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Keeping Your Friends Close
Keeping Your Friends Close

hile the four members of the band Night Ranger, those guys are a commercial based.”
Whave been mainstays in the rock band. We’re into metal!’ but hopefully they’re The band decided to release an album
and metal world, they come from slightly dif- pleasantly surprised on hearing it. Or maybe after previously performing shows together
ferent genres and fields. for the Scorpions fans, a little older audi- in various guises when they had some off-
“What I think is really cool about the ence, commercial rock but older audience in time from their main gigs. Keri explains, “It
album and the band is, for instance, Tim is general, maybe they’re not that familiar with started as just us playing live. Just guys that
more known, even though we were doing Tim, ‘this Judas Priest metal screamer’ they knew each other coming together, having a
this before in a live setting, now that the think, and then they might hear the record good time, and then we kind of developed it,
record’s out and there’s some press about it and go ‘Wow! This guy can sing melodic and and wrote songs here and there, over a cou-
and things like that, in more of the metal-ish he’s cool.’ It’s a really unique band and has ple of years, and I was kind of writing the
world. A lot of those people might not know unique characteristics in it and I hope people songs. I would write anything here at my
me, even, or maybe they don’t really care too enjoy it. It touches on a few different genres home studio. I would write stuff that I
much, who knows. ‘Oh, that’s the guy from in a way, even though it’s all hard rock- thought sounded cool and I’d send it over to
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