The GEORGE LYNCH is the baddest mutha around thread!
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JammerMatt
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Yup, still the baddest muthuh.
Yup, still the baddest muthuh.
80's_Metal
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GEORGE RULES!
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GEORGE RULES!
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heymcz
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My two cents:
Wicked Sensation is the best written, produced, played, and realized album Lynch did. His tone is outstanding, solos rip, and if you haven't heard it, it's the one to get. The follow-up is lame. New singer, new pickups, only one decent song ("Heaven is Waiting"). Back for the Attack was decent, and there's obviously the mega-singles on Lock 'n' Key, but Dokken albums have some great tunes and some lame ones mashed together ("Will the Sun Rise?", anyone?)
I saw Dokken 3x on the 1996 Dysfunctional tour in New Jersey. First time was outstanding; they even did Lynch Mob's "River of Love" and Don nailed it. (This astounding me because I have never prefered to listen to him as a vocalist, though I'd take him over Axl Rose anyday). I had the privledge of meeting George and Jeff after the show. I was kinda stumped as to what to say to George, but I did manage to let him know he was an inspiration and that his music had been important to me. Jeff was a trip, talked a mile a minute. George's playing the second two times (one opening for Alice Cooper) seemed off timing with the rest of the band; I think that was when he'd been lifting a lot of weights.
During my "metal years", I also saw Dee Snider's Widowmaker many, many times, with Al Pitrelli on guitar. (It was like a sick habit, I couldn't stop.) Al was great, very consistent player, though not an innovator like George. Someone needs to start an "AL PITRELLI IS A SOMEWHAT BAD MUTHA" thread....:laugh2:
Anyway, yes, George is one bad muthah. Historically, EVH is more important--a lot of rock journalists say that he "saved" rock from disco. But George's unique tone, interesting modal choices, legato technique, and theatrical presence put him miles above most of his hair metal peers. (Hey, I like Mark Kendall, Dan Wexler (Icon), and yeah, even everyone's favorite whipping boy, CC...but George overshadows them all.) Perhaps his performances are inconsistent live, but for me, the album is what's important, it's what you live with...and Wicked Sensation is still in my car.
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My two cents:
Wicked Sensation is the best written, produced, played, and realized album Lynch did. His tone is outstanding, solos rip, and if you haven't heard it, it's the one to get. The follow-up is lame. New singer, new pickups, only one decent song ("Heaven is Waiting"). Back for the Attack was decent, and there's obviously the mega-singles on Lock 'n' Key, but Dokken albums have some great tunes and some lame ones mashed together ("Will the Sun Rise?", anyone?)
I saw Dokken 3x on the 1996 Dysfunctional tour in New Jersey. First time was outstanding; they even did Lynch Mob's "River of Love" and Don nailed it. (This astounding me because I have never prefered to listen to him as a vocalist, though I'd take him over Axl Rose anyday). I had the privledge of meeting George and Jeff after the show. I was kinda stumped as to what to say to George, but I did manage to let him know he was an inspiration and that his music had been important to me. Jeff was a trip, talked a mile a minute. George's playing the second two times (one opening for Alice Cooper) seemed off timing with the rest of the band; I think that was when he'd been lifting a lot of weights.
During my "metal years", I also saw Dee Snider's Widowmaker many, many times, with Al Pitrelli on guitar. (It was like a sick habit, I couldn't stop.) Al was great, very consistent player, though not an innovator like George. Someone needs to start an "AL PITRELLI IS A SOMEWHAT BAD MUTHA" thread....:laugh2:
Anyway, yes, George is one bad muthah. Historically, EVH is more important--a lot of rock journalists say that he "saved" rock from disco. But George's unique tone, interesting modal choices, legato technique, and theatrical presence put him miles above most of his hair metal peers. (Hey, I like Mark Kendall, Dan Wexler (Icon), and yeah, even everyone's favorite whipping boy, CC...but George overshadows them all.) Perhaps his performances are inconsistent live, but for me, the album is what's important, it's what you live with...and Wicked Sensation is still in my car.
oldschoolrock
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I love GL he is my favorite hands down!!! So creative...can you say...Melodic?????
I love GL he is my favorite hands down!!! So creative...can you say...Melodic?????
JammerMatt
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Just checked again... yep, still the baddest.
Just checked again... yep, still the baddest.
revolution
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What the hell? No way Lynch is a better player than EVH. Intro to Little Guitars? Intro Mean Streets? 5150? Women In Love? Rhoads and Lynch both can claim Elite status when it comes to lead playing and comparing the three styles is like comparing apple,oranges and bananas but when it comes to pure riff work EVH eats both alive...his riffwork is HOUSEHOLD,original and brilliant. I love Rhoads and hope he really didn't say that because that's just NOT true.
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What the hell? No way Lynch is a better player than EVH. Intro to Little Guitars? Intro Mean Streets? 5150? Women In Love? Rhoads and Lynch both can claim Elite status when it comes to lead playing and comparing the three styles is like comparing apple,oranges and bananas but when it comes to pure riff work EVH eats both alive...his riffwork is HOUSEHOLD,original and brilliant. I love Rhoads and hope he really didn't say that because that's just NOT true.
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Guitarzan
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Unless your name's Don Dokken, in which case George becomes a real "choke" artist, so to speak. You might even say Don gets all "choked" up every time he's with George. Probably no one could blame George, though.
Even so, George Lynch is the best at making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, what with having to play on all those Dokken albums after losing both the Ozzy gig AND Randy's old gig teaching at Delores Rhoads's Musonia. Beast from the East and Back for the Attack I will forever defend from all naysayers, with Breaking the Chains remaining a secretly inadmissible guilty pleasure of mine (really, who else but this forum would you have the cojones to tell that you liked Dokken?) Lynch Mob is still not yet Badlands, though.
JacksonMIA said:
Unless your name's Don Dokken, in which case George becomes a real "choke" artist, so to speak. You might even say Don gets all "choked" up every time he's with George. Probably no one could blame George, though.
Even so, George Lynch is the best at making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, what with having to play on all those Dokken albums after losing both the Ozzy gig AND Randy's old gig teaching at Delores Rhoads's Musonia. Beast from the East and Back for the Attack I will forever defend from all naysayers, with Breaking the Chains remaining a secretly inadmissible guilty pleasure of mine (really, who else but this forum would you have the cojones to tell that you liked Dokken?) Lynch Mob is still not yet Badlands, though.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsfL6ATX1i4
Sorry...couldn't resist!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsfL6ATX1i4
Sorry...couldn't resist!
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