Jack Blades

Jack Blades ( born April 24, 1954 in Palm Desert, California) is an American rock musician.

Career

Blades attended the San Diego State University and played during the 1970s in countless local bands. He moved to San Francisco and joined there the band Rubicon on, who also played in Brad Gillis. 1980 and 1987 produced two albums, which, however, the commercial success was denied. Then the band broke up.

Night Ranger

After the dissolution of Rubicon Blades and Gillis founded the band Night Ranger. The very first album reached position 38 of the album charts, the single Sister Christian from the second album reached position 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 After another very successful album in 1985, Big Life 1987, a commercial flop, after which the band broke up the following year. In 1998 it came to starting up the band, was involved in the blades again.

Damn Yankees

In 1989 he was one of the founding members of the supergroup Damn Yankees, which included Ted Nugent, Tommy Shaw of Styx and Michael Cartellone, the future drummer of Lynyrd Skynyrd. With her ​​published Blades Album Damn Yankees, which the single High Enough in January 1990 reached # 3 on the Billboard charts. The album went double platinum. In 1992 the second album Do not Tread, which was indeed awarded with platinum, but sold worse.

Solo

Along with Tommy Shaw under the name Shaw Blades was born in 1995, the joint album Hallucination and 2007 Influence. In 2004 he recorded his first self-titled solo album. He also worked as a studio musician among other things, Mötley Crüe, Ringo Starr, Vince Neil and wrote for Roger Daltrey, Alice Cooper and Aerosmith. 2012 appeared with rock 'n roll ride his second solo album.

Solo albums

• 2004: Jack Blades
• 2012: Rock ' n Roll Ride