George Lynch: Reflecting on his time in DOKKEN!

George Lynch was the guitar hero in hard rockers Dokken! In this new 2023 interview with Vintage Rock Pod, George talks about his time in the band, about the legendary "Beast from the East" live record, what he believes is the one pivotal moment in the band's history, how hard they worked to improve themselves and more. Plus he also talks about the band he formed when he left, "Lynch Mob".

[@tttarms1970]

Im 53...i still listen to dokken a minimum of once a week....

[@neilnash4931]

I am 46 and listen at least once a day

[@blacksunshine7485]

I am 37 and my dokken t shirt may as well have been a tattoo. Never took that sucka off. Play dokken all the time

[@trikkke11]

Anyone going to top "all the time" ?

[@Bullet44]

I'm 29, and Dokken is listened to daily! ✊🏼

[@darrellsherman8636]

I'm 60 and Listen to Dokken daily.

[@DenkendeMystik-ll8oi]

George is one of the best players ever. Unique.

[@old-mtl-guy]

Dokken was unstoppable with the 3 albums Tooth and Nail, Under Lock and Key, and Back for the Attack! All really strong albums...probably the best 3 album run out of all the other "arena rock" bands of the 80's. Their formula worked that's for sure!

[@Mission2Transition641]

Totally agree. Those 3 albums. They were probably my favorite band from 85-89. Was lucky to see them open for AC/DC in Germany in 88.

[@mattgahimer3130]

Don't forget the first record. Paris is burning is CLASSIC Dokken.

[@ericscottstevens]

Yet they had the reputation as a poor live band, or their sound was tinny and washed out.

[@robertdouble559]

@@mattgahimer3130 BREAKIN THE CHAINS!!! Catchiest guitar solo ever! Maybe 2nd after home sweet home.

[@johnkatsoudas4767]

​@@mattgahimer3130I agree. Breaking The Chains is a phenomenal album. I listen to it just as much as the three albums that came out after.

[@ryanday633]

His time in Dokken was awesome but I always thought George Lynch shined best in Lynch Mob. Those first two albums rocked!.

[@Scottocaster6668]

I agree 💯!

[@thorpenator9148]

Don's first solo record was a monster with John Norum as well.

[@ryanday633]

@@thorpenator9148 I have Don Dokken's first solo album and I loved every song on that record. I also have several of John Norum's solo records and they rocked!.

[@thorpenator9148]

@@ryanday633 It was a monster album. It's been a while since I played it. Need to revisit. Great stuff.

[@mallardtheduck406]

George Lynch is the reason I picked up the guitar and played. I have had Psoriatic Arthritis and no longer play...I really miss playing!

[@tomflynn2912]

If you havent, try different necks. I have arthritis too. I got a PRS and the neck is so smooth it feels great on my fingers. Just a suggestion, good luck!

[@franciscoangel]

A great influence on me since 1987, I even use his screaming demon pickup, a true master with a lot of feeling. 👏🏻💯👍🏻💥🎸

[@dlvox5222]

Never could understand how Dokken never got bigger

[@Lynchfan88]

I became a George & Dokken fan in late '87 which was basically the end of Dokken. To this day I love his playing. I have all the Dokken cd's with George on them, all of the Lynch Mob stuff and all of George's solo work. Seen him live multiple times and met him a few times and he graciously talked to me and signed my stuff. He's just an amazing player and from that 80's L.A. scene guys like George & Warren DeMartini really stand out. That first Lynch Mob record 'Wicked Sensation' is just an amazing record..I think it's the best Mob work and Oni Logan's voice is freaking amazing. Eddie VH is always for me the rock guitar king but I rank George right up there. Two different styles & two amazing players that inspired countless others.

[@Magik1369]

Dokken blew me away when I was a young guitarist in the 80's. I saw Lynch at the Orpheum in Boston and he blew me away. We immediately went home and copped the solo to "Into the Fire" and "Alone Again" and others. Lynch was nasty and had a unique tone, phrasing, and touch that made him stand out and shine. Everyone wanted to play like Lynch.

[@spitpermit]

opening for who? date?

[@MrStudGuy]

It’s really unfortunate that these guys couldn’t stick together. Don, in his prime, was a great singer and a decent frontman and George, Jeff and Mick were a powerful force.

