Speaking of George Lynch - please educate me

[dstroud]

What makes Lynch "great" is that when you hear him, you KNOW it's him. His style is and always has been very unique. He's never been the most-technically perfected player, but he did "shred" for all practical purposes and unlike some other players that you know the minute you hear them (BB King, Santana)... George's chops and style were MUCH harder to cop than those guys.

I first got into George at the release of the Dokken videos "Breaking the Chains" and then later-on "Into the Fire". But the two albums of his that I listen to the most are Wicked Sensation and Sacred Groove. If you want to hear George just shredding and grooving and being himself without the contraints of song structure, the track "Love Power From the Mama Head" is a good indicator of him just being himself. I really love that track and though it may not be something you'd hum to yourself like a Neil Schon solo, it grooves enough that I never get tired of listening to it.

Love Power From the Mama Head - I never heard that before - what an awesome track!

Darren, wasn't the Sacred Groove cassette in that bunch i gave ya? it should have been.

yes!!!!! I was thinking that while I was typing the message You da Man!

 

[sandman]

What makes Lynch "great" is that when you hear him, you KNOW it's him. His style is and always has been very unique. He's never been the most-technically perfected player, but he did "shred" for all practical purposes and unlike some other players that you know the minute you hear them (BB King, Santana)... George's chops and style were MUCH harder to cop than those guys.

I first got into George at the release of the Dokken videos "Breaking the Chains" and then later-on "Into the Fire". But the two albums of his that I listen to the most are Wicked Sensation and Sacred Groove. If you want to hear George just shredding and grooving and being himself without the contraints of song structure, the track "Love Power From the Mama Head" is a good indicator of him just being himself. I really love that track and though it may not be something you'd hum to yourself like a Neil Schon solo, it grooves enough that I never get tired of listening to it.

Love Power From the Mama Head - I never heard that before - what an awesome track!

Darren, wasn't the Sacred Groove cassette in that bunch i gave ya? it should have been.

yes!!!!! I was thinking that while I was typing the message You da Man!

just making sure..i was gonna look for it in case you didn't have it.

 

[Death by Uberschall]

 

[Ventura]

It's a great thread... Seriously. I'd heard, seen and been aware of Lynch for ages, but for some reason, never really gravitated towards his craft or style - and this is taking well into account the varied 'aspects' of the musical genre's changes and the like (c'mon, I wore skin tigth leather pants in the early 80's with scarves and bandanas, the whole f*ckin' mess, and I was in HIGH SCHOOL!!). To me, there was little to do after Randy Rhoads, or to get excited about. I fell into the Judas Priest/Iron Maiden/Scorpions camp, along with all the stoner rock that was still out there too...the latter of which got me into guitarists like Steve Hackett, Santana, Zappa, etc. Then came YJM, Gilbert and Satch and Vai.

So ya, Lynch wasn't part of the groove for me either, and to this day, his playing doesn't do much for me. Granted he's in some iconic songs of that era, and his playing was solid, his tone was - IMHO fairly typical (maxed Marshall, TS in front, yada yada) - but I missed the Lynch Boat too.

Maybe I just thought 80's hair metal sucked ass period. Which, in many ways, it kinda did

Just sayin',
V.

 

[mixeduplydian]

I don't listen to much 80s stuff anymore, but Lynch was a huge inspiration for me back in the day. I still use licks I stole from him
Unique vibrato and phrasing, killer tones (back then).
I always thought of him as the "evil" EVH.

Hell, if I could get a copy of the old Dokken stuff without Don's vocals I would probably rock that shit out every day. I still love those old riffs and solos, I just can't listen to Don whine over the top these days!

 

[Coopster]

Hell, if I could get a copy of the old Dokken stuff without Don's vocals I would probably rock that shit out every day. I still love those old riffs and solos, I just can't listen to Don whine over the top these days!

This, so much. Even back then, I couldn't stand Don's thin, weak vocals and god awful love sucks lyrics and it seriously hampered my enjoyment of the kick ass music backing it up. But at the same time, I feel like Lynch needs the push/pull of that Dokken relationship to really focus his stuff. Everything he's done since BFTA, to me, hasn't been nearly as strong.

 

[Jimmie]

Hell, if I could get a copy of the old Dokken stuff without Don's vocals I would probably rock that shit out every day. I still love those old riffs and solos, I just can't listen to Don whine over the top these days!

True, but equally, that would be like trying to fault Jim Morrison for his band mate's musical abilities or mannerisms. George was the band just as was Jim and in both examples the bruised egos of those incapable of accepting their place slightly outside of the spotlight were left with no other recourse or remedy than to tear it all down.

 

[marvcus]

How can this thread exist without these?!?

 

[Ventura]

Does anyone think there`s some massive landfill area on this planet where all the hair from this era ended up after it was no longer needed

V.

 

[Coopster]

Seriously, this thread is giving me the serious gas for a reverse pointy headstock, neon, single humbucker, double locking tremolo bit of something.

Have you seen the BC Rich Retro Gunslingers? For $300 bones, I could ROCK THE #^@% OUT! get it it out of my system and not feel too bad about it.

http://www.bcrich.com/models/guitars/Gunslinger/Gunslinger-Retro/59

 

[Superunknown]

YOu can decide whether or not you "get" Lynch by watching at 2:35.

Malmsteen & Lynch....

 

[jcj]

I think this video is pretty cool....

To me, Lynch is almost unfathomably good.

On that video, the stuff he's playing looks even harder to pull off, than it sounds

 

[King Crimson]

Apparently that's not much - that you know about George.

All I know about him is that he's got a ton of "Lynch-branded" products that I have zero interest in, and all I've ever seen him do is hack away, badly, in some NAMM videos.

 

[King Crimson]

Wrong! Never played a Herbert. George played and owns a Bogner Ubershall.

Check this out Rez.

The Incredible George Lynch Clip 1
The Incredible George Lynch Clip 2
The Incredible George Lynch Clip 3

Not a lynch fan at all...

But he played a Herbert at one point!

I don't care. He didn't play the Herbert the right way, if he was playing some fat Hatebreed or Meshuggah riffs with it maybe I would have cared about that. Sorry guys, he is not a great shredder (to me). I can name 10 way more interesting guitarists with better tone, phrasing , style , and vibe that George lunch..

But hey I was done with this thread, until you brought Diezel into it.

 

[jcj]

George does have a green Herbert, and the Uber he "borrowed" from Bogner got sold on ebay

 

[King Crimson]

George does have a green Herbert, and the Uber he "borrowed" from Bogner got sold on ebay

No way - BS. George is right next to me - we're barbequing with the wives today. I just asked him as he was basting the chicken. He can’t remember…

 

[sandman]

George does have a green Herbert, and the Uber he "borrowed" from Bogner got sold on ebay

No way - BS. George is right next to me - we're barbequing with the wives today. I just asked him as he was basting the chicken. He can’t remember…

does he use that jackoff vibrato technique while basting the chicken? LOL

 

[King Crimson]

does he use that jackoff vibrato technique while basting the chicken? LOL

No, he uses the right hand first, second and third digit technique. You gotta see it.

 

[King Crimson]

 

[sandman]

I always wanted that ESP model.