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Kip Winger (born Charles Frederick Kip Winger, June 21, 1961, Denver, Colorado
Colorado
Colorado is a U.S. state located in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States of America. It may also be considered to be part of the Western and Southwestern regions of the United States. Colorado entered statehood in 1876 and was nicknamed the “Centennial State”...

) is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the 1960s. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, rhythm and blues, country music and also drew on folk music, jazz and classical music....

 musician
Musician
A musician is a person who performs or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument.* A singer uses his or her voice as an instrument....

, both a member of the hard rock
Hard rock
Hard rock or heavy rock is a sub-genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage and psychedelic rock and is considerably harder than conventional rock music...

 band
Musical ensemble
Rock band redirects here. For the video game series, see Rock Band A musical ensemble is a group of two or more musicians who perform instrumental or vocal music...

, Winger, and a solo
Solo (music)
In music, a solo is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer...

 artist
Musician
A musician is a person who performs or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument.* A singer uses his or her voice as an instrument....

.

Early days


Kip Winger was born to parents who were both jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....

 musicians.

He grew up playing in a band named Blackwood Creek, with his brothers Nate and Paul plus friend Peter Fletcher (currently in Pigmy Love Circus
Pigmy Love Circus
Pigmy Love Circus is a Los Angeles rock band that has existed since the late 1980s era of the Hollywood underground rock scene.Pigmy Love Circus originally consisted of Shepherd Stevenson on bass, Mike Savage on vocals, Anthony Martinez on drums, with Rand "Pig" Walters and Peter Fletcher on guitars...

). Blackwood Creek broke up in 1980, but have since reformed and are currently ready to release a new album. Kip, his brothers, and Fletcher also played the Denver area bar scene while calling themselves Colorado.

At age 16, Winger began studying classical music
Classical music
Classical music is the mainstream music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 9th century to present times...

 after hearing the works of composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, usually by musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of...

s such as Debussy
Claude Debussy
Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...

, Ravel
Maurice Ravel
Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer of Impressionist music known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...

, and Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor, widely acknowledged as one of the most important and influential composers of 20th century music. He was a quintessentially cosmopolitan Russian who was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of...

 in ballet
Ballet
Ballet is a formalized type of performance dance, which originated in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century French courts, and which was further developed in England, Italy, and Russia as a concert dance form...

 class. At that time he sent a demo
Demo (music)
A demo version or demo of a song is one recorded for reference rather than for release. A demo is a way for musicians to approximate their ideas on tape or disc, and provide an example of those ideas to record labels, producers or other artists...

 tape
Compact Cassette
The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. Although originally designed for dictation, improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant reel-to-reel tape recording in most...

 to Alan Parsons
Alan Parsons
Alan Parsons is a British audio engineer, musician, and record producer. He was involved with the production of several successful albums, including The Beatles' Abbey Road and Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon for which Pink Floyd credit him as an important contributor...

, from whom he received a personal reply. Years later, when Winger was chosen to be the lead singer of The Alan Parsons Project
The Alan Parsons Project
The Alan Parsons Project was a British progressive rock band active between 1975 and 1990, founded by Eric Woolfson and Alan Parsons.-History:Englishman Alan Parsons met Scotsman Eric Woolfson in the canteen of Abbey Road Studios in the summer of 1974...

, he presented Parsons with that letter from 30 years prior.

In 1982, he moved to New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is among the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment...

 and waited tables while studying composition with Edgar Grana.

Success


Winger's first commercial break came in 1984, when he co-wrote a song for KIX
Kix (band)
Kix is an American hard rock band who achieved popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s.-Formation:Kix was started by Ronnie "10/10" Younkins and Donnie Purnell in Dec. of 1977 in Hagerstown, Maryland....

's third album, Midnite Dynamite
Midnite Dynamite
Midnite Dynamite is the title of an album released on Atlantic Records in 1985 by the glam metal band KIX.-Track listing:# "Midnite Dynamite"# "Red Hot "# "Bang Bang " # "Layin' Rubber"...