[@King5150Ed]

A number of issues came into play for their "primetime" breakup.....however, I think alot had to do w/ Don's swelling head & his manager after the Back for the Attack album

[@am3986]

Don wanted the loot for himself after George and Jeff built the band up from scratch. He was a major dick.

[@Matt-xv2cp]

@@King5150Ed Bingo.

[@jvgriego]

Agreed. As a group they were great... when they split up they were mediocre. They are all extremely talented but together they were better than they were individually.

[@armandomorenotherevival7827]

@@jvgriego loved dokken but I thought first two lynch mob records kicked ass all over dokken and anything Don ever did on his own. Lynch came out the most successful out of all them. But he’s got a great work ethic and doesn’t quit for anything.

[@jimmycrabtree-tb6jc]

George Lynch is amazing, and Dokken rocked!

[@michaelschmidt9708]

I was at the Whisky show where George stole Oni from Ferrari. That line is classic! LOL George is a phenomenal musician - no one else of his generation is still that tuned in and prolific creating quality new music all the time. Thank you, Mr. Lynch.

[@NealVio]

Both lynch albums, the don dokken album and the dysfunctional album charted very well. That's because the genre never died even though the record companies turned their backs on hard rock and metal. Just goes to show you how dumb the record companies really are.

[@thomaswolf6474]

I read article were Randy Rhoads talked about George and said watch out for that guy..pretty much saying he is good and look what he did in Dokken wow love unchain the night album wow see Randy knew what he was seeing in George

[@jamesgrossi]

Dokken's progression from album to album was pretty obvious, and Back for the Attack was the apex of George's playing with them in terms of skill and tone.

[@mlwilliam213]

I’m 48. I’ve been a fan of George since I was about twelve. It’s awesome to have a music idol who just keeps on keepin on. Most guys seem to want to be the next Zeppelin or they don’t even bother. George just makes music. Project after project, album after album. Still kickin ass after fifty years. Salute to you, George. My young self couldn’t have picked a better guitar hero.

[@christineayres7199]

He is as great as Van Halen or Randy Rhoads etc i am so sad how Blackmore treated him and Eddie , as they walked in to meet him one day in an LA restaurant and management introduced them to Blackmore who was so rude to Poor George Lynch that he made George cry anyway George and Eddie Van Halen got their own back as they became bigger than Deep Purple in the 80s

[@AlexRodriguez-hl1vu]

@@christineayres7199Blackmore is not a very nice person from what I’ve heard just like Neal schon but Blackmore is a better guitar player than all of them

[@machupikachu1085]

@@AlexRodriguez-hl1vu Blackmore is a legend, better is subjective, but George is definitely the more accomplished guitar player.

[@AlexRodriguez-hl1vu]

I know I’ve heard that Blackmore was not very nice but he is my all time favorite guitar player and Eddie I think is great just like Randy Rhodes I like lynch but he’s not my favorite but I know he’s great but I like rainbow in the early days just as I liked deep purple in the early days just didn’t care for the music dokken was playing some songs I liked but not that many i wish Blackmore didn’t have that reputation of not being nice just like Neal schon I think Neal is a great guitar player but he has a bad attitude I think he likes the bad press keeps journey in the news and he makes so much money by doing so many tours Neal is lucky that arnel is still with them but don’t get me wrong Lynch is a great guitar player just don’t care for his material

[@AlexRodriguez-hl1vu]

@@machupikachu1085 Blackmore is a better guitar player I think the best stuff was his early days with deep purple and I love the early rainbow stuff as far as lynch he great I’m just not a fan of his material but I think he’s great but I like Blackmore stuff better

[@tdz69]

I was in junior high school. Appetite for Destruction just came out and I had it on cassette. I was on the football team and we used to play music before games. I popped in appetite and people lost their minds. Kid on my team asked me to trade him my appetite cassette for a Dokken “Back for the Attack” cassette. I never heard Dokken. He played Mr Scary and I handed over appetite without hesitation. George blew my mind since.

[@johnnyhotrod]

George to this day is probably still my favorite guitarist,he just had something no one else had.Dokken was great,can’t take anything away from them. Times change,genres change,taste changes. They left their mark and should be super proud of it.

