Taking their name from their leader after a last-minute change from Sahara, Winger specialized in the stylish pop-metal that sent Bon Jovi and Poison to the top of the charts. The band's eponymous debut sold over a million copies on the strength of the rocker "Seventeen" and the ballad "Headed for a Heartbreak. Kip Winger launched a solo career later that decade, releasing three albums before reuniting with his former bandmates in After a brief tour alongside fellow pop-metal veterans Poison , the band returned to the studio to craft their first album in more than a decade.
Another album called Karma quickly followed in , but the group took its time to deliver Better Days Comin' , which appeared in the spring of AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. In late , the band gathered in Los Angles to start the recording of the second album, which was produced by the band members and Jeff Pilson Foreigner, Dokken, The End Machine , who also produced the debut album.
As always, we simply started to jam on ideas and see where they led us. Viv and I have been playing together for years and have the same feel and pulse and attitude. Now with Phil on bass, he allows a more melodic approach on the bass parts, making the songs even more interesting. He fits in perfectly being from the same musical family and time as me and Viv.
We get in a room and jam on riffs and chords until we hit on something good, then continue to build it into a song. Andy puts his magic on it and it all works out very well.
People know every word to every song. The end. Then we tweak them, and I finish the tunes. Winger has a mini-tour going this month before the artists will go their separate ways. They have tentative plans to reunite, write and release another album in In a nutshell, I reinvented myself, doing my solo records and orchestral music, but the band has remained.
The ballads have been a catch for the band. The female audience likes them. The men, not so much, Beach said.
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