George Lynch

[Soul Reaper]

Awesome guitarist, but does anyone think he is at the level or even beyond the level of guitarists like EVH or SRV?

[Full Bug]

At EVE or SRV best? No....
Hard to compare SRV with George anyway, 2 different styles....

[nosuchluck]

never really liked him. i guess technique-wise, he was ok...but i didnt really care much for his song-writing.
i wouldnt put him near EVH or SRV.

[Warham]

Who?

[BrownSound1]

I like George Lynch...thought he had an awesome vibrato, and I thought his tone on Tooth and Nail was cool. Technically he can probably play anything...but I think that his originality lacks a bit ( so does mine).

[Seshmeister]

I was very impressed with him playing live but always put him in the 'very good' not legend' type box.

He kind of 'works' rather than plays the guitar.

That said obviously I would be be over the fucking moon if I was half as good as him.

I've read accounts where he was distraught after seeing EVH live for the first time.

Big ego too by all accounts.

Cheers!

[UGS]

It's a shame such great virtuosity was wasted on such shitty-ass songs. C'mon "In My Dreams"!? Awesome solo, terrible song.

He might be awesome, but not great.

As for the EVH comparison. . .George plays the guitar great, but Ed is (was) a great guitar player.

[light 'em up!]

I know a lot of accomplished shredders who would probably say Lynch had better tone and better chops... and if you eliminate VH 1978-1984, I would have to agree. As for who did more for the instrument, there's no contest. Ed wrote better songs too.

[Terry]

Lynch was always talented, but Dokken was a dud of a band. Pilson and Brown were average, and Don Dokken just sucked. Lynch pretty much had all the talent in that band, far as I was able to hear.

Brown kinda nailed it with his take; Lynch could play well, but not the most original thing to come down the pipe.

[monkeythe]

Saw Dokken open for Van HAgar in the monsters of rock show (I went for Metallica & Scorps) and they sucked. They were even worse than Van HAgar (and possibly Kingdom Come).
I also saw them a few years ago at a local club when George rejoined the band and they sucked again. He has zero stage presence or charisma (although he had a very Cansecoish physique)

While a very good artist, he is not in the same league as SRV or Eddie.

[Soul Reaper]

I wan't comparing him to EVH or SRV, I was just asking if you thought he should be compared to them.

[bueno bob]

OK, I've seen Dokken a few times...the classic lineup was great, and "Beast from the East", so far as I'm concerned, is one of the best live albums ever made hands down.

"Erase the Slate" tour - Reb Beach had more energy than George ever did, but too much shred is just too much shred, period! Jeff Pilson is just fucking AMAZING on the bass and he's never failed to seriously impress me - which is odd, considering it's always been his second instrument...

The new Dokken (whoever it is this week) is FUCKING HORRIBLE. If Don wants to do records, fine, but the last two albums should have been "Don Dokken" albums, because they're most certainly NOT Dokken (meaning: the absence of George Lynch was survivable, but the absence of George Lynch and Jeff Pilson is NOT).

"Long Way Home" and "Hell to Pay" are two of the most unenergetic, boring, awful albums I've ever heard out of ANY band, particularly one of Dokken's stature.

To be fair, though, the "Monsters of Rock" tour was a disaster due to the excessive drug usage that was going on with them at that point.

[bueno bob]

For an idea of how incredibly important both George and Jeff were to Dokken's sound, you should check out the "Wicked Underground" LP they did together - Dokken's sound came from both of these dudes, and of that, there is no doubt. "Wild" Mick and Don himself were virtually secondary throughout all of Dokken's run, Jeff and George could have run the whole show themselves - one spin of "Wicked Underground" proves it.

[Matt White]

George had a identifiable style, which was a difficult thing to achieve in the wake of the mighty EVH. He was the best of the "Post EVH" hair-metal guitar players.

[bueno bob]

I will say this in conclusion:

Don Dokken's "Up from the Ashes" was only about a gazillion times better than anything George Lynch managed to puke up post-Dokken.