Interview with guitarist Reb Beach

You are about to embark on a Farewell Tour of Australia and it’s also a farewell for the band itself, why now?

“The band is called Winger and Kip Winger doesn’t want to sing “She’s only 17” anymore. It’s not just the lyrical content, it’s hard for him to sing it. So many bands of the 80’s sound like shit these days, he doesn’t he sounds like the record and the reason he does it because he works really really hard for it to be that way. It’s embarrassing for him when he misses two notes and he’s sick of that embarrassment, all the travel and in his heart is classical music, that’s what he wants to do. He’s done this rock thing for 35 years and he’s always wanted to be doing this classical thing and he’s finally having some real success with it. I mean there is no debating of what the guy has achieved in the last three years, he’s nominated for a Grammy, for his album. He just wrote a symphony for the National Symphony Orchestra that they are going to perform on May 9th.”