When George set out to accomplish the tour following the recording of "Wicked Sensation" album, he wanted to recreate the tone he acquired in the studio. And just like the previous "Back For The Attack" tour, there was another massive back line wall of Marshalls. Again, this was a mask to hide the actual functioning rig located at the far left side of the stage. For most of the tour, George's guitar pumped through two main amps, the Engl and the Soldano. "The Engl heads have got a great top end and a great sustain; I don't have to use and overdrive pedals with them. I use the Soldano because it adds a little more beef to the tone of the Engls," said George. Halfway through the tour in true Lynch fashion, George once again changed his mind and swapped out the Engle’s for his old marshals. “The Marshall/Saldano SLO 100 combo was a great, thick beefy tone. I could have stuck with that forever and I have been content but nooo…

Also in tow on this tour rig were two 22-space racks with "way too much expensive shit." Included in this rig was a Custom Audio Electronics Switching System made by Bob Bradshaw that was hardly even used.

"The Bradshaw ”Tone sucker” switching system cost me $4500, but I don't use it. I use an A/B switcher that cost me $50.The other problem with the Bradshaw system was it was so complex you had to hire a NASA rocket scientist just to program the damn thing. I don’t like using things I don’t have some form of control over and understanding of." Which might explain why George has been divorced 3 times.

Within these racks, there were only two primary pieces of gear employed for this live touring setup. An ADA Digitizer 4 programmable delay/chorus and a Roland SDE 3000 delay. For one song, a Boss OC-2 Octave pedal thickened things up. Again, Lynch shows how simplicity is always the key to good tone. This is obviously the lesson that we’re gathering from reading through these 600 pages of gear that George has used over the past 2 ½ decades. Yes, simpler definitely is better.

With his relationship with ESP now more solidified, George's main guitars on this tour included the purple sunburst tiger, the desert Kamikaze, and Hajji, all fitted with the new Seymour Duncan Screamin' Demon pickup he co-designed.

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