WINGER Mainman Kip Winger - "Rod Morgenstein Could Out-Drum Lars Ulrich With One Hand Tied Behind His Back"
January 29, 2007, 17 years ago
The following report is courtesy of Michael Marotta from Bostonherald.com:
The girl Kip Winger sang about on his first hit may have been only 'Seventeen' in 1989, but these days she’s pushing 40.
That’s not stopping WINGER and his reformed band - Winger, natch - from recording a new album and hitting the road on a tour that pulls into Harpers Ferry on Friday.
Back in the late ’80s, Winger became the poster child for hair metal. The New York band drew ridicule from MTV’s "Beavis & Butthead" and in the METALLICA video "Nothing Else Matters," in which Lars Ulrich throws darts at Winger’s long mane and pearly whites.
Speaking from a Tennessee tour stop, Winger is quick to defend his eponymous band’s credibility, musical and otherwise.
"Our drummer, Rod Morgenstein, could out-drum Ulrich with one hand tied behind his back," Winger, 45, said. "And Metallica became (the rock joke) they said we were."Winger the band was washed away by a tidal wave of grunge after the 1993 release of its third album, "Pull." Winger the singer started releasing solo albums and performing acoustically in the late ’90s. He knows his credibility took a beating in the aftermath of the ’80s.
"I didn’t know how to manage that stuff," he said about his blow-dried image. "We kinda overdid it with the teen idol thing. We did a show like KISS and marketed the (expletive) out of it, and it came back to bite us in the ass."Of course, life as a rock star sex symbol wasn’t all bad.
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