George Lynch: Son of Scary... a scary chip off the old block?

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Jeb: We have to talk about the song “Son of Scary.” Where did this come?

George: I have always thought about doing something completely new instrumentally, or an instrumental record, which I have never got around too.

The idea to do “Son of Scary” came from a few years ago when Guitar Hero called me and wanted to buy “Mr. Scary” and put it on Guitar Hero. I thought it was an honor that they would do that and I really wanted to see it happen. The thing is, that back in the Dokken days, I was a big proponent of splitting everything up equally. I wrote the song but I split the credits up equally. I didn’t realize that would give away control of the song as everyone owns it equally. Back in the day, when you’re coming up, you come from nothing and you have nothing, so if somebody wanted to use one of our songs and give us money then, of course, we would have all agreed to that. All these years later, there was one person in the band that, out of spite, wanted to block it, legally, even though they would have gotten a quarter of the money. Guitar Hero got scared away. The only thing left to do was to write another tune, so I got with Fred Coury and went to his studio and recorded “Son of Scary.” The ironic thing is that by the time we got around to doing it, Guitar Hero was out of business. more