Live Wire: Mark Winters’ ‘Good Vibes Highway Tour’ lands in Easthampton

EASTHAMPTON — Some people might say rock music “isn’t rocket science,” but for Mark Winters , it partially is.

Winters, who holds a dual degree in aerospace and aeronautical engineering, uses that analytical part of his brain to inform how he approaches his songwriting.

“My poetry mind and my science mind are both kind of competing for time, so a lot of my songs have layers, where they have both a poetic meaning and a scientific meaning,” he said. “From a structural point of view, I have a good idea of systems and flow, so when I was learning to write songs, the easiest thing for me was song structure and certain compositional elements. Those parts were very much like science to me.”