. During that time he was working closely with the record producer
Record producer
In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes...

, Beau Hill
Beau Hill
Beau Hill is an American record producer who is best known for his work with Alice Cooper, Kix, Winger, Streets, Warrant, Fiona, Europe and Ratt....

, recording
Sound recording and reproduction
Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical or mechanical inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects. The two main classes of sound recording technology are analog recording and digital recording...

 bass
Bass guitar
The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum....

 and vocals
Human voice
The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal folds for talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, etc. Human voice is specifically that part of human sound production in which the vocal folds are the primary sound source...

 on various records
Gramophone record
A gramophone record, commonly known as phonograph record, vinyl record, or simply record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove usually starting near the periphery and ending near the centre of the disc...

. While Reb Beach
Reb Beach
Reb Beach is an American rock guitarist. He is a member of the bands Winger and Whitesnake.-Career:...

 was working on Fiona Flannigan
Fiona (singer)
Fiona is an American rock music singer and actress best known as the love interest in the 1987 Bob Dylan vehicle, Hearts of Fire.-Biography:...

's Beyond The Pale
Beyond The Pale
Beyond the Pale is a publication company based in Northern Ireland. Their publications are usually focused on controversial issues such as the troubles....

record at Atlantic
Atlantic Records
Atlantic Records is an American record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm & blues, rock and roll, and jazz...

, Winger and Beach were introduced to each other, and later began recording demos. Later, in 1985, Winger joined Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades...

's band. After making two albums with Cooper, Winger left in March 1987 to focus on his own band.

Winger returned to New York to work on songs with Reb Beach. They were joined by drummer
Drummer
A drummer is a person who plays drums, particularly a drum kit , marching percussion or hand drums. The term percussionist applies to a musician performing on any percussion instrument, but usually refers to one who plays classical or Latin percussion. Most bands for Rock, Pop, Jazz, R&B etc...

 Rod Morgenstein
Rod Morgenstein
Rod Morgenstein is an American drummer and music educator. He is best known for his work with the late '80s heavy metal band Winger and with the jazz fusion band Dixie Dregs. He also played with Fiona, Platypus and Jelly Jam. He has also done session work with Jordan Rudess including his ventures...

 and keyboard
Keyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include various types of organs as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

 player Paul Taylor
Paul Taylor (Winger)
Paul Taylor is an American musician, who is best known as the guitarist/keyboardist with Winger . Previously, he was with Alice Cooper's band. Though Paul was asked by Kip Winger to rejoin the band to work on their 2006 reunion album, he declined because he was already involved with other...

. They initially performed under the name Sahara, but eventually changed their name to Winger, at Alice Cooper's suggestion.

The band Winger released three of its nine albums (Winger
Winger (album)
Winger is the debut album of the American rock band Winger. The album was released by Atlantic Records in 1988 and it was produced by Beau Hill.The music was radio friendly, but with a progressive twist that also showcased the band's musical talent...

(1988), In the Heart of the Young
In the Heart of the Young
In the Heart of the Young was the second album by American glam metal band Winger. It was released by Atlantic Records in 1990.Musically, In the Heart of the Young followed closely in the footsteps of the band's debut album. Once again produced by Beau Hill, the album features hook driven,...

(1990), and Pull
Pull (album)
Pull was the third album by American hard rock band Winger. The album was released in 1993 by Atlantic Records.It was produced by Mike Shipley on a considerable budget and marked a significant change in Winger's sound, eschewing their pop-metal anthems prevalent in their first two albums for a...

(1993)) before they each moved on to have successful solo
Solo (music)
In music, a solo is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer...

 careers.

Solo career


Kip Winger then moved to New Mexico
New Mexico
New Mexico is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. Inhabited by Native American populations for many centuries, it has also been part of the Imperial Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain, part of Mexico, and a U.S. territory. Among U.S...

 to work on his solo career, and study with Richard Hermann at the University of New Mexico
University of New Mexico
The University of New Mexico is a public university in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Founded in 1889, it offers bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and professional degree programs in the arts, sciences, and engineering...

