Great White is an American blues-based hard rock band, popular mainly in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Great White started life as Dante Fox, playing their first gig in 1981 at The Troubadour in Hollywood. After recording several demos, the band took on Alan Niven as manager, Niven having worked for independent distributor Greenworld (which dealt with Mötley Crüe's debut self-release) in Torrance, California. Greenworld released Great White's eponymous debut in 1984. “Shot in the Dark”, their follow-up independent release, marked the arrival of drummer Audie Desbrow who replaced original drummer Gary Holland. By the time Capitol Records signed the band and reissued Shot in the Dark, keyboardist-guitarist Michael Lardie had come aboard. After the release of "Shot in the Dark," Great White hit the road with Dokken and was on the verge of even bigger success.

The band followed up with “...Twice Shy” in (1989). The album included their biggest hit, "Once Bitten, Twice Shy", for which they received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance. The album was certified platinum in July 1989 and then, double platinum in September of that same year.

Great White continues to tour into the new millennium, recently doing so in support of their 1999 release Can't Get There From Here - the latest addition to a catalog that has sold 4 million singles and albums in the U.S. alone. The band also performs occasional Led Zeppelin cover sets, repaying a debt to the band that obviously inspired them from the very beginning.

Despite several shifts in its lineup over the years, Great White's blues-based hard rock is as reliable as ever, as is the promise of greater hits to come.

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