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"I said, 'This is our last show.' He said OK. We never, ever talked about why it was so easy to break up the band." The curious story of the thinking man's hair metal band, and where it all went wrong

Two million sales. A dizzying rise. And a cataclysmic fall

Louder

“In the ’80s,MTVbuttered our bread. But after Kurt Cobain wore his grandfather’s sweater in the video forSmells Like Teen Spirit, there was no place on MTV for bands like us and Mötley Crüe”: The life and death of the thinking person’s hair metal band

Two top 10 hits and two million album sales couldn't save them

MusicRadar

“I saw Ace Frehley bending backwards doing a solo. That’s when it clicked with me: ‘I wanna be a rock guy now!’” Inspired by Kiss, Metallica and Dokken, DRAIN’s Cody Chavez is the hardcore hero who isn’t afraid to shred

The Jackson die-hard thought he’d never be good enough to solo – then he surprised himself. He explains how his playing on new album …IS YOUR FRIEND was influenced by Dimebag Darrell, James Hetfield – and one specific George Lynch guitar solo

Guitar World

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“My wife has told me, ‘I see from the outside that you can’t stop. This is who you are, this is what you do’”: George Lynch on resurrecting his band, what it would take for him to go back to blues, and chasing that elusive masterpiece

Returning with another Lynch Mob album – despite attempts to ditch the name – the Dokken guitarist reflects on his bad decisions, what went wrong with the original lineup, and the ongoing hunt for his own Band of Gypsys

Guitar World

“I made a critical mistake 35 years ago, and I try to walk away from it, but I end up coming back”: Why George Lynch is back with his band

Just when he thought he was out, they pulled him back in. Or something like that, as new album Dancing with the Devil finds the former Dokken alpha-shredder chasing lightning in bottle

Guitar World

Two top 10 hits and two million album sales couldn't save them

MusicRadar

“Any kind of extended solo, my left arm would just cramp up. It was frozen. I was definitely overdoing it”: George Lynch opens up about his bodybuilding days – and how it impacted his guitar playing

Lynch discusses the ramifications of bodybuilding, noting that the pressure to look good on stage was akin to a Faustian bargain

Guitar World

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“You had big everything. Big drugs, big money, big parties. And it’s all free, the more the merrier”: The fast rise, sudden fall and messy afterlife of glam metal heroes Ratt

Ratt were kings of the 80s hair metal scene, only for it all to go very wrong

Metal Hammer

"I had to metal my way out of town": Someone's made a film about a hockey-playing, Dokken-loving metalhead and we're definitely up for it

The trailer for Deaner '89 is online now

Metal Hammer

“If I’m working with another person watching me, I feel like I have to make them happy. When I’m alone, if I f**k up, I can say ‘F**k it’ and go home”: George Lynch is done with big studios – and he won’t build a Mr. Scary guitar for Michael Sweet

On their latest collaborative effort, Sweet & Lynch sought to channel classic Dokken – although Lynch reckons the best tracks recorded for Heart & Sacrifice might just be the ones that got rejected…

Guitar World

Peavey denies using prison labor to build guitar amps following resurfaced George Lynch allegations

The Dokken guitarist and former Peavey artist first made the allegations while on a podcast in 2018

Guitar World

Sweet & Lynch: "We're proving to the world that even if you're polar opposites, you can still work together"

Strip survivor and Sweet & Lynch frontman Michael Sweet on keeping the faith, hitting the high notes and preventing fan suicides

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