Kip Winger

. A former bassist of Alice Cooper's band during the mid eighties, Kip Winger went on to form Winger together with guitarist Reb Beach, keyboard/guitarist Paul Taylor and drummer Rod Morgenstein (formerly of Dixie Dregs). Taking the name from its leader, Winger specialized in winning melodic metal formula, with strong influences from bands like Van Halen, AC/DC and Whitesnake
The band's eponymous debut in 1988 sold over a million copies on the strength of singles like "Seventeen" and the ballad "Headed for a Heartbreak”. Winger’s second album, 1990's “In The Heart Of The Young”, was slightly more melodic and showed a more mature and technical approach to the songs. It reached an equal success, selling over a million copies and featuring the hit power-ballad "Miles Away". Unfortunately the band didn't outlast the post-alternative pop-metal backlash and the group faded away after the release of the critically acclaimed 1993 album “Pull”.
After Winger went their separate ways, Kip decided to pursue a solo career. He started writing his own songs in a different style than to his previous band and his first album "Thisconversationseemslikeadream" was released in 1997, reflecting his new approach to songwriting with a style more akin to Peter Gabriel's music rather than to 80’s Hard Rock.
An acoustic album of past favourites, "Down Incognito" was later released in 1999. Winger followed it with his second studio solo album, 2000's "Songs from the Ocean Floor", labelled as “Masterpiece” by several music critics around the world. After another acoustic solo tour Kip started to become involved in several new projects including writing music for movies, singing for Alan Parsons and of course the very successful Winger reunion that materialized in 2006 with the release of "IV" and the subsequent world tour.
Now Kip Winger is back with his new solo album "From the Moon to the Sun": a true career defining statement and, once again, another cd which witnesses the creative evolution of the American composer.
“I am an artist that will continue to push the envelope into the direction that my ear and abilities are taking me, with no compromise”, says Kip, adding “I worked hard to make this record my best yet. For sure it is musically very diverse… Hence the title , From the Moon to the Sun".
The music offered on the record is truly a flow that has no boundaries, from the fresh rock approach of songs like “Every Story Told”, “Nothing” or “Reason To Believe”, to the Pop sensibilities of “Where Will You Go” and “California”, to the acoustic mood of “Pages and Pages” and “In Your Eyes Another Life”, down to the unbelievable instrumental piece “Ghosts”, “From the Moon to the Sun” brings the listener to a journey in a kaleidoscope of different moods.
The album sees also musical contributions from Rod Morgenstein and Ken Mary on drums, Andy Timmons and Rob Eberhard Young on guitar, Alan Pasqua on piano, Cenk Eroglu on songwriting, keyboards and guitars.
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From The Moon To The Sun
Lyrics/Comments
Every Story Told*
Kip Winger / Cenk Eroglu
Always comes a day
You seek the other side
A need to walk away
From things we try to hide
You sense the innocence beyond the pale
Like an endless sea crashing into me
Hear the voice of love
See the change we make test the proof of fate
Speak you heart of gold
Be every story told
And when you reach the edge
You fly to catch the wind
And breathe a deeper breath
You’re free to start again
You sense the innocence will lead you on
Like an endless sea crashing into me
Hear the voice of love – From the moon to the sun-
See the change we make test the proof of fate
Speak your heart of gold
Be every story told...
Vocals, 12-string, electric guitar, bass, synth: Kip Winger
Synth, effects, samples and loops: Cenk Eroglu
Guitar: Andy Timmons
Drums: Ken Mary
Percussion: Robby Rothchild, Mark Clark
KIP: This song was mostly recorded in Istanbul at Cenks studio.