[@davebasch5995]

George created his very own sound, and as a drummer, he is still on of my fav musicians

[@davebasch5995]

Also, of you saw George and Chris Broderick together, you could def see that George was not a very technical musician, but more of a self taught "feel" player...much like Michael Schenker

[@davedecker1725]

@@davebasch5995 I would say he ," borrowed" heavily from Eddie

[@Kane6676]

I love Dokken but fans and taste don’t change. The marketing changes and the fans in general take what’s marketed to them. Why do you think we are still stuck with Rap? It should have gone away years ago but they just keep marketing it

[@sniffy45]

what a humble and very nice person, for this business a rarity. Also an iconic shredder!

[@KurtSnapp]

Still one of my favorites

[@heavybrett-al4082]

Love you George! Still listen and being inspired by your music to this day! So thank you sir🙏🤘🎸

[@mischievousone1232]

George Lynch is one of my childhood guitar hero’s & he’s definitely one of the most underrated guitar players. Dokken was obviously incredible but Lynchmob the “Wicked Sensation” album was absolutely AMAZING! George has a unique guitar feel, sound & how he “attacks” the fretboard with his signature “melodic/harmonic minor” kinda riffs still give me chills & still inspire me to play.

[@robertrussell5948]

When I first heard Breaking the Chains in 83 I was working in a high end home stereo store and I was blown away and I started selling a lot of systems with that album and Quiet Riots Metal Health. But Dokken is my favorite 80s band period. In my opinion George is the king of the guitar gods. Eddie didn't do anything as good as George. NOT EVEN CLOSE.

[@sashasavisha146]

George’s interviews are honest and fun. Don needed a guitarist with a strong musical personality like George. The Dokken lineup was a great example of a band who were better together than anywhere else. Great players and chemistry along with Don’s songwriting. And the albums / songs prove it. They just needed management that could help make them a top headlining act. The 80’s it seems were very competitive. You still had the great 70’s bands, and grunge would soon explode. Listen to Tooth And Nail, Under Lock And Key and Back For The Attack. Great stuff.

[@mikemc5221]

Don was a great singer but terrible frontman live. Boring and uneventful to watch.

[@Scottocaster6668]

Wow, could you imagine how Lynch Mob would have sounded like if Ray Gillens voice was on it?

[@joeydonutz8011]

Have you ever listened to a song called "Flesh & Blood" on George Lynch's solo record "Sacred Groove"? Ray Gillen did the vocals, exceptional song.

[@Scottocaster6668]

@@joeydonutz8011 oh, your right!

[@jasonstanley8362]

Gillen was a beast. Tragedy hus work w badlands has been buried

[@ericguner]

​@@jasonstanley8362 Badlands with Jake E. Lee they were badass. One of my 80s favs.

[@nicholastotoro7721]

I’d be willing to bet my next year’s worth of paychecks that “Beast from the East” had a bunch of studio edits and overdubs. To George’s credit, I think this is the first interview I’ve ever watched or read of his where he didn’t blame Don for all their problems.

[@Mad_Axe_Man125]

it did just listen to the crowd noise it recycles over and over

[@jbirdapparel]

His new band and album are amazing. The banishment. Been listening to it for weeks

[@kevincarey1453]

around 2:55 "Oh... we were a 'very balanced' band!" So awesome that he still has his dry sense of humor.

[@beebala3]

Beast from the East is a great live album. George was on 🔥

[@am3986]

Not live. All studio dubbed.

[@WAM4EVER]

​@A M then why were there recoding trucks at the gig???

[@jeffreyedwards767]

Lighting fingers of magic heavy metal

[@mitchcarson6309]

@@am3986 live with studio overdubs.

[@ericscottstevens]

@@am3986 Correct, most lives are re -done in a studio, even blending songs such as the Ozzy RR Tribute album. To this day I suspect the GnR live has crowd overdubs added which really cheapens the tracks.

[@rick3747]

I am 56 years old. Edward will always be my fav Rock guitarist and George Lynch is my 2nd fav. Sure, I enjoy Holdsworth, Metheny, Morse, Breau, Atkins, Page, Hicks, Keaggy, Di Meola, Kath.....but Edward and George are my two favs.

