MY NAMESAKE RIPPIN’ IT ON NEW YEAR’S EVE 1989
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 at 11:10am by Kip WingerschmidtIs he retroactively biting my style, or am I biting his? I don’t even know anymore!
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If I’m not me, then who the hell am I???
-KW
As horrible as this band was (hell, the whole genre) and how easy it is to bag on Kip (uh, the original one), it’s easy to forget the dude is actually a classically trained musician.
Question: Sammy, would you have traded places with him in 1989, you hypocritical, jealous prick?
Answer: Duh! Of course. The guy fronted a famous band, had good looks and chicks dug him. Next question.
I just remember hearing that he was a ballet dancer, at one point. On VH1 behind the music, or some shit like that. It certainly explains all those pirouettes he was always doing in the Winger videos.
You should try to dig up videos from Alice Cooper’s “The Nightmare Returns” live thing. Kip Winger plays bass, and does a bass solo. Not bad. And the most ripped guitarist I’ve ever seen…and his guitar shoots fire.
Alice Cooper had those scary body-builder guitar guys for awhile, so fuckin’ wrong. Once you reach a certain level of muscle, a guitar just looks awkward.
For all the shit the band takes Rob Morgenstien and Reb Beach never got enough credit as musicians. I could see them starting a prog metal band and being successful.