. Tragedy struck Winger in 1996 when his first wife, Beatrice, was killed in an automobile accident. He worked and recorded three solo records in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe is the capital of the state of New Mexico. It is the fourth-largest city in the state and is the seat of . Santa Fe had a population of 62,203 at the April 1, 2000 census; the estimate for July 1, 2006, is 72,056...

: This Conversation Seems Like a Dream
This Conversation Seems Like a Dream
This Conversation Seems Like A Dream was the first solo album by American rock artist Kip Winger. The album was released by Domo Records in 1996.-Track listing:# "Kiss of Life" – 4:23# "Monster" – 5:47...

, Down Incognito
Down Incognito
Down Incognito was the second solo album by American rock artist Kip Winger. It was released by Domo Records in 1998.The album was released under different names...

and Songs From The Ocean Floor
Songs from the Ocean Floor
Songs From The Ocean Floor was the third solo album by American rock artist Kip Winger. The album was released in 2000. According to Kip, the lead track "Cross" is an extremely personal song and he opens every solo show with it.-Track listing:...

.

In 2002 Winger moved to Nashville
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is the second most populous city in the state after Memphis. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state...

, Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee is a state located in the Southeastern United States. According to the 2008 census, it has a population of 6,214,888, an increase of nearly 9.5% since 2000. Tennessee is the 14th fastest growing state in the US and is ranked 17th by population. It is ranked 36th by total land area. In...

 and began working on his fourth solo record, From the Moon to the Sun
From the Moon to the Sun
From The Moon To The Sun is the fourth solo album by American rock artist Kip Winger. The album was released in 2008.-Track listing:# Every Story Told# Nothing# Where Will You Go# Pages And Pages# Ghosts# In Your Eyes Another Life# Runaway...

(2008), which he co-produced with Cenk Eroglu.

In September 2006, Kip reformed Winger, with the Pull era line-up, to record the band's fourth studio album, IV
IV (Winger album)
IV is American rock band Winger's first album of new studio material since 1993's Pull. According to frontman Kip Winger, one morning he "just woke up and heard the new Winger record" in his head, knowing just what he wanted to do with it. It was released in October 2006 on Frontiers Records...

, and to go on tour to support it. During this tour, Winger recorded Winger Live
Winger Live
Winger Live is a two CD and DVD live set culled from Winger 2007 US reunion tour Directed by Jack Edward Sawyers. Kip Winger, Reb Beach, Rod Morgenstein and John Roth rip through all the hits, progressive jams and new material taken from their comeback album IV. Keyboardist Cenk Eroglu was not...

which was released on CD
Compact Disc
A Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store sound recordings exclusively, but later it also allowed the preservation of other types of data. Audio CDs have been commercially available since October 1982...

 and DVD
DVD
DVD, also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc,is an optical disc storage media format, and was founded in 1995. Its main uses are video and data storage...

 in 2007. They also released an album of rare tracks and early recordings, Demo Anthology
Demo Anthology
Demo Anthology is a collection of previously unreleased demos by glam metal band Winger.-Disc 1:# "Madalaine" – 4:20# "Hungry" – 4:08# "Seventeen" – 3:54# "State of Emergency" – 3:04# "Time to Surrender" – 4:14# "Hangin' On" – 3:21...

(2007), as well as an autographed limited edition album, Seventeen: The Demos, where only 300 copies were made.

Recent times


Following the release of From the Moon to the Sun, Winger completed a twenty minute symphonic
Symphony
A symphony is an extended musical composition, scored almost always for orchestra. "Symphony" does not necessarily imply a specific form though most are composed according to the sonata principle...

 piece, "Ghosts," written for strings, piano, and harp for a ballet commission. The British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...

 choreographer, Christopher Wheeldon
Christopher Wheeldon
'Christopher Wheeldon is an international choreographer of contemporary ballet. Born in Somerset, England, to an engineer and a physical therapist, Wheeldon began training to be a ballet dancer at the age of 8. He attended the Royal Ballet School between the ages of 11 and 18...

 worked on "Ghosts", the world premiere of which will be with the Tucson Symphony on November 14-15, 2009.