[@johnkilpatient1509]

Lynch Mob's Wicked Sensation is one of my favorites. Sweet Sister Mercy, Dance of the Dogs... I love the Dokken solo record as well. My 1st and only time seeing Dokken was on the Aerosmith tour. My brother bought your debut for my birthday. Fan ever since Paris is Burning.

[@nickm.9474]

Wicked Sensation is one of those master piece records! It’s incredible!!

[@Kickback79]

💯it’s a masterpiece

[@swellhunter8605]

Agree but I would add that "The Brotherhood" is right there with Wicked Sensation IMO. Ridiculously good.

[@johnkilpatient1509]

@@swellhunter8605 I have the CD.

[@markhansjahrling5648]

Love Ya George !

[@5150gtrman]

Answer to the Defining Moment : Album Tooth and Nail - Song: Without Warning/Tooth and Nail - THAT is THE Defining moment for George and the band!!! Still to this day that intro and that song send chills!!!!

[@brianmorrison4865]

Jaded Heart, and Slipping Away are 2 songs that George really shines on. amazing solos

[@Lola_Santoro]

Every time I hear a George Lynch solo - wow. He was one of the top 3 guitarists of Dokken's time. Very unique sound that is easy to identify.

[@reaganbrowneofficialyoutube]

I opened up for lynch mob out in Orange County about 12 years ago and my ears are still ringing from George’s amp!! 😂 👂📣💥

[@moparedtn]

The secret ingredient to the first Lynch Mob records was Max Norman. Dude is a super-mixer and producer with an ingrained natural perfect "ear". Anything he touched in those days (his Megadeth stuff was awesome, for example) sounded great and sold in bunches.

[@DreidMusicalX]

Well, its always writing a song, then learning your own songs you wrote, then perfecting them to the point of without thought it just comes out.

[@georgearagon2546]

Love Dokken but lets be honest. Lynch Mob was a heavier, more aggressive sounding power house than Dokken. Don was an amazing singer but Oni had that natural distorted Sebastián Bach-like power house of a voice but with also a very soulful quality when he needed to be.

[@nitrokyosho]

Greatest guitar player

[@shawnsdrumcave]

ray gillen would have been insane, what a talent gone way too soon.

[@rbuk2112]

love wicked sensation epic album no doubt

[@AriestheLegendRVA]

George is a national treasure

[@stretchwith]

so humble

[@jamesnewberry1191]

Scott Weiland is buried treasure.

[@escapist502]

Yep. What a legacy. Super unique player and what a feel!! Jeff Pilson as well…what a musician! Great inspiration in my youth as a learning musician. I eventually became a jazz pianist, but I like to think I kept a little bit of “mr scary” in my vibe as I grew! Thanks George!!!

[@shanegriffin2215]

At the end of the day, it comes down to songs. And Dokken had that in spades. They were so much better than most. What an incredible band.

[@kinkinmyslinky967]

George is so damn recognizable. Absolute Legend! LEGEND!!

[@jesterlead]

Best rock guitar sound of all time: #1) EVH, #2) George L. He just had an epic guitar sound live & studio. I always wanted his setup back in my band days more than any other guitarist...

[@DR676767]

Dokken destroys any trendy bands coming out today and you know it’s true

[@ripley7t429]

George and Jeff, still going strong. I gotta go dig my guitar buddy out of the garage. Only time I can play close to George's level is with it.

[@mlwilliam213]

I got the one with the whammy neck. It kills.

[@RIFFRAFF104]

I have seen Dokken at least 10 times. Every time they kicked ass!!

[@raythackston1960]

Don't feel bad George...Nirvana killed tons of bands careers and ability to travel as a smaller band and make a living. Less than a year after Nirvana 75% of the clubs, bands, booking agents, and more were gone.

[@stephensanchez9590]

A very talented group of guys great music

[@mikal]

The Lynch Mob "Wicked Sensation" band really was the greatest rock band in the world at that time. Too bad it fell apart.

