in late 2022, sang GREAT WHITE's classic ballad "House Of Broken Love", backed by Kendall on guitar and fellow GREAT WHITE member Michael Lardie on piano.

Kendall told Thunder Underground about Carlisle's appearance on the long-running TV singing competition: "[We] didn't wanna stop him from any opportunity, like something that big, so we were fully supportive. And we go, 'Hey, man, we'll we'll go down there and jam with you, back you up.' Plus it didn't hurt the band. I mean, six million people watching every night, they're gonna know we still exist at least. So, it was a lot of fun. It was actually a good experience.

The 28-year-old Carlisle impressed "Idol" judges Carrie Underwood, Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan at the audition — which took place at Nashville's Belmont University — enough to earn him a golden ticket to "American Idol"'s Hollywood round. Richie gushed, telling Carlisle: "Especially when you rock, you're going to be the poster child for this."

Underwood also asked Carlisle, Kendall and Lardie to play a bit of GREAT WHITE's 1989 hit version of "Once Bitten, Twice Shy", a cover of a 1975 song written and originally performed by former MOTT THE HOOPLE frontman Ian Hunter.

Kendall told Thunder Underground about GREAT WHITE's appearance on "American Idol": "They filmed us all day long. It was amazing how much they chopped it up, and it was just this little tiny segment."

He continued: "We don't have all the mediums we used to have where we're in everybody's face every five minutes. There's no MTV, no record stores, they don't play current music anymore on the radio. So, we're kind of flying under the radar — not by design on our part. But you get on a national show like that, all the old fans, maybe some of the ones that didn't know we're still around, know now. That's pretty cool."

Regarding GREAT WHITE's performance on "American Idol", Kendall said: "When we went out and saw where we were gonna do the audition with the judges right there and everything, there was a piano. And Michael saw there was a way to tune it down, 'cause we tune to E flat. And even though it was acoustic piano, it had a function to where you can tune the piano to E flat. It sounded so nice, I go, 'Let's deliver 'House Of Broken Love' that way' — acoustic guitar and piano. We never played it like that before, so it was a different look for the song."

Asked if Carlisle's appearance on "American Idol" gives him "pause at all thinking this might lead to [Brett] leaving [GREAT WHITE] at some point", Mark said: "Well, if that happened, I mean, God bless him. I, like I said, I didn't wanna stop something like that. It's not like he's looking for other things. He watched that show when he was a little kid and just for the hell of it, made this little audition tape, sent it in and they called him out of 230,000 people. So, he didn't figure to even get on it, but when he did, he [went], 'Holy shit, man. They called me.' So we weren't gonna stop it. We're fully supportive."

With his golden ticket secured, the Alabama native now advances to Hollywood, where he will compete alongside other hopefuls for a chance to continue on the nationally televised singing competition. There the contestants will face more rigorous challenges in hopes of advancing further in the season.

Asked what his "Idol" audition was like, Brett told AL.com: "I've never been with that many singers at that level before in a room, and it was cool that we all got to nerd out with the time that we had in the waiting rooms and everything else. Some really, really good people, all genres."

Kendall added: "Well, I was personally thrilled for him. But it was such a great experience [on 'Idol'], and it was so fun. They really did a lot with us. They filmed us all doing interviews, and Brett's doing interviews, and it was really exciting. It was just a really fun day, long day. Like, 12 hours there from six in the morning till six at night. But it was a great experience for Brett, and we really enjoyed ourselves. We don't want to slow him down for any opportunities or so we were happy to support that."

Carlisle was officially named GREAT WHITE's new vocalist in October 2022. Brett joined the group as the replacement for Andrew Freeman (LAST IN LINE),who sang for GREAT WHITE for only five months.

In an October 2025 interview with the Melissa & Roger's Wild Life podcast, Carlisle was asked to name the "proudest moment" of his career so far. He responded: "Probably how happy these [other] guys [in GREAT WHITE] are [with the current lineup], and seeing how happy Mark is specifically, because he comes up to me and he's, like, 'Dude, there's nothing on the setlist we can't play now. You can sing whatever. We can do whatever we want.' And he'll pull me aside after we do soundcheck, we'll do 'Stick It', or a couple of times throughout the night where I hit higher notes, and he's, like, 'Dude, you were right on the top of that note.' I'm, like, it's cool.

