having listened to Mr. Scary from its beginning and into the retro-tours, this is actually f*ng well done. I'm glad that G.L. is embracing his years and still shredding.
I went to a Dokken concert once at a small venue/bar and after the show I hung around for a bit. George came out after most of the fans had left and he actually bought me a drink and hung out. One of the coolest and nicest guys I've ever met.
George is still pure metal.... I'm always disappointed when I see these guitar gods performing in front of small crowds. Damn you see his arms? They're guns! All pumped to his fingers. George is the man! I'm 48, listened to their groove since I was in my teens!
This man is absolutely mesmerizing! I can't take my eyes off him! Watching him play,those fingers, his arms, that guitar!!! Never knew he had tattoos before!!! This is fantastic!!! He freezes me when I see him play like this!!!😳😲😯🙀
@@marcillioficino4663 He has that effect on me to see him play like this. I just said what first popped into my head. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only woman fan he affects like this. Just amazing to watch!🙂🤪😯😱🥰
@@karenmonson9893 i got to meet the little fella....he is a god on guitar....he was part of the LA scene trifecta w/ eddie van halen and mr randy rhodes
Look at that boring crowd!!! Scary how folks these days don't know what metal is. In the 80's people really got into it and went crazy...at least headbaning like nuts....oh well, youth these days just don't get the hang of it anymore.
Lol, I get you man but most of that crowd were in their teens and twenties when Dokken first released Mr.Scary over thirty years ago. What's really a shame is the amount of young kids now that have never heard this kind of music.
Not a boring crowd!! I'm fuckin 55...but c'mon...even as a guitar player back in the late 80s and 90s....yea...it kicked ass...but not everyone's high strung and hell bent for leather! Met George back at Mississippi Nights back then...and Layne Staley!
I think this video is catching audio from different sets of speakers (front and way in the back). I was there and don't recall the delay being as bad as it sounds here. King George killing it as always. Love it
George is brilliant to never play the studio version, because you can't tell if he messes up (not that he would anyway) because it's all improvisation, the ultimate "I meant to do that"
God Damn, luv his guitarplaying his tone and his soul !!! He's one of THE BEST guitarplayers in the world...no one comes near him with his choice of guitar licks and notes he plays !! Hail to George Lynch !!
As for people who say he sucks live. Beast from the east is one of the best live guitar performance ever recorded. He has off days, we all do. There's some live videos of the mob on here where he's totally on fire and playing just as good as he was in the 80s
+Vincent Deschenes Totally, I've often said that Beast From The East is an AMAZING live record and awesome guitar performance. His tone and playing on that record are phenominal and up there with Tribute in my book.
LRN_News all I know is I have been disappointed every time I've seen him live no matter who he was with whether it was with Dokken or one of his solo projects. His live sound sucks . Great guitar player great album cuts but when you go to see him live you can't hear what he's playing and this is been on several occasions
The only time I ever saw George live was on the Dysfunctional tour(opening for Alice Cooper) and he killed it. After nearly 30 years, I remember a few songs that he was absolutely masterful on: Too High to Fly, In My Dreams and Kiss of Death, specifically.
Over the course of my lifetime witnessing hundreds of rock concerts the best live guitarist I can remember seeing was George Lynch, although i do not believe the groups he played with were ever at his level. He was among other things the best rhythm player and had the best overall tone of anyone. There is an element of artistry in his work that goes beyond skill or even talent. His improvisations are remarkable for their sparkle, musical appropriateness and originality. The precision of his time really was scary.
+gary morrison I think that I have to agree with you. I have seen him twice in my life. Once with Dokken and the other with Lynch Mob. Although both bands had parts of Dokken, George always stood out. Obviously in Lynch Mob he was supposed to, but in Dokken, he was part of the band. My point about George is; During his tenure with Dokken, he had the most incredible guitar tone I have ever heard. Bar none! That sort of carried over to Lynch Mob. Then eventually, he fell into the abyss of digital churned out tones. As much as I love his style, he needs to go back to his old stomp box configuration. But overall; I love to listen to George Lynch!
You make good points about his tone. The other guitarist I remember seeing live that left a similar sonic impression was Jimi Hendrix and for Hendrix I remember the sweep of his sound which seemed to have no perimiter and set objects and people floating. With George Lynch I remember the piercing clarity. Aside from sound quality it is obviously difficult to explain the effect of a performing genius in their prime on a listener. Even when Lynch was recording with a room full of other top guitarists on the "We Are Stars" sessions it seemed to me he was operating at a different level somehow. He seemed to be able to harness chaos to his advantage like Hendrix. He seemed to look over the edge into the abyss while others either fell in or backed away, Lynch never lost his footing. Eddie Van Halen comes to mind also as someone capable of twisting time to suit his improvisational purposes. This makes for a rather short A list.
You are on point. George has an amazing ability to find incredible melody in his solos and still find a way to shred and bring it all together, making it look so easy. His best quality is that he always stuck to his own style of playing. After all, he is self taught. I recently watched a video of George, Ritchie Kotzen and Paul Gilbert playing together. No lie; Ritchie and Paul were all over the place playing their technical blues stuff. But George was George. He stuck with what he knew and rocked!
