Kip Winger, founder of the rock band Winger, still tours with his original band doing what he refers to as “weekend warrior stuff,” but has also spent years honing his classical chops.

Winger, the heavy metal band with its 1980s heyday, returns to replay its hits as nostalgia for headbanging hits Barbara B. Mann Hall in Fort Myers.

Nirvana's 1991 album "Nevermind" sold 10 million copies, and Winger the band became an... 'Ghosts' resurrects Kip Winger's career SF Gate Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

Winger’s band had a hard time surviving the 1990s grunge explosion, and it split in 1994. The group reunited in the early 2000s and continues to perform and release the occasional album.

But Winger has much more to celebrate beyond the fact that the band is still together. In 1988, the group's self-titled debut, which combined glam metal with progressive rock, reached No. 21 on ...

Kip Winger said he won’t rule out future performances with Winger even as they embark on a series of farewell tours in various parts of the world, joking that he didn’t want to wind up on a ...

The band’s got a new album out now by the way, on May 5, we’ve got a new record coming out. We’ve got two singles out now. So, we’ll do a lot of band stuff, but I do, I change between this ...

The tour features rock band Winger (”Seventeen,” “Headed for a Heartbreak,” “Miles Away”) and John Corabi, who sang lead for Motley Crue briefly in the ‘90s while singer Vince Neil ...

Kip Winger says he and Metallica are "all good" now, decades after the Winger frontman was mocked in the music video for “Nothing Else Matters.”. By the early ‘90s, the Winger band had a ...

The Winger reflection comes at a perfect time as a new box set is en route revisiting their early career. Winger's Chapter One: Atlantic Years 1988-1993 will be released by Atlantic / BMG on Nov. 17.

So says Kip Winger of his eponymous band behind hits like the now-politically-incorrect “Seventeen” and perhaps too-prophetically-titled “Headed for a Heartbreak,” as he looks back on his ...

Kip Winger said he won’t rule out future performances with Winger even as they embark on a series of farewell tours in various parts of the world, joking that he didn’t want to wind up on a ...