[@michaelhamer4431]

Dokken tooth and nail is my fav

[@ArcangelofRock]

Don....in his day(early eighties & well into the nineties - one of "the great" hard rock melodic singers! George: Borrowing some technique from "Edward"....really excelled as a feel player & he's just expanded his style over time. Jeff Pilson: A big reason for Dokken's success,because he generally got along with both Don & George & is an excellent songwriter that has work ethic/band mentality + kudos to Mick - always kept time & delivered on all of Dokken's/Lynch Mob projects he was a part of! Despite some production issues(Particularly Tototh & Nail/Breaking The Chains) the band's albums are VERY memorable & ascend most "hair bands" efforts from the heyday of that genre.🎸🎶🎤💪.

[@rancosteel]

I saw them in the late 80's live in the USA. One of the worst concerts ever. The reason was George Lynch played lead and rhythm in the studio. When they played live they refused to hire a rhythm guitarist to fill in the hole left in the live performance. It sounded very empty.

[@maxpower4734]

I didn’t like the lynch mob songs nearly as much as the Dokken songs. I thought it was too bluesy and Oni’s vocals weren’t my favorite style.

[@jvgriego]

Nailed it!

[@panzervalkyrie9299]

Wow Ray Gillian with Lynch mob would have been epic ! But I wouldn’t want him to have left Badlands ..GOAT band

[@davidbrucemusicvideo]

08:30 “Do you want to be in a band called Ferrari, or do you want to drive one?” Fucking balls!

[@CallMeCygnus]

I'll always say that Dokken had way more pop sensibility than they were ever given credit for.

[@kulentarian55]

George really ages well

[@youtoo2233]

I remember in the 80s George Lynch was considered like a guitar god like an Eddie Van Halen

[@mhitson7483]

Fantastic interview

[@VRPRocks]

Thank you M Hitson! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@johnfletcher948]

George done got old kids.

[@y_ringoffire]

I can hear you!!🫖☕🍩🧁🍰🥧🥮 Make yourself at home.🤹🍀🧳💺🛫🙈🙉🙊🐵🐒

[@markboogie7864]

The solo for Just Got Lucky on Beast is EPIC

[@philipreedwallace]

Mr. Scary is still awesome.

[@lesgobrandon9444]

Keep on Rockin with Dokken .....saw them in 86 in Austin Texas with Dio

[@ldogin]

I never fell for grunge. Always good hard rock and metal. My friends that jumped off were total posers that fell for a trend. Grunge got wiped out by heroin. Shocking. Glam lives on.

[@kevinkaatz883]

Love that Dokkan lineup

[@81shvlhead]

Loved when he was talking about Lynch Mob, i could listen to stories about that album all day.

[@festalongreyhawkshorts4sho645]

I remember when the video premiered for " just walk away ". I was sad because i felt this was probably the last of Dokken we'd see.😢. I was pretty much right.

[@bfields1448]

George lynch is who made dokken his guitar solos are phenomenal

[@foley15136]

Monsters of Rock; Kingdom Come, Metallica, Dokken, Scorpions, Van Halen - great show (Funny how Hagar and Bonham ended up together)

[@ericguner]

I quit my damn job to go to that concert.

[@foley15136]

@@ericguner I don’t know what your job was, but whatever it was, the show was worth it!

[@cezaug]

Beast from the east is undounbtedly one of the best live records ever…

[@SOLDOZER]

I dont remember Dokken ever being headliner. They were always opener or on a festival, like Cinderella.

[@tigerbalm666]

I saw them in Monsters of Rock in Seattle (long time ago) and they rocked! I'll say this, Dokken is my goto songs I still listen to today, evean more than than VH. George's solos and chord progresssions just blows me away in creativity and technical pressence very few band can match. His tone is my fav of all the 80's metal bands, so much attack and bite, yet his chords were smooth. He just knows how to craft his sound within a song perfectly, very rare that it's off. A big credit to Dokken too, a master songwriter himself. It's the reason their best music was written while they were in the same band. Not going to lie, their solo careers were nothing to brag about...

[@vince_vatican777]

George is a National Treasure!

[@teecuzbruh4058]

Tryin' to pilfer Ray Gillen ehh.

[@colonelhogan1827]

Yeah, Dokken shoulda been bigger than they were. They shouldve billed them as headliners sooner.

