Yeah that would be George saying that Randy said that. Imagine that!

Yes! Seeing the 3 Amigos in the early days would be Epic.

George didn’t get the gig with Ozzy because he had short hair by that time.

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@@kenoneal3169 What's "66" supposed to mean?

George has more talent in his left hand pinky finger than many guitarists have overall.

Mr scary.... Some guitarists float.... George puts the guitar in a headlock and chokes it to death.... He'd regularly do the same to Don Dokken 😀

@Douglas Aprile I've been playing on and off for decades and I wondered the same thing. But recently, it's started happening for me gradually. I don't know music theory and I just stare at a map of the fretboard with every note labeled and I'm immediately overwhelmed. So I started off learning just the notes in one key. I picked Em to start, because then all of the open strings can be played in solos, since E-A-D-G-B-E are all in the key of Em. So this opens up the opportunity for you to do lots of hammer-ons and pull-offs. Next I located every E note on the fretboard (there are somewhere around 10 of them on a 24 fret guitar) so that I could wrap up each measure or phrase of the backing track by returning to E. Then I just started randomly playing notes in the key of Em along with a backing track I found here on KZfaq. In my opinion, some of the best backing tracks are on the KZfaq channel called Now You Shred. So pick one that's in Em. Record yourself randomly noodling to the backing track each evening and then listen to your recordings the next day, while you're driving or whatever. You'll start to hear little riffs and phrases that you accidentally created that sound good. So go back to your guitar and figure out how you played each of them. It helps if you video tape yourself playing, but an audio recording is better than nothing. These will be your signature phrases (although in reality, they've probably been used by others, but they can be yours too). As you do this, night after night, you'll find yourself gradually replacing the playing of random notes with stringing your signature phrases together in different combinations. You'll be pleasantly surprised at how you start sounding and you'll get cleaner and faster at your signature phrases. The next step is to be listening (in the background) to the backing track while you're soloing. So if you know the main melody of the backing track is going to be going up in tone (ascending), then pick one of your signature phrases that moves upward. If you keep doing all of this, you will eventually start to be able to play a rough approximation of that glorious solo that you hear in your head. I'm not yet at the place of being able to play exactly what's in my head, but I'm inching closer. It's the most exciting breakthrough I've made in learning guitar. I'd seen this George Lynch video years ago and it really stuck with me because I thought that I should return to it at some point, once I can solo better, so that I can make my sound more unique. So next I'll be experimenting with sharping and flatting random notes in the Em scale, like George recommends here, and we'll see what happens. After that, I'll try weird modes that folks like Yngwie and Steve Vai play (Aolian, Phrygian, or a Demented 7th or whatever) and we'll see how that sounds. I spend an hour per night, an average of 4 nights a week, practicing like this and I'm really happy with the results. I have a long way to go (I need to learn all of the other keys, I don't use my pinky for soloing, I hold the guitar wrong, I can't sweep pick, etc.), but I'm already at a place where I enjoy playing so much more than I used to. Cheers!

Excellent description

No Shit............

Roland Marckwort that’s right. That’s way we love his style. So very good to hear him explain his thought process. Thx-

No one sounds like him.............except Warren DiMartini. hahahaha. JK I love them both

vuduhwy not really. Warren is a little more refined. I think George has a grittier style. Different vibrato.

Him , Warren di Martini are two tasty players .

Groove Duude I wouldn’t say DeMartini is “more refined,” but Warren has a more laid back, less radical style than George.

Lamo!!! Same here.

Lol

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

lmao, me too!

CentaurusRelax314 I heard plenty of them ,but this was 79 to whenever Dorkon,finally went on to open for everyone else. Imagine a 13 year old ,sitting with his Iceman and watching him basically do this for a half hour ,and all I had was a couple tapes of him playing away ,and that's when I left,but then he quit ,so I went back to Musonia,and the new teacher was Craig Turner,who was a GREAT teacher . George is who he is,but ,........that's all.

That's right. It's not rocket science. It's magic. Rock n Roll magic is real and some ppl have that gift. Never really appreciated his stuff what with Dokken but he really demonstrates something special here. Good stuff, and great tone.

Great thinkers make it look easy. They think a lot, only they can do it about 10 000 faster than you can. They are wired that way. They hear things in a split of a second you never can. It's's that simple.

Him and Eddie have been doing it for so long and have put SO much time into it that they don't have to think about it anymore. It's reflexive and instinctual by now.

I've been practicing in a more organic way lately where I don't focus on the patterns or eagle-eyeing the fretboard; I just play what feels natural and sounds good to me. Put another way, play any note and assemble them into a coherent phrase.

He could have been in Ozzy bands but jake Lee got the gigs instead

Underrated? Are you crazy, man? Wtf..

He was NEVER underrated!! George has always been at the top of the heap, and even the most casual guitarist knows that.

@@BrunoidGames Right!? George has always been one of those guitarists that is easily recognizable.

@@L4u84S Lynch is a legend since the 80s. Underrated is such an overrated word.

George needs to go rescue Jeff Beck. Jeff has gotten bored playing with the likes of EC and the rest, now he’s playing with Johnny Depp. He must really hate being at home. I think Jeff would find George to be a much more like-minded playing partner. Jeff’s style the last 10 years has been much closer to George’s more sonically driven metal than it is to traditional blues/rock. I posted a comment on George’s new Soldano video telling him he should give Jeff a holler. I’d pay just to get a copy of them jamming for an hour. 🤣

Facts

what i can see is tanning lotion in his fingers😂

what Aaron said........ I can't put a finger what it was about him and his sound but it hooked me immediately and I stayed hooked... If everything is true that I heard about his growing up near or in Colfax he woulda been right up the way maybe 20 miles up Interstate 80 from me... Wish it was something in the water hehehehe...

