Customer Reviews

Smoke This

5 star:		(12)
4 star:		(10)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(32)

 

 

The greatness of Mr Scary has taken a complete 360! His sound is now a hybrid of metal,hip-hop,and rap. There are about 4 songs that are enjoyable to me, the rest can go to file 13. Do not get me wrong, I am a huge Lynch fan(the guy is a mastermind on the fretboard), just do not like this cd very well. I will give it to George for getting enough nerve and trying a new sound. He knew he would lose some fans and gain some new ones. If all the songs on the album had the punch of "Hollow" or "What Do You Want", this might be a 5 star cd. If all you old school Lynch/Dokken fans want to hear the stuff George is respected for, he has a new instrumental cd coming out first part of next year. I think it will put a lot of the criticism and negativity to rest! Thank heaven for George Lynch, new or old style!

I still can't believe how horrible this CD is. The one long review here had to be written by either a syncophant of George's or a relative. For God sakes, how can anyone find anything redeaming about this slop? Loved the first 2 Lynch Mob CD's and George Lynch solo. Love all he has done after he learned his lesson on this. You can "rap all ya want" about George and his great vision but you didn't see him do another like this now did ya?

I can't even find anything good to say about this other than I was glad I got some fool to BUY IT and there isn't enough space here or time on my part to list all the bad. Most notably, terrible songs, terrible rap singer from Compton or other highly African-American hang out, large absense of classic George Lynch guitar and solos, it just BLOWS DONKEY YOU KNOW WHAT!!! I am glad George stopped smoking whatever he was smoking when he made "Smoke This" and I am sure it makes Don Dokken laugh his ass off even today when he puts one of these songs on. Not to say Don hasn't hit some foul balls in the last decade of his own albums but Don's worst is at least listenable. This is just k-rap!! PASS AND SAVE THE DOUGH, ya ain't gonna get any classic George Lynch fix on this one people!

Now this cd does contain a track or 2 thats good... and uh, thats it. Some people want to expand their horizons, but should really know who they are by now and build upon their true strengths. If you are trying to decide whether to buy this or the new Dokken, here's some advice: Take your copy of Tooth and Nail/Under Lock and Key, insert in stereo, turn up full blast, grab a drink, lock the door, and realise there is truly NO going home.

I never thought that I could play a 13 Song Cd and only listen to one track with out skipping to the next one. Just can't believe, Mr. Scary would even want to play "White Rap with Metal mixed in and make his guitar playing nonexistent. Would much rather have listen to Mr. Scary, Anthony, Mick with either Oni or Robert singing. Just glad that Mr. Scary didn't do what Tommy Lee did and sit his guitar down to sing Rap. There is a happy ending to this sad CD. Mr. Scary is back checkout Lynch Pilson - Wicked Underground and the Lynch Mob-Revolution.

Poor originality with rich technicality does not make sense, while the latter is not too rich though.

I really don't know what to say about this CD except that when I first heard it, I was truly, truly brought down. I am a huge eighties metal fan, and a HUGE fan of Dokken. As a guitar player myself, George Lynch is an idol. He is a guitar god!!. I was upset when he left Dokken, and was intrested to hear what Lynch Mob was all about. My cousin got this CD because he too is a Lynch fan and was curious to hear the new Lynch Mob CD "Smoke This". I spoke with him only a few hours after he had bought this CD, his face still in disbelief as he warned me that I did not want to hear the CD. I insisted to ignore what he was saying and give the CD a spin, after all it was George Lynch here. How bad could it possibly be? I threw it on my CD player, listened to the first song, and I truly wanted to cry. The truth had to be faced. George has suffered the same fate as Tommy Lee (also a great talent). Both George and Tommy have sold out SICK to the new and very annoying so called "rock rap" trash. Ok so there are a few differences between Lynch Mob and Methods of Meyhem. Although I have to say that I am equally dissapointed with both Tommy and George. In Methods.. it is Tommy who is doing the rapping vocals, he is upfront making and idiot of himself by being the white boy who is trying to be black. Tommy is more responsible for the music sounding horrible because he is the one up front rapping. George is not the frontman on the "Smoke This" CD. It is some other white boy wannabe that is doing the horrible rapping vocals. What makes me dissapointed with George to the same degree as Tommy is that although he is not the one doing the rapping, some of the songs on "Smoke This" are even more hardcore rap than "Methods of Meyhem". Some of it actually aproaches gangsta rap territory. Also for anyone looking for George's signature badass guitar riffs and solos, there are none. I don't know where the hell the guitar is but it's probably lost somewhere in the badly written, lost talent, and all around horrible (I mean HORRIBLE)excuse for a record that is "Smoke This". Dokken fans, and actually music fans in general, stay away from this one. If it was free, it would still be about $100 too expensive. If you liked Dokken in the eighties, go get Dokken's "Erase the Slate", you won't be disappointed. Dokken is still Rockin'. George on the other hand, we can add to the list of fallen heroes and hope that one day we will see the return of Mr. Scary.

