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Hair Metal Happy Hour

REB BEACH CUTS IT LOOSE

 Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 at 11:55am by

Loyal MetalSucks Maniac Steve S. sent us an email a couple of weeks back with a link to this video, asking us, “Who the fuck is Reb Beach?”

Dear Steve,

FAIL. EPIC FAIL.

Sincerely,
Vince and Axl

Steve comes close to redeeming himself with the following observation: “the editing makes it all dramatic.” Indeed, Steve, indeedily-do. We still love ya.

-VN

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  • Damotello

    I maintain it wasn’t grunge but your man who wore the winger shirt on Beavis & Butthead that killed what popularity that band had.

  • xCOOCOOKALx

    seriously though, who is he?

  • Napalm_Death

    Is he wearing chaps?

  • SourDeez

    Someone really needs to start giving out Guitar Douche awards to feed the egos of guitar douches everywhere, ensuring that they will not only continue being ultimate guitar douches, but actually increase their douchebaggery until it causes them to implode like a black hole, turning them into awesome death and black metal musicians who kill all of the metalcore posers at the mall and storm the music media and turn the world into a more metal place for everyone. Yes, that’s right, we must turn to the guitar douches in a time of dire need.

    • Elitist Fuck

      What a fucking douche.

  • wata

    I feel a need to go to Guitar Center.

  • Sammy

    I would make some snide “wanker” comment, but the reason I don’t own an Ibanez is because I’m not worthy.

  • Paul

    No douchbaggery here.

    Reb Beach is just a talented guy doing what he does. He’s not posing, he’s not making fuck-me eyes at the camera, he’s not strutting around like god’s gift. He’s just playing guitar. Very well, I might add.

    For those who don’t know, he was Winger’s guitarist. He has also played with Alice Cooper and a side project by King’s X bassist Doug Pinnick.

    Say what you want about Winger’s music overall, there’s no denying Beach’s talent.

    Sometimes I miss guys like him and White Lion’s Vito Bratta. Just good, unpretentious guitar badassery.

  • http://www.myspace.com/breathofmetalproductions pokesmot

    I agree with Paul Winger fucking sucked but man this dude can play and Vito Bratta was the man
    pure fucking talent

  • Malacoda

    I had no idea Whitesnake’s guitarist was this talented!

    • Paul

      Whitesnake has always had talented guitarists.

      Vivian Campbell
      Steve Vai

      And, yes, recently, Reb Beach.

  • TheHangingBrain

    Say whatever the fuck you want about Winger because I myself am not a fan, but this dude can fucking wail. Any of you that think otherwise can quit bitching and eat a bowl of dicks.

  • http://www.last.fm/user/BootScraperSean Anger Unmanagement

    He’s good. But how old is this video, because I can not remember when that hair was last seen on Hetfields bonce.

  • Glenn

    The artificial harmonic at 2:56-ish was so awesome.

    I agree with the general under-appreciation of Reb, and do hope he turns into a black metal monster as a previous poster suggested.

  • http://www.concatenationrecords.com Kodiak

    Heh, Winger’s “Seventeen” is a bit of a guilty pleasure for me, but I didn’t realize how much their guitarist could tear it up! I think less people would have hated on hair metal if more of it had been instrumental like this. His cover of “Black Magic” is quite awesome as well.

  • NoSeriouslyIAmMetalDood

    reb beach = guitar titan.