Everyone has their preferences and it’s great there’s enough out there to satisfy pretty much all of us. But to me, it doesn’t get much better than this. Listening to Lynch jam away with some of the most wicked axes in the style that made the man an icon. Sends chills down your spine. I had no clue how drastic music would change within a handful of years after this and this would become almost non existent on the scale it was then. All hail 80s George Lynch!
George was just a beast on guitar at this time! One of my favorites of all time. Wish he kept this style of playing. He managed to create his own which many could not at this time. Still awesome today but miss this tone and approach which was down right scary good.
@@davidmerlin3344 they were all playing at that level at the same time, but eddy was on top. Randy even stole the tapping part from George on flying high again, George finally did do a version of it on just got lucky.
Funny to think of all these guys in the room with him, just casually going about their business getting ready for the clinic, not really even paying attention to his playing. Imagine how many of us would have been in absolute Awe just listening to him warm up back then. Even now, with all of the incredible players out there, I would be ecstatic to sit in a room and soak this up for a couple of hours!
This is my favorite George Lynch lesson clinic. I come back to it from time to time to copy some of George’s licks. Man, I wish I had a copy of the lesson book he was using to teach the class.
This is as close as we'll ever get to seeing him in the late 80s. Especially since Beast From the east, Dokken Live. Could be a lost concert film in pro shot in japan🙏🏼🎸
Been a guitar hero of mine since I was a teen in the 80's. I'm not sure I've ever known even one person who didn't like him, and it appears to be the same today. Just a great player everyone has always loved. Seeing this brings me back .
ironz18 Yeah, but this this video perfectly illustrates the good and bad of George. He is good at burning up the fretboard and squeling and sounding "exciting" to teenagers. His (huge) problem is that he is kind of a one trick pony. He doesn't have a good background in Theory like Randy Rhoads or John Petrucci, so as a consequence, there isn't much sense of a direction or structure to his playing. After listening to this for 5 minutes, one gets the impression you've heard his whole bag of tricks.
George is an interesting guitarist. He knows almost no theory and often lets his fingers do the “thinking”- sometimes it goes off the rails but sometimes it creates a very unique sound.
DJA DJA You need a serious music lesson dude. Randy Rhoads, Michael Schenker and Gary Moore blow George out the water, and were already noticed long before Breaking the Chains came along.
@Crimson Idol Please keep writing moron. I'm running out of old Howard Stern clips from the Jackie years to make me laugh as I get ready for work!! If you're truly this musically-illiterate, you must be a closet KISS fan LOL
Why don’t you tone down the arrogance and nastiness. I, too, greatly prefer Lynch over Randy, etc. So what. None of us can qualify one or the other as being “better”. At that level, there is only different.
ADA MP1 ideally 3TM will give you the early years Lynch wall of treble..I testify!! For that shrill 80s tone (add chorus, reverb and delay for some serious wet-ing) the ADA will deliver..Somehow this thing is Thick and Shrill at the same time..Push the volume up and the front rows ears are gone...heads will follow... :) But it IS noisy and you will need a good gate. BTW George slays here.
He really plays nothing like this now. I miss it. I feel like when he jams out now he is trying to recreate some strange robotic style that is very choppy and seems to go nowhere cohesive. He is still monster player when live, but his style has changed greatly.
Stil can't understand why ESPs are so damn expensive. I have a suntiger, and never play it, but paid so much money for the thing that I'm reluctant to get rid of it.
Had to compete with Jackson Charvel the famous players who got free instruments through endorsement's jacked up the interest and PRICE!! We see this with our Les Paul's! The mind boggling market value of the Holy Grail 58-59-60 Standard!?!? Who were playing them at the time!? Imagine that players of that era weren't playing LP's ? I always attribute exaggerated price gouging with the artist association and hyped promotion!! Alot of us players are swayed by this! Got to meet and greet George after a Lynch Mob show in 91? Unbelievably gracious with his time and signed memorabilia!! We gave him a scarf of the Snake through Skull "Hagi" Black Strat he was cracking up and really appreciated it, it was epic meeting Mr.Scary!! Cheers !!
Does anyone know what kind of amp he is using? I mean I know he’s using the ADA MP1 preamp for the distortion but was he using the power the ADA? I don’t see an amp or power amp in his rack?
Killer tone! Though I always felt that George uses too much delay and it seems like he uses it as a crutch like he’s be lost and can’t play without it or at least wouldn’t feel comfortable anyways. Which is never a good thing. Which is why I practice on a totally dry tone then when it comes to playing I wet it up abs throw in the juice!!!! ;) I also practice and play on clean times quite often.
I wouldn't say it a crutch. A lot of the times players have a certain sound that inspires them and helps drive their creativity. It's the reason why Kirk Hammett uses wah a lot on his solos because it helps him creatively. Plus george has done plenty of solo work with a dry guitar tone. Tones of stuff even on Dokken's discography like Back For The Attack and Dysfunctional. All killer stuff with a drys sound
It’s to bad silken didn’t make another album right after back for the attack, beast from the east was good but I’d rather have another album! They had.deals and were becoming more popular! They had a green light but Don said he wouldn’t and could not work with george again in the studio. Makes me wonder if george was right that Don wanted it all for himself or if george was full shit ? Don said that wasn’t true. So who do you believe ? It was dons lose , he had the best guitarist in the world to me.
Hey tony just come across this upload from a week ago I'm afraid somethings gone wrong as I was getting these straight to me up until about 3 weeks ago I asked if you could do a video on saving patches on jc10 since then I don't seem to b getting any contact glyn
That’s because he wasn’t and isn’t even close. In fact he tries to play a lot of Yngwie’s licks here and quite poorly I might add. His hands aren’t synced up at unless he’s playing 80’s rock blues based licks. Don’t get me wrong he’s a killer player and I was really into his style back in the day but no one could touch Yngwie back then. Plus George is using waaaayyyy too much delay distortion and reverb and is totally dependent on it.