I got the idea from a yoga instructor of mine who once made the comment “Even though you
cant do everything, you can be everything
Nothing *
Kip Winger / Cenk Eroglu
Ain’t no fire from the sun
Ain’t no water in the sea
Ain’t no skin on my teeth
Walking through the ice feel it burning me
Ain’t no soul in the priest
Ain’t no mark on the beast
Ain’t no second coming
Best to close your eyes and keep on running
Ain’t know evil in the killer
Ain’t no love in the saint
Ain’t no use in saying there’s no hope
Even though I’m still praying
I walk this world of wonder
Waiting for a sign
Barely holding on to
Nothing
Ain’t no life in the living
Ain’t no death in the dying
Ain’t no food in the bread
Starving ourselves, still we’re overfed
Ain’t no land of the free
Ain’t no place left to breathe
Ain’t nobody who is blessed
Just living the illusion that
We’re not in such a mess
I walk this world of wonder
Waiting for a sign
Barely holding on to
The fading voices I use to trust
Have left me feeling cold
Is nothingness in all of us
Nothing left to hold
But I walk this world of wonder
Waiting for a sign only holding on to you
Ain’t no truth in the lies
Ain’t no tears in the cries
Burying the love as it dies
But I don’t want to close my eyes
Looking for the strength when I’m weak
Looking for the faith when I seek
Don’t wanna be day after day just living my life for nothing
Vocals, 12-string, synth, bass: Kip Winger
Guitar, synth, effects, samples and loops: Cenk Eroglu
Guitar: Andy Timmons
Drums: Ken Mary
Saz: Char Rothchild
Percussion: Robby Rothchild, Mark Clark
Middle Eastern vocals: Mine Kosan
KIP: This song was originally “Killing Way” as you can hear on the Xcarnation
Cd “Grounded”, We changed it early on but kept the other version in tact.
Also mostly recorded in Istanbul,. It’s about the Hypocrisy I see all around me.
More and more there seems to be less and less to believe in, So much deception
in the world but still holding on.
Where Will You Go
Kip Winger
Tears are running through your make up
See the water touch the ground
I never know quite how to love you
Only how to let you down
Every night I hear you wake up
From a dream that never came
But something’s keeping you from running
Afraid to be alone again and again
Where will you go
Now that you know the laughter
May not last very long
And how will you know
That you won’t be walking out
But your heart will still be holding on
Through the garden to the sidewalk
Hearing the words tearing you down
You thought that nothing left could faze you
Watching the water touch the ground
Where will you go
Now that you know the laughter
May not last very long
And how will you know
That you won’t be walking out
But your heart will still be holding on
How many times I never gave up
A simple love for simple love
I never know quite how to know you
But I know I’m still in love
Where will you go
Now that you know the laughter
May not last very long
And how will you know
That you won’t be walking out
But your heart will still be holding on
Vocals, piano, bass, guitars, synth: Kip Winger
Guitar: Andy Timmons
Drums: Ken Mary
KIP: Written and recorded in Nashville.
The piano part came to me Late one night while
working on another song. A captured moment of relationship
Pages And Pages
Kip Winger
Write down the words you keep written on the wall
Does it make sense at all
Look for the long lost pieces of your soul
Can you still hear them call
You’re in there somewhere but you’re barely alive
And you’re not asking why
How long until the rest of you fades from your eyes
What has your world become
Running through circles you’ve spun through the years
Did you keep souvenirs
How many prayers fell on deaf ears
Until you gathered your heart in tears
You’re out there somewhere but you’re living a lie
Do you even know why
How long until the faces you’re faking will die
What will your world become
Pages and Pages keep turning the pages
You’ll learn to make sense to see is for what is
Turning pages and pages
Keep turning the pages
You’ll find it somewhere in the darkest places
Write down the words you keep written on the wall
Does it make sense at all?
Relive the secret no matter how small
Feel yourself start to fall
You’re in there somewhere but you’re barely alive
Will you ask yourself why
How long until the rest of you fades from your eyes
What has your world become
Pages and Pages keep turning the pages
You’ll learn to make sense to see is for what is
Turning pages and pages
Keep turning the pages
You’ll find it somewhere in the darkest places
Vocals, 12-string, nylon string, bass, synth: Kip Winger
Piano: Alan Pasqua
Drums: Ken Mary
Percussion: Robby Rothchild, Mark Clark
Violin: David Davidson
Cello: John Catchings
KIP: Written and recorded in Nashville.
Inspired by all the denied inner voices in all of us and how life
can sweep you away until there’s nothing left of you.
Ghosts
Kip Winger
1st Violin: Leigh Mahoney
2nd Violin: Tracy Seeger
Viola: Ames Asbell
Cello: Sara Nelson
Bass: Jessica-Gilliam Valls
Harp: Elaine Barber
Piano: Owen Lovell
KIP: For String Quintet, Piano , Harp
. Written in Nashville. Recorded in Austin TX.
