Year : 1986 (E.M.C. Records Remastered Edition 2019)
Style : Glam Hard Rock
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 169 mb
Bio:
White Tiger was a short-lived glam metal band from United States, founded by former Kiss band member Mark St. John, which split up in 1988.The group also included former Black Sabbath member David Donato, as well as bassist Michael Norton and drummer Brian James Fox. They recorded only one album, and demos for a second album.Mark died some time later at the age of 51. Donato died in February 2021. Mark's brother and the bassist for the band, Michael Norton, died in 2023.St. John (Mark Norton), practiced as a guitar teacher before being contacted by Kiss in 1984, after being recommended by well-known guitar maker Grover Jackson, to replace Vinnie Vincent, who had just been fired from the band. From this period, Norton became known to the public under the name on Mark St. John. With Kiss, St. John participated in the recordings of the album Animalize (Kiss's best-selling album of the 80s), but in December of the same year, after having participated in three dates of the world tour, he was replaced by Bruce Kulick for health reasons as he had contracted a rare form of arthritis.Donato, instead, joined Black Sabbath in 1984 to replace Ian Gillan, and was fired in 1985 after recording some demos with the band, after just six months, for reasons that are not fully understood. Prior to this experience Donato, who had previously worked as a model, had been a member of the British Armageddon (but based in Los Angeles) in the mid-1970s, with which he recorded a self-titled debut in 1975, before the death of its founder Keith Relf (former lead singer of The Yardbirds). After these, he joined the band Hero founded by Neil Citron who was briefly guitarist for Quiet Riot.White Tiger was formed in early 1986 by St. John, his brother Michael Norton, Donato, and drummer Brian James Fox. The bandbore some similarity in appearance and sound to the eighties-era hair metal Kiss. A few months later, after signing with ECM Records, they released the self-titled debut White Tiger, which while receiving praise related to songwriting, was nevertheless criticized for its poor production. In any case, it was not a significant success and went unnoticed, also because it was produced by a small label. The label, which saw no promising future for the quartet, rejected the band for lack of success. Demonstrations were recorded for a possible second album, which should have been titled On The Prowl, but was never released due to a lost record deal.The project, seeing no future, was interrupted in 1989.St. John founded the band Keep composed of St. John, singer Michael McDonald (under the pseudonym Michael Donato), guitarist Kevin Russell, bassist Joey Mudarri and original Kiss drummer Peter Criss. After briefly switching bass with Jim Barnes, St. John reintroduced his brother Michael in January 1990. This incarnation of Keep, which included almost all the members of White Tiger, recorded some demos and attended some concerts in California. However, the label began to distance itself from the band due to the rise of the grunge movement that radically changed the musical trends of the time. Subsequently, the band disbanded in 1991 when Peter Criss founded his project titled "Criss".
Mark Leslie Norton (February 7, 1956 – April 5, 2007), better known as Mark St. John, was an American guitarist best known for his brief stint with the hard rock band Kiss from April to December 1984. His work can be heard on the band's 1984 album Animalize and their 2023 live album Off the Soundboard: Poughkeepsie, NY. After leaving Kiss, he co-founded the band White Tiger.St. John died suddenly under murky circumstances in early April 2007, several months after being badly beaten during a brief stay in an Orange County jail.
Album:
Debut and last album digitally remastered by Robert Fiest.After recording on KISS’ 1984 album ‘Animalize’, guitarist Mark St. John (RIP) formed WHITE TIGER with vocalist David Donato, previously chosen by Tony Iommi as singer for Black Sabbath (but that did not last long).The band released this debut LP in 1986, as you can guess looking at the cover artwork, a glam metal / US hard rock album released by E.M.C. Records with a sound style similar to KEEL.“White Tiger” now has been reissued in this remastered form including as bonus tracks the pre-production demos for the band’s second album that never crystallized.
Line Up:
David Donato – lead vocals
Mark St. John – guitars, vocals (R.I.P. 2007) - See also: ex-KISS
Michael Norton – bass, vocals
Brian James Fox – drums
Production:
Digitally remastered - Robert Fiest
Recorded At – Front Page Studios
Mixed At – Record Plant, Los Angeles
Mastered At – Bernie Grundman Mastering
Engineer – Lester Claypool
Executive-Producer – Eddie Coralnick, Gordon Davis
Mastered By – Brian Gardner
Photography By – Glen La Ferman
Producer – Mark St. John
Songwriter [Songs Written By] – David Donato, Mark St. John
Technician [Guitar Tec] – Keith Soyka
Tracklist:
01. Rock Warriors
02. Love – Hate
03. Bad Time Coming
04. Runaway
05. Still Standing Strong
06. Live To Rock
07. Northern Wind
08. Stand And Deliver
09. White Hot Desire
10. Rock Warriors (Remix)
11. Wild Women (Bonus Track)
12. Communicator (Bonus Track)
13. I Wanna Rock (Bonus Track)
14. Face To Love (Bonus Track)
15. Live For The Day (Bonus Track)
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