Shot in the Dark is the second studio album by the American hard rock

Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

 band Great White

Great White

Great White is an American hard rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1978. The band gained popularity during the 1980s and early 1990s. The band released several albums in the late 1980s and gained airplay on MTV with music videos for songs like "Once Bitten, Twice Shy"...

, released in 1986. It was originally released by Greenworld Entertainment and subsequently picked up and re-issued by Capitol Records

Capitol Records

Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...

. The original issue featured a different intro to "She Shakes Me" (which was titled "Shake Me"), as well as a completely different recording of "Run Away". These early versions made it to CD on a Japanese edition of 2005. Great White's music in this album shows the transition from the pure heavy metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 of the first album to a more blues-influenced style of hard rock, paying homage to the great rock bands of the 70s, like Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin were an English rock band, active in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Formed in 1968, they consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham...

 and AC/DC

AC/DC

AC/DC are an Australian rock band, formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Commonly classified as hard rock, they are considered pioneers of heavy metal, though they themselves have always classified their music as simply "rock and roll"...

.

The original CD release was on the Razor & Tie label and was remastered by Steve Hoffman, famous for his audiophile masterings for the DCC and Audio Fidelity labels.

Track listing

1. "She Shakes Me" (Mark Kendall
   Mark Kendall (guitarist)
   Mark Kendall is a lead guitarist born in Loma Linda, California. He is best known for being a founding member and lead guitar player of the blues-based hard rock band Great White.-Biography:...
   
   , Jack Russell
   Jack Russell (musician)
   Jack Russell , is an American rock vocalist. He is a founding member of the American hard rock band Great White.-Biography:...
   
   , Alan Niven) - 3:25
2. "What Do You Do" (M. Kendall, A. Niven, Michael Lardie
   Michael Lardie
   Michael Lardie is multi-platinum and Grammy nominated American musician and producer, known for his memberships in Great White and Night Ranger. He was born on September 8, 1958, in Anchorage, Alaska and raised in Sacramento, California.-Training:...
   
   ) - 4:13
3. "Face the Day" (John Brewster, Bernard Neeson
   Doc Neeson
   Bernard "Doc" Neeson is an Australian rock singer. Neeson is known as the lead singer and frontman for Australian hard rock band The Angels.-Early life:...
   
   , Rick Brewster) - 5:20
4. "Gimme Some Lovin'
   Gimme Some Lovin'
   "Gimme Some Loving" is a song written by Steve Winwood, Spencer Davis and Muff Winwood, and originally performed by The Spencer Davis Group. The basic riff of the song was borrowed from the Homer Banks song " A Lot of Love", written by Banks and Willie Dean "Deanie" Parker. The song was a UK #2 in...
   
   " (Steve Winwood
   Steve Winwood
   Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an English international recording artist whose career spans nearly 50 years. He is a songwriter and a musician whose genres include soul music , R&B, rock, blues-rock, pop-rock, and jazz...
   
   , Spencer Davis
   Spencer Davis
   Spencer David Nelson Davis is a British musician and multi-instrumentalist, and the founder of the 1960s rock band, the Spencer Davis Group.-Early life:...
   
   , Muff Winwood
   Muff Winwood
   Mervyn "Muff" Winwood is an English songwriter and record producer, and the older brother of Steve Winwood. Both were formerly members of the Spencer Davis Group in the 1960s, in which Muff Winwood played bass guitar...
   
   ) - 3:52
5. "Shot in the Dark" (M. Kendall, A. Niven) - 4:52
6. "Is Anybody There?" (Jerry Lynn Williams, J. Russell) - 4:57
7. "Run Away" (J. L. Williams, A. Niven) - 4:18
8. "Waiting for Love" (J. L. Williams, M. Kendall, A. Niven) - 4:19

Band members

• Jack Russell
  Jack Russell (musician)
  Jack Russell , is an American rock vocalist. He is a founding member of the American hard rock band Great White.-Biography:...
  
   - lead and backing vocals
• Mark Kendall
  Mark Kendall (guitarist)
  Mark Kendall is a lead guitarist born in Loma Linda, California. He is best known for being a founding member and lead guitar player of the blues-based hard rock band Great White.-Biography:...
  
   - lead and rhythm guitar, backing vocals
• Lorne Black - bass
• Audie Desbrow
  Audie Desbrow
  Audie Desbrow is an American musician and drummer, known for his long tenure with the American blues-based hard rock band Great White.-Biography:...
  
   - drums

Additional musicians

• Michael Lardie
  Michael Lardie
  Michael Lardie is multi-platinum and Grammy nominated American musician and producer, known for his memberships in Great White and Night Ranger. He was born on September 8, 1958, in Anchorage, Alaska and raised in Sacramento, California.-Training:...
  
   - keyboards, backing vocals, producer, engineer
• Jim Lang - keyboards
• Tyana Parr, Donald Ducksworth - backing vocals

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1986	The Billboard 200	123