Lumped in with the Hair Metal scene of the late 80’s, Winger’s music has always been more than bubble-gum Metal for Sunset Strip. Their song writing craft and musicianship setting them apart from their peers with Progressive traits evident throughout with Kip once stating they were a “hair band Dream Theater”. I’d throw in a wee bit of Styx too! As the album continues there’s no doubting that Kip and Co have not lost their edge in the song writing department, and the musicianship takes the music to a level way higher than their somehow bigger selling contemporaries. Perhaps the only critique would be I find the production slightly clinical. Earlier today (Friday, March 3), WINGER shared the "Seven" cover art via social media and included the following message: "STAY TUNED!!! #Winger #WingerSeven". BraveWords. "WINGER Keyboardist / Guitarist PAUL TAYLOR Talks Early Version Of In The Heart Of The Young Album - "The Label Heard It And Were Like 'What's This?'"". bravewords.com . Retrieved October 17, 2023.

Kip eases – which is difficult for someone with such a dominant voice – into action and takes hold over said Tears and directs them to an altogether happier plane where vocals soar and guitars wail in harmony. JoJo Moore, Isla Lutito, Milly Mason, Alice Dominguez, Celia Dominguez – children's choir on "Proud Desperado (Acoustic)"Winger will be touring extensively in 2023 with a UK tour supporting Steel Panther commencing May 14, followed by a U.S tour supporting Tom Keifer in North America starting in Atlanta on June 15. The band will be doing a number of headline shows in addition to these tours. Tears Of Blood sounds interesting and is kept that way by a sweeping guitar-led intro that lays a heavy platform for yet more guitar. Winger Seven will be released on May 5 and is the band’s first release since Better Days Comin’ in 2014. The album was produced in Nashville by Kip Winger and features all four of the original members — Kip Winger, Reb Beach, Rod Morgenstein, and Paul Taylor. Guitarist John Roth was added in 1992. On February 25, 2008, the band performed in Providence, Rhode Island, as part of a benefit for survivors of the Station nightclub fire. The concert, along with other artists was debuted on VH1 Classic on March 23, 2008. In late 2009, it was confirmed that Winger would record a fifth album Karma, with a tour to support it. Two months ago, WINGER guitarist John Roth told Sam Wall about the band's upcoming LP: "It'll be out on Frontiers in May or June; we don't have a release date yet. [There's] 12 songs on the album. One song's a pretty big surprise.

WINGER will hit the road beginning with a U.K. tour with STEEL PANTHER in May, followed by a U.S tour with the Tom Keifer in June. Additionally, the band will play a number of headlining shows throughout the summer. A seven-year hiatus followed, as did a reunion compilation “The Very Best Of…” and tour in 2002. Guitarist Reb Beach’s commitments to his full-time gig with Whitesnake brought about a halt to touring, but the second half of the 2000’s saw the release of albums 4 and 5, 2006’s “IV” and 2009’s “Karma”, followed by a 5-year gap to 2014’s “Better Days Coming”.

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The first two albums turned platinum although “Pull” sales suffered, like so many, because of the onset of Grunge. And so it is that we come to 2023 and the release of “Seven,” the latest and possibly greatest Winger album. Good news first; as is mostly the tradition of this band, the lineup remains intact. Kip remains not only the namesake of the band, but the voice, the bass, and the principal songwriter. The one, the only Reb Beach resumes his duties as lead and rhythm guitar wizard. Rod Morgenstein, another proggy luminary in the band, alumnus of acts such as Dixie Dregs and Tabor/Myung’s Jelly Jam, commands the drums as well as ever. Paul Taylor and John Roth continue to round out the keyboard and rhythm guitar functions, often doing the heavy lifting as the unsung heroes of the band’s massive sound. We're going for something that's poppy and sing-along stuff yet cool, heavy, progressive riffs — kind of like [2009's] 'Karma'," Reb explained. "That's what we're going for." After disbanding in 1994, bassist/lead vocalist Kip Winger went on to a solo career, guitarist Reb Beach went on to touring projects with artists Dokken, Alice Cooper and has held a permanent guitar spot in Whitesnake since 2002. The band's other members pursued or resumed careers as session musicians. Crew – Bob Rager, Dave Hoffis, Eric Domagal*, John Meanor (2), Mark Dudzik, Paul Collis (2), Robert Langely*, Tim Harding (2)

Since early 2020 Josh has been entertaining us with exclusive monthly live sessions, streamed via Facebook. Two months ago, WINGER guitarist John Roth told Sam Wall about the band's upcoming LP: "[There's] 12 songs on the album. One song's a pretty big surprise. From 2 January we’ll be featuring significant albums reviewed 2003-2023 in our featured album sequences as part of GRTR!@20 According to a 2021 interview with guitarist Reb Beach, Winger's seventh album was in the recording process. [16] [17] So everything starts with the music with WINGER," Roth added. "But as the songs are being written and the riffs are coming about, the melodies are in Kip's head. Kip's the maestro, you know? He's the maestro of the band. So he's thinking as we're writing — what the melodies are gonna [be], how they're gonna work around the riffs, and inevitably making final judgment calls on the arrangement as we're cutting the songs. [It] used to be you'd demo songs. You'd demo a song out, and sometimes you couldn't beat the demo. You'd be, like, 'There's a magic on the demo we cannot beat.' So WINGER really doesn't have that problem anymore 'cause as we're writing the songs, we're cutting the final parts."

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The dynamics in this song are awesome, changing the timing and structure on several occasions while still maintaining the essence on which it is built. Despite a sprinkling of new shows here and there, Winger haven’t put out any new albums since then with fans having to be content with the constant whispers of a world tour and new music that some thought might never come. But come it has in the form of Winger’s seventh album, the appropriately titled Seven. Is it worth the wait?

WINGER has set "Seven" as the title of its seventh studio album, tentatively due this spring via Frontiers Music Srl. The early single ‘Proud Desperado’ and album opener isn’t the best thing here although an acceptable, and rousing, call to action. As the album unfolds it reveals Kip Winger’s superb songwriting credentials and not least vocal prowess. Let’s remember he can also find his way around a classical music score. Consequently much of ‘Seven’ is wide in vision and big in execution. Members Paul & Kip met while recording and touring for Alice Cooper. The debut album, Winger, was released on August 10, 1988, on Atlantic Records. [7] The record was a success, achieving platinum status in the United States, and gold status in Japan and Canada. On February 11, 1989, the album peaked at number 21 on the Billboard 200, [8] and was in various places on the chart for 63 weeks. [9] Radio and MTV hits from the album included " Madalaine", " Seventeen", " Headed for a Heartbreak" and " Hungry". [7] In 1990, the band was nominated for an American Music Award for "Best New Heavy Metal Band".a b c d e f Colin Larkin, ed. (1995). The Guinness Who's Who of Heavy Metal (Seconded.). Guinness Publishing. p.390. ISBN 0-85112-656-1. On July 16, 2005, it was announced that Kip Winger would perform as the lead singer for the Alan Parsons Live Project at the Common Ground Music Festival in Lansing, Michigan. [14] [15] In May 2006, it was confirmed that Winger had reformed without one of its original members Paul Taylor, to record another album and tour Europe. The album, IV, was released in Europe in October and the nine-country "Winger IV Tour" ran in the last two weeks of the same month.