And when Mike Tramp went solo, he went solo, and this is how Mike Tramp sounds when he writes the songs by himself and when he stands on his own two feet. Musically, I followed what was in my heart. Some people actually decide to change, some people actually decide to move on with their life. Most of us don't look the same way we did in 1988. "And there are a lot of artists out there that wanna dwell in the past and wanna try to keep the past with them today. While Tramp continues to perform some of WHITE LION's best-known songs in an intimate acoustic setting, he has no desire to reform the band and cash in on the recent resurgence in '80s-esque rock and roll. The memories are on those four albums, and that is the way it will be till the end of time." And over the last couple of years, he and I speak once a month and we're on really good terms and we're happy and we know that WHITE LION will never happen again. Mike Tramp and Vito Bratta was WHITE LION and that's the way I wanna see it.' And it took me a lot of years to realize that and respect him and understand that. I don't wanna turn on YouTube and see a clip saying ' WHITE LION live in Arkansas' and then see another guitar player. And obviously, Vito came out and said, 'I don't want anybody besides us to be WHITE LION. I actually started making WHITE LION sound more like UFO or something like that. And I went out there and very, very quickly, I realized that it was something I didn't wanna do, because I started changing the sound of the band. This was a moment in time where I thought that this was actually gonna be a bigger financial success. And the four albums that the band has made is a history of that band. When I broke up WHITE LION in '91, I was done with that thing. Speaking to the "Cobras & Fire" podcast, Tramp said about his ill-fated attempt to bring back WHITE LION more than a decade ago: "First of all, I've gone out and I have both apologized and said with much regret this was something that I shouldn't have done. Two years later, Tramp ceded ownership of the name WHITE LION to Bratta in an out-of-court settlement. Tramp also attempted to revive WHITE LION with the 2008 album "Return Of The Pride", featuring new members. In the 28 years since WHITE LION broke up, Bratta's public profile has been virtually nonexistent, while Tramp has remained active, recording and touring as a solo artist and with the bands FREAK OF NATURE, THE ROCK 'N' ROLL CIRCUZ and, more recently, BAND OF BROTHERS.
The Danish-born singer hasn't played with Bratta since WHITE LION performed its last concert in Boston in September 1991.
Ex- WHITE LION singer Mike Tramp says that he regrets trying to resurrect his former band without his onetime songwriting partner and bandmate, guitarist Vito Bratta.
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