Im always Hungry for Hair Metal, I just Can't Get Enuff of the stuff I listened to when I was Seventeen! You do realize that when this video is over we are Headed for a Heartbreak Leon so any time you think it is Time to Surrender we will be Hanging On for you to get us out of our State of Emergency for lack of more Hair Metal! Lillian Axe is who Ragdoll reminds me of and you can do a few of their riffs.
Lol, yes, as a thrash metal maniac in the 80s i could NEVER admit that i thought Winger was truly talented, well, the guitarist anyway, lol...phenomenal!!! Even to this day! I can now openly admit their top-notch skill!
Reb Bech is such an underrated guitar player. One of the few player who in those days, didn't just stay that Van Halen style tapping. "Cuts it Loose" by Reb Bech is a really nice instrumental. Edit: this auto correct thing just changed Reb to Rabies.
Back in the day I was a huge George Lynch fan. At some point George was out of Dokken and Reb took over. I went to a Dokken show thinking it sucks that Lynch isn't playing. I left that show with a new guitar hero. Beach is THAT good.
I remember watching the cutting it loose video and I think at the beginning before he starts playing someone says something like “the song is in E flat if you want to play along” and then he started playing and I was like how the fuck do you play along to this 🤣
The riff to Seventeen is deceptively difficult. I remember learning to play it and it wrecked my finger tips. Such a great riff. I always thought Reb Beach and Vito Bratta were criminally underrated - both technically and from a song writing perspective.
Winger got a lot of ricidule from the Beavis & Butthead thing and the whole beef with Soldoutallica eh... I mean Metallica,but these guys are massively talented musicians. Reb Beach is a monster guitarist just watch a video from the early 90´s where he´s doing some cool Jazz/Fusion on an Ibanez 7string that he got from Steve Vai as a gift! John Roth (the second guitar player) is a veteran session musician who can hold his own against Reb. The drummer,Rod Morgenstein, is a professor at Berklee College of Music!! And Kip Winger himself,who was made fun of,as a "hair-metal pretty boy" ,is a "proper" musician. He used to be the touring bassplayer for Alice Cooper,in the early 80´s and after the whole "hair-metal" thing passed in the 90´s,he went to college to study classical music. He has an actual degree in classical music and even composed a symphony. Not some rock meets classic stuff,I´m talking a proper classical piece,that he recorded with an orchestra. Dude even got a Grammy nomination for it. Btw. "Junkyard Dog" has an insane riff in the breakdown of the song,before the solo kicks in. That riff is sooo good,other bands would have used it for the main riff.
That was awesome thanks for this. Winger were criminally underrated all killer musicians in their own right with great complexity and catchy hooks in their songwriting . A cut above so many of the other bands in the "hair metal " genre . I'll be checking out your band rag doll if your a cross between winger and kings x should be good.😀🤘🏼
THANK YOU!!! Winger is massively overlooked and under rated. My favourite Winger album is "Pull", but "Headed for a Heartbreak" is probably my favourite track of theirs.
Impossible to be objective and only pick 5 Reb Beach riffs. This drummer thinks the Ultra-high energy "Time to Surrender" definitely deserves consideration ... 🤘 ^v^
Reminds me how much more I liked “In The Heart of the Young” and “Pull” when they came out, compared to the first album. I mean, I *really* liked “In The Heart of the Young” and it had more Prog and R&B elements than people gave it credit for. I think was 17 when it came out... ? Kip Winger’s biggest sin was being good looking LOL! Even among all the guys back then with their makeup, ink and fake hair, girls seemed to go gaga over him and I think that made a lot of guys jealous. Saw them live with Cinderella and The Bullet Boys and Winger live was like men among boys. All four of those guys are ridiculously accomplished even before they were together. A “Hair Metal Toto” is a perfect description!
As for that subject,Nuno Betencourt is definetely champion in that regard-he looks more or less identical to when he was 25.What he's been drinkin' is beyond me.
Loved that you featured Rainbow in the Rose, unforgettable hard rock tune from the 80s. Winger's first two albums were mind blowing. Hangin On from the first lp and Can't Get Enuff from the second are also classic Winger sound songs. Way to go Leon!
the first album is one of my most favorites they ever made. with that being said, Time to Surrender was such a killer song through and through. The harmony between Kips voice and Rebs guitar at the end of the song is masterful.