Winger was honored by the United States Government and Military by being presented with an honorary plaque and a historic United States of America flag. He was recognized for his musical composition, "Blue Suede Shoes", honoring the service and sacrifice of the United States armed forces and their families. In a surprise presentation ceremony during the taping of the PBS television program
Television program
A television program , television programme , or television show is a segment of content broadcast on television...

, Legends & Lyrics, General Harold Cross praised Winger for his work on IV.

Winger's new album, 'Karma' is scheduled for release in October 2009. His music will be featured in the upcoming film
Film
Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects....

, Four Month's set for release in 2009.

He has participated, and performed, as head counselor in the Rock Fantasy Camp with other musicians including Roger Daltry, Steven Tyler
Steven Tyler
Steven Victor Tallarico , better known as Steven Tyler, is an American musician and songwriter. He is best known for his work as the lead singer and primary songwriter of Boston-based rock band Aerosmith....

, Todd Rundgren
Todd Rundgren
Todd Harry Rundgren is an American musician, singer-songwriter and record producer.-Early career:Rundgren was born in Upper Darby, PA. He began his career in Woody's Truck Stop, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based group based on the model of Paul Butterfield Blues Band. However, he left the band to...

, Jack Blades
Jack Blades
Jack Blades is an American musician. He has worked in several bands: Rubicon, Night Ranger , and Damn Yankees . He also recorded with Tommy Shaw under the name Shaw/Blades, and has done work alongside TMG, the Tak Matsumoto Group...

, Kelly Keagy
Kelly Keagy
Kelly Keagy is an American drummer and vocalist, best known for his work with Night Ranger. Keagy sang lead vocals on several of their hits, such as "Sister Christian", "Sing Me Away", "Goodbye", and "Sentimental Street"....

, Bruce Kulick
Bruce Kulick
Bruce Howard Kulick is an American guitarist and a member of the band Grand Funk Railroad. Previously Kulick had been a long time member of the band Kiss.-Early years:...

, Bill Leverty
Bill Leverty
Bill Leverty is an American guitarist, who is a founding and current member of the American rock band FireHouse. Leverty, along with vocalist C.J. Snare, was responsible for writing many of the band's hit songs including "Don't Treat Me Bad"...

, Steve Lukather
Steve Lukather
Steve "Luke" Lukather is an American Grammy Award-winning guitarist, singer, songwriter, arranger, and record producer best known for his work with the rock band Toto. Lukather has released several solo albums and, as a studio session guitarist, has been involved with arranging, composing, and...

, Duff McKagan
Duff McKagan
Michael Andrew "Duff" McKagan is an American musician , who is best known for his thirteen-year tenure in the hard rock band Guns N' Roses...

, Mark Slaughter
Mark Slaughter
Mark Slaughter is an American singer and musician. He is one of the founders of hard rock band Slaughter. He has also worked as a voice actor and composer. He also has a family relation to Pantera's Rex Brown...

, Carmine Appice
Carmine Appice
Carmine Appice is a rock drumming icon, winner of many awards and innovator and pioneer in the drumming world. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and is of Italian ancestry. He is brother to Vinny Appice, who also plays drums professionally with Heaven and Hell, Dio, and Black Sabbath...

, and Rudy Sarzo
Rudy Sarzo
Rudy Sarzo is a bass guitarist born Rodolfo Maximiliano Sarzo Lavieille Grande Ruiz Payret y Chaumont in Havana, Cuba on November 18, 1950. He emigrated to the United States in 1961...

.

