Kip Winger has expressed that he remains open to the idea of future performances with Winger, even as the band embarks on a series of farewell tours around the globe. He humorously remarked that he doesn’t want to find himself on a decade-long farewell tour like Kiss. “At some point, I’m gonna play a final show with the band,” the iconic frontman shared during an interview with White Line Fever TV. (You can watch the interview below.) “I don’t know when it is. But that’s not to say I might not do a cruise or something. I don’t really know. I’m not going, ‘Hey, this is the last show we’re ever gonna do,’ because — well, hey, Kiss did it for 10 years, so … [laughs].”

Winger is scheduled to perform a series of farewell shows in Japan and Australia over the coming month, promoting these Down Under performances as “the first and final ever Australian tour featuring the original lineup.” Additionally, the band will be making an appearance at Maryland’s M3 Rock Festival in May, sharing the stage with notable artists such as Sebastian Bach, David Lee Roth, and Ratt’s Stephen Pearcy and Warren DeMartini.

Although the renowned glam metal band is nearing the end of their touring career, Kip admitted he is uncertain about the timing and location of Winger’s final show. “I do have some thoughts about it, but nothing’s totally worked out yet,” he mentioned. He also entertained the idea of featuring special guests during their last performance, stating, “That would be cool. I did think about that, but it depends on the location, like where we would be. So I don’t know yet.”

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Discover How Kip Winger Plans to Navigate Life After the Band’s Farewell

Despite the impending conclusion of Winger’s touring, Kip Winger has no intentions of stepping away from music. He intends to continue his extensive work in the classical music realm. However, he acknowledged that life will dramatically shift once the band ceases touring. “The biggest thing is the traveling,” he explained. “If you do 40 gigs in a year — and sometimes we do more than that — you have twice that many days on each end traveling. So, you spend half of the year of your life sitting in an airport, and it really … Listen, we’re not a huge band — we don’t fly around in our own Learjet — so it tends to take a toll on you. And then, all of a sudden, all my personal goals just end up drifting away in an airport somewhere in Chicago. So my life will be different in that way.”

As the singer and bassist reflects on the future, he has no reservations about wrapping up Winger’s journey after their seventh and most recent album, Seven, which received positive reviews upon its release in 2023. “I’ve made my final statement on the last Winger record,” he noted. “And a lot of people think that’s, like, if not our best record, it’s close to being our best, along with Pull. I kind of brought back the original guys and put the original logo on and gave it a nice full circle. So, there’s nothing else that Reb Beach, our guitarist, and I could do with Winger that wouldn’t just be, like, ‘OK, let’s write another one of those’ or ‘another one of those.’ Now I’m in this whole other mentality where the sky’s the limit, and I’ve got 30 more years of expressing myself in a world of things that haven’t been done by me.”