ts: club vegas vs. velvet jones

wtf w/ 8 pm?

also, no northwest. c’mon

will probably go to the Charlotte show, that dude is an awesome guitarist

Stewart is usually depicted wearing a Winger t-shirt (as opposed to the heavier Metallica and AC/DC shirts that Beavis and Butthead wore) which helps characterize him as out of touch, as Winger was/is not thought highly of in the Heavy Metal subculture. As a result, Winger became a subject of ridicule in the mid 1990s. According to the documentary “Taint of Greatness: Part 2” on the Mike Judge Collection Volume 2 DVD, this was due to Winger telling MTV he would not let the show make fun of him. This has been cited as a reason for the band losing popularity. About the same time Lars Ulrich of Metallica could be seen throwing dart on a poster of Kip Winger in the video for Nothing Else Matters. When asked about this Kip Winger once stated: “Our band was known to musicians, and a lot of musicians showed up to see me play—watching trying to figure out how I’m playing—we were like the ‘hair band’ Dream Theater — That is why it’s the great irony that we ended up on that geeky guy’s shirt on Beavis & Butthead, because Metallica couldn’t play what we play, they couldn’t do it, they literally—technically couldn’t do it. And I’ll fucking challenge those chumps to that any day of the week that they couldn’t go back and play our shit, but we could play theirs with our hands tied behind our back. And so, I was a little t’d off about that, but in the end, none of that shit matters...”

yeah if you liked Winger back in ’86 it pretty much ID’d you as completely out of it—dude has since done the post-80’s trying-to-stay-afloat dance that all the hair bands (all of whom insist that they weren’t part of the whole hair scene) do, including acoustic sets that would be kinda rad if he weren’t such a dreadful singer & lyricist

back when I was a young nurse working an adolescent psych ward, most of the kids were into GnR & Skid Row—anything that had that “fuck my parents” vibe—I remember this one kid with Winger & Kix posters on his hospital room wall, totally out-of-step with the other kids, off on his own thing: pretty much fitting the Stewart model, only since he was a human being instead of a caricature & since I was his nurse, it was less risible than sad, ’cause I knew he had at least four years of getting his ass kicked ahead of him

actually OTOH if it’s the reunited Winger he’ll be playing bass again instead of guitar and screw that

if you liked Winger back in ’86

Neat trick, that.