Chad Bowar: Tell me about your new album.
George Lynch: It's Furious George. I did it with my band. It's got Kelly Keeling on vocals, who's been working with Foreigner as well. Jeff Martin is on drums and backing vocals. He's from Badlands and Racer X. Mark Anderson is on bass from Lizzy Borden. I did it as a fun project, not necessarily something that I was going to spend a year laboring over, but something I could solo over and have a great time and not be in complete stress over.
How were the songs selected?
It was me and the label. We started with a huge list of stuff. We ended up deciding we needed to focus on a certain genre and a certain era. We let go a lot of blues-based stuff, a lot of aggressive stuff, funky stuff, R&B stuff that the label felt was blurring the lines of what we were trying to stay. We got it down to a short list. Half these songs were songs that I did in my earlier bands when I was growing up. I was also the singer in those bands.
How come you don't sing anymore?
Oh, I couldn't really sing. Back then we these P.A. systems that were so bad nobody knew I couldn't sing. I was going through the motions and was surprising myself.
With Kelly's obligations to Foreigner, are you going to be able to tour this summer?
There's some things in the works. We did 42 dates in 47 days already. I'm not sure we're going to do anything else.
Will there be another Lynch/Pilson album?
I don't really think so. At this point I'm just using my own name. Lynch Mob and everything else is not functioning at this moment. I'm just keeping it George Lynch.
