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Originally Posted by htismaqe
I think the single most-interesting factoid about Lynch is that he once auditioned for Ozzy and in the process, it was discovered he couldn't read or write music. Lynch said he visualizes the fretboard in shapes (I believe Stevie Ray Vaughan once said he did the same thing).
In a decade where Lynch's contemporaries were all into advanced theory and studying at music institutes, he couldn't even read notes on a staff...
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Which made it pretty hilarious on that instructional video he did.
I once saw Lynch do a clinic here in Topeka about 10 years ago. The guy could hardly remember any solos from his Dokken days. And you could tell he was just wingin' it a lot. But he is good a noodling.
Lynch was the main reason why I got into Dokken back in the 80s. He was my main guitar idol for a long time. I had all the Dokken records and the first 3 Lynch Mob ones as well (yes, even the one with rap).