Posted on 06/10/2002 1:59:16 PM PDT by GeneD
David Lee Roth is about to take over Howard Stearns slot in NYC, I beleive.
Nice. Ever try "Mr. Scary?"
George and Mick Brown (the drummer), were basically forced to work with Dokken. They had jammed with him once or twice, but didn't want to work with him. Dokken then took the songs that Lynch had written and got a record deal in Germany, of all places. Since he had no deal at the time, Lynch's hand was forced, so he threw in with Dokken. No wonder they didn't get along.
I thought I was in a time warp. "Didn't he already die? Oh. Old thread."
Lynch has amazing chops but that grinding Marshall sound that DiMartini and Crosby got, especially on the EP and the first 3 albums, is just ear-splitting. Listen to Back For More when the band kicks in after the acoustic guitar...like a sonic boom!
Dokken was good till Don became an a$$hole around the time "Back for the Attack" came out. The reunion albums in the 90s sucked helium.
Actually, all the 80s Dokken releases with Lynch were very very good. However, the first two Lynch Mob CD's are George's best work by far.
Some, but to be honest, with like 20 tracks on the recorded version, you basically have to be George Lynch to pull off a reasonable facsimile live.
I remember working through about half of it and it never sounded as cool as George's, so it got left by the wayside many years ago...although the opening "Crazy Train-ish" riff is fun to pound out.
Natural selection at work.
NO WAY!! I was wondering who would get that slot.
The thing about Halford though is he never wore it on his sleeve. He was gay, but so what, he sang and did his thing. Didn't feel the need to rub it in our faces like the modern gay crowd.
Well Mick and George were the true talents. Don was a good singer but really nothing spectacular.
Don't get me wrong, I was a big Dokken fan. Wore out "Under Lock and Key", back when you could actually wear those things out. It's just that Lynch Mob was so much better. Those guys would have been huge if they came out 10 years earlier. Even having to switch singers, those two records were great.
As a 12-18 year old, I liked metal, including Priest and Accept. Turns out they were gay.
If this trend continues, expect Robert Earle Keen, Jr, David Allan Coe, and Hot Tuna to come out of the closet any time now.
LOL!!
You almost couldn't tell the singers apart.
"Wicked Sensation" coulda been a big hit a few years earlier. I do remember it got a little airplay there for about a week or two.
he was born in my hometown of Akron, Ohio.
Round and Round really was a cool tune.
When WILL the madness end?
First Ray Charles, then that drummer in that rock band I cannot remember, then that guy from Molly Hatchet flirted with disaster one last time. I can hardly keep up with the death toll. Johnny Cash is dead and the Man in Black is not coming back. Maurice Gibb is getting Too Much Heaven and Not Enough Earth these days. Dirty 'Ol Bastard (we hardly knew ye Mr. Bastard) is pushing up watermelons. Stacy Lattisaw, Laura Branigan and Kirsty McCall are all dead. Everytime you turn around, somebody else in the music world is dying. That guy from that Australian band, that singer who did an awesome version of Neil Young's "Powderfinger" down that stadium that hot, muggy night so long ago. Half of McFadden & Whitehead is dead. So is half The Beatles and 1/5 of the Rolling Stones (or 1/6 if you want to include Ron Wood as a Stone).
When will the madness end?
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