Most recently, he played with the Sin City Sinners
Sin City Sinners
Sin City Sinners is a group of prominent musicians who perform self-penned originals and rock and roll covers at key venues throughout Las Vegas, Nevada. The band is composed of a tight-knit group of core members: Brent Muscat ; Todd Kerns ; Rob Cournoyer ; and Mike "The Doctor" Ellis...

 in Las Vegas, Nv.

Personal life


Winger dated the actress
Actor
An actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

 Rachel Hunter
Rachel Hunter
Rachel Hunter is a New Zealand model, actress and reality TV show host.-Biography:Born in Glenfield, Auckland, New Zealand, Hunter began modelling by age 17 and rose to prominence after posing as a Sports Illustrated model in 1989...

 before she married Rod Stewart
Rod Stewart
Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE is a British singer and songwriter born and raised in London, England and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English lineage....

. Winger lost his first wife in a car accident in 1996. He has since remarried to Paula Winger and they currently reside in Nashville
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is the second most populous city in the state after Memphis. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state...

, Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee is a state located in the Southeastern United States. According to the 2008 census, it has a population of 6,214,888, an increase of nearly 9.5% since 2000. Tennessee is the 14th fastest growing state in the US and is ranked 17th by population. It is ranked 36th by total land area. In...

.

Albums


Winger
  • Winger
    Winger (album)
    Winger is the debut album of the American rock band Winger. The album was released by Atlantic Records in 1988 and it was produced by Beau Hill.The music was radio friendly, but with a progressive twist that also showcased the band's musical talent...

    (1988)
  • In the Heart of the Young
    In the Heart of the Young
    In the Heart of the Young was the second album by American glam metal band Winger. It was released by Atlantic Records in 1990.Musically, In the Heart of the Young followed closely in the footsteps of the band's debut album. Once again produced by Beau Hill, the album features hook driven,...

    (1990)
  • Pull
    Pull (album)
    Pull was the third album by American hard rock band Winger. The album was released in 1993 by Atlantic Records.It was produced by Mike Shipley on a considerable budget and marked a significant change in Winger's sound, eschewing their pop-metal anthems prevalent in their first two albums for a...

    (1993)
  • The Very Best of Winger
    The Very Best of Winger
    The Very Best Of Winger was a Winger compilation album released by Atlantic Records and Rhino Entertainment Company in 2001.Most of the songs on the album were collected from the three Winger studio albums, Winger , In the Heart of the Young and Pull , but there is one new recording called "On...

    (2001)
  • IV
    IV (Winger album)
    IV is American rock band Winger's first album of new studio material since 1993's Pull. According to frontman Kip Winger, one morning he "just woke up and heard the new Winger record" in his head, knowing just what he wanted to do with it. It was released in October 2006 on Frontiers Records...

    (2006)
  • Demo Anthology
    Demo Anthology
    Demo Anthology is a collection of previously unreleased demos by glam metal band Winger.-Disc 1:# "Madalaine" – 4:20# "Hungry" – 4:08# "Seventeen" – 3:54# "State of Emergency" – 3:04# "Time to Surrender" – 4:14# "Hangin' On" – 3:21...

    (2007)
  • Seventeen The Demos Vinyl Autographed Limited Edition(2007)
  • Winger Live
    Winger Live
    Winger Live is a two CD and DVD live set culled from Winger 2007 US reunion tour Directed by Jack Edward Sawyers. Kip Winger, Reb Beach, Rod Morgenstein and John Roth rip through all the hits, progressive jams and new material taken from their comeback album IV. Keyboardist Cenk Eroglu was not...

    (2007)
  • Karma
    Karma
    Karma in Indian religions is the concept of "action" or "deed", understood as that which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect originating in ancient India and treated in Hindu, Jain, Sikh and Buddhist philosophies..'Karma' is an Eastern religious concept in contradistinction to...

    (October 2009)


Solo
  • This Conversation Seems Like a Dream
    This Conversation Seems Like a Dream
    This Conversation Seems Like A Dream was the first solo album by American rock artist Kip Winger. The album was released by Domo Records in 1996.-Track listing:# "Kiss of Life" – 4:23# "Monster" – 5:47...

