Recover (Great White album)
Recover is a cover album released by the American hard rock band Great White in 2002.[3] All of the tracks are covers of songs that the band gained the most influence from. The album was recorded live in studio in November 1989 as a two-track demo. The collection of covers of this album include songs already appeared in other Great White albums, such as the medley "Bitches and Other Women" on ...Twice Shy, "Down at the Doctors" on Hooked and "Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady" on Let It Rock. The covers of "Ready for Love" and "Fire and Water" are notable, as both were made famous by bands with Paul Rodgers as the lead singer. The former song was originally recorded by Mott the Hoople, whose guitarist Mick Ralphs was later in Bad Company and whose lead singer Ian Hunter originally performed "Once Bitten, Twice Shy", a major hit for Great White in 1989. The Dr. Feelgood song "Down at the Doctors" is misspelled in the credits as "Down to the Doctor".
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| Released | 5 February 2002 | |||
| Recorded | Total Access Recording, Redondo Beach, California, November 1989 | |||
| Genre | Hard rock | |||
| Length | 47:57 | |||
| Label | Deadline/Cleopatra | |||
| Producer | Great White | |||
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| Revisiting Familiar Waters album cover | ||||
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Recover was issued with an altered order of the songs by the label Axe Killer in France in 2002, under the name The Final Cuts[4] and in 2003 by Mausoleum Records with two bonus tracks, under the name Revisiting Familiar Waters.
In 2004, the Italian label Horizon-Italy re-issued the album with the title Burning House of Love, without the band's permission. The compilation's title was considered to be in very bad taste, given that it was released just a year after The Station nightclub fire at a 2003 Great White concert. The band has since condemned the label for illegally making this album, and has urged all fans not to buy it. The Italian label, on the other end, promptly changed the title to Love Removal Machine, without changing cover or content of the CD.
Deadline Records issued a double-CD deluxe edition of Recover in 2007, with a bonus CD containing tracks taken from other Great White albums and from tribute albums where Jack Russell had sung.
Track listings
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Love Removal Machine" | Ian Astbury, Billy Duffy | The Cult | 4:30 |
| 2. | "Again and Again" | Rick Parfitt, Andy Bown, Jackie Lynton | Status Quo | 3:39 |
| 3. | "Ready for Love" | Mick Ralphs | Mott the Hoople | 4:41 |
| 4. | "Bitches and Other Women" (medley of "Bitch", "It's Only Rock 'n Roll", and "Women") | Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Jones | The Rolling Stones, Foreigner | 4:50 |
| 5. | "Tangled Up in Blue" | Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan | 5:56 |
| 6. | "Burning House of Love" | Exene Cervenka, John Doe | X | 3:53 |
| 7. | "Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady" | Floyd D. Rose, Jonathan Scott Palmerston | Q5 | 2:35 |
| 8. | "Sin City" | Angus Young, Malcolm Young, Bon Scott | AC/DC | 4:40 |
| 9. | "No Matter What" | Pete Ham | Badfinger | 2:46 |
| 10. | "Fire and Water" | Andy Fraser, Paul Rodgers | Free | 3:37 |
| 11. | "Down to the Doctor" | Mickey Jupp | Dr. Feelgood | 3:38 |
| 12. | "Lady Love" | James Dewar, Robin Trower | Robin Trower | 3:12 |
| 13. | "Unchained (KMFDM remix)" | Edward Van Halen, Alex Van Halen, Michael Anthony, David Lee Roth | Van Halen | 4:07 |
| 14. | "Sin City (Rosetta Stone remix)" | Angus Young, Malcolm Young, Bon Scott | 4:34 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Once Bitten, Twice Shy" | Ian Hunter | Ian Hunter | 5:22 |
| 2. | "Rock Me" | Mark Kendall, Michael Lardie, Alan Niven, Jack Russell | Great White | 3:56 |
| 3. | "Save Your Love" | Jerry Lynn Williams, Russell | Great White | 4:07 |
| 4. | "Saturday Night Special" | Ed King, Ronnie Van Zant | Lynyrd Skynyrd | 5:29 |
| 5. | "Same Old Song and Dance" | Joe Perry, Steven Tyler | Aerosmith | 3:46 |
| 6. | "Unchained" | E. Van Halen, A. Van Halen, Anthony, Roth | Van Halen | 3:54 |
| 7. | "Any Way You Want It" | Steve Perry, Neal Schon | Journey | 3:07 |
| 8. | "D'yer Mak'er" | John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant | Led Zeppelin | 2:49 |
| 9. | "All My Love" | Page, Plant | Led Zeppelin | 2:38 |
| 10. | "Immigrant Song" | Page, Plant | Led Zeppelin | 4:43 |
| 11. | "When the Levee Breaks" | Bonham, Jones, Memphis Minnie, Page, Plant | Led Zeppelin | 3:30 |
| 12. | "The Rover" | Page, Plant | Led Zeppelin | 4:05 |
| 13. | "Stairway to Heaven" | Page, Plant | Led Zeppelin | 5:29 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original | Length |
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| 1. | "Train to Nowhere" | Kim Simmonds, Chris Youlden | Savoy Brown | 4:27 |
| 2. | "The Hunter" | Carl Wells, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Steve Cropper, Al Jackson, Jr., Booker T. Jones | Albert King | 4:12 |
| 3. | "Once Bitten, Twice Shy" | Hunter | Ian Hunter | 5:22 |
Personnel
Band members
- Jack Russell – lead and backing vocals
- Mark Kendall – lead guitar, backing vocals
- Michael Lardie – rhythm guitar, keyboards, backing vocals, engineer
- Tony Montana – bass
- Audie Desbrow – drums
Production
- Melissa Sewell - assistant engineer
References
- Prato, Greg. "Great White Recover review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
- "Great White Burning House of Love". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
- "Great White - Recover". Sleaze Roxx. Retrieved 2011-03-08.
- "Great White - The Final Cuts". Sleaze Roxx. Retrieved 2011-03-08.