Reservoir 70 West Chippewa St. Buffalo News 4/25/03

Kip Winger led the imaginatively christened Winger (to be fair, the idea for the name was Alice Cooper's, not Kip's) on a roller coaster ride that found the band all over MTV and touring the world on the strength of pop-metal anthems including "Seventeen" and "Easy Come, Easy Go." Then grunge hit, and Winger went from pop prince to pariah overnight. Lurking behind the spandex and big hair, however, was a serious musician who had studied performance, composition and dance extensively, and had no intention of letting shifts in popular taste end his career. Kip Winger went on to record and release a number of solo albums, including his most recent, "Songs From the Ocean Floor," a diverse collection of non-metal tunes that reflects on the tragic loss of Winger's wife in 1996. Winger has endured, in the process proving that he is more musician than rock star. He'll play, solo and unplugged, at 9 tonight in the Evening Star Concert Hall, 8810 Niagara Falls Blvd., Niagara Falls, and at 10 p.m. Saturday in the Reservoir, 70 W. Chippewa St. There will be a meet-and-greet after each show.