UK-based Komodo Rock recently caught up with GREAT WHITE frontman Jack Russell. Following is a brief excerpt from the interview:

Q: Is it good to be back?

JR: "Yeah it's good to back, it's fun, I'm enjoying it a lot. I think I'm enjoying it more now than the last time we were over, I think the older you get, at least for me anyway, you appreciate more and more. This is the twilight of our career at best, and any time we get after this is icing on the cake, it's a gift. It's been 25 or 26 years now since the band became Great White, and I've been playing with my guitarist since '78 when I was 17 years old, I'm 47 now, so that's 30 years."

Q: You say it's the twilight of you career, but you've got a new album out now as well, so it's not all doom and gloom.

JR: "Oh no no no, it's not the winter of my discontent! [laughs] I'm just looking at it from a realistic standpoint. I mean how many more years can you possibly get out of this business without looking stupid? I don't want to be in a nightclub in America playing for 20 people, 55 years old, and singing 'Once Bitten, Twice Shy'. That doesn't seem appealing to me at all."

Q: I guess you'd have to ask THE ROLLING STONES?

JR: Yeah, but they're playing to hundreds of thousands, so it's a little different.

Q: Do you not think they'd be doing it if they were playing to...

JR: "With the money they've got, probably not! It's fun to play, but give me a break, but when you're used to playing coliseums, playing to hundreds of thousands of people and shit like that, and your playing to 20 people, it's like, you know what, it's time to hang up the spurs?"

Q: Given the chance, is it something you'd like to do again?

JR: "Oh of course, who wouldn't? The fortunate thing about us in the States right now, is that we've built up some momentum again where we're actually playing bigger venues every year. We've gotten across that no man's land, where initially in the '90s, the band where too young to be contemporary, but we weren't old enough to be classic. We were kinda in that freakin' wasteland of music, and now we're 25 years in as Great White, and now people are like, 'Fuck, those guys are back,' that music is coming back in vogue again. The people that were watching our shows, their kids have grown up and now they're looking for something to do. They want to relive that nostalgia, they want to go out there and bang their heads again, or remember their high school days, or whatever the case may be. So they're coming out to the shows again, and plus now we have their kids, and I'm looking out on the audience and we've got three generations of people coming to our shows, and I'm like 'Holy crap!'"

Go to this location for the complete interview.