Is Reb Beach a Guitar Legend?

Hello and welcome to the channel. In this video we will take a look at the career of the legendarily unheralded Reb Beach. Beach started as a studio guy before linking up with Kip Winger to form Winger. He has also had stints in Dokken and Nightranger. As well as currently being in Whitesnake and Black Swan as well as Winger.

[kirsi]

Reb, one of the best musicians in the guitar world !! Thank you for sharing this !!

[doctordetroit]

I've seen Reb play a few times. He is right up there with the greats of the doesn't get the credit they all deserve, certainly not Kip. He is a prodigy too. Incredibly talented and diverse.

[matthiaswalter]

Genius and humble guy in one frame!
My full respect for his journey🫶👌

[aaronkristo]

Absolutely. Fantastic player and writer. One of the best.

[ron]

Met Reb at a East Coast music mall( guitar clinic) in Danbury CT In the mid 90s, , , , great person great player.

[ParagonGarage]

Reb is the whole reason I started listening to Winger his guitar work was absolutely amazing💪🏻👍🏻

[RandyFricke]

Reb Beach is a very good guitar player.

[johanjotun]

I remember being a kid and seeing him with that natrual wood guitar cut away to the trem and thinking it was the coolest fiddle I had ever seen.... Obviously his ability to play with soooo many different bands shows how skilled he is.

[deklee]

EVH came along and then everybody was knicking his ideas.... especially the tapping....reb beach taps as much as anyone post EVH...bt he DOESNT sound like eddie unlike everyone else....reb took the tapping to another level and ended up with one of the most distinctive sounds of all the 80's impressive ✌🏼

[benedettomansueto]

Always Loved Richard Earl Beach ... Reb and Winger together changed my life . Thank you Reb Beach

[tdchagas]

Amazing player and one of my favourite guitarrist ever.

[RonTimmonsM]

I've met him a few times here in Fort Wayne, IN at Sweetwater. He's a real neat guy. Someone you can easily have a conversation with just as if he were a friend. He signed my one of one Masterson quilt top guitar amp for me when he was doing a live session in the cafeteria area at Sweetwater with the band winger. Much respect. I have 67 signatures right now multiple musicians. I'm going to donate it to the Fort Wayne Historical Museum at some point. I'm also writing a book about the musicians who signed it, how I got the signatures, if it was at a concert what the show was like, , the weather, the crowd etc. when I think I have enough chapters or run out of room for signatures, I'll stop and sell the book on Amazon and donate the amp. After I record with it a few times that is. 👍💯😎 Reb is a class act for sure. Oh which brings me to Yngwie who wouldn't sign it. But I actually thank him for that because that made me realize I should include those who wouldn't sign it as well. I was about ten feet from him and only three people there and he refused to sign it and acted as if I didn't even exist. Yngwie Malmsteen that is. Not such a class act
But I'm not mad I'm not bitter he's a great player. But I can remember Reb's music much easier than Yngwie so there's that.

[mickbarnett]

Reb Beach is nothing short of legendary.

[patrickethington]

I had no idea he was heavily influenced by Steve Morse and the Dixie dregs. So cool that he ended up in a band with Rod Morgenstein.

[brettaxelson]

I've always liked the way Reb plays with Paul Taylor in Winger and Doug Aldrich with Whitesnake as they complement each others styles!

[SixStringOverdose]

YES!
(I haven't watched the video, but I just dropped by to answer the question in the title 😄)

[TheCountofToulouse]

He's actually got a very unique style, no one sounds like him and that's a compliment on it's own. Sadly, he broke at the wrong time, as the industry was sliding off a cliff and like other incredible guys, solo masters (Vito Bratta), he got largely forgotten after the ashes were sorted out from the destruction. I always looked at him on his own, just a real smoker on the guitar.

[cadle]

First saw Reb at Wembley supporting Scorpions Winger was fantastic..

[randyjohnson]

Reb plays very clean live...very few missed notes. He reminds me of Vito from White lion.

[Habilio]

reb has gold and platinum albums under his belt, he also was in numerous guitar issues magazine year after year, when there was no multimedia platform to the masses.
how many new guitarist have this now? so yes he is a legend!