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Biography Lynch Was Born In Spokane Washington And Raised Near Sacramento California. He Is A Highly Respected Modern Guitarist Often Compared With Other Guitar Heroes Such As Randy Rhoads Steve Vai Andy Timmons Eddie Van Halen Joe Satriani John Petrucci And Yngwie J. Malmsteen. Citation Needed Lynch Is Well Known For His Famous Legato Technique And Common Use Of The Scale He Calls The 'Gothic Octave'. Twice Lynch Auditioned For The Position Of Ozzy Osbourne's Lead Guitarist Once In 1979 – Losing To Randy Rhoads – And Another Time In 1982 To Replace Brad Gillis. According To Lynch He Was Hired For Three Days Before Ozzy Changed His Mind And Decided To Go With Jake E. Lee. Lee However Claims That Lynch "got The Gig But Only Went On The Road For Two Weeks To Watch The Show And Never Actually Played With Ozzy." Lynch Played In A Late 1970s Band Called The Boyz Working The Sunset Strip Clubs In Hollywood Alongside Van Halen And Quiet Riot. The Boyz Also Featured Future Dokken Drummer Mick Brown Bassist Monte Zufelt And Vocalists Lisa Furspanker And Greg Sanford. Their Sound And Lynch's Playing Were So Similar To Van Halen That One Of Their Demos Was Circulated As A "pre-Roth Van Halen Recording". The Boyz Were Set To Play A Showcase For Gene Simmons And His Startup Label But Van Halen Opened The Show And Simmons Opted Not To Stay And See The Boyz. Lynch Subsequently Formed Xciter Before Joining Dokken. Lynch Came To Fame In The 1980s Through His Work As The Lead Guitarist In The Band Dokken Whom He Had Been A Member Of Since The Late 1970s . Dokken Had A String Of Successful Platinum Albums Such As "Under Lock And Key" And "Back For The Attack" That Prominently Featured Lynch's Inventive Lead Guitar Work And Cemented His Reputation As A Bonafide Guitar Hero. The Instrumental Track "Mr Scary" On Back For The Attack Contributed To His Popularity Among Guitar Players. The Band Earned A Grammy Nomination For The "best Rock Instrumental" In 1989... In Spite Of The Band's Popularity Lynch Left Dokken In 1988 Due To Internal Tensions With Lead Vocalist Don Dokken. Lynch Formed His Own Hard Rock Band Lynch Mob Which Differed From Dokken In Lyrical Complexity Subject Matter Song Structure Guitar Complexity And Tuning And A Notably Different Approach To Vocal Harmony Than Dokken's Soaring Harmonies. In 1993 Lynch Released His First Solo Album Sacred Groove. By 1994 After The Record Company Refused To Release A New Dokken Album Without George Lynch On Guitar He And Don Dokken Set Aside Their Differences And Dokken Reformed With Their Classic Lineup. Dokken Released Two Albums And A Video During This Period But Lynch Still Found Time To Tour With His Own Band Appear At Guitar Clinics For ESP Guitars And Attend The Annual NAMM Show. By 1997 Tensions Had Again Flared Over Creative Differences And Lynch Quit The Band To Pursue Other Projects. Lynch Was Replaced By Reb Beach And Eventually Others And Dokken Continued Without His Involvement. Lynch Reformed Lynch Mob And Released An Album With A Radically New Style Influenced By Modern Souding Bands With An Interesting And New Approach. The Tour Attracted A Younger Audience.Lynch Mob Then Recorded An Album Of Re-Recorded Classic Lynch Songs From Dokken Or Lynch Mob Albums Updated To A More Contemporary Post-2000 Approach And Sound. He Also Formed A Project With Former Dokken Bassist Jeff Pilson Called 'Lynch/Pilson'- Wicked Underground. In 2003 Lynch Formed The 'The George Lynch Group' In Which He Has Continued To Record And Regularly Tour. The George Lynch Group Performed A Marathon 26 Shows In 30 Days Including A Much Talked About Feature On The Tonight Show With Jay Leno. The Line-Up Is George Lynch - Guitars Andrew Freeman - Vocals Vinny Appice Black Sabbath/Dio - Drums Marten Andersson Lizzy Borden/Starwood/Legacy - Bass. The 2005's "Furious George" Album Is A Cover Album Including Classic Rock Tunes From ZZ Top Jimi Hendrix The Beatles Ac/DC Or Led Zeppelin. A New Long Awaited All-Instrumental Album Is Currently In Progress. 2008