"I like seeing everybody just excited and having a good time," Brett explained. "It seemed like for a little while before, when I was watching videos of them on stage, it looked like there was some separation and everybody was kind of in their own bubble. And I just like making sure everybody's okay, having a good time and asking questions to where we're openly talking about things."

Asked if he and his bandmates were "a little bit apprehensive" about the fact that Carlisle is only 28 years old while GREAT WHITE, as a group, has been in existence more than four decades, Mark told George Dionne of KNAC.COM in an April 2024 interview: "He's in his late 20s, but, believe it or not, he's kind of an old soul in a way. Nothing overwhelms the guy. He just goes out and just totally handles it every night, engages the crowd. He's real good with the interaction. He sings perfect all the time. And he's got really good song sense for a young man. I'm used to feeding people melody ideas when I write a song because that's the way I do it. Everybody has their own way to do it, but I always know that there's a lot of melody available, and he sometimes comes up with something way better than I had. So that's a good sign. And the way he delivers the new stuff, he really has a good handle on the music. And I don't know — I think he was born in the wrong time or something. In other words, we can stand together. It's not like he's standing next to his grandpa or something. It's not like we're CROSBY, STILLS & NASH, and, 'What's that 13-year-old doing there?' When we stand together, it just looks like a band. It doesn't look like we're with a little kid or anything. He's a little better-looking than us, but apart from that…"

Regarding what it has been like working with a singer who wasn't even born when some of GREAT WHITE's classic songs were written, Lardie told Robert Miguel of Uvalde Radio Rocks: "Well, I think he gets what we're trying to do. It's been a godsend to have someone with his youth, but at the same time he has what a lot of people would deem as an older soul. His parents did a great job bringing him up on '70s and '80s rock, so he's pretty well versed in that. And he comes from the South, so he's got a little bit of that blues and gospel edge to him."

Carlisle made his live debut with GREAT WHITE on September 24, 2022 at the Cannery Casino Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

According to Brett, he felt welcomed by his new bandmates and the GREAT WHITE fans from the get-go.

"After meeting [the GREAT WHITE guys], they're all super-cool dudes," he told Kevin McKay of the 99 Rock WKSM FM radio station. "In Vegas, we had a rehearsal the day before, and I already knew half the songs well enough to be able to do it. So I wanted to do the best that I could on 'em. But after we hung out, everybody was cool and stuff. I mean, it's a big crowd. I love big crowds; they're fun."

Carlisle has been playing guitar and singing since the age of eight and counts bands like VAN HALEN, SKID ROW and METALLICA as his main influences.

In May 2022, GREAT WHITE announced that it had parted ways with singer Mitch Malloy and had replaced him with Freeman. Malloy had been in GREAT WHITE for nearly four years, having joined the group in 2018 following the departure of Terry Ilous.

Ilous, frontman of '80s L.A. hard rockers XYZ, joined GREAT WHITE in 2010 after stepping in for touring vocalist Jani Lane (WARRANT).

The Ilous-led GREAT WHITE released two albums, 2012's "Elation" and 2017's "Full Circle", before Terry was dismissed from the group.

In January 2023, Kendall told the "Mark 2.0" podcast that he was surprised by the overwhelmingly positive response to Carlisle's addition to GREAT WHITE. "It was world news," he said. "I'm seeing stuff on the Internet from Italy, Germany, the U.K. And even some of the more online dirt-seeking-type entities that normally are just huntin' for the headline to say, 'He said his singer sucks'. That's the article. That's the way it starts. These guys actually said good things and posted some of the [fan-filmed videos]. They're cellphone cameras, so the quality probably isn't… But you can hear it. You need to sing great."

In October 2022, Carlisle was asked in an interview with AL.com about his approach to singing GREAT WHITE's classic songs. He said: "I just want to do the songs justice, because that's what people expect to hear. They want to go to the shows and hear the songs the way they remember them, the way they know them. It's not about me and how many high notes I can hit or anything like that. I just want to do the give the people, and the band, what they want."

Brett went on to say that he is honored to be singing for a band whose songs — including "Save Your Love", "Rock Me" and "Lady Red Light" — he had previously covered with his other band ALL OR NOTHING.

"I just want to learn from them," Carlisle said of his new bandmates. "It's just really cool to be included in what I've grown up listening to, like looking at the CDs and everything. And then now people are coming up after the shows asking me to sign like original GREAT WHITE cassettes and stuff. And I'm sitting here feeling like I'm not worthy. Because I didn't record that. But I'm, like, 'I just sang with them, so, sure, if you want me to.'"

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