Terrie Carr and Matt Murray chat with Night Ranger's Jack Blades at WDHA's Rock The Park 2023.
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00:00we are jerseying up jack blade i love it i'm learning italian
00:21i don't think it's something we can say on the radio right can you say that i think yeah you
00:27could say because it really means you're not really very let's let jack say it so we taught
00:31him a new word you ready jack three two one okay hand up in the air i've never heard of the word
00:37i'm italian the road manager come on i was born in palm springs you know bob hope's my dad white
00:43belt white shoes i know i'm not italian but it's great to be here can i play through jack was kind
00:49of saying it over and over because he liked it so you know this is something that you can use jack
00:53and maybe people will not know if you're you can say to them very nicely i'm learning something new
00:58every day they may think it's it's all in the inflection so you know i'm like a high school
01:03girl right now yeah tc's very excited uh with jack right here now we heard a little i don't know if
01:08it's a surprise for the fans or not we heard something in soundcheck that i wasn't expecting
01:11from night ranger one of your other projects oh yeah yeah so do we keep that under wraps we'll keep
01:17it under wraps but let me tell you there's some cool surprises so excited with the set list because
01:20we were listening to the soundcheck and oh my gosh and sing me away is like my favorite
01:24ranger song let me ask so we did a little you know round table with our staff who do you you know who
01:32are you really looking most forward to seeing and i'm not gonna lie most of our staff some haven't
01:38seen you and that's the reason why but everybody was saying night ranger talk to me about the that
01:43fan base that appeal that feel that people have for this band after 40 years since dawn patrol
01:50hey i mean we're i think we're the most fortunate guys i mean the fact that we're still out here
01:55playing we're still kicking ass we're still out there just rocking and rolling and you know 40
01:59years 40 years since like you know 1982 1983 when dawn patrol first came out you know what i mean it
02:06just it just it just keeps building and getting more exciting and everything like that and we're
02:10having more fun now than we were even back then because probably back in the 80s we were also severely
02:15medicated didn't know what the hell was going on but i mean but now it's just like we're having a
02:20blast on stage we play whatever we want like you said we're surprising tonight we're you know
02:25there's not it's not going to be you know we're going to surprise some folks tonight with some
02:28songs and i think people are going to get pumped you're such amazing musicians and i think the
02:32appreciation for that is so prominent right now for the band and i think you guys have earned that
02:38you know and i had brad on a series i do called reconnect with rockers and we talked about the whole
02:42ballad thing and um i think now people are really appreciating the band for what you guys have been
02:47for so long hey man it's so fun and on this party rod tour with brett i mean brett and i were talking
02:51about this four or five years ago and we were together you know playing shows together and it's
02:55like man we should do a thing like this and you should be like this and i and so when he started
02:59putting this thing together he i was the first person he called it's jack we're gonna do this
03:03thing we're gonna do it we're gonna really do it i'm like what are we doing and he says no we're
03:07we're gonna do a party ground we're gonna get it and mcgrath i mean with mark mcgrath out here wait till
03:11you see mark he's just like he's like our new best friend this guy is like wild crazy i mean we're having a blast
03:17with him and steve jerry from journey who lives you know he's from this neck of the woods and all
03:22these songs and it's hit after hit after hit after hit after hit you know what i mean and that's what's
03:28so fun about this show and everything like that but with night ranger i mean we're gonna surprise
03:32some people tonight with the stuff we're playing and like you said we might throw in a damn yankees
03:36song you know what i mean i didn't say it i didn't say it i was with us about two and a half weeks ago
03:42he came and jammed with us and we did a couple we did we did like coming of age and we did cat
03:46scratch fever you know at a night ranger show and it was freaking phenomenal ted's like geeking he was
03:51like a 16 year old i saw that i saw that he was so excited i saw opening night of the tour too yeah
03:56and the band was so incredible and so energetic and you kind of got sidelined for a while because
04:01you had some issues like irregularity with the heart with the heart yeah no one would ever know this
04:05i know i had a heart issue yeah it's like four months ago four months ago was it's like i didn't see that
04:10coming but i mean it was just it was just wow but everything's fine you know they fixed me
04:14i'm all good and and we're just having a ball out here everything's going great he's still as cute
04:19as ever come on tc come on you're a guy conduct yourself in a professional manner
04:24i work with these i'm comfortable guy i work with these guys all day i mean come on you know
04:31about your schmoes is that italian no okay
04:33i'm getting there i'm getting there come on you're rubbing off on me yeah a little bit yeah yeah