Let The Truth Be Known Was Released Under The Band Name Souls Of We In 2008 And Features The Line-Up Of London LeGrand Vocals Johnny Chow Bass And Yael Drums And A Myriad Of Guest Contributions. Lynch Embarked On A Tour In The Early Fall Of 2008 With A Reformed Lynch Mob Featuring Original Singer Oni Logan Bassist Marco Mendoza And Drummer Scot Coogan. 2009A New Lynch Mob Album Titled Smoke And Mirrors Was Released In October 2009 With Logan Handling Lead Vocals. Lynch Recorded Lead And Rhythm Guitar Tracks In 2009 For Seven Songs That Appear On The Debut Album Of Rock Singer Raven Quinn. George Lynch And Jeff Pilson Joined Mick Brown And Don Dokken For Two Songs During An Encore At A Dokken Show At The House Of Blues In Anaheim On November 29 2009. Lynch Subsequently Announced A Reunion Of Dokken's "glory Days" Line-Up But The Announcement Was Retracted Lynch Released A Statement On His Website Claiming That Don Did Not Want The Reunion To Occur. 2010
The Self-Published Raven Quinn Album Was Released March 4 2010.The Self-Published Album Was Released March 4 2010. Lynch Toured The Spring Of 2010 With Souls Of We And Spent The Summer And Winter Touring With Lynch Mob. In The Summer Of 2010 Souls Of We Changed Their Line-Up And Were Forced To Discontinue With The Name. Lynch Appeared On A Tribute Album Siam Shade Tribute For Japanese Rock Band Siam Shade In 2010. 2011
T & N Was Formed From 3/4 Of The Classic Dokken Line-Up Lynch Jeff Pilson And Mick Brown. They Announced Plans For A Studio Album To Be Released In 2012. The Trio's Original Name Was Tooth & Nail. Tooth & Nail Was Shortened To T & N In March 2012. The Band Released The Album Slave To The Empire On October 31 2012. Recent Activities
Lynch Announced Plans For A Documentary Movie Shadowtrain Under A Crooked Sky About The Destruction Of The Native American Community In The Fall Of 2011. 17 A Crowd-Funding Campaign Was Launched In March 2013 To Complete The Project. The Movie Was Still A Work In Progress As Of Late 2014 . Lynch Put Together Shadowtrain Featuring Documentary Filmmaker And Drummer Vincent Nicastro Pueblo Native American Vocalist Gregg Analla Tribe Of Gypsies Slaviour Seventhsign Ex-Lynch Mob Bassist Gabe Rosales And Keyboardist Donnie Dickman. Lynch's All-Star Project With Vocalist/bassist Doug Pinnick And Drummer Ray Luzier Known As KXM Released Its Debut In 2014. Lynch Announced Another Project The Infidels With Pancho Tomaselli Sal Rodriguez And Rapper Sen Dog. Lynch Completed An Album With Stryper Frontman Michael Sweet Only To Rise Released On January 27 2015 On Frontiers Records Under The Name Sweet & Lynch. The Recording- Line-Up Features James Lomenzo And Brian Tichy On Bass And Drums. The Duo Released A Second Album Unified On November 10 2017. Lynch Teamed Up With Living Colour Vocalist Corey Glover To Form The Side Project Ultraphonix Releasing The Album Original Human Music In 2018. In 2019 Lynch Reunited With Former Dokken Bassist Jeff Pilson In The Band The End Machine. The Band Released Their Self-Titled Debut In 2019 And Released Their Second Album The End Machine Phase 2 In 2021. According To A 2021 Interview With Pariah Burke The Band Is An Intentional Return To Lynch's Classic Sound. 24 In 2020 The Dirty Shirley Album Was Released With Two Singles Preceding. Lynch Paired With Emerging Croatian Rock Star Vocalist Dino Jelusic Animal Drive . In 2022 Lynch Announced His Touring Backing Band The Electric Freedom With Andrew Freeman Last In Line On Lead Vocals Rob De Luca Spread Eagle Skid Row UFO On Bass And Jimmy D’Anda Ex-BulletBoys . George Currently Lives Near Los Angeles And Aside From Embracing Body Building Created An Instructional Guitar Website Named The "Guitar Dojo". Lynch Has Been An Endorser Of ESP Guitars Since 1986. His Famed Skull And Bones Guitar Affectionately Named "Mom" Is One Of The Most Famous In Modern Rock And Was Designed And Handcrafted By A Friend The Neck Was Given By ESP . Several George Lynch Signature Guitars Have Been Produced By ESP Japan Since Then - The Kamikaze Model Based On His First ESP Guitar
