Night Ranger’s Jack Blades Opens Up About Recent Health Crisis

Four months after Night Ranger was forced to cancel several gigs when Jack Blades suddenly fell ill, the singer-bassist is finally discussing his health scare.
Blades says he underwent an operation in March, during which doctors removed a blood clot near his heart. “My body wasn’t feeling right,” he explains. “I’m, like, ‘Dude, this isn’t right. Something’s not right.’ So I called my tour manager. He just took me right to a hospital. And they fixed me. They cleaned out some of my pipes in my heart, some arteries and everything like that, and I’m all in good shape and I’m just rocking and rolling, as you can see by the shows and everything like that.”
In fact, Blades says he feels better than he’s felt in a very long time. “I’m feeling great,” he says. “Maybe something was going on even for the past year on me or something like that. I feel like I have more air to sing now. Maybe for the last year or something, something was going on then. But all I know is that it’s fixed now and I’m in good shape.”