Thursday, October 9, 2008

You'll never guess...

Bet you can't guess who I met today. Only the front man to one of the greatest 80's bands ever; I met Kip Winger from, you guessed it, Winger! Winger sang the smash hit "Seventeen".

The meeting was quite interesting. The office I work in is shared by a piano/keyboard repair shop and we see a ton of musicians come through our dwelling on a daily basis, but none as cool as Kip Winger. He walked into our area where I was drawing a cartoon character for the "no cyber-bullying" section of our site and Kip says ""I'm here to pick up my keyboard" then he does a rock stance then an air guitar windmill power chord and holds that pose for what felt like hours, I told him that he needed to "go through those double doors where the piano company was. Of course at this point I still didn't recognize him. I was only wondering who would stand there and do an air guitar windmill power chord after asking to pick up your piano!

After telling him where to go, he asked me "what's this company?". I responded and then he asked what we do and I said we are "building an online virtual world for kids". He retorted with "an online what??". Then I explained and he simply say "oh, very cool," then turned and proceeded, with a shuffle in his walk, to pick up his keyboard.

So needless to say I was a little excited to meet Kip Winger!

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