Comparing Lynch to other guitarists in the heavy metal genera is like comparing Jeff Beck to other blues rock guitarists. I do not believe there is any basis for caparison. Like Beck, Lynch is speaking a different language,
+gary morrison I too have seen 100s of shows and lots of great guitarists over the years (and there were a lot in the 80s and 90s). George has always been my favorite. For me, what sets him apart from everybody is his unique sound. If you hear Lynch, you know, immediately that it is Lynch - he sounds like nobody else. That's something I don't think you can say about many guitarists...even other very talented ones.
I have been playing guitar for 30 years and I speak from experience... It's the recording, it should have been recorded from the sound board:( Trust me I was there when he played this and it sounded great live!
With a mic recording you get the dreaded ambient reverb and delay caused by bouncing off walls and pretty much anything in the vicinity. Phantasm is absolutely correct, you record from anywhere but direct from the desk, and it invariably sounds shit.
note to everyone talking about too much delay: I was at the show - and there was little to no delay on his guitar - and it sounded great! Think the delay was a post recording edit or something - or this is taken from a different out source - because the mains were cranking an effect free Mr. Scary and it ruled!
Can't believe how many pansies are on here bitching about this video. Lynch has not missed a beat. I just saw him about a year ago and the dude plays like a beast. Clearly this is a recording issue and not a Lynch issue. And even if he did hit a wrong note somewhere, he's better in his 60s than any of you were at your peak. Stop pretending you're some internationally known critic and just enjoy watching one of the premier metal guitarists of all time!
Delay Attack! I liked that variation of the masterpiece! Still delay is a hard thing to understand, many combinations of delay are still remaining undiscovered.
@@k77stan27 The delay don't bother me? It fills empty voids. The studio version is so layered with guitars that to me? Live versions are cool but don't do it proper justice. The delay effect on this version? To me comes closest to that original studio version. But It's George Lynch, Man? We all watch and listen in awe!!!
On the studio version hes got 2 or 3 overdubs going along with his main track, so only one guitar sounds thin. He compensates that with delay but maybe turned up a little too much. But that doesn't diminish his brain splattering riffs spewing out the speakers.
George Lynch is absolutely awesome... However, "Mr. Scary" was recorded with 24-seperate guitar tracks in the studio... Read the liner notes from the "Back For the Attack" album/CD/cassette. Not to discredit his abilities in the least, but that is why you are "perceiving" so much delay/reverb in this video. Still one of the best guitarists from the late '70's to early to mid to late '80's.... except for maybe CC De'ville....LOL!!!
Do you haters really think all that delay was coming out of Lynch's amp? If there is one thing Mr Scary knows a little something about is tone. How many you tube videos of him performing have you seen? Have you ever heard the delay up like this? It definitely has to have had something to do with the way it was recorded. As for him not being good live, are you people kidding me? There is too much delay in the recording and now he sucks live? C'mon now. He may not be quite as good as in his prime but he's still a monster compared to just about anyone and especially compared to the wankers on here. I'm sure he is just as unhappy with the recording as everyone else but that doesn't mean he wasn't playing well!
That delay is almost definitely set up by George, but badly recorded. How many video's have YOU seen of him? He often has a fucking shitload of effects on. It's fine, he can rock it. The fact that he plays with this stuff with as little gain as he does is testament to that, but don't come in here and say the delay was added in recording or somehow created by the sound bouncing off the trees. He had a heavy setting on his delay pedal/rack and it got amplified in the recording mix, whatever, George rocks it anyways.
I just watched two other video of him playing this song live and the delay was EXACTLY THE SAME! The problem with his playing isn't the delay, it's HIS PLAYING. It's sloppy as hell.
@Matthias Labaye Hey my friend... just sayin'... if you listen to the original Mr. Scary instrumental by him, album version, there was a lot of delay during recording. Peace.
For him to be playing that well at his age is amazing. As for the previous comments ... I agree with both. He is my favorite hands down though. I just love guitar players period. And from each decade rises a few that usher in the next generaton. Each having their own style. From the 80s in no order ... Vai, Satriani, Malmsteem, Lynch, Hammett, Van Halen, Rhoads ... I know their is more but these guys I remember the most being on the cover of Guitar Mags.
Hey I love Lynch as much as any. He exposed me to some cool licks and great songs over my years of learning. I'm going to catch shit over this, but he is way over saturated with delay n reverb even though this song has tons of reverb and delay it's just too damn much. I'd like to here this song with 50% less effects. It would still work. With all the over coloring of his sound If he made a mistake you couldnt even tell. It's just too much. Lot of this sounds like mush. Hard to listen to this.....very hard, nonetheless he is still one of the greatest hard rock/metal players ever
It’s the palette 🎨. The delay and reverb is supposed to be too much. Something is happening. ( leave it up to your imagination) but it’s difficult to manipulate and control sound on the stage because of its properties. A smaller confined space is easier but a larger one with out walls is much more difficult!
Is George affected by focal dystonia? I think there's something absolutely uncomfortable about his playing (That thumb going crazy on the guitar neck, for example). Plus, the gloves are often used by musicians who suffers from it... :(
The mix isn't the best. Though the playing is of the highest grade. Kudos to the band.. Not much bottom end, can't her the kick drum and the bass is too low. Although it's still great to hear the recording. Live is always difficult to record.
I saw that same tour in Detroit; but we were ripped off big time. Dokken was one of the bands I was really looking forward to seeing that day. Unfortunatly Don and George were having one of their millionth feud; and while the band SOUNDED great; Lynch stayed so far away from the rest of the band; almost offstage, behind a curtain. It looked like 3 guys ON stage and one hiding...
