“I THINK IT is definitely of its era,” Reb Beach says of “Seventeen,” the top-40 single that helped launch his band Winger into the mainstream in early 1989. “It has a huge production, a big chorus, a couple of shred solos…” In other words, everything required for a hair-metal hit. “I’ll take the hair-metal tag,” Beach concedes, “ but I think a lot of our riffs were a little more progressive, you know?”
Indeed, “Seventeen” borrows from both the Beatles’