    (1996)
  • Down Incognito
    Down Incognito
    Down Incognito was the second solo album by American rock artist Kip Winger. It was released by Domo Records in 1998.The album was released under different names...

    (1998)
  • Songs from the Ocean Floor
    Songs from the Ocean Floor
    Songs From The Ocean Floor was the third solo album by American rock artist Kip Winger. The album was released in 2000. According to Kip, the lead track "Cross" is an extremely personal song and he opens every solo show with it.-Track listing:...

    (2000)
  • From the Moon to the Sun
    From the Moon to the Sun
    From The Moon To The Sun is the fourth solo album by American rock artist Kip Winger. The album was released in 2008.-Track listing:# Every Story Told# Nothing# Where Will You Go# Pages And Pages# Ghosts# In Your Eyes Another Life# Runaway...

    (2008)


Other
  • KIX
    Kix (band)
    Kix is an American hard rock band who achieved popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s.-Formation:Kix was started by Ronnie "10/10" Younkins and Donnie Purnell in Dec. of 1977 in Hagerstown, Maryland....

     - Midnite Dynamite
    Midnite Dynamite
    Midnite Dynamite is the title of an album released on Atlantic Records in 1985 by the glam metal band KIX.-Track listing:# "Midnite Dynamite"# "Red Hot "# "Bang Bang " # "Layin' Rubber"...

    (1985)
  • Alice Cooper
    Alice Cooper
    Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades...

     - Constrictor
    Constrictor (album)
    Constrictor was the 1986 comeback album for rock musician Alice Cooper. After retiring from the music industry after the release of DaDa, Cooper remained in seclusion for three years. He starred in Monster Dog, a horror film for which he wrote two songs...

    (1985)
  • Alice Cooper
    Alice Cooper
    Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades...

     - Raise Your Fist and Yell
    Raise Your Fist and Yell
    Raise Your Fist and Yell is a 1987 concept album by rock musician Alice Cooper. It features the track "Prince of Darkness", which is featured very briefly in the John Carpenter film of the same name, in which Cooper has a cameo as a murderous vagrant. The song can be heard on the Walkman of one...

    (1986)
  • Fiona
    Fiona (singer)
    Fiona is an American rock music singer and actress best known as the love interest in the 1987 Bob Dylan vehicle, Hearts of Fire.-Biography:...

     - Beyond The Pale
    Beyond the Pale (Fiona album)
    Beyond the Pale is Fiona's second album. It features then future Winger members Kip Winger and Reb Beach, and Modern Design and Beggars & Thieves singer Louie Merlino.-Track listing:# "Tragedy"# "Hopelessly Love You"# "Living In a Boy's World"...

    (1986)
  • Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet and painter who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was, at first, an informal chronicler and then an apparently reluctant figurehead of social unrest...

     - Down in the Groove
    Down in the Groove
    Down in the Groove is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's 25th studio album, released by Columbia Records in May 1988.A highly collaborative effort, it was Dylan's second consecutive album to receive almost unanimous negative reviews...

    (1987)
  • Kane Roberts
    Kane Roberts
    Kane Roberts is a heavy metal guitarist best known for his tenure in Alice Cooper's band during the late 1980s...

     - Kane Roberts (1987)
  • Blue Yonder - House of Love (1987)
  • Various artists - Hearts of Fire Soundtrack (1987)
  • Twisted Sister
    Twisted Sister
    Twisted Sister is an American heavy metal band from New York City. Their work fuses the shock tactics of Alice Cooper, the rebellious mood of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, and the extravagant image of glam rock bands such as New York Dolls notably for the makeup...

     - Love Is For Suckers
    Love Is for Suckers
    Love Is for Suckers is the fifth album by the heavy metal group Twisted Sister. According to the Live At Wacken DVD, the material was originally meant to be a solo album by Twisted Sister's lead singer, Dee Snider, but Twisted Sister's record company pushed for it to be released by the band. It...

