Night Ranger to celebrate “Somewhere In California” 10th anniversary with very first vinyl release – Marseille News

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of “Somewhere in California”, the acclaimed release of 2011 by iconic classic rockers NIGHT GUARD, Post-season records (in collaboration with M-Theory Audio and Record Store Day) will be releasing the vinyl album for the first time on Black Friday (November 26). This limited edition LP – which will be offered on Pacific Blue colored wax – will feature a gatefold jacket, printed interior sleeve and an exclusive, in-depth interview of the sleeve notes with the founding members. Jack blades (bass / voice), Kelly Keagy (drums / vocals) and Brad Gillis (guitars).

A return to form at the height of the platinum classics “Midnight madness” and “7 wishes”, “Somewhere in California” – NIGHT GUARD– is the tenth studio album by – is a modern AOR classic from a legendary band who both embodied and transcended the arena rock sound. He achieved a rare score of 100% of MelodicRock.com (“Simply essential… one of the best records of the band”) and led to the band’s first Billboard Top 200 appearance in 23 years. The record was the band’s first with the guitarist Joel Hoekstra (WHITE SNAKE, TRANSSIBERIAN ORCHESTRA) and ushered in a decade of activity that saw the band – best known for timeless hymns “Christian Sister”, “(You can always) Rock In America” and “Don’t tell me you love me” – achieve its greatest visibility for years through tours with likes TRIP, DEF LEPPARD, FOREIGNER and Sammy Hagar.

“I think this album shows just how NIGHT GUARD has grown over the years, ” Keagy said during the interview of the sleeve notes. “It has become a new beginning for us, a new beginning for NIGHT GUARD – not only energetically, but it showed how good songwriters we were and that we could go on and make great music. “

“It was a conscious effort to make a classic sound NIGHT GUARD save,” Blades added. “We haven’t seen the songs so many times where we were fed up, and all of a sudden they got sterilized. We kept the excitement going, and I think that translated into the actual recordings. ”

Having sold over 17 million albums worldwide, performed on over 4,000 stages and captivated a radio audience of over a billion, NIGHT GUARD is unmistakably an iconic act of the 1980s rock scene. The band gained wide recognition and left an indelible mark on the music industry with a long list of gold, platinum and multi-platinum albums. . Their popularity is fueled by an impressive number of instantly recognizable hit singles and iconic album tracks that have been featured in many different areas of global media and pop culture including television (“Joy”, “Grey’s Anatomy”), video games (“Grand Theft Auto”), Broadway (“Rock of the ages”), advertising (Dr Pepper, JBL) and feature films (“Boogie Evenings”, “The secret of my success”).

Perhaps the most impressive, NIGHT GUARD continues to release new, high quality material, such as the recent “ATBPO (and the band played)” and deliver energetic live performances that continue to please fans and crowds around the world. The group’s upcoming shows include performances at the Monsters Of Rock Cruiseis inaugural Monsters on the mountain party, the Baiser Kruise and Swedish rock festival.

“Somewhere in California” track list:

01. Growing Up In California

02. Lay on me

03. Goodbye baby (not tonight)

04. Follow your heart

05. The time of our lives

06. No time to waste

07. Live for today

08. It is not finished

09. End of the day

dix. Rock’n’Roll Tonite

11. Say it with love

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