Richie Faulkner has the perfect guitarist to introduce to aliens looking for shred.
“Dude, how do I define shred? I think we’ve kind of talked about him the whole interview,” the rocker replied when asked to define shred in his chat with Masters of Shred. “His name kept coming up. If aliens were to come down and say what is shred guitar, you’d have to show him George Lynch.”
Faulkner went on to say, “I mean that was kind of what I define. It keeps coming up. There’s so many people in there but he keeps coming up so I’d say he probably helped at least define the shred era and continues to. He continues to go out there and dominate.”
Former Dokken guitarist George Lynch is Faulkner’s father-in-law. George’s daughter, Mariah Lynch, is his wife. In an interview with Ultimate Guitar last year, Richie was asked whether he had the opportunity to jam with Lynch.
He responded, “Yeah, we did. We have a couple of times. Whenever George comes over to the house, it always ends up in a guitar conversation, and we end up on YouTube watching our favorite guitar players together.”
The musician continued, “We watched Michael Schenker, and it makes you want to put the guitar down. It makes you not want to play anymore. People like Eric Johnson come into the conversation, and we start watching Eric play, and it makes you just want to give up. Both of us! We just say the same thing.”
“He was in Nashville just after Christmas with us. We went guitar shopping. He’s a great resource of information. He’s also a unique guitar player like Glenn is. And it’s great to pick his brain about how he does things and how he gets inspired. So, he’s a great teacher, as well as who he is,” Faulkner further shared.
Faulkner has many scheduled shows with Judas Priest in 2025. They will perform in South America in April and May. Then, the band will move towards Europe for more gigs.
