Jack Blades - Session 2
 
Jack Blades and Ken lead a high energy session 2 on Jack's work with Night Ranger and then go deep into the making of  ShawBlades new release "Influence." They also cover how Jack and Tommy Shaw choose and recorded the songs that meant so much to them on this album. Ken and Jack complete the session with a riff on his live and studio bass rig. ************************************************************************************** Shaw-Blades INFLUENCE is due out on March 6 and is the duo’s first album since their recently re-released 1995 debut, HALLUCINATION.  Like the debut--and unlike their history-carving decades as icons in the more hard-rock minded Styx, Night Ranger and Damn Yankees--the latest release is rooted in acoustic guitar and organic production, harvesting a decade of musical influences into 11 tracks (on which Blades and Shaw played all the music except for drums and the occasional keyboards).  With classics from the ‘60s and ‘70s including the Mamas and the Papas’ “California Dreamin’,” Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth” and Steely Dan’s “Dirty Work,” INFLUENCE offers a track-by-track chronology of the musical era that helped define modern rock. 
Artist Interview: Jack Blades
Thursday, March 1, 2007