{"id":1379,"date":"2012-07-28T08:25:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T12:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2012-07-28T08:25:18","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T12:25:18","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-167-college-intermission-night-ranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/07\/28\/my-musical-evolution-part-167-college-intermission-night-ranger\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 167 College Intermission Night Ranger"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Night<\/a>I have to laugh because at the time, I thought (You Can Still) Rock In America<\/em> was a really heavy hard driving guitar song. Don’t misunderstand, I think it is a great song and Midnight Madness<\/em> was a good album. It was certainly much more crunchy guitar oriented than the stuff I was listening to. You can definately tell that people had heard of Eddie Van Halen<\/em> by this point. The guitar solos got faster and more frenetic with fret play tricks.<\/p>\n

I have long felt that this album, Midnight Madness<\/em> was the first baby step towards the metal years. Granted I would not consider Night Ranger<\/em> heavy metal but they pointed me in that direction with pounding drums and guitar heavy anthems that promote fist pumping and turned average tennis racquets into blazing air guitars.<\/p>\n

Sure they had some girl oriented songs like Sister Christian <\/em> and When You Close Your Eyes, <\/em>but it was still one of the more rocking albums that\u00a0I owned by then. That was all about to change.<\/p>\n

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(You Can Still) Rock In America<\/em>
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