- The Tiger Model A Replica Of A Home Made Strat George Realised In 1980
- The Skull And Snakes AKA "Hodgi Goes To Hades" A Design That Was Later Used As The Lynch Mob "Wicked Sensation" Album Artwork
- The Flame Boy Is Based On A ESP Forest Design
- The New Super V Includes Distressed Hardware And Features And A New "super V" Pickup Equipment These Guitars Are Still Avalaible From ESP Japan. The Flame Boy And Super V Also Exists In A Less Expensive LTD Version. Seymour Duncan Created For George Lynch The Screaming Demon Guitar Pickup SH-12 Sand TB-12 Featured On All The ESP Lynch Signature Guitars Series. This Pickup Is One Of Their Best Sellers. They Also Recently Designed The New Super V Pickup To Be Featured In The Super V Model. This Pickup Can Be Ordered Form The Seymour Duncan Custom Shop. His Immoderate Use Of Marshall Soldano Bogner & Diezel Amps And Effects Units To Achieve His Famous Tone Is Well Known In Rock Guitar Circles. His Rig Changes On Every Tour. Lynch Currently Endorses Randall Amplification And Participated In The Design Of A New George Lynch Box For Their Modular Amp System. While On Tour In 2005 He Has Used The Randall Dragon Non Master Volume Tube Head For The Majority Of His Sound. The Design Is Very Similar To The Older Marshall Plexi Heads That He Used Early On In Dokken. A Morley A/B Box Called The Tripler Is Also Avalaible. It Includes A Boost. Lynch Is Endorsing The Handcrafted Yamaha L-Series Acoustic Guitars And Is On A Asian 'Unplugged' Except For A Marshall Stack Clinic Tour May/June 2006. Lynch Has Also Designed A New High-Nickel Content String Through The Dean Markley Company To Be On The Market Soon But His Name Will Not Be On The Package. Discography With Dokken
Breaking The Chains 1983 Tooth And Nail 1984 Under Lock And Key 1985 Back For The Attack 1987 Beast From The East 1988 Dysfunctional 1995 One Live Night 1996 Shadowlife 1997 From Conception Live 1981 2007 Return To The East Live 2016 The Lost Songs 1978—1981 2020 With Lynch Mob
Wicked Sensation 1990 Lynch Mob 1992 Syzygy 1998 Smoke This 1999 Evil Live 2003 REvolution 2003 REvolution Live! 2006 Smoke And Mirrors 2009 Unplugged Live From Sugarhill Studios 2013 Sun Red Sun 2014 Rebel 2015 The Brotherhood 2017 Solo Releases
Sacred Groove 1993 Will Play For Food 2000 Stone House 2001 The Lynch That Stole Riffness! 2002 Furious George 2004 The Lost Anthology 2005 Guitar Slinger 2007 Scorpion Tales 2008 Orchestral Mayhem 2010 Kill All Control 2011 Legacy EP 2012 Shadow Train 2015 Seamless 2021 With Udo Lindenberg - Keule 1982 With Hear 'n Aid - Stars 1986 With Tony MacAlpine - Maximum Security 1987 With Lynch/Pilson - Wicked Underground 2003 & Heavy Hitters 2020 With Xciter - Xciter 2006 With Lana Lane - Gemini 2006 With Souls Of We - Let The Truth Be Known 2008 With George Lynch & The Stahlwerksinfonie Orchestra - Christmas / Sarajevo 2009 With Raven Quinn - Raven Quinn 2010 With Willie Basse - Break Away
With T & N - Slave To The Empire 2012 With KXM - KXM 2014 Scatterbrain 2017 & Circle Of Dolls 2019 With Sweet & Lynch - Only To Rise 2015 & Unified 2017 With Project Nfidelikah - Project Nfidelikah 2016 With Ultraphonix - Original Human Music 2018 With The End Machine - The End Machine 2019 & The End Machine Phase 2 2021 With Dirty Shirley - Dirty Shirley 2020 OFFICIAL ARTIST WEBSITE Http //www.Georgelynch.Com

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