1st movement of a 3 movement piece for Ballet.
In Your Eyes Another Life *
Kip Winger / Cenk Eroglu
I always knew it’d be
Always knew I’d see you again
And here now, right in front of me
Just like destiny, my old friend
Time carried me
I searched the sky
I searched the sea
In your eyes another life
In your love another time
Heard you cry from the other side
In your eyes another life
The end came, promised jealousy
Took you away from me in the end
Life then, a rusting memory
I vowed that I would see you again
Time carried me
I searched the sky
I searched the sea
In your eyes another life
In your love another time
Heard you cry from the other side
In your eyes another life
Sacred in you
Sacred in me
This love we share eternally
The end came, promised jealousy
But I always knew I’d see you again
Vocals, bass, acoustic guitar: Kip Winger
Synth, sound effects: Cenk Eroglu
Piano: Noble Kime
Guitar: Andy Timmons
Cymbals: Rod Morgenstein
KIP: Another on recorded in Istanbul.
About a past life memory of my wife Paula, and
how I’ve searched for her through many lifetimes.
Runaway
Kip Winger
Last scene
Downtown Seattle
Nineteen
Runaway child
Floating over
A lifetime of hurting
Searching to make it all right
It’s easy
All she wants is to know
A love that wont go
Pure as the midnight
Snow falling
Downtown in Jackson
She had to move on
The baby was due
And she needed
A magical moment
To wash away
Her last memories
It’s easy
All she wants is to know
A love that won’t go
A feeling I’ve always known
Last seen
High in the desert
She joined a clan
Of mystical wanna-be’s
But light shined
And the Seer was seen
So she closed her eyes
And dived back in a dream
It’s easy
All she wants is to know
A love that won’t go
She was the last one to know
But she don’t let it show
A feeling I’ve always known
Go girl
Always run away
Vocals, 12-string, piano, bass, synth: Kip Winger
Acoustic guitar: Rob Eberhard Young
Drums: Ken Mary
Percussion: Robby Rothchild, Mark Clark
KIP: Writing in Santa Fe and New York
It’s a song about the life of girl I know
and how she’s unable to find the love she’s looking for.
California
Kip Winger / Ken Rose
Looking around
At the house through her hand
Falling apart
As the walls turn to sand
She’s waiting
Taking the bait
Of a beautiful escape
Wasting away
On a perfect sunny day in California
Facing the door
As she slips through a crack
She smiles in the dark
Cause she ain’t coming back
She’s waiting
Taking the bait
Of a beautiful escape
She’s killing mistakes
On a perfect sunny day in California
Taking the bait
Of a beautiful escape
Wasting away
On a perfect sunny day in California
Vocals, bass, acoustic guitar, synth: Kip Winger
Acoustic guitar, Pencil Guitar: Ken Rose
Electric guitar: Andy Timmons
Drums: Ken Mary
Percussion: Robby Rothchild, Mark Clark
KIP: Ken and I wrote this in Nashville.
It’s about a friend of his who’s found herself on the
edge of reality with no way out of her mind.
What We Are
Kip Winger / Ken Rose
Close your eyes turn off your mind
Tell me where you are right now
Don’t suck it up and hold your thoughts
Like oxygen that’s slowly running out
What we are is what we talk about
Might sound strange to you
What we choose is what it’s all about
Celebrate the chance to change
Take a break from eating cake
And call me when you get a clue
Purified as fortified as white bread
What you gonna do
What we are is what we talk about
Might sound strange to you
What we choose is what it’s all about
Celebrate the chance to change
Celebrate the chance to change
Floating like a shadow in a photograph
It steels your face
It’s time to say goodbye
To the hand-me downs and lies
What we are is what we talk about
Might sound strange to you
What we choose is what it’s all about
All it takes is you
Vocals, piano, bass, synth: Kip Winger
Guitar: Ken Rose
Guitar: Andy Timmons
Drums: Ken Mary
Violin: David Davidson
Cello: John Catchings
KIP: Written in Nashville.
Production tribute to the Beatles
You are what you talk about.
We all can make a difference.
