One of the reasons I love hair metal is the awkwardness of it. Below is a prime example. It could be the worst grief video ever. Period. The end. (The corporate punk sell-outs at Youtube won't let me embed it so you'll have to break a finger and click on the link):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF_-_MVfFiw
At least Coldplay got the grieving video right. Check it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3Kd7IGPyeg
I think I'd like to see an entire film done backwards. If you have any recommendations, please share.
BTW - Kip Winger "supposedly" went to my middle school. My science teacher told a girl we have the desk he sat in encased in glass sealed up in the basement. Perhaps I'll make it my own Mission Impossible stunt to break into the basement and heroically turn the desk over to the hair metal preservation alliance... unless the teacher was only joking, but who would do such a thing???
5 comments:
Great finds as usual.
BTW, who's Kip Winger?
Who was your middle school teacher? I'm curious if I had the same one.
I think it was Mr. Child. Loved the guy. Said he had the cure for AIDS too.
As for Kip:
Born Charles Frederick Kip Winger in Denver, Colorado, on June 21, 1961, to parents who were jazz musicians. Music was a way of life since childhood.
He grew up playing in a band named Blackwood Creek with brothers Nate, Paul and friend Peter Fletcher (currently in Pigmy Love Circus). Blackwood Creek broke up in 1980 but have since reformed and currently getting ready to release a new CD.
At 16, he began studying classical music after being exposed to the likes of Debussy, Ravel, and Stravinsky in ballet class. In 1982, he moved to New York City and waited tables while studying Composition with Edgar Grana.
In 1985, Winger joined Alice Cooper's band. After making two albums with Alice, Kip left in March 1987 to focus on his own band.
Kip went back to New York to work on songs with Reb Beach. They were joined by drummer Rod Morgenstein and keyboard player Paul Taylor. They initially performed under the name Sahara, but eventually changed their name to Winger per Alice Coopers suggestion.
Winger released three of its nine albums (Winger in 1988, In the Heart of the Young in 1990, and Pull in 1993) before they each moved on to have very successful solo careers. Despite rumors, the band never "broke up"; they remain close friends.
Get this:
Kip dated actress Rachel Hunter before she married Rod Stewart. Kip lost his first wife in a car accident in 1996. He has since remarried to Paula Winger and they currently reside in Nashville.
DUDE. How crazy is that??? He made a video about a guy loosing a woman in a car accident and then it happens to him. Sad.
How about this for a lame grief video? I've lost all respect for the song now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkbdP7sq0w8&feature=channel
Bummer on Kip.
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