Saw Lynch/Schenker this weekend...

[toddstaples]

Took a drive from Phoenix and Saw lynch/Schenker this weekend at Galaxey Theater in Costa Mesa California. I have to say, I went into Lynch with open ears as a few people around here had been Bashing Lynch, saying he has lost it recently.
For the first few songs, I had to agree. He was sloppy, Missing notes, and just not the GL I remember. I wanted to leave.....
Then about 1/3 of the way thru the set, somthing happened. He started enjoying himself. Getting into it. He started getting into the rockstar pose (legs spread wide) and He just started Ripping...... I was florred. How could he turn this trainwreck around??
By the end of his set, I belived it was 1992 again....
No one in Lynch's band could of been a day over 23, which itself was a little amusing.

Then Michael Schenker came out.
All I can say is, He Still has it.

Anyway, I came out happy, as did most of the people there.....
Now I gotta go Practice.:ROTF: :ROTF:

[skorb]

what was Schenker's appearance like? did he have the beard still?
sunglasses?

did he look like shit (as he has in recent years)? or has he pulled his stuff together?

[toddstaples]

No beard, looked good. He seemed like he was pulling it together. When I left, he was in a Booth doing a Meet and great for a Loooong line of people. (It was 2 am at this point and I had been up over 24 hours.)
I didnt Stay for that...:ROTF:

[khabibissell]

That is GREAT to hear. Schenker is supposed to be here on the 6th, and I can hardly wait.

[missionguitars1]

No beard, looked good. He seemed like he was pulling it together. When I left, he was in a Booth doing a Meet and great for a Loooong line of people. (It was 2 am at this point and I had been up over 24 hours.)
I didnt Stay for that...:ROTF:

I was supposed to go, but the idea of driving back at 2 or 3 am to San Diego wasn't that appealing to me. Besides, gonna see him tonight down here!

[horns666]

That's cool Todd, nice to hear that GL redemed himself that night..now you heard what I heard a couple years ago. I seen George play many times back in the day...and always came out smokin'!!

Schenker NEVER has a bad moment..that dude breathes and shits music..just like Uli.

[toddstaples]

Hahaha
for the first 20 minutes or so, All I could think was, "Damn, Horns was right......":ROTF: :ROTF:

[horns666]

Hahaha
for the first 20 minutes or so, All I could think was, "Damn, Horns was right......":ROTF: :ROTF:

See, I don't lie...I was a big fan of his!!

Unfortunately, neither him or his band rocked the night I saw him..I had to bail, because it really bummed me out!

Good to hear that he can be on his game..when the mood strikes.

[skorb]

Schenker NEVER has a bad moment..that dude breathes and shits music..just like Uli.

sadly, that has not exactly been the case the last few years, he's been hammered drunk on stage a number of times and fucking up songs at a few shows. this occurred last year in Japan for sure and caused a big stink where half his band quit because of a show he could not finish.

I'm a lifelong MS fan, so I guess I gotta take the bad w/ the good. he's mostly ON though, as you noted.

[missionguitars1]

I was supposed to go, but the idea of driving back at 2 or 3 am to San Diego wasn't that appealing to me. Besides, gonna see him tonight down here!

The 3 guys that I were supposed to go with all bailed, so ever-the-warrior, I say to myself "Screw them - I'm goin' solo".

4 hours later: I wake up on my couch after falling asleep watching some TV. Show was probably over by this time.

Being 40 sucks.

[horns666]

sadly, that has not exactly been the case the last few years, he's been hammered drunk on stage a number of times and fucking up songs at a few shows. this occurred last year in Japan for sure and caused a big stink where half his band quit because of a show he could not finish.

I'm a lifelong MS fan, so I guess I gotta take the bad w/ the good. he's mostly ON though, as you noted.

yeah, I heard about his drinking..he looked hammered the last time I saw him, he also looked homeless ..but he played his ass off!

[Venomboy]

Schenker has had PLENTY of bad moments over the last decade. When I saw him perform at the same show with Lynch during NAMM he was okay, nothing special. There was no fire to his playing. A guy on another forum I visit said he just saw Schenker and he definitely wasn't playing his best.

I saw Schenker in 1984 and he tore it up. I saw him with UFO a few times in the 90s and he was on and off. The guy is a flat out looney tunes come to life. I have a friend who got the scoop on Schenker from some of his bandmates. He's freakin crazy.

[RandyRhoads]

Gotta love George Lynch!!!

I don't care when people knock the guy (most of them don't even have HALF the talent George does).

Actually, does anyone know if George has ever used the red Jackson in this picture (if you can tell what it is), or if it was just a prop for the photoshoot?

http://www.georgelynch.com/images/gallery/geo18.jpg

[Joe_Steeler]

Damn!! two of my all time favorite players.
Saw Lynch on a clinic about a month ago, he tore it up!! Cool guy to talk to as well.

[Rupe]

Those were mostly prop guitars in that pic.