#603: Jack Blades / Night Ranger
Dean Delray's LET THERE BE TALK
Dean Delray
4.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Today I sit down with Bay Area legend Jack Blades of Night Ranger and dive deep into his musical history.
Jack has been killing it for years starting all the way back in the 70's in his Rubicon days playing Cal Jam 2.
I was a young kid hanging out at rock clubs in the Bay Area watching bands like Night Ranger, Y&T, Huey Lewis and The News, Eric Martin and Gamma just kill it on stage nightly.
The Bay Area was rich with Music and I was very lucky to grow up in that time period.
Night Ranger has a new record out this Friday called ATBPO and I highly recommend it.
Do yourself a favor and go back and listen to all of their records and loose your mind on all their killer songs.
Thanks for tuning in.
DDR
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| 0:00.0 | It is Monday, August 2nd. |
| 0:03.8 | Welcome aboard to Let There Be Talk Today. |
| 0:07.1 | Episode number 603. |
| 0:10.2 | It's going to be rock and roll today. |
| 0:12.4 | I have a fantastic guest, a Bay Area legend, Mr. Jack Blades from Night Ranger. |
| 0:19.5 | Of course, Damiankeys and a lot of other stuff he played with Ringo Star. |
| 0:24.6 | This man is unbelievable. |
| 0:27.0 | His songwriting, his singing, his bass playing, played in Rubicon before that. |
| 0:31.9 | He played Cal Jam 2. |
| 0:33.6 | The stories are endless. |
| 0:36.1 | I have a very, very soft spot in my heart for the Bay Area rock bands like Y&T, Night Ranger, |
| 0:43.1 | Gamma, Journey, Eric Martin, Band, Huey Lewis, kind of that blue collar, rock and roll. |
| 0:51.6 | It's really amazing how many records these bands sold out of the Bay Area. |
| 0:57.0 | Really funding a lot of the music scene back then. |
| 1:03.8 | I mean, these guys were unreal. |
| 1:06.0 | All of these guys, just his group, Sammy Hagar, throw him in there. |
| 1:10.5 | It's crazy what the Bay Area has produced. |
| 1:13.2 | I'm not even talking about the Thrasch metal and the Psychedelic 60 stuff and the punk rock |
| 1:19.9 | of like Dead Kennedys and Romy, avoid and all that. |
| 1:22.3 | I'm not even talking about that. |
| 1:24.6 | The amount of music that has come out of the Bay Area blows my mind, especially when I |
| 1:31.9 | sit down and talk to somebody like Jack Blades because it just fires up my brain of like, |
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