Myles Kennedy and Kip Winger Guest on This Weeks Focus on Metal

Episode 446 - Walk The Sky

Yep it's a day earlier than promised. Think of it as an early gift.
This is our last show for 2019 and also the last one before we take our annual winter break. However we have some great discussion and also two great guests. Kip Winger returns to the show for a quick backstage chat and after that we talk with Myles Kennedy about the latest Alter Bridge release “Walk The Sky”. 

Enjoy and see ya in 2020.

By the way since we have your attention...
Biff Byford is set to release his first solo album in February 2020. Preorder at BiffByford.com
Here's the first single

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Just Posted: Rod Morgenstein on this weeks Focus on Metal

Episode 293 - Rod Morgenstein

This week our guest is drummer Rod Morgenstein. Rod is primarily known for his work with Winger however he’s active in several other bands including The Jelly Jam with Ty Tabor And John Myung. They just released their fourth disc “Profit” and are heading out on tour in support of it. 

Rob’s site is at RodMorgenstein.com The Jelly Jam can be found at TheJellyJam.com while you’re there check out their “Profit” bundles.

Track of the week is from AFM artist Paradox. It's the band's 30th year on the metal scene and they just released their 7th disc "Pangea"

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Reb Beach Guests on This Weeks Focus on Metal

Episode 223 - Focus on Reb Beach

Another in our series of career retrospective episodes, our guest this week is Whitesnake/Winger guitarist and all around good guy Reb Beach. We talk with Reb and go through a brief history of his career through a bunch of bands and catch up with what he's up to these days as well. Reb doesn't usually go these type of things so it was very cool of him to allow the Focus on Metal team to put him under the musical microscope. We hope you enjoy what he has to say.

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Visit Whitesnake's site at http://www.whitesnake.com/ or Winger's at http://www.wingertheband.com/

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Review - Winger- Better Days Comin' (Frontiers Records)

  

With this band it was always about the music. I didn't get overexposed because MTV Europe hardly ever played them. Mainstream they were anything but. I loved the songs and the playing. Everything that mattered really, even to the band. All the rest was fluff and that's what killed them. Every album they've done has been solid and this is no exception.

  It's been five years since Karma that was seen as a welcome return to a more rocking style after Winger 4. Many fans felt the former was more a Reb Beach album and the latter a Kip album. Yet Karma had progressive elements throughout too with the rockers up front. This one is probably the bands most experimental album. Even the straight up rockers like the opening track Midnight Driver Of A Love Machine or Queen Babylon aren't immediate. The title track sounds like a funky 70's thing and has nothing like it in the bands back catalogue.

   The best track is Tin Soldier. Expertly crafted with great vocals from Kip and a fantastic solo from Reb Beach. If I had any complaint and its a small one is the lack of an up tempo track towards the end. So Long China moves along nicely and Storm In Me has a nice heavy riff that suffers somewhat with the distorted vocals in the chorus. Ever Wonder and Be Who You Are Now are very Kip solo sounding. Again solid tracks but a little keyboard heavy. Closer Out Of This World is a great song in the vein of Headed For A Heartbreak or Witness. Reb lets to really rip here.

   I can't stop playing this and these guys are one of my favorite bands from the eighties. It's a definite grower. The band sounds great and Kip's voice is still fantastic which can't be said of some other singers in their 50's. They really are a misunderstood band and Bret Michaels this most definitely isn't. Buy the deluxe version for the extra track and a very decent half-hour or so making of documentary.


Richie.