Liz Tracy at the Broward/Palm Beach New Times recently spoke with NIGHT RANGER guitarist Brad Gillis. An excerpt from the interview is available below:

Q: It's been 30 years since you first produced music together. You haven't played as one band the whole time. What's it like being back together?

Gillis: We all went off and did separate things, Jack went on to do the DAMN YANKEES, I did a records, other projects. We actually got a call from the Japanese to reunite the original band in 1995 to do a Japanese tour. That's when we all got back together, went to Japan and had a successful tour there and ended up getting a record deal out of that and pretty much resurged Night Ranger back into the forefront.

Ever since getting back together, we've been at, every year, getting more shows and better tours and this year has been great because we have this major world tour with JOURNEY and FOREIGNER. We did Japan, Europe and the United States, playing places we've never played, shows we haven't played live since the '80s."

Q: Now that a lot of the other '80s bands are getting back together, styles have changed, and you guys have new music, how do you feel about the other groups reuniting and touring after so many years?

Gillis: "It almost seems like these '80s bands are coming back around and regaining popularity and that's why so many of these rock tours are doing so well right now. Our numbers with Journey, Foreigner, and Night Ranger around the country are doing phenomenal, selling out amphitheaters everywhere, averaging 20,000 a show. To be on a sold out nationwide tour with a new record out is very exciting for us."

Go to this location for the complete interview.

Night Ranger is currently on tour supporting Journey and Foreigner. Their schedule is as follows:

September

16 - Atlanta, GA - Aaron’s Amphitheatre at Lakewood
17 - Tampa, FL - 1-800 Ask-Gary Amphitheatre
18 - West Palm Beach, FL - Cruzan Amphitheatre
24 - Dallas, TX - Gexa Energy Pavilion
25 - The Woodlands, TX - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
28 - Kansas City, MO - Starlight Theatre

October

1 - Englewood, CO - Comfort Dental Amphitheatre
7 - Chula Vista, CA - Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre
14 - Wheatland, CA - Sleep Train Amphitheatre
15 - Mountain View, CA - Shoreline Amphitheatre
19 - Portland, OR - Rose Garden Arena
21 - Seattle, WA - KeyArena

The video for the first single from Night Ranger's new album, 'Growin' Up In California', can be viewed below.