what do you all think of Winger now

It's too bad people can't get over that early image and just hear the music. I bet if they heard Pull and didn't know who it was a lot of people would like it.

Stender wrote:

Still limp-wristed and effeminate.

Your should know .

thejokeriv wrote:

As much as we joke Winger (Yes, stewart from B&BH), they are actually a very talented band

I was half expecting someone to mention Stewart.

I always thought it was lame how they made Stewart wear a Winger shirt on that show. They should have had him wear something else like a New Kids on the Block shirt.

Anyway ... Winger got a bad rap from that. I hated to see that happen.

So many people never even gave them a chance because of this. Unfair.

And like Nazgul said, if people even gave "Pull" half a chance, they'd probably like it quite well.

Beavis & Butthead is an example of how TV can sway an entire audience...

WINGER, glossy image aside, was an amazing Rock band...songs like "State Of Emergency", "Rainbow In The Rose", "Hungry", "Headed For A Heartbreak", "In The Day We'll Never See", "Baptized By Fire", "Madalaine", "Under One Condition", "Time To Surrender" and the entire Pull album are absolute top shelf Melodic Hard Rock...and on a sheer talent/technical level, the individual musicians were/are master craftsmen...

Winger IV is a great record. I haven't heard a Winger song that I didn't like.

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

Beavis & Butthead is an example of how TV can sway an entire audience...

WINGER, glossy image aside, was an amazing Rock band...songs like "State Of Emergency", "Rainbow In The Rose", "Hungry", "Headed For A Heartbreak", "In The Day We'll Never See", "Baptized By Fire", "Madalaine", "Under One Condition", "Time To Surrender" and the entire Pull album are absolute top shelf Melodic Hard Rock...and on a sheer talent/technical level, the individual musicians were/are master craftsmen...

I agree 110%!!!

WINGER's musicianship was much better than their songwriting IMHO.

Reb Beach's chops are through the roof.

DallasBlack wrote:

Stender wrote:

Still limp-wristed and effeminate.

Your should know .

..............ahahahaha!

Temple of Blood wrote:

WINGER's musicianship was much better than their songwriting IMHO.

Reb Beach's chops are through the roof.

As are Morgenstein's and Winger's...Kip Winger is a monster musician/composer...crazy talented.

I never got that impression about Kip but Rod ... definitely.

Didn't Kip pose for Playgirl with his clothes ON?

I am slowly building back some of my 80s metal collection and its cool to have some Winger again!

Alex

exact33 wrote:

I am slowly building back some of my 80s metal collection and its cool to have some Winger again!

Alex

I hear that! I just recently replaced my old copies as well.

Love them. I just can't seem to find any of their cds around.

Their must be 10 copies of their debut at the one store here, they cant even give em away

They were one of the first hard rock bands that i got into back in 1988. I remember really liking Reb Beach's effortless lead playing. I moved on to much heavier things but back then it was all about Winger, Skid Row, LA Guns and Ratt.

Reb Beach is one of the most underrated guitarists of all time!!!

Gilbert wrote:

Love them. I just can't seem to find any of their cds around.

Go to Amazon.com. You can get all of their albums there for a great price!!!

That's where I got mine!

DeathCult wrote:

Their must be 10 copies of their debut at the one store here, they cant even give em away

very true but they did sell a ton of copies way back when.. swapacd has a ton of their first one as well.

exact33 wrote:

DeathCult wrote:

Their must be 10 copies of their debut at the one store here, they cant even give em away

very true but they did sell a ton of copies way back when.. swapacd has a ton of their first one as well.

So did Tiffany, but you dont see many people trying to rock that as classic nowadays.

I did like Kip when he was in with Alice Cooper though.

DeathCult wrote:

Their must be 10 copies of their debut at the one store here, they cant even give em away

That doesn't mean anything...I can also usually find a ton of Led Zeppelin and AC/DC discs at the used places too...does that mean they suck?

I had their debut on cassette way back when, but never bothered to upgrade it to cd. Never felt compelled to check out their other output either.

I don't listen to much hair/melodic rock these days anyway, with some exceptions of course. But if I ever do decide to go down that path again sometime in the future, Winger would be pretty far down on that list of bands to check out.

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

DeathCult wrote:

Their must be 10 copies of their debut at the one store here, they cant even give em away

That doesn't mean anything...I can also usually find a ton of Led Zeppelin and AC/DC discs at the used places too...does that mean they suck?

It does when they're priced at 1.99 and havent sold for close to a year, my main point was actually that it was pretty easy to find though.

DeathCult wrote:

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

DeathCult wrote:

Their must be 10 copies of their debut at the one store here, they cant even give em away

That doesn't mean anything...I can also usually find a ton of Led Zeppelin and AC/DC discs at the used places too...does that mean they suck?

It does when they're priced at 1.99 and havent sold for close to a year, my main point was actually that it was pretty easy to find though.

Again, has no bearing on quality...just on what people feel like listening too..."quality" is subjective anyway...I've found CD's I loved for less than $1...