Reb Beach

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Reb Beach
Background information
Birth name	Richard Earl Beach, Jr.
Born	August 31, 1963 (1963-08-31) (age 46), Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Genres	Hard rock, heavy metal
Occupations	Musician
Instruments	Guitar
Years active	1985–present
Associated acts	Winger, Dokken, Whitesnake, The Mob, Night Ranger, Alice Cooper, Twisted Sister
Website	http://www.rebbeach.com

Reb Beach (born Richard Earl Beach, Jr. on August 31, 1963, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American rock guitarist. He is a member of the bands Winger and Whitesnake.

Career

Reb Beach has played in the bands Winger, Dokken and Whitesnake. He has also played in Fiona and Alice Cooper's backing bands as well as having done numerous sessions as a studio musician. Beach is best known for his work in the melodic rock band Winger in the late 80's to mid 90's. Winger recorded and toured in support of three albums, Winger (1988), In the Heart of the Young (1990) and Pull (1993). The band also released a number of hit singles, including "Seventeen", "Rainbow in the Rose", "Headed for a Heartbreak" and "Miles Away". The band consisted of Kip Winger, the bands lead singer and bassist. He was also involved with Sega, as he recorded the soundtracks of Daytona USA 2.

After Winger disbanded in the mid 90's, Beach first joined Alice Cooper's band and later replaced George Lynch in heavy metal band Dokken. With Dokken he recorded one studio album titled Erase The Slate and a live DVD titled Live From The Sun.

After leaving Dokken, Beach has been a part of several different recording and touring projects. In addition to sporadic touring with Winger, he released a solo effort entitled Masquerade in 2002. Since 2003 has been a member David Coverdale's current incarnation of Whitesnake; A "supergroup" project called The Mob with King's X frontman Doug Pinnick and Night Ranger drummer Kelly Keagy, resulted in a single self-titled album, released in 2005.

A reformed Winger released their first studio recording in over a decade, IV in 2006. In 2007 Beach has toured with both Winger and Whitesnake. Most recently, he replaced Jeff Watson in Night Ranger for a series of dates in Japan and the US, but announced his departure in January 2008.

According to band mate Kip Winger, Reb is quite adept at coming up with multiple rock riffs at a time, though he is often unable to remember them later.^[1]

He is currently touring with Whitesnake on Judas Priest's Summer 2009 tour (30th Anniversary of British Steel).

Ibanez guitars produced his signature RBM models (stands for Reb Beach Model) in early 90s. On the 2005 Whitesnake reunion tour, he primarily used custom models by luthier Suhr Guitars.

Discography

Albums

Winger

• Winger (1988)
• In the Heart of the Young (1990)
• Pull (1993)
• The Very Best Of Winger (2001)
• IV (2006)
• Demo Anthology (2007)
• Karma (2009)

Dokken

• Erase the Slate (1999)
• Live from the Sun (2000)

Solo

• The Fusion Demos (1993)
• Masquerade (2001)

The Mob

• The Mob (2005)

Whitesnake

• Live: In The Still of the Night (2004)
• Live: In The Shadow Of The Blues (2005)
• Good to Be Bad (2008)

Other

• Various artists - The Lost Boys Soundtrack (1985)
• Fiona - Beyond the Pale (1986)
• Howard Jones - One on One (1986)
• Chaka Khan - Destiny (1986)
• The Bee Gees - E.S.P. (1987)
• Twisted Sister - Love Is For Suckers (1987)
• Brian McDonald Group - Desperate Business (1988)
• Minoru Niihara - One (1989)
• Xenon - America's New Design (1989)
• Various artists - The Karate Kid III Soundtrack (1989)
• Various artists - Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey Soundtrack (1991)
• Various artists - Guitars that Rule the World (1992)
• Danger Danger - Cockroach (1993)
• Various artists - Smoke on the Water - A Tribute to Deep Purple (1994)
• Andy Timmons - EarX-tacy 2 (1997)
• Alice Cooper - A Fistful of Alice (1997)
• Various artists - Guitar Battle (1998)
• Various artists - Daytona USA 2 Game Soundtrack (1998)
• Various artists - This Conversation Seems Like A Dream (1998)
• Various artists - Bat Head Soup - A Tribute to Ozzy Osbourne (2000)
• Various artists - A Tribute to Van Halen (2000)
• Brian McDonald - Wind it Up (2000)
• War and Peace - Light at the End of the Tunnel (2000)
• Various artists - Stone Cold Queen - A Tribute (2001)
• Brian McDonald - Voyage (2003)
• Ken Tamplin and Friends - Wake the Nations (2003)
• XCarnation - Grounded (2005)

Videos/DVDs

• Winger - The Videos (1989)
• Winger - In the Heart of the Young (1990)
• Winger - In the Heart of the Young Part 2 (1991)
• Reb Beach - Cutting Loose (1991)
• Winger - Live in Tokyo (1991)
• Wayne's World (film) - Seen in backing band for Alice Cooper in the film. (1992)
• Winger - The Making of Pull (1993)
• Dokken - Live from the Sun (2002)
• Reb Beach - Homegrown Private Lesson Volume 1 (2003)
• Whitesnake - Live... In The Still Of The Night (2006)
• Winger - The Making of Winger IV (2006)
• Winger Live concert (2007)
• Winger Live concert (2008)

See also

• Winger
• The Mob
• Whitesnake
• Alice Cooper

References

1. ^ "Metal Sludge Rewind with Kip Winger". Metal Sludge. http://www.ccbanana.com/sludge/rewindkipwinger.htm. Retrieved 2009-01-01. 

External links

• The official Reb Beach Website
• The official Whitesnake Website