Winger Live August 2024 - Review

Eric and I saw Winger last night, August 30, at a venue called J.D. Legends. It was crazy hot all day - like we're talking 100 degree heat index. It felt pretty good outside by the time the sun went down and we were ready for music! I do think the extreme heat and humidity hurt the crowd size a little. I was surprised that the crowd wasn't bigger, but high school football was also happening so there's that.

The opening band was local and had sound issues. Unfortunately some of those sound and technical issues rolled over into a Winger's set. There was a mic issue and eventually singer Kip Winger went back to his standard face-mic, ditching the stand version. The keyboard went belly-up at one point, so Paul Taylor played guitar more than normal until things go fixed up on the keys. The keyboard issue swirled up the set a little, which was fine with me. I was glad to hear "Junkyard Dog" earlier in the set than normal and relieved it wasn't dropped. Of course, "Down Incognito" was great. During some of the songs Kip and guitarist Reb Beach just openly laughed at each other. I think they were snickering over the sound issues and having to keep moving songs around. Kip also reminded fans that the band was all original members, celebrating 35 years together! (That said, guitarist John Roth was at a different engagement and Howie Simon filled in).

Keyboards fixed, "Miles Away" was awesome and so was "Headed for a Heartbreak." "Seventeen" was up really early in the set during sound issues, but that didn't stop folks from dancing. There were lots of smiling faces in the crowd. The band ended with "Madeline" and we were out, happy to head home and shower off the "concert sticky" as I call it. An extra point for me was "Rainbow in the Rose" and then Reb Beach making dumb facial expressions and trying to think of stuff to talk about while filling time for Kip to get his mic sorted out. Reb let us know that today, August 31, is his birthday - so a happy one to him!

Here's some photos from the show. These are not from me - I saw these on Reddit while at the show, which was kind of a mind bender considering how large and international Reddit is -- and how small of a city I was watching Winger perform in, but hey. Life is wild. 

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Comments

[Him]

Thanks for that review, Allyson. Appreciated.

"Concert sticky"! That had me chuckling!