I'm a Dokken and Lynch Mob fanatic, but when I heard this album, I could not believe the change in music style. Lynch Mob meets rap..doesn't work! I was expecting Oni to be back singing, but when I bought the CD, it was somebody different. Go back to your roots George and stop selling out to your fans.

George Lynch takes a huge deparature from previous Lynch Mob and Dokken albums. This CD has rap / grunge elements in it but I didn't think it showcased Lynch enough. It almost sounds like Anthrax from time to time.

Overall, though, the CD gave me a headache. There are a few decent songs, but the listener is forced to wade through a lot of bad ones.

I think this shouldn't have been a Lynch Mob album. All the former band members are gone (except Lynch of course). If I were Lynch, I'd hire back the previous members, and quick.

George, you've done it! This is honestly the worst CD I have ever bought. I am a fan of ALL kinds of music, and this is none of them. I liked the old stuff, but if you are gonna do Rock/Rap, AT LEAST DO IT RIGHT! Awful. If you insist on buying this, e-mail me and I will drive it to your house anywhere in the US.

Ah yes, I remember it like it was yesterday picking up this album and listening in disbelief at how far George had fallen. Per my review title, George lost his way after Sacred Groove, and ever since has been going from genre to genre in an attempt to be cool, hip and relevant. Huge mistake! George is one of the most admired guitar players in the world, there was no need for him to move on to the next popular trend. So let's see, this was a hybrid of metal and rap that was popular at the time with bands such as Limp Bizcuit, Deftones, and Korn. Before this album came out George tried his hand at grunge metal with the Dokken release Shadowlife, Dokkens worst album by far, followed by the almost equally bad Dysfunctional. After rapcore George jumped ship to the seven string, detuned world of nu metal. George has even tried his hand at gothic metal, with the heavy dark eyeliner, black clothes, and various crosses and what not. I guess George doesn't realize how ridiculous he looks jumping from genre to genre and also trying to copy the look of that genre.

I hate with a passion nu metal, rapcore, grunge, and all of the other crap that has passed for metal the past 18 years or so. Luckily there have been a few bright spots along the way, such as Dream Theater and Symphony X, but man oh man has the music just continued to get worse and worse. And there's George, jumping right into the mix!

This album didn't work. It didn't work because the only people who would know to buy it were George Lynch fans, and most probably Dokken fans as well. Guess what, those fans aren't interested in listening to garbage like Smoke This. And that right there has been George's main failing with all of this genre jumping, is that fans love George for the phenomenal musician he, and they expect to hear what George does best, shredding guitar solo's and great metal songs. This album was a huge disappointment to fellow George Lynch fans, and I think we have been disappointed ever since Dysfunctional to tell the truth. The bright spot recently is Orchestral Mayhem, which I have yet to listen to, but it's supposed to be an album with George doing what he does best, shredding! Maybe after all of these years George is realizing why he was loved in the first place, and that there was never any need to genre jump in the first place. Yes, 80's heavy metal unfortunately went underground in the depressing 90's and early 00's, but there seems to be a resurgence happening and people are realizing how amazing the music of those days was (although there was plenty of crap in the day as well), and that maybe the fans have grown up now, but we are still fans and always will be.

Yes George, I can excuse you for this abomination, and thankfully it was a one off experiment. I am grateful George never tried repeating this experiment, and it ranks by far as the worst album with his name attached to it. If you're a Lynch fan who hasn't heard this album and you're thinking about giving it a shot, hopefully my review will dissuade you, but if not, please read all of the other one star reviews before buying. Lastly, all I can say is buyer beware, you have been warned!