The Last Bass Outpost
Main Forums => The Outpost Cafe => Topic started by: Blazer on June 09, 2009, 12:04:17 PM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJfulWFhDCg
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Mimes usually start saying stuff after you kick 'em in the nads, hahahahahaha!!
I miss their sophisticated humor.
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Yes, Beavis and Butthead were philosphers ("and stuff ...") In their own way. We must also be eternally grateful to them that wearing short pants is cool while wearing Winger t-shirts isn't.
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Blazer is a bit like the Winger kid here, isn't he? (Ducking ...) I still thought theo other two were unduly harsh on him ...
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Blazer is a bit like the Winger kid here, isn't he? (Ducking ...) I still thought theo other two were unduly harsh on him ...
I'm like Stewart?
(http://www.mtv.com/onair/beavisandbutthead/images/flipbooks/meet_cast/stewart/stew3.jpg)
In what way?
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We simply know you have a comprehensive Winger collection stashed away at home!
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(http://www.mtv.com/onair/beavisandbutthead/images/flipbooks/meet_cast/stewart/stew3.jpg)
:mrgreen:
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We simply know you have a comprehensive Winger collection stashed away at home!
You're wrong I couldn't even name one title of theirs, heck I don't even know what their music sounds like. :mrgreen:
All I know is that Kip Winger is a Funny name because "Kip" is also the Dutch word for "Chicken"
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I don't know why Winger became to epitomize the laughable side of 80ies hair metal. I know a couple of their songs, they were catchy pop rock songs, less clicheed than some of the stuff Bon Jovi did, even clever at times, why Winger are funny and Cinderella and Night Ranger (which I like) aren't, I'll never know. There was a rumor that along with Slaughter, Winger's MTV Unplugged session was deemed so bad it was never aired. I'd be surprised if that were true, Kip was an experinced bass player with Alice Cooper, Reb Beach is no sluch on the guitar (whteher you like his whammy bar dive bomb approach is another matter) and did even the drummer come from college student favorite proggies Dixie Dregs?
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Great. Now I won't be able to eat chicken wings again without thinking of Kip Winger. :)
I've never heard Winger or 99% of other 80s hair metal bands, I wouldn't even know any of the players' names if I hadn't seen them in guitar mags or catalogs. But they must be skilled players, even if it's not music I would listen to.
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Mike Judge did interviews on B&B on the recent DVD boxes of the series and he said that it wasn't a conscious choice to have Stewart wear a Winger T-shirt, it was just one of the many Hair metal acts that he could choose from. Winger's management actually got in contact with Judge and asked him to cut Stewart from the cartoon, in response Judge actually increased Stewart's appaerences in the cartoon and even made him more dopey.
The result: From Reb Beach's website...
The experience was very sudden. I had just bought a house on the lake in Florida and life was good. We spent years on one record that was by far our best, and I figured it had to at least go gold, since our last one went platinum, and this one was better. If the record went gold I would have gotten like a $200,000 publishing advance. Life was good.
So we released the record and went out on the road and that’s when the floor fell out from under us practically overnight. Some guy came to the bus with a copy of Beavis and Butthead and in it they hung a nerd up by his underwear while he wore his Winger t-shirt. They went to his house, and his loser family (including the dog) were all wearing Winger t-shirts. That week people stopped coming to our shows and record sales came to a screeching halt. "Down incognito" was taking off at radio when DJ’s just dropped it from their playlists because they were too embarrassed to have their station associated with it. A month later I called Atlantic records and they had never heard of Winger.
http://www.rebbeach.com/history_faq_2005_interview.htm
So I'm sorry Uwe, but in hind sight I find it quite insulting that you say I'm like Stewart. >:(
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The Reb Beach story is interesting but even if that's when their sales took a dive, it's just silly to think that a cable network cartoon was responsible. I just looked at their discography -- it was released in 1993, three years after their last album. In those three years, hair metal's popularity had gone down the drain, without any help from Beavis & Butthead.
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Reb Beach, like many whining hair metal 'stars' obviously lacks a sense of humor (those who are the butt of a joke often do) along with the ability to see reality if he thinks B&B tanked his career single handedly...
Winger, while they had a few decent pop tunes, were a joke long before B&B added to their fortunes.
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But... but... he had his own Ibanez guitar model! He must be right! :mrgreen:
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But... but... he had his own Ibanez guitar model! He must be right! :mrgreen:
not only that...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWGQWu6mSWM
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The guy certainly can play.
That's where I heard of him, from an Ibanez catalog. I had no idea who he was back then.
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I have no issues with Winger, but I have issues with whiners, which Herr Winger certainly seems to be. He should have called his band Whimper if he blames two cartoon morons for his commercial demise. And sue Kurt Cobain for emotional cruelty. His inability to turn the mentioning of his band in a cult series into advertising success for himself is even more disturbing. If I had been Winger's manager their next vid would have seen them playing proudly in tshirts with Stuart on them. Talk about missed opportunities.
As regards the Stuart comparison, Blazer: Stuart is essentially a nice kid, a little eager for acceptance by Butthead and Beavis, anybody with a kid brother that likes to "hang out" with older guys probably knows what I mean. But he actually less moronic than the AC/DC and Metallica fans he so aspires to be with.
My favorite Beavis & Butthead character is - besides thr hippy teacher - Daria. Given your sour-faced reaction to my Stuart poke, maybe I should have compared you with her perhaps?
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If I had been Winger's manager their next vid would have seen them playing proudly in tshirts with Stuart on them. Talk about missed opportunities.
This is the smartest thing they could have done, which is why they didn't do it! ;)
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My favorite Beavis & Butthead character is - besides thr hippy teacher - Daria. Given your sour-faced reaction to my Stuart poke, maybe I should have compared you with her perhaps?
Given the fact that I have been drawing Daria fan comics for six years...
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/RealDaria.jpg)
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not only that...he sounds like every other hair metal guitarist on earth. :rolleyes:
chicken winger. yuk yuk ;D
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Married to a Kentuckian... best I keep my head down... ;D
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Wow, now I understand what a non bassplayer is doing here!
You were just lost all the time.
Blazer this is the bassoutpost.
Not the daria-outpost.
www.outpost-daria.com
(http://www.outpost-daria.com/art_makeovers_daria.html)
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Wow, now I understand what a non bassplayer is doing here!
You were just lost all the time.
Blazer this is the bassoutpost.
Not the daria-outpost.
www.outpost-daria.com
(http://www.outpost-daria.com/art_makeovers_daria.html)
Very funny. :rolleyes:
As for me being a "Non bassplayer" I played bass in my previous band and I played bass on every single of my home recordings.
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Blazer, don't get the idea you are bring picked on. thing is, your posts often present opportunities that no red blooded smart ass can resist. ;)
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You guys lay off him, there is no conclusive proof that he owns a Winger CD, we have to give him the benefit of doubt. And Daria is kind of hot.
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You guys lay off him, there is no conclusive proof that he owns a Winger CD...
:mrgreen:
Maybe not, but he is apparently gullible enough to believe Reb Beach's lame-ass explanation for Winger's decline.
It's on the interwebs, so it must be true. Just ask Dick Dale... ;)
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Stewart's actually been good for hours (or at least minutes) of fun here the last few weeks!