    (1987)
  • Alice Cooper
    Alice Cooper
    Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades...

     - Trash
    Trash (album)
    Trash is a studio album released by heavy metal singer Alice Cooper in 1989.The album featured "Poison", Cooper's first top ten hit since his single "You And Me" in 1977. After Alice's return to the music industry in 1986 with the successful tour "The Nightmare Returns", Cooper had sought...

    (1989)
  • Fiona
    Fiona (singer)
    Fiona is an American rock music singer and actress best known as the love interest in the 1987 Bob Dylan vehicle, Hearts of Fire.-Biography:...

     - Heart Like A Gun
    Heart Like a Gun
    Heart Like a Gun is Fiona's third album. It features Winger members Kip Winger and Rod Morgenstein. "Everything You Do ," which became one of her biggest hits, features Kip Winger on co-lead vocals.-Track listing:...

    (1989)
  • Various artists - Smoke on the Water - A Tribute to Deep Purple (1994)
  • Various artists - Send Her My Love - A Tribute to Journey (2006)
  • Orange Swirl - Orange Swirl (1998)
  • Seven Days - Ride (1998)
  • Rob Eberhart Young - Speak (1999)
  • Under Suspicion - Under Suspicion (2001)
  • Various artists - Stone Cold Queen - A Tribute (2001)
  • Jordan Rudess
    Jordan Rudess
    Jordan Rudess is a progressive rock keyboardist best known as a member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater.-Biography:...

     - Rhythm of Time
    Rhythm of Time
    Rhythm of Time is an album by Jordan Rudess recorded and released in 2004.In order to create the album before he went on tour with Dream Theater in 2004, Rudess lived in complete seclusion from the rest of the world for 14 days...

    (2004)
  • Various artists - Spin the Bottle: An All-Star Tribute to Kiss (2004)
  • Various artists - Subdivisions: A Tribute to Rush (2005)
  • XCarnation - Grounded (2005)
  • The Mob
    The Mob (melodic rock band)
    The Mob is an American hard rock band formed in 2005. Their self-titled debut album was released by Frontiers Records the same year.-Line-up:* Reb Beach – guitars, backing vocals* Doug Pinnick – lead vocals* Timothy Drury – keyboards, backing vocals...

     - The Mob
    The Mob (album)
    The Mob is the self-titled debut album of American rock band The Mob. It was released by Frontiers Records in 2005.-Track listing:# "One Track Mind" – 4:20# "Wait" – 4:38...

    (2005)
  • Jordan Rudess
    Jordan Rudess
    Jordan Rudess is a progressive rock keyboardist best known as a member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater.-Biography:...

     - The Road Home
    The Road Home (Jordan Rudess album)
    The Road Home is a cover album by Jordan Rudess. It was released on September 12, 2007.Rudess's arrangements of these classic prog tracks include many sections that were not in the original songs, especially solos...

    (2007)

Videos/DVDs

  • Alice Cooper
    Alice Cooper
    Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades...

     - The Nightmare Returns Tour (1986)
  • Winger - The Videos, Vol. 1 (1989)
  • Winger - In the Heart of the Young, Vol. 1 (1990)
  • Winger - In the Heart of the Young, Vol. 2 (1991)
  • Winger - Live in Tokyo (1991)
  • Winger - The Making of Pull (1993)
  • Various artists - VH1 Metal Mania Stripped Across America Tour Live (2006)
  • Winger - "The Making of Winger IV" (2007)
  • Winger Live
    Winger Live
    Winger Live is a two CD and DVD live set culled from Winger 2007 US reunion tour Directed by Jack Edward Sawyers. Kip Winger, Reb Beach, Rod Morgenstein and John Roth rip through all the hits, progressive jams and new material taken from their comeback album IV. Keyboardist Cenk Eroglu was not...

    (2007)
  • Winger DVD - "Then & Now: The Making of Pull & Winger IV" (2009)

Reviews/Interviews


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