Agreed about Winger getting the shaft, IMO Kip Winger is a great singer with tone and range that outshine a lot of hair metal singers, even to this day he still sounds great.
Yes..WINGER in 2023..still top of the game...thank you for putting this on the table...you nailed it totally ...and you let it look so easy...cheers from Germany
IV was a great comeback for Winger, very refreshing but still with their essence... Short Flight to Mexico and Your Great Escape are also killer songs with killer riffs...
Reb Beach is one of my major influences. The acoustic intro to Madeline is awesome. Winger's first album is by far my favorite, but I do really like the 2nd one two. One song you didnt mention was the one he did for his video instructional. I feel like not many people know that he doesnt use his pinky finger and developed a way to tap and ring the next string with his tapping hand. I tried practicing it back in the day and got ok with it, but never perfected the style. Can you tackle that as well?
And thank you so much this guy is awesome he's the type of guy a kid would be dreaming about and knocking on his door 24 hours a day to teach him how to play guitar ..✌️👍👍👍👍👍👍👍❤️
Reb Beach is without a doubt one of the most underrated guitar players in rock. Period. He's got the all the tools.....metal, rock, blues, jazz, progressive, EVH-style finger tapping, the two note chord magic made awesome by George Lynch and Ty Tabor. The man is a beast. Put him in band with other heavy weight musicians like Kip Winger and Rod Morgenstein and something akin to pure magic will be the result. Its too bad Winger came out when they did and were labeled a "glam band". They're anything but a glam band. They're real music is "progressive, jazz fused blues funk with cajun spice, creole seasoning laid over slow roasted BBQ on a bed of ghost peppers."
YOU ROCK THERES NO DOUGHT,GREAT STUFF but BEAVIS & BUTTHEAD,RUINED HIS CAREER ,A CARTOON THEY NEVER WERE MEANTIONED,BUT ADVERTISED ON THERE T-SHIRTS ALONG WITH METALLICA,AND THAT WAS A GREAT CARTOON BECUZ METALLICA NEVER SIEZED TO KEEP ROCKIN ,WHAT MADE WINGER I BELIEVE KINDA STOP FOR A WHILE WAS WHEN THE TIME IS THE CRUNGE,YEARS WITH PEARL JAM AND NIRVANA,AND THAT THAT STYLE OF GREAT MUSIC,BUT THE QUICK SUDDEN
I wonder if Winger would have survived the '90s if they had leaned into their proggy sides a la Dream Theater rather than trying to court mainstream audiences. Also, I look forward to the "5 Killer Riffs - Extreme" episode!
Good stuff as always Leon. Totally agree that they are fantastic players who kinda got the shaft for their timing with grunge coming in. Also, if you would send me that red PRS you’re using, on the house of course, I’ll be your best friend. 😅
Very Nice. I agree with your choices here. I can't find the YT video with Reb and Rainbow in the Rose riffs that you reference in the video. Do you have a link?
Reb Beach in my opinion is right up there with the very best in the world. He + Rowan Robertson from Dio were the reason I chose to start having lessons when I started out. I also remember an article in guitar world back in the late eighties where the Mag chose four key players from the eighties that would be be of great importance in the nineties. Reb was one of the four, the other three being Nuno Bettencourt, Alex Skolnick & Vernon Reid. I'm so glad he picked himself up after the grunge movement came and went. The guitar world wouldn't be the same without guys like him.
Hey Leon there’s a band from California name hurricane and there third cd is called slave to the thrill with Doug Aldrich and this there best work can you do some riffs from that cd please 😁
Billy Bobhouse You're in for a treat. They've never done a duff album in my view. Pull would be a great album to start with but hey all of their albums have a great mixture of killer riffs,hooks,melodies some heavy stuff and the heart felt emotional ballads.
Met Reb Beach and had a drink with him. It was after watching one of his clinics. I have video of the whole clinic. Part of it is on my you tube channel. What a great guy he was. The funny part of our talk was... Reb: "Are we going to talk music at all?" .... Me: "Umm sure if you want to" ... Reb: "One minute" and pulls out a Three Muskateers bar and puts it on the bar ... "Okay we're good now" ... I Look, laugh and he says "They sponser me" .... lmao.... just a cool guy
I cannot believe you left out written in the wind that song is so tight and with the chorus lyrics is almost too perfect it's like a song you want to sing along with an air guitar or drums... And you could do it in the next 5 years and you'd still love it lol
