LYNCH MOB / SOULS OF WE guitarist George Lynch has posted an interview with Hard Rock Nights from earlier this year on his official MySpace page. An excerpt is available below:

HRN: A lot of new stuff has been coming out lately and the musical landscape has really changed over the past several years. What is your take on the state of music today?

Lynch: "Well, I think we have more choices available to us than we did back when I remember growing up and buying records and listening to radio. You know, with satellite, and all the different genres out there, and how good the bands are, I think the choices are phenomenal. I think really, the problem I’m having, being more of an old-school guy, I get option-anxiety. There’s so much to listen to that it becomes difficult to process it all. I guess that’s a good problem to have. I don’t have any problem with the music. Even if you like ‘80s stuff, there’s bands out there from Sweden that are really capturing that and doing that again, with the image, and the sound, and that formula. And I personally don’t like that, but some people do obviously. As far as the business, we’re obviously going through a huge transition, in music and other things in this country and this world right now. It’s kind of an interesting time. I would say that we’re seeing probably the process of the democratization of the music industry to a certain extent, maybe…hopefully. Maybe in the final analysis, you draw a line to its logical conclusion, what you’ll end up with is there is less of a distinction between the creators of the music and the appreciators of the music. Everybody will be a creator to a certain extent. Rock Band and Guitar Hero and Garage, whatever that is on your Mac, Garage Band, and whatever these recording programs are, and drum machines that are easy to use."

"The next thing, if there is something that I’m involved with a company is working on a guitar and an interface, where you take your regular guitar and interface with Rock Band and Guitar Hero. So that next step, that evolution from just playing a plastic thing with little tabs on it to actually playing a real instrument, playing along with the software, and it’s a learning tool. I’m seeing that music and playing an instrument has become sort of ubiquitous, where everybody plays something. And that’s a good thing. So the days of growing up and dreaming of being a rock star, being one of those ten or twelve bands that are at top of the world, it might have flattened out a bit. Which is okay. Kind of making it a little more equitable for everyone. Everyone’s got a piece of the pie, so to speak."

Go to this location for the complete interview.