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The Bands

It all started when five hard-rockin kids from the San Francisco Bay Area joined forces in the early ‘80s to form Night Ranger. Like no other ‘80s rock band, Night Ranger both epitomized and transcended the sound and style of that decade.
Early on, their sing-along rock songs and good looks packed clubs and theaters drawing the attention of legendary promoter Bill Graham. Soon Night Ranger was appearing in concert with major artists but it wouldn’t be long before they were headlining their own ARENA shows. Night Ranger’s debut album Dawn Patrol hit the charts hard, going instantly Top 40 with the, now anthemic single, “Don’t Tell Me You Love Me”.

Night Ranger left an indelible mark with a string of best-selling albums that sold more than 16 million copies worldwide. The band’s popularity was fueled by an impressive string of instantly recognizable hit singles and signature album tracks, including “Sister Christian,” “(You Can Still) Rock In America,” “When You Close Your Eyes,” “Sentimental Street,” “Goodbye” and the afore mentioned “Don’t Tell Me You Love Me.” Harnessing the frenetic drive of heavy metal to hook-laden rock songs, throwing in a stunning twin lead guitar team, and melodious, radio-friendly power ballads, Night Ranger inspired new descriptive phrases such as “melodic metal” and “metal power pop”. They became the standard-bearer of a new sound.

Then, following a seven-year absence, Night Ranger reunited in 1996 for a tour of Japan and a summer U.S. tour. Fans proved that they still loved the music and the band. In 1997, the three-time Oscar-nominated film Boogie Nights spotlighted “Sister Christian” as one of the songs that defined the previous decade. Also that year, the band released Neverland, and the following year, Seven, studio albums that set the standard for the ‘80s rock revival. Nearly every summer since, Night Ranger has toured across the country, sharing stages with such acts as REO Speedwagon, Styx, Journey, Bad Company, Pat Benatar, Loverboy, Poison, Cinderella, Boston, Heart, Sammy Hagar, Cheap Trick, and Kansas.

In 2000, responding to the astonishing success of their continual touring, MCA Records released The Best Of Night Ranger, a digitally remastered compilation. In 2004, acknowledging the band’s enormous popularity in the first decade of the music video, MCA issued The Best Of Night Ranger/The DVD Collection, featuring five of the band’s best-known videos. In 2005 the album titled, Delete Hit’s Acoustic and Rarities was released on IROCK Records thru Universal. 2007 has already started as another busy year for Night Ranger with a Sony/BMG release of a Live Japan record and a new studio album , Hole In The Sun released in Europe, Japan and a summer time US release.

The bright lights and rock ‘n’ roll nights never end for Night Ranger. You can still Rock in America!

BAND MEMBER BIO’s:

JACK BLADES
Besides his key roll as a founding member of Night Ranger, Blades founded the supergroup Damn Yankees with Ted Nugent and Tommy Shaw (Styx) and enjoyed two multiplatinum-selling albums, Damn Yankees and Don’t Tread, with chart-topping singles and videos. In 1995 Blades released the now classic Hallucination CD with Tommy Shaw under the name Shaw/Blades. He has also co-written songs with artists such as Aerosmith, Cher, Alice Cooper and Ozzy Osbourne, to name a few. He even joined in on the filming and recording of Ringo Starr’s “VH1 Storytellers.” In 2004, Blades released his first solo album, Jack Blades, featuring Shaw, his Night Ranger bandmates and others, and co-wrote and recorded a #1-charting multiplatinum Japanese album, TMG featuring that country’s favorite son, Tak Matsumoto of the mega-group B’z. At his studio in Northern California, Blades has also produced Great White and Ted Nugent among others. This past year Jack was asked to act and sing in a starring role for the rock musical “Rock Of Ages” during their recent Las Vegas run. Never one to sit idly by, Blades and his Damn Yankees cohort Tommy Shaw have recorded an album of their favorite tunes from the 60’s and 70’s. The album, entitled “Influence” was released March 2007 on the new VH1 classic label. The Album along with their recent headlining tour has generated a buzz with new and old fans alike. (For more, see www.myspace.com/jackblades JackBlades.net.)

BRAD GILLIS
Gillis, (who toured for a year with Ozzy Osbourne and recorded the live 1982 platinum-selling Speak Of The Devil) recorded his first solo album in 1992; Gilrock Ranch featured Carmine Appice and Keagy on drums, and Gregg Allman on vocals. Gilrock Ranch garnered national airplay and a Top 20 AOR hit. Released in 2001 in Europe and Japan was his most recent solo effort, Alligator. His production house, Liquid Hot Music Production (liquidhot.net), has recorded 100+ tracks for sporting events on ESPN, FOX Sports, and The Tennis Channel and has had music featured in popular video games such as Electronic Arts Tiger Woods Playstation I & II Golf Games, along with several major movie soundtracks. (For more, see BradGillis.com)

KELLY KEAGY
Keagy recently finished, and released, his long-awaited debut solo album CD, Time Passes, featuring many name guests, including most of his Night Ranger bandmates. As composer as well as singer of Night Ranger’s biggest hit, “Sister Christian,” Keagy has been a much-in-demand songwriter, collaborating with many of the country’s top tunesmiths. He has also performed shows nationwide with the classic rock supergroup Jim Peterik’s World Stage, featuring Alan Parsons), Kip Winger, Tom Keifer (Cinderella), Don Barnes (38 Special), Kevin Cronin (REO Speedwagon) and others. (For more, see KellyKeagy.com)