Jeff Pilson and George started writing together in Oct of 2001 with the idea of doing what they had always talked about doing; keeping the great writing energy they had in Dokken and channeling that into a new band with Jeff out front on vocals and bass guitar. They had always talked about putting together a 3 piece that also had a jam element to it, (which is something they did a lot of while playing together in Dokken.)

It took 15 months to finally complete the record, which went through many rewrites, re-recordings, remixes and re mastering. There were also a lot of personal trials and tribulations associated with this record both individually and collectively for all three guys in the band, which made finishing the record, a real challenge.

George brought his good friend and drummer Mike "Fro" Frowein into the project and most the basic trax were done at Henson Recording Studios. Many of the overdubs and vocals were done at Jeff's personal studio, as was most of the pre production although many of the initial ideas for the LP songs came from George's Stonehouse studio jam sessions with Fro that occurred over the summer of 2001.

Mike Tacci engineered, (assistant engineer on "Wicked Sensation" 1990 One on One studios) and Mixed "Ever Higher", George's personal favorite song on the record. Jeff did a lot of the engineering on the record along with help of his production partner Tommy Hendrickson. Jeff also mixed "Awaken".

The balance of the record was mixed by German Villacorta.

Check out the gear section to get an idea of some of the gear that George used to make the LP record.

Microdot

When the LP project started to wind down I was in a pretty prolific creative space. I needed to keep writing and recording. Once you're in recording mode it's a very hard place to pry yourself away from it, (see: "get up and go on tour" page 69). I just wanted to barricade myself in dark, dingy studios and create mad scientist music. I met an engineer named Sean Fodor who was originally talking to Oni and I about working on the next Lynch Mob record. When that fell apart I asked Sean to work with me on something new. I just had no idea what it was! We worked together at "Me" studio in Studio City 6 days a week from 11am till whenever for a span of a couple of months and I came up with about a dozen new songs, some of it was very heavy and a little more outside and experimental than what I was used to and some it had almost a heavy R&B feel to it. Sean programmed drums and engineered while I wrote, played guitar and bass. It was a lot of fun and I have to give Sean props for being an incredibly hard worker, dedicated and full of good positive energy! Gabe Rosales came in a played bass on a couple of trax as well as Tracy Arrington. We eventually moved the project to Henson Recording Studios and replaced the programmed drums with real drums courtesy of Kevin Jackson. We actually had vocals on a couple of songs courtesy of London who then went on to play with Nikki Sixx and "Brides of Destruction"

Drums engineered by Mark Valentine assisted by Kevin Mills. Recorded by Sean Fodor.

Riffness

This project grew out of "Microdot". The idea was to rerecord 3 of the "Microdot" songs, add vocals and solos and release it Christmas of 2002 as an exclusive for the website. John Will supplied the vocals and Rob Brill and German Villacorta worked the board.

Lynch Mob REvolution

In late 2002 George was asked if he would like to produce and record a compilation record featuring reworked versions of older Lynch Mob and Dokken songs. George agreed and enlisted the help of veteran engineer Dave Reed. The idea was to take a minimalist approach to the recording and arrangements of the songs and to do the record entirely in analog in contrast to "LP", which was done entirely in Pro-Tools.

George and Drummer Mike Frowein spent a couple of days in the recording studio working out new arrangements. It was all done spontaneously and off the cuff. After the drums were tracked George thought this record might serve as a great vehicle for reforming Lynch Mob so Anthony Esposito, Robert Mason and George reunited in the studio after more than 10 years apart and enlisted the help again of super drummer Mike Frowein to round out the line up.

George used his ESP baritone and tuned to B for all but one song. The recording was very straight up and simple. All real drums, no samples, a couple of dry rhythm guitar tracks and a solid bass track, which Anthony wanted pretty growly and grungy. Robert came in after all the instruments were tracked and banged out his vocals in just a few days. Robert's amazing to watch in the studio. He can do just about anything he wants to with his voice.

The band spent a total of 3 months in the studio but much of that time was spent mixing. The "REvolution" record was released on Cleopatra Records in April of 2003 and will see release in Japan in August of 2003. It's also slated to come out in Europe by the end of the year.