Dokken - It's Not Love (Guitar cover)

Continuing in my series of covers from Dokken's 'Under Lock and Key' album, here's my take on 'It's Not Love'.
Again, super tight riffs and grooves! The solo tapping part is a bitch and I haven't manage to be fully satisfied yet but here's my best shot!...the after solo noodling is improvised.
Maybe 'The Hunter' is next!

[@jasonwomble6058]

flawless! great work just found the channel love it

[@xavierl.sanacore6188]

Thanks man! I appreciate it 💪

[@edwardippoliti626]

Sounds great, that Kramer really nails the the tone !

[@xavierl.sanacore6188]

Thanks bro! Yeah it's a good guitar for the job. 🤘

[@edwardippoliti626]

Yes , indeed , I'll have to get one , I love that that staggered pickup too ! Keep Rockin' !

[@xavierl.sanacore6188]

@@edwardippoliti626 Nice! Yeah it's a really good guitar for the price. The neck feels incredible also! 👍

[@RockDawg77]

If you feel like it some time when you're bored, and get inspired, drop of vid taking on Too High Too Fly and/or Hole In My Head. 40 years of Lynch and still faves. The tone George grabbed on those songs were insane.

[@xavierl.sanacore6188]

Yeah, it's more of a grunge-like rock but his tone is spot the F on. Particularly love his noodling in Hole In My Head!

[@RockDawg77]

@@xavierl.sanacore6188 Completely agree. It's one of the best kept secrets of the Dokken legacy. Kinda surprised it doesn't get talked about more. But then again, maybe a lot of fans don't take the time to listen into some of George's really cool extended soloing. We just loved the way the song, harmonies, soloing, tempo changes, and everything wove in and out. In some ways, it & Too High on the same album was a high point for the band. Kind of like the video/tone/sound/song composure/solo/solo pitch/outro guitar & song harmony intertwining end of Walk Away. That song was almost the slow burn exclamation point/period be all to end all hair metal ballads. There were a lot of great ballads, but that one left a mark. In our opinion.

[@xavierl.sanacore6188]

@@RockDawg77 Absolutely. There's a lot of material from Dokken that people slept on. Like most band from this era they tried to adapt to the new trend that was setting in but they were not totally align with the shift. Their tone and flair was still too rock and glam I guess. They left their mark anyway! and some very good songs were composed at that time too.

[@RockDawg77]

@@xavierl.sanacore6188 Just for sh!ts and grins, if you haven't seen this peformance, George really screams. The current Lynch Mob line up has really electrified his playing and brought some serious lightning into his fretwork. Pretty wicked cool stuff. The guy just keeps getting better and better. If he keeps adding more stuff to each song the way he's been approaching live peformances lately, every song is going to become a master class of metal guitar wizardry. Between him and Nuno, they're single-handedly carrying EVH's legacy forward the way it should be. Lynch Mob - Into The Fire kzbin.info/www/bejne/nYGUonWgjcSLl6M

[@MikeAngelo7604]

Cool cover man !!

[@xavierl.sanacore6188]

Thanks dude!! 💪

[@joehansonguitar]

The best era! Love it! Subscribed

[@xavierl.sanacore6188]

I agree! Thanks sir! 👍🤘

[@shaker7440]

🔥🔥🔥🤘😎❤️ Love!

[@xavierl.sanacore6188]

@@shaker7440 Thanks!! 🤘🔥

[@jeffersononetwo]

Keep pumping out these Dokken, RATT, maybe some Great White and stuff like that! I am subbing you brother 🤘

[@xavierl.sanacore6188]

Thanks bro! I appreciate it! 👍 I'll keep them coming!!

[@guitarbyemily]

Great job! I want to do this one soon🤘🎸

[@xavierl.sanacore6188]

Thank you Emily! Yeah, let's go, it's a good one! 🤘

[@opticFPV]

Trying to learn this one too, good stuff man. This will help on the parts I couldn't quite get by ear yet

[@xavierl.sanacore6188]

Great man! That's what it's for also! 🤘

[@mikeday6908]

Nice!

[@xavierl.sanacore6188]

Thanks 👍

[@bubbafantastic5013]

good cover brother, I love playing this song also. george lynch fo prez

[@xavierl.sanacore6188]

Thanks bro! Yeah it's a great song to play! 🤘

[@RockDawg77]

Second that. Great job from these lifelong Lynch fans. Great comment, too. Pretty nuts to think of George only being 10 years younger than the current prez. A side by side vid of Mr. Scary at a recent Lynch Mob show and the current prez would be one heck of a contrast. lol Rock on brother!

[@TroyBoyleAtheistAdvocate]

Just an idea, man. Check out "Shapes of Things" by Gary Moore. I'd love to hear you cover that.

[@WickedSativa]

🤘🤘

[@xavierl.sanacore6188]

🤘

[@binaryanticommunist1882]

Great job. Do you get into Jon Levin at all? On Hell to Pay, there's a killer song called "Can You See" which I think is overlooked.