[@krudetube795]

I saw Dokken open for Dio,Aerosmith and at Monsters of Rock in the 1980s. They were the band that headliners could count on to help sell tickets. They should've headlined arenas in 1988

[@zancraft7865]

Don was one of the best singers and song writers of his era period. Put together with the rest of the band, total awesomeness!

[@HyperInflation2020]

It was his personality that limited how high they could go. He was just a total douche to deal with. Even just having a casual conversation with him would cause people be annoyed with him.

[@fenderboy68]

lol...funny comment...BTW, totally wrong

[@davebasch5995]

Don really didnt have much of a voice

[@Roger8176]

Everybody talks about Wicked Sensation, but the second Lynch Mob i think is significantly better. I never hear anybody talk about it though. When Darkness Calls is one of George's finest moments. It's a shame that it doesn't get more recognition.

[@stephensanchez9590]

I am a huge fan of the second lynch mob album a very great great album and Robert Mason is a great singer love when the darkness calls

[@TGMATCHIM]

I agree. The Secret is an amazing song too

[@stephensanchez9590]

The secret is a great song

[@mlwilliam213]

I like that album. I vote for Tangled in the Web for best song on there. But, I don’t think it’s in the same realm as Wicked Sensation. I always felt that the second album felt rushed. There’s a lot of repetition in the songs like maybe they didn’t have time to really work them out. Good album, but as good as Robert was, Oni’s performance on WS was just perfection to me. Just my opinion tho.

[@neilnash4931]

Imo 2nd album was better and yes Robert is just great he still is singing for warrant . We've seen George with 4 different versions of him and they are all just great

[@neuregel]

Doesn't make sense, DOKKEN should've been headlining on Lock and Key. Who was telling DOKKEN they shouldn't be headlining??? Not the fans!.... Fuck that pisses me off

[@labontetrevor]

I am a metal veteran of the Great Grunge Invasion. If Dokken didn’t break up when they did, they would have gotten mowed down by the flannel junkie Scourge from Seattle. Rob quit the Priest, Bruce quit Maiden, it’s unlikely Dokken could go from looking like they raided the costume dept from the set of ‘Golden Girls’ (See: Under Lock and Key album cover) to living in the post-Nirvana hellscape that took the lives of so many great 80s bands. My favorite guitar player was George! At the bottom of my YT uploads, my earliest one is me as a 5th grade in 1988, playing ‘the rhythm guitar parts for Kiss of Death’ during the elementary school talent show. Actually I kind of killed it and got a big round of applause, but my career was all downhill from there. Metal died deader than a doornail just as I was about to buy a case of AquaNet and move to Los Angeles. It was a gut-wrenching, epic, Shakespearean tragicomedy for all metalheads. Iron Maiden actually wrote ‘The Trooper’ about the Great Grunge Invasion. A lot of people think it’s about the old Crimean War, but it’s actually about what happened to the Heavy Metal Brigade when they charged toward the human wall of the Seattle Flannel Forces.

[@stephensanchez9590]

But most of them grunge bands came and went alot of the singers died the hair metal bands are still touring and has a Good fan base

[@MrBlackHimself]

L0L..."THE TROOPER" DEBUED IN 1983 0FF PIECE OF MIND...10 YEARS BEF0RE GRUNGE.

[@labontetrevor]

Duh. Iron Maiden traveled time and had a Time Machine. Everyone knows that. They once got lost somewhere in time. Ask Eddie.

[@chrisporter6316]

I love your story! It gave me a good laugh while having me breakfast! What's weird is at the time in the 90s is that everyone I knew were still listening n buying metal n rock as well as grunge, it just was all part of it, I was into punk too, but the only stuff I don't listen too now is grunge! Have a good one geezer!

[@michaelwilson2497]

LOL!!!!

[@lloydmunga4961]

I remember having to order the breaking the chains EP back in early 80’s up in Canada. Hearing Paris is burning live was an eye opener but it was nothing to what came after . George and Eddie are at the same level but very different styles . George is more metal, Eddie is more Rock

[@Acknetan]

I always thought it was such a shame that they broke up when they did they were just awesome on that back for the attack album their next record would have been awesome and it would have sustained them through the 90s as they were really big in Europe and Asia unlike a lot of other bands of the era.