One Big Game
Kip Winger / Dominic Frontiere
As the sun sets
Close the curtains
Breathe a world in your head
As the moon lets
In your demons
Sweat it out in your bed
As the day breaks
Trust illusion
To keep your mind ill at ease
Never let your
Deepest fear roll
Very far off your sleeve
Now you’re between
Wake and dream
What’s the difference
All the same
Different frame
Is it real or
One big game
As the sun burns
Through your freedom
Confess your life to the sky
If the moon bleeds
While you’re dreaming
Cross your heart hope to die
Now you’re between
Wake and dream
What’s the difference
All the same
Different frame
Is it real or
One big game
Now you’re between
What you gonna do
What you gonna do
You can’t find yourself in this
What you gonna do
What you gonna do
What you…
Vocals, piano, guitar, bass, synth: Kip Winger
Guitar: Andy Timmons
Drums: Ken Mary
Violin: David Davidson
KIP: Written in Santa Fe.
Life is an illusion to say the least…
Why *
Kip Winger / Cenk Eroglu
He’s the lonely spirit
Chained in empty space
His simple soul is witness
To the sins that I have made
He longs for only innocence
As I close my eye to the truth
That I am he and he is me
And we’ve always been one
Why
We never learn
Why
Only one life
One fight
Only one voice
In the distant night
If only one bridge
What’s the sacrifice
Is forgiveness
Never knowing why
He shakes hands with hatred
Kisses the rose of greed
He prays for salvation
But never feels no regret
Still longing for the innocence
He closed his eyes to the truth
That I am he and he is me
And we’re forever one
Why
We never learn
Why
Only one life
One fight
Only one voice
In the distant night
If only one bridge
What’s the sacrifice
Is forgiveness
Never knowing why
Only One life
One fight
Only one voice
In the distant night
If only one bridge
Can we give love
Never knowing why
Only one pain
One plight
Is forgiveness
Never knowing why
Vocals, piano, acoustic guitar, bass, synth: Kip Winger
Synth, effects: Cenk Eroglu
Guitar: Andy Timmons
Drum: Ken Mary
Percussion: Robby Rothchild, Mark Clark
Additional vocals: Cenk And Ebru Eroglu
KIP: Recorded in Istanbul:
Forgiveness as something we may never understand,
we forgive because it’s what heals us.
Reason To Believe *
Kip Winger / Cenk Eroglu
Somewhere between your loss and hope it’s calling you on
A sound so deep a voice you know it can’t be wrong
Sometimes the spirit won’t let you go
Maybe you already know
I’ve found a reason to believe
Another chance to make a change
When I turned that corner in myself
And crossed that bridge across the pain
I found my reason to believe
It’s like a flower growing in me
And if you’re open to receive it
You’ll find a reason to believe
Life’s always changing
Rearranging
Does it seem you’ve lost the time to follow your heart
No will to notice the things around you pull you apart
Sometimes the spirit wont let you go
Maybe you already know
I’ve found a reason to believe
Another chance to make a change
When I turned that corner in myself
And crossed that bridge beyond the pain
I found my reason to believe
It’s like a flower growing in me
And if you’re open to receive it
You’ll find a reason wait and see
It’s burning up inside of me
A flame as far as you can see
Like a light into forever
Living a dream that set me free
I found my reason to believe
With every whisper there’s a key
And if you’re open to receive it
You’ll find a reason
A reason to believe
Life’s always changing
Rearranging
One day fading
One day waiting
Don’t forget…
Vocals, bass: Kip Winger
Synth, guitar, effects: Cenk Eroglu
Drums: Rod Morgenstein
KIP: Recorded in Istanbul
You may know this track from the Xcarnation record.
This version has a few different tracks.
Monster
Remix by Cenk Eroglu
KIP: I gave Cenk the original tracks to
Monster and he went to town. What can I say, the guy is amazing
Don’t Let Go
Vocals, bass, guitar, synth: Kip Winger
Guitar: Andy Timmons
Guitar: Rich Kern
Vocals: Jacob Arthur
Release: May 9, 2008 - Pre-Order:
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From The Moon To The Sun
Reviews & Interviews
5/13- Interview/ Popculturezoo.com
5/13- Review/ Melodic.net
5/10- Review/ Stormbringer.at
5/10- Review / Missing Piece.net
4/16- Interview / All Out Guitar.com
All Out Guitar.com
Melodicrock.com
Release: May 9, 2008 - Pre-Order:
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