George Lynch... I don't get the hype...

Denverdave said:
Yeah.

Dokken had a badass guitar player (Lynch), and badass bass player (Pilson), a solid drummer (Brown).....and Don Dokken who no one seems to like very much.
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If you're going to use any of those last names for a band, Dokken is definitely the best choice.

Certainly worlds better than "the Lynch Mob," which has some severe though unintentional racial implications (as seen in the attempt to reclaim it ironically in the hip hop group "Da Lench Mob.")
 
Prages said:
Pilson plays bass for Foreigner now. :embarrassed:
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Yep.

But all the 'classic' Dokken members except Don got together and recorded a CD of new material and rerecorded a few Dokken songs and that comes out next week. They got guest vocalists to do all the lead vocal parts. No idea if they will tour., That would be worth seeing if they settled on a great vocalist.
 
Denverdave said:
Yep.

But all the 'classic' Dokken members except Don got together and recorded a CD of new material and rerecorded a few Dokken songs and that comes out next week. They got guest vocalists to do all the lead vocal parts. No idea if they will tour., That would be worth seeing if they settled on a great vocalist.
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Maybe Kip Winger is free. :embarrassed:

For some reason, I put Kip Winger and Don Dokken into the same douchey box...or bag, as the case may be.
 
Prages said:
I've never really met anybody who has ever been famous. I may have heard he was a douche somewhere, or it may just be the hair. :embarrassed:
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He grew up in Denver so he can't be all that bad....:tongue:

Well - actually - we do have our fair share of idiots here. Good to hear he isn't one of them.

Funny thing - I have met and hung out with one famous guitar player and two guys who are Nashville 'A' list session players. All three were very humble great guys. I guess I just just need to meet more famous people....
 
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baimun said:
It's called "Don't be an ASS Howie".


I don't know the name of it either.... a G5 power chord with a flat? It depends on the key of the song, can have different names, and this is a place of education not one-upsmanship on chord names. Seriously dude.
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if you truly wanted to be helpful, you would have educated us on what it was. go back to your fast food.


Jbird said:
I just play it, I don't worry about what it's called :embarrassed:

It's like when I was taking classical guitar lessons 25 years ago. I learned how to read music in bass clef in school, 5th grade thru high school. Guitar music is in treble clef, so I kinda struggled with it. It was more 'ok, that note means my finger goes there' more than 'ok, that note is A#', etc. It frustrated my teacher sometimes :tongue:
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it's a Gmaj7, with no 3rd.
 
Here's a tasty little vid that popped up on the side while I was on youtube.... 10 tasty Lynch solos taken from Dokken tunes.

 
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I have always loved lynch, he has his own tone and definitely a knack for playing it. He is his own player. When you here a Lynch lick you know it when you here it
 
He has swagger and unpredictability. His playing is also "Cool" which is missing from a zillion players. There are smarter players with warmer tones, but they're simply not as cool sounding as George Lynch. There's also something ominous about his playing that distinguishes him. Ominous is cool. You always know it's Furious George. He has a slippery, spidery style and an unorthodox way of making up riffs that he totally owns.

What most people don't get is that his playing comes from the 60's and 70's "feel" guys. He just does it in his own way. He still covers Zeppelin and Hendrix in his live shows and his rig is mostly old school pedals and old Marshalls. Although he is a post Van Halen player the only thing they have in common is that they play with their ears instead of text books. They make shit up that breaks the rules. VH has this symmetrical scales and Mr. Scary has the Gothic Octave Scale.

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George Lynch is the man.
 
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Mark Wein said:
The thing with George was that while he barely knows what it is that he is doing (and he admits to his lack of musical knowledge) he had a lot of anger in his playing that I related to...there was always a vibe being communicated in the solo regardless of how cheesy the song was. And music is really about communication on its most basic level.
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I love you. seriously.

to me, it's ALL about telling the listener what's in my head.
who gives a shit if I know if that was a Mixolydian scale or whatever
 
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