[@TikuVsTaku]

It was a shame for sure, I remember being really sad when I heard the news (although it wasn’t a surprise), but nevertheless, I think that Nirvana would have crushed them as well, no matter how good of a follow up record they made…✌️

[@BURNOUT3272]

@@TikuVsTaku back for the attack was in ‘87, so their follow up would have likely been in 89/90, still had some time for a great album before the Seattle vibe hit

[@MrOctober44]

​@@TikuVsTaku They would have been crushed, but people give way to much credit to it being just Nirvana. When Pearl Jam became gigantic and combine that with the success of the other three big seattle bands is when it was over for the glam bands

[@MrOctober44]

​@@BURNOUT3272 Yup. They probably would have been headlining as well. People forget Poison and Motley Crue still had gold albums at the height of grunge and both bands had major lineup changes

[@TikuVsTaku]

@@BURNOUT3272 Yeah, I think that you are correct. They probably would have been able to release one more killer album before the Nirvana effect, just like you said. ✌️

[@romansingleton8831]

cool interview, great insight on the formation of Lynch Mob

[@michaelgallegos8811]

Right on New Mexico awesome home 🏡 😂🎸🍺🎛👋

[@kevinkaatz883]

Should've been headlining from Tooth & Nail on - as they were better than 90 % of the genre

[@lancethompson218]

Back for the attack was unreal. George and John sykes are soon underrated...I dont understand the publics obsession with satriani bonamossa lynch and sykes are original have great songs fantastic tone.... You never see John Sykes on anything... In George hasn't been on a cover of a magazine in years it's time for that crap to change...hes one of the greatest rock guitarists ever

[@danriley5848]

Dokken was a great band and they really stood out above the rest of the bands at that time. I was lucky enough to hang out with the band and they were s great bunch of guys and extremely talented players.

[@stephensanchez9590]

I envy you I would have loved to meet all of them and hang with them great story

[@shinybald36]

Too bad he couldn't get a long with Don, still think the Dokken songs were the best he played on.

[@chickenbeek]

Band had great talent all around and one of the best of the genre guitarists easily. They did well, but luck of the draw, and were kinda mediocre. Every guitarist i know back then were like too ban Lynch isn't in a better band ( as far as vision and cohesiveness, because all of Dokken were talent) He did it with Lynch Mob, which was sick, but a bit too late as far as the trends of the time. Lynch is easily the "I wish" of the metal genre of shred fans etc that listened to Dokken for his sick ass guitar solos. From thrash to shred metal fans and beyond one of the most original and genre crossing - especially towards fans of guitar playing. Every guitar player i knew in the 80's were like Lynch might be the best ever, ...if he was in a better band.

[@johnnysnowbird826]

Beast from the east dokken was road hot

[@robertpoole9136]

No one on earth can bend a string quite like George!

[@BigErnieBrown]

David Gilmour

[@TylerDurden-oy2hm]

@@BigErnieBrown exactly!!! Dave is Lord of the Strings....

[@BigErnieBrown]

@@TylerDurden-oy2hm Old habits Die Hard. P.s. You were great in Fight Club

[@clelia999w9]

@@BigErnieBrown DAVID SHIT IS SHIT , WHAT THE FUCK YOU NAME IT , IS A MUMMY

[@mikeferris408]

Beast in the east is a very very fine collection of their music. I still play it regularly to this day and probably will until I leave this planet.🤘

[@MDMOTP]

George has been around since the 60's.......A true war horse..

[@davidgreene438]

Beast From the East……..’ KISS OF DEATH’……absolutely life changing……shame there was not a live concert video release of those shows!

[@bfields1448]

Someone here commented that show was dubbed in a studio 🤔. I bought that album in 92 and was memorized lynch could solo like that

[@YoDudeRock]

So did Oni get a Ferrari?? :)

[@robertdyerofficial]

No

[@YoDudeRock]

@@robertdyerofficial Aw man!

[@matthewkellor5435]

Don dokken is a lead guitarist himself 😅so I imagine their egos did clash after awhile. Touring for months-24/7 being on the same bus, always judging each other😂😂