Kip Winger Goes Classical: Studio Session
Wonder Cabinet
Wonder Cabinet Productions
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2016
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In the mid-80's the metal band Winger topped the charts with hits like "Seventeen." Then Grunge came along and left bands like Winger in the dust. Now, Kip Winger is back on top with a new CD that debuted at #1 on the music charts. Only this time, he's rocking the classical charts. His new album is "Conversations with Nijinsky"-- orchestral compositions performed by the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra. Hear the full range of Kip Winger's musical sensibility in this podcast, which takes us from "Seventeen" to classical compositions inspired by Stravinsky and Honegger. Listen to a candid in-depth interview and eavesdrop as Kip rehearses and performs a haunting acoustic version of "Blue Suede Shoes" with a 17-year old high school cellist, and gives us a solo "Down Incognito" backed by jazz djembe. It's a portrait of a musician who has come into his own as a mature and wide-ranging performer and composer.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Anne Strange Champs, and this is it to the best of our knowledge podcast Extra. |
| 0:04.8 | Remember this? |
| 0:18.7 | In the mid-80s, heavy metal ruled, and the band Winger topped the charts. |
| 0:23.3 | Kip Winger, the band's leader, was a teen icon with long hair, skin-tight pants, and a gleaming smile. |
| 0:30.3 | That was before Grunge wiped heavy metal off the musical landscape, and Winger became a laughingstock on Beavis and Butthead. |
| 0:38.5 | Well, today, Kip Winger is back on top of the charts, the classical charts. |
| 1:02.0 | This is an orchestral piece of Kip Winger's new classical CD, Conversations with Nijinsky. It debuted at number one on iTunes. |
| 1:04.5 | The music's performed by the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra. |
| 1:07.9 | Right now, a lot of old metal fans are probably thinking Kip Winger, ballet? |
| 1:13.6 | So I started taking ballet at 16 because a girlfriend of mine wanted to take ballet, |
| 1:32.3 | but none of her girlfriends would take it with her. |
| 1:35.3 | And I love an adventure, so, you know, let's try it. |
| 1:39.3 | And I got into the ballet studio, and here comes Stravinsky and Ravel and Debussy and Chikovsky and looking at these |
| 1:46.0 | people jumping around doing these amazing athletic things really. |
| 1:55.0 | Did you like it? |
| 1:56.0 | I took it to duck, like a duck to water. I was like, this is me. I'm home. This is totally where I belong. |
| 2:02.0 | I read you were a soloist with the Colorado State Ballet. |
| 2:05.1 | Well, like in the late 70s, there's not a lot of guys in ballet, you know, so they recruited me into the company, and I became a soloist in the company. |
| 2:14.7 | And had my training started earlier and I had better training, I probably could have done it |
| 2:21.4 | for a career. |
| 2:22.5 | That's funny because I was just having read that in the liner notes for this CD, I then |
| 2:27.8 | looked back at some of the classic winger music videos. |
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