winger

Sometimes the best music comes unexpectedly. Kip Winger created a band called Blackwood Creek as a kid. The band broke up around 1980, but it wasn't permanent. After all, the drummer is Nate Winger, Kip's brother, and the guitarist is childhood friend Peter Fletcher...

"A lot of bands have been doing the same song for 10 years, album after album," reflects Kip Winger to Noisecreep. "They think that's what their fans want to hear, and that's the brand name. OK, maybe they are right. A lot of them sell millions...

"The difference is being an artist or being a businessman. That's the difference. If you boil it down, I'm not doing this to sell a cool T-shirt. I'm not doing this to sell a brand name. I'm doing it for the art and the love of the music." So says Kip Winger of his place in the music industry...

The last few years have been a roller coaster ride for rock bassist Chuck Wright. A member of Quiet Riot, Wright mourned the loss of his 26-year friend Kevin DuBrow, and this year he is celebrating the birth of Northern Light Orchestra and their CD 'Spirit of Christmas...

Whitesnake, the '80s arena rock band that have sold more than 100 million albums since 1977, are back on the road all summer with their "old mates" Judas Priest, as special guests on their 'British Steel' 30th anniversary tour. "We came up on the 'new wave of British heavy metal,'" says frontman David Coverdale...