Career
Reb Beach is best known for his work in the melodic rock band Winger in the late 80's to mid 90's.
After graduating from Fox Chapel Area High School, where he studied under the prestigious Pennsylvania choral conductor, Craig Cannon, and attending Berklee College of Music in the early 80s, he played in Fiona's backing band and became an accomplished studio musician.
While working with Fiona, he was introduced to Kip Winger who was touring with Alice Cooper at the time. Eventually they formed the band Sahara along with Rod Morgenstein and Paul Taylor, which was later renamed to Winger.
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", "Madalaine", "Headed for a Heartbreak" and "Miles Away".
After Winger disbanded in the mid 90's, Beach first joined Alice Cooper's band and later replaced George Lynch in the heavy metal band Dokken. With Dokken he recorded one studio album titled Erase The Slate and a live DVD titled Live From The Sun.
He was also involved with Sega, as he recorded the soundtracks of Daytona USA 2.
Since 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.
He replaced Jeff Watson in Night Ranger for a series of dates in Japan and the US, but announced his departure in January 2008.
He currently splits his time between Winger and Whitesnake, recording Karma in 2009 with the former band, and Forevermore with the latter in 2010. He continues to tour with both acts as needed.
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.
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.
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