Seven

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On July 16, 2005, it was announced that Kip Winger would perform as the lead singer for the Alan Parsons Live Project at the Common Ground Music Festival in Lansing, Michigan. [14] [15] In May 2006, it was confirmed that Winger had reformed without one of its original members Paul Taylor, to record another album and tour Europe. The album, IV, was released in Europe in October and the nine-country "Winger IV Tour" ran in the last two weeks of the same month.

It’s important to note here that Seven features all four original members plus “new guy” John Roth on guitar. And the guys sound like they are enjoying themselves thoroughly already.Since early 2020 Josh has been entertaining us with exclusive monthly live sessions, streamed via Facebook. Two months ago, WINGER guitarist John Roth told Sam Wall about the band's upcoming LP: "It'll be out on Frontiers in May or June; we don't have a release date yet. [There's] 12 songs on the album. One song's a pretty big surprise. Despite a sprinkling of new shows here and there, Winger haven’t put out any new albums since then with fans having to be content with the constant whispers of a world tour and new music that some thought might never come. I remember when I was first co-writing with Kip on some songs on 'Better Days Comin'', we're not demoing the songs. We're writing 'em; we're recording the actual songs," he explained. "So, I'm looking at him, going, 'How do you know that you just want one more bar here?' He's, like, 'I hear where I wanna go with the lyrics.' And I'm, like, ''Cause you're making a lot of really big-time decisions for the arrangement,' and we're recording final guitar parts and the lyrics have to revolve around it. So everything starts with the music with WINGER," Roth added. "But as the songs are being written and the riffs are coming about, the melodies are in Kip's head. Kip's the maestro, you know? He's the maestro of the band. So he's thinking as we're writing — what the melodies are gonna [be], how they're gonna work around the riffs, and inevitably making final judgment calls on the arrangement as we're cutting the songs. [It] used to be you'd demo songs. You'd demo a song out, and sometimes you couldn't beat the demo. You'd be, like, 'There's a magic on the demo we cannot beat.' So WINGER really doesn't have that problem anymore 'cause as we're writing the songs, we're cutting the final parts."

WINGER will hit the road beginning with a U.K. tour with STEEL PANTHER in May, followed by a U.S tour with the Tom Keifer in June. Additionally, the band will play a number of headlining shows throughout the summer. As the album continues there’s no doubting that Kip and Co have not lost their edge in the song writing department, and the musicianship takes the music to a level way higher than their somehow bigger selling contemporaries. Perhaps the only critique would be I find the production slightly clinical.

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We're going for something that's poppy and sing-along stuff yet cool, heavy, progressive riffs — kind of like [2009's] 'Karma'," Reb explained. "That's what we're going for." a b c d e f Colin Larkin, ed. (1995). The Guinness Who's Who of Heavy Metal (Seconded.). Guinness Publishing. p.390. ISBN 0-85112-656-1. But come it has in the form of Winger’s seventh album, the appropriately titled Seven. Is it worth the wait?

Gentle acoustic guitars – I’m pretty sure played by Kip himself – lead you down a winding path of sorrow and into a void of helplessness that, quite honestly, is far from where I want to be. Next. WINGER has set "Seven" as the title of its seventh studio album, tentatively due this spring via Frontiers Music Srl. On February 25, 2008, the band performed in Providence, Rhode Island, as part of a benefit for survivors of the Station nightclub fire. The concert, along with other artists was debuted on VH1 Classic on March 23, 2008. In late 2009, it was confirmed that Winger would record a fifth album Karma, with a tour to support it. Another awesome guitar solo keeps the flame burning even longer with Kip fighting a solo battle to douse the fire from his end.Winger Seven will be released on May 5 and is the band’s first release since Better Days Comin’ in 2014. The album was produced in Nashville by Kip Winger and features all four of the original members — Kip Winger, Reb Beach, Rod Morgenstein, and Paul Taylor. Guitarist John Roth was added in 1992. a b "Kip Winger Interview at Heavy Metal and Power Metal Portal". Archived from the original on February 12, 2006. With WINGER, it normally starts [as] the musical idea. A lot of people write from lyrics and melodies. Most of the songs I write, I have a melody or a lyric which is like the nucleus or the starting point for a song. But with WINGER, it's a riff, it's a musical idea.

If it sounds like I am complaining about so many solos, believe me, I’m not, but when they sound so good it would be almost criminal to not mention them. GuitaristJohn Roth detailed the new album in a January interview with Sam Wall. "It'll be out on Frontiers in May or June," he said. "Twelvesongs on the album. One song's a pretty big surprise."Lumped in with the Hair Metal scene of the late 80’s, Winger’s music has always been more than bubble-gum Metal for Sunset Strip. Their song writing craft and musicianship setting them apart from their peers with Progressive traits evident throughout with Kip once stating they were a “hair band Dream Theater”. I’d throw in a wee bit of Styx too! a b "Winger Announce New Studio Album Seven, Watch the Music Video for First Single 'Proud Desperado' ". Sonic Perspectives. March 10, 2023 . Retrieved May 10, 2023.