George Lynch had a conversation with Anne Erickson of Audio Ink Radio where he talked about playing selective shows around the U.S. with his new band George Lynch & The Electric Freedom.
Here’s what the guitarist said:
“It’s liberating, actually, to be quite honest with you. To have a new band and a new name and a name that — I mean, just the power of the name, ’cause with the new name, which is George Lynch & The Electric Freedom, it really is electric freedom. I didn’t even think of it that way, but [EF bassist] Michael Devin and I were talking the other day on the way home, and we were, like, ‘This really defines the band.’ And it really does. Because we’re plugged in, we do a lot of kind of just off-the-cuff improvisation during our show, which you don’t see very much in rock and roll anymore — not since the ’70s. And we’re big fans of that; that’s what we were raised on.
”So it’s, I think, more alive and vital than your kind of average thing where you go see a band and they’re playing songs they wrote 35 years ago. And sure, it’s great — you wanna hear the songs, and that’s all good. But these guys have been flogging these songs for decades. I’ve been doing that too. And that’s not what I’m about. I mean, I can do it.
”But I like to bring the audience another perspective and another dimension to what can happen on stage, and that is the creative moment in real-time — experiencing that and witnessing that, and for me to play that and the band to play that… And I think the crowd appreciates that. And not just at the moment, but more in retrospect, when they think about it. They think, ‘Wow, actually, that was pretty cool.’ Every time you come see my band, it’s gonna be different. It’s gonna be different members [and] we’re gonna play different material.”