GEORGE LYNCH - "I've Got A Record With Jeff Pilson And Mick Brown; We Are Calling It TOOTH AND NAIL, That's DOKKEN Without Don"

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Posted on Tuesday, July 05, 2011 at 02:56:15 EST

Guitar legend George Lynch (LYNCH MOB, ex-DOKKEN) is featured in a new interview with Jeb Wright at Classic Rock Revisited. An excerpt is available below:



Jeb: The album coming out is called Kill All Control. It is officially a George Lynch solo album. As I understand it, this was not going to be the case. It was to be a SOULS OF WE album.

George: "It was a follow up to Let the Truth Be Known but we had some complications in the singer department and our record that was to take five weeks to finish ended up taking two years. We have four singers on it, which really turned out to be a happy accident. I have no regrets; we made it work. People seem to really dig the record so; somehow, it all seems to have worked out."

Jeb: Was all the music written but there was no singer?

George: "I write all my records that way. The vocals are always an afterthought. We basically laid all the music down. We got in a room for ten days and started jamming. We had no ideas; we just let it all flow and we captured it. We rehearsed it up a bit and we went in the studio for two weeks and we laid it all down. Then we spent the next two years working on vocals."

Jeb: I thought you were exaggerating that the vocals took two years. You’re serious.

George: "It really did. It is not that it takes that long to do the vocals but we had singers coming and going and things happened, like I had to go out on tour with Lynch Mob. It was a bunch of different things. It wasn’t that we worked for two straight years as everyone had to do other things to make a living. Plus, we had one singer out so we had to get the others and they had to learn the songs and that is a process. It was a bit of work."

Jeb: You mentioned that you have never done a solo, instrumental album. Will we ever really get that?

George: "It is on my radar from some point next year. It will probably not be early next year because I have a lot of other things in the pipeline. I’ve got a record I recorded all the music to with Jeff Pilson and Mick Brown. We are calling it TOOTH AND NAIL, that’s Dokken without Don. The record is called Dump The Chump."

Jeb: No way!

George: "Yeah. Don used to show up for rehearsals about half the time so it would just be the three of us with Jeff singing and we loved it. When the Dokken reunion was not going to happen we just said, 'Why don’t we just do this? This is way cooler.' Many years later, we are doing it and it is just for fun. It is half new material and it is half old Dokken material. We will finish that up around the end of the year because Jeff is busy with FOREIGNER and I am busy with several things."

Click here for the complete interview.



Kill All Control is set for release on July 19th through Rocket Science, Inc. The new track, 'Son Of Scary', is now streaming online at this location.

What began as a follow-up to the Souls Of We debut, Let The Truth Be Known, George quickly realized the project was taking on a new direction with the addition of POWERMAN 5000 drummer, Adrian Ost. While writing with Souls Of We singer, London LeGrand (BRIDES OF DESTRUCTION), George noted, “The creative juices flowed and we wrote most of the CD in 10 days.”

Kill All Control combines many of Lynch’s varied styles and histories, including a reflection back to earlier days which spawned a follow up to the instrumental Dokken track, 'Mr.Scary', called 'Son Of Scary', featuring Fred Coury of CINDERELLA on drums. Additional guests on the album include a variety of known singers. Will Marten (EARSHOT), Marc Torien (BULLETBOYS), and Keith St. John (MONTROSE) all joined in on the new album in which George hopes he was able “to create an eclectic listening experience for my fans.”

In 2009, George re-formed Lynch Mob and released Smoke And Mirrors, which resulted in an extended tour and the reuniting of the original Lynch Mob Line-up, to the delight of many fans. Lynch Mob are currently also working on a new album, due out later this year.

Lynch came to fame in the 1980s through his work as the lead guitarist in the band Dokken. Dokken had a string of successful platinum albums including Under Lock and Key and Back For The Attack, both of which featured Lynch’s inventive and intricate guitar work.

The tracklisting for Kill All Control is:

'Kill All Control'
'Brank New Day'
'Done'
'Flys On The Wall'
'Wicked Witch'
'Man On Fire'
'Voices In My Head'
'Resurrect'
'Here Comes The Sun'
'My Enemy'
'Son Of Scary'

Listen to the track 'Wicked Witch' at this location.