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I think crowds are really perceptive when someone is phoning it in or they don’t want to be there, so I always try to give a semblance that I’m excited to be there and playing for them.” You want to be there, you’re enjoying yourself, you’re laughing, you’re interactive between songs. I think the thing that makes a live performance translate to a crowd for me is that the people really have to feel that you’re the moment with them. Obviously, I’m chained behind the guitar, so the guitar is emulating what a vocal line would do, and the guitar is the singer.
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When you’re a singer, you have the mic and you can verbalize throughout the song. “It is a different skill set and a different tool set so to speak. Zaza prides himself on being able to connect with audiences as an instrumentalist - no small task in the a current musical climate that sports perhaps its shortest attention span ever.
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“Growing up, this area had a lot of great musicians. “I think who I am as a musician is really derived from growing up in this area,” Zaza told Ticket. For nearly three decades, the Akron native has carved out his own niche in the instrumental world, and his holiday-themed show is described as "Hendrix meets Mozart under the Christmas tree." Tickets: $45, $35, $25 at Ĭritically acclaimed guitarist Zaza brings his “One Silent Night” show to the Rocksino on Saturday. It’s the way we are, the way we were, the way we started and the way it’s gonna be.” “You see videos of us back in 1983, and everybody’s running all over the stage. “Night Ranger has always been a live, get up on your feet, hard-rocking band,” Blades said. The songs you struggle with and have to work on, those are sometimes not the best tunes.”Īnd as always, Friday’s Rocksino show is sure to be a high-energy performance. “A lot of the time with the greatest songs, you’re almost channeling something,” Blades said. Of course, with what has become an annual pilgrimage to Northeast Ohio around Christmas time, Night Ranger is sure to include its biggest hits - “(You Can Still) Rock in America,” “Sister Christian,” “When You Close Your Eyes,” as well as a few well-known covers including the Blades’ co-written ’80s power ballad “High Enough,” by Damn Yankees. But for us, to be able to blast into new tracks and have everybody singing along and digging it, it’s made a great balance between that and our back catalog of songs.” “You know how it is when you get up there and say ‘We’re gonna play some new songs.’ Everybody goes ‘Oh boy, here we go!’ I’ve been at shows in the audience when it’s like that. “Everyone has embraced the new stuff,” Blades said. Standout cuts include the glorious sing-along title track, the ripping opener, “Somehow Someway,” and the absolutely infectious “Running Out of Time.” I don’t know if that’s a good omen or a bad omen!” But that’s not the way it was with (‘Don’t Let Up’). Usually by the end of our recordings, I’m so sick of the songs and never want to hear them again. “When we put it together, there were several songs that really jumped out at me.
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“There’s a lot of interesting stuff on that record,” Blades told Ticket. Night Ranger’s Jack Blades is happy to play the band’s biggest hits, but he’s also loving the response to the band’s latest effort, “Don’t Let Up.” The bassist/singer for one of rock’s most melodic bands spoke glowingly of their 2017 album.