 They recorded demos for their first and second albums ("Dawn Patrol" and "Midnight Madness", respectively) at his home studio.Night Ranger was initially called "Ranger," but the band found that the name was already being used by another band and changed it prior to the first album release.He also played with several other bands including Day Blindness, Crossfire (Steve Jones, Mitchell Froom, David Froom, Phil Marshall with Jeff Dorenfeld as manager; Crossfire also performed with Norman Greenbaum as lead singer for several years.