[@xavierl.sanacore6188]

Thanks man! Yeah, I love Jon Levin! I'm gonna do some covers of this period and also the period with Reb Beach. Overlooked songs on there that's for sure!

[@rlgotting]

Incredible!...I'm wondering how long you played to get this good?

[@xavierl.sanacore6188]

Thanks bro! I've started playing at 19 y/o and now I'm 32...but I've made the most progress in the first 5 years when I played a LOT. Got that 10 000 hours for sure now but I'm still learning so much and I'm far from where I want to be still.

[@ErickSummers0f]

Very cool sound bro, what equipment have you been using?

[@xavierl.sanacore6188]

Thanks man. Not very sophisticated. It's a Kramer Baretta with a BiasFx2 plugin. 👍

[@jamieperry3731]

Great cover, but I wish more people gave some love to the outro solo! So catchy, but even the official tab book (which is pretty damn accurate) just gives up at certain sections of that solo as it's so tough to replicate.

[@xavierl.sanacore6188]

@@jamieperry3731 Yeah I agree with you! It's awesome! Like all outro solos from Lynch but they're hard as fuck to emulate since they're so raw and mostly improvised! Thanks for your feedback! 👍

[@jamieperry3731]

@@xavierl.sanacore6188 I agree haha, I can play that outro solo for the most part but there's a couple parts that just aren't tabbed out right and I cannot get them to sound right, I'm coming close but not quite there, mainly that quick little bending lick. Hopefully one day!

[@xavierl.sanacore6188]

@@jamieperry3731 Nice, keep it up man! 🤘

[@tlk0216]

And the rappers push buttons play no instruments sing nursery rhymes and actually make money.

[@xavierl.sanacore6188]

Yup...you're right, some of them are actually talented but for the most part it's a cash grab...but it goes with the public. Rock has been flowing with money when it was popular also but it's been a while now! Sadly, good musicians aren't making as much as they should.

[@mississippihiker545]

Great cover man…. Several years ago I was forced ( prison job) to be around a group of “ aspiring rappers “ listening to their vowel movements when I busted out PEAS PORRIDGE HOT , MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB. and LITTLE BOY BLUE…I was told that I had some of the illest lyrics ever….and the wanted to use them…😂.

[@xavierl.sanacore6188]

@@mississippihiker545 Thanks man. That's a good one! 😝

[@mississippihiker545]

@@xavierl.sanacore6188 true story….keep on rocking

[@xavierl.sanacore6188]

@@mississippihiker545 I believe you haha. Will do! 🤘

[@jgic]

wow killer tone .... tat pickup looks weird dang ..but sounded great ... rockiin" .....

[@xavierl.sanacore6188]

Thanks man! Yeah it sound pretty good for a basic stock pickup. Kind of Seymour Duncan JB imitation. 👍

[@abcd-to5lm]

Where's you head at?

[@413prototype]

Such a killer riff! What about the solo at the end? Lol, so awesome. Always loved this song. Kinda reminds me of Ted Nugent’s “Stranglehold”…another badazz riff. Check it out. 😊 kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJzHm3uepqqBbMksi=B7lB6z-hfMJ5VO9g

[@xavierl.sanacore6188]

Yeah I skipped the end solo. Those end solos of George are sometimes a pain to learn. They're mostly improvised and super raw with some weird flurries of notes. And doing it at the end in one take is a super high chance of fucking up and having to record the whole song again haha.

[@AMLagonda]

Shame this skill seems to be a dying breed :/ and how many people actually know who Dokken is?

[@xavierl.sanacore6188]

Yeah man. Hopefully it can undergo some kind of revival, but you're right! Dokken is still underrated and rock music seems to continue to lose its prestige for now.

[@ahinko]

Dokken and Ratt are the best! Btw, ive had the same guitar, Excellent cover!

[@xavierl.sanacore6188]

@@ahinko Thanks man! It's a great guitar, I love it!

[@opticFPV]

@@xavierl.sanacore6188 I think it's undergoing a revival right now as we speak! Seeing a lot of the younger generation discovering some of the bands I've been a fan of for my entire life. One search on KZbin for "[insert band name here] reaction" might give you some hope 🤘

[@adamlopez9629]

Interesting he refuses to use a whammy bar in this cover

[@xavierl.sanacore6188]

Well...yeah, the whammy on this Kramer is absolute shit haha. No choice!

[@tHElAWLESScHILDREN]

Is this guitar stock or did you modify it? Really great sound and playing buddy. One of the best here on KZbin

[@xavierl.sanacore6188]

@@tHElAWLESScHILDREN It's the Stock Baretta special. It's a cheap guitar. Maybe I'll swap the pickup and add a good Floyd one day. Thanks man!! 🙏

[@edwardippoliti626]

Hey this is great playing , why does someone always have to say something negative? It's not that your just asking a question, it's opinionated, by you saying refused , which i don't know how you can say refused from a four and a half video? Just saying !