Reb Beach: Winger may the rock be with you interview

Pete: Absolutely. I saw in the Frontiers press release and also you mentioned it, that you and Reb wrote the album in about a month, which from the musical complexities on Karma is pretty impressive. How do you guys write together, it sounds like you guys just sit down together, so that’s pretty much it, you guys just get together and jam?
Kip: Well, we’ll go buy a 12-pack of beer and crank up the drum machine, start writing riffs, and once we come up with a cool riff, we start to arrange it. But my big thing is like I want to listen to music, and if I feel like, okay three passages go by and I’m bored, I’m changing it up you know? I don’t do anything that I’ve heard before, there’s a lot of stuff on the 1000 year recycle bin… so it’s got to be really inspired stuff, and I know what I want to do when it comes to arranging, so I just try to keep it interesting, and when you’re listening down, there’s never a point where you’re like, you know what’s coming next, or if you do know what’s coming next, it’s because you want it to\, you know what I mean?

Pete: Do Rod and/or John have much creative input?
Kip: Not as much as Reb and I, you know, it’s always been Reb and I, we write all the stuff. But when it comes to what Rod wants to play, he just plays and I record him basically, and then with John, John co-wrote one song on this which is a new thing for him, and we gave him a big blues showcase on “After All This Time” so yeah they do, although the core of the message comes from Reb and me.

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