Underrated, are you serios? Just watch him jamming with other people, he is just bad.

Floyd Trollous Ok thanks, but we're talking guitar here, not your decision to come out to everybody.

Floyd Trollous Again, this is a video about guitar techniques. No one here is interested in your projected fantasies regarding black men.

Floyd Trollous More black man fantasies.

Floyd Trollous I bathe every day.

Right on!

Best comment of every single one on here.

juicehead2004 don’t forget Jeff Beck and Vitto Bratta.

Hell yeah!!!!

Exactly! 💯

Yeah, and I love how down the earth he is as well. He certainly has fingers large as hammers and he's got lot of strength in them. Plus the creative mind. All of that makes up for a great guitar player and personality that makes it never boring with him

dont forget randy rhoads him and lynch i read that they were good friends* legendary musicians

I mean his melanotan levels are off the chart!

And the hair dye...

😂😂😂😂

He was getting into competitive bodybuilding and that is the look.

Someone tell him to stop tanning with the guitar its cracking the hell out of the finish lol

Seymour Duncan JB !

@@The_Apothecary It's a Screaming Demon. But the tone is much more than the pickup.

@@BrunoidGames you know what that amp is he plays through? Never seen that one. Sound is really smooth

@@juhalehtonen9000 it's a Randall Lynchbox. Sounds incredible!

what, processed shit?? LOL

Chris Jordan I'm gonna throw in 80's Hammet & Vai as well.

Bo88y Beretta True

Jason Becker is the best

Vito Bratta was another good one from that era

Chris Jordan Marty Friedman, Chuck Shuldiner, Dave Mustaine.

i think he black man

He looks Native to me

Howard from Killswitch, the singer from Oceano are people of color in the metal scene. George is a really tan White guy, look at him when he was young.

Oliver Skatt, it's pretty tough working this one out.

Vernon reed, the band living color, tobias from animals as leaders, the singer from 7 dust, there are plenty people of color in rock ..darrius rucker rock and country

Agree 100%...from a fellow rocker from that era👍

@@Busyfingers24 heck yeah man... and it never gets old :-) I fear for the Young Generation, and all that's been lost. It seems like they have lost their identity or let it slip away. My own kids are pretty good, college educated and doing well... I wish I could take them all back to the 70s so they could see for themselves. Definitely happier back in the 70s and 80s

@@70stunes71 like the bumper sticker says...we may be old but we got to see all the cool bands🤘

Ace Frehley was really good too

2 Bands that sounded great live in the 80s. You were lucky.

Tooth and Nail is a great one!

Pretty much all it takes to be honest. So many guitarists find one mode or scale and run with it, then it becomes "their sound"

lol !!!!! she's right.

Steve Dunch hahaaahaaa Tom Hanks!

Run Forest, run.

Don Dokken is responsible for the Dokken sound which really worked when it’s applied to George’s style.

I've never heard Tom Hanks ripping pentatonic licks like that before but sure.., learn somethin new on uTube everyday.., cool!!

He’s a great guitar player but unfortunately thats where his greatness ends. Dokken could have made it HUGE if Lynch didnt tear the band apart. Dokken just needed 1 more album to blow up. Dokken would have blown up even without Lynch sued Don Dokken FOR USING HIS OWN LAST NAME FOR HIS OWN BAND. So Don Dokken had to change the bands name from “Dokken” to “Don Dokken” making it seem like a solo album. The truth is that Don Dokken assembled an avengers level lineup and was a full on amazing band, but they had to change the bands name and so their sales flopped

Agreed

Absolutely

+the devil cried They were also lots of cocaine back then too lol

Lynch is/was a hardcore bodybuilder,weight lifter. The old vid I saw he literally lived in the middle of the desert making guitars using wood that can kill you if you breath it.

he is in great shape !!!!!

it's all that California sunshine does wonders I mean I'm only 30 years old but I look 60 due to living in the UK it's too cold here

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Both are shredders.

Lolol I was thinking same thing

As he keeps saying BASIC ya looks basic

Notice how hes NOT sweep picking?? Cause hes that good

Hahhahhaahaha

That means you are a fan.

You like every thing about him, but not a fan? I like the same things, I am a fan, great guitarist and very original, you know it is Mr scary!!

so true. he is also the reason my pinky is my strongest finger! and my legato is wicked.

learn tab first then theory

EpictheEpicest Yeah alot if guys act like they are winging it. In reality guys like Vai play for 8 hours or more a day.

EpictheEpicest Have you seen the Marty Friedman video were he says he doesn't know what sweeps are and then plays sweeps in the same video?

Christopher Kaesemeyer Marty is a strange one. Very excentric. I was working for Paul Reed Smith guitars when they put out a run of his models. I was talking with another employee and he was saying Marty is clueless, not sure if on purpose, about guitar terms and parts on guitars. I guess some people just live to play and don't obsess about the terms.

He does it "unconsciously"

At a meet and greet, He was signing a guitar for me that had already been signed by Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and Eric Johnson, George quiped " boy, who's name doesn't belong on this guitar ".

I'll get you borrow my cane.... tha'ts still on my playlist

Adithyo Perdhana is he 85 or something?

Maple guitar bodies add to the bright tone.. and the weight haha