George Lynch: don dokken and george won't be getting married anytime soon

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01-08-2008:
Don Dokken explains what didn't work in Dokken with George Lynch in this interview with Eddie Trunk:

Dokken: It was a sad show, because it showed the band still had the magic. I thought, “Okay, we’re off to a good roll here. Jeff, Mick, and I wrote that album Dysfunctional without George. He came in at the last second when it was done and put some solos on it. It was our project. We did One Live Night to break it in slow and then we did the tour and some shows with Bon Jovi. Then the whole thing just imploded again for the same fuckin’ reasons. George just doesn’t know how to be a team player. It’s not in his nature.

KNAC.com: Around that time I saw you guys play in a club in San Diego, the Bacchanal, and it seemed like you were already splitting apart again.

Dokken: Yep. Over petty stuff, too. George had his own drug. He went through his steroid phase and that was really bizarre, because it makes you angry and hostile. I remember toward the end of that tour I literally went out and bought a can of mace (laughs). “You come over here and start smacking that guitar and I’m gonna mace you.” That’s when I said, “I can’t live like this. I gotta go. I’m out.” Jeff and Mick went with me because they finally realized that it wasn’t just Don. It was always Don, Don, Don, but when Jeff got clean off a really bad drug and alcohol problem they realized it’s not me and I didn’t have to defend myself anymore. It wasn’t like it was just George and me. It was a personality conflict. It just couldn’t go on. George and I didn’t get along from the day he joined the band. It wasn’t like we got along and then it fell apart. He never wanted to be in Dokken from the get go. But you gotta remember where he came from, even though he’s a great guitar player.

Then this supportive George Lynch is a really great guy comment and ringing endorsement:

Dokken: I’m not going there. I don’t want to end up like George Lynch, playing clinics at Guitar Center. I’d rather go out on a high note. I don’t want to end up at Joe’s Pizzeria…and I won’t. Will we ever be as big as Bon Jovi? No. Do we have our legacy? Yes. I’d like people to go out with a fond memory of us in the glory of our arena stage, or even a club, rather than headlining a puppet show.