04:39hey jack let me ask you so me and terry we're like huge fans of a certain movie that you have
04:44a stake in and we're talking about boogie nights oh yeah and the song obviously sister christian
04:50i mean it was a iconic scene what does that meant for the band continuing the catalog and legacy and
04:56and the new fans that brought in and still probably bringing the new fans that catch the movie on hbo or
05:01something like that that was really crazy how did that how did they approach you about using that song
05:05you know we heard this is like this this like indie kind of director paul david what's it
05:10anderson paul thomas and paul thomas and so yeah i mean it's like this film and you're gonna do it
05:14it's like mark walberg and blah blah blah and we're like yeah okay let's see so we went and saw it
05:19it was so great it's like kelly and and and and my wife molly and myself were sitting in in the
05:25audience watching it and when this and molly's in the middle of the two of us and when the movie when
05:29that scene came on where they're in the drug dealer's house and the guy's like letting out
05:33fireworks and everybody's jacked out of their minds and it's like going crazy kelly and i both
05:37started sweating and we looked at each other across money we're like i think we've been in that guy's
05:41house i know that guy oh my god this is way too real this is way too real but i mean it was the
05:50perfect setup it was the perfect scene with that you know and everything like that and that's just
05:55carried it through you know we've had songs in other movies but to me that's one of my favorite
05:58like placing a night ranger song the perfect thing the guy doing the air drums on
06:03the dudes like shooting fireworks in their back room everybody's like geeked out of their minds
06:15like freaking out oh my gosh i love amazing iconic iconic movie scene and wonderful to see you guys
06:21a part of it so um is the touring going to continue i mean after party girl you guys are on fire you guys
06:26are going to keep going yeah we're just going to keep um we're keeping all this year and the next
06:29year is already booking out and everything like that so we're just uh is it just keeping the thing
06:33flowing do you find yourself now because like back in the 80s when you're touring there was like you
06:36had to tour to sell the records and pressure from labels and videos and now you're just doing it for
06:42you yeah exactly right it's like we don't need to do it anymore i mean but we're doing it because
06:46we love to play we love the fans that are coming we just love the music which we're having so much
06:52you'll see it tonight terry i can't wait you'll be there you're going to be side stage right i hope
06:55so you're going to be hanging i am now i hope you got the special pass get her a pass
06:59done thank you from one italian to the other but i mean but it's going to be just i mean it's like
07:05it's so much we're having fun man i mean we're just up there just enjoying and brad and i are just
07:10like just palling down with kelly and then carrie kelly our guitarist so good i mean he was with
07:14alice cooper for 10 12 years then it was slash and he's been with us for 10 years eric levy our keyboard
07:19plays but it was for 12 years or 14 i mean it's just the band is so it's we're just having so
07:25much fun so we're just going to keep doing it until it's not fun yeah exactly how about that that's
07:29right i mean i will keep going to shows until it's not fun there you go or i can't walk up the hill
07:33anymore let me know when it's not fun anymore would you you know what no one's gonna get no one's gonna
07:38put that memo out you know that memo will never that memo will never come out i i think you guys are
07:44going on uh uh 755 ish i think yes yeah 750 750 so please night ranger fans i don't want anybody
07:51calling me tomorrow going yeah yeah i didn't know and i missed half the set because we weren't doing
07:55beers and they're short they're short traffic you know you want to get in you want to see night
08:01ranger come on don't be a don't be a stu not show up early come on we want to see everybody out here
08:09man because it's so great and at the end we all get out there and everybody's singing songs i mean
08:13last night i got up and played congas on unskinny bop you know what i mean i mean did i know i was a
08:18conga player no i am now you didn't know stu not until a few minutes ago so you could be a conga player
08:23yeah so let me tell you something look the skies are parting the rain is stopping this is jack
08:29the magic of the blades i love the magic of the blades at the booth tonight you can still rock in
08:35new jersey there you go on wdha come on i thank you so much for coming by and doing this oh my
08:40pleasure my pleasure great to see you and we're going to see you backstage on the side of the
08:43stage come on stop i want to see you there don't and drag her out to do a little chorus oh my god
08:49for sister christian when you close your eyes do you dream about me there we go i'm gonna let you
08:56sing i'm not gonna oh fuzzy can you fire up the song i'm gonna get myself in trouble with mrs blaze
09:03please thank you get tc a cool towel all right guys thanks a million jack love you so much thank you for
09:09doing this it's so much fun come on give me the uncomfortable guy hug again i love you sweating
09:13the uncomfortable sweating sweating summer show thanks a lot bro thank you jack let's get a fry shot
09:20hold on he's like the rick nielsen of cameras
09:26thanks bro thanks for making a sound
09:31you