Metal-Rules.com recently caught up with guitarist George Lynch (LYNCH MOB, ex-DOKKEN). An excerpt is available below.

Q: What's the situation with Oni Logan now? I mean, he’s been on and off from this band and lately you used other vocalists in the U.S but now Oni has done the whole European tour, so what’s his status in the band at the moment?

Lynch: "I know he is… he's going through some personal stuff and he had to come back to Switzerland to deal with those things, and we had to work, so we had dates that we couldn't cancel, so we went to Canada and then we did some… we did a tour in Canada and then some dates in the States that we used a couple of different singers for, one being Marq Torien from the BULLETBOYS, the other Keith St. John from MONTROSE. Which are, they're both great, but they're not Oni, so..."

Q: So Oni is the lead singer of Lynch Mob from now on?

Lynch: "Yeah, Oni is back."

Q: Okay, that's good to know because there are lots of rumors flying around about anything and everything and…

Lynch: "Truth, yes, truth is always a good thing to know."

Q: Actually, you and Oni are… you have a long history together? How you actually kind of re-connected now after so many years and, when you tried to to work together in the late '90s, why it didn’t work out then?

Lynch: "Yeah, the mistake we made in the '90s is that instead of doing a new record, we went right out, the agent convinced us to go right out and tour. And it was not an easy tour, so you know, tours can be band busters, you know, and band killers, and it was, it was a tough tour. We had Jimmy D'Anda from Bulletboys on drums and Chuck Carrick on bass, it was a good band, but we ended up disbanding after the tour because Oni got back together with Rowan Robertson as he did in DIO's demise originally and they started working together again, so there went Lynch Mob. So I don't know, I guess it was kind of a false start. But this one has more staying power this time because he's really decided in his mind, he's committed to it. And we've gone through a lot of obstacles in the last three or four years we've been back together, so if he's endured all this then he's around for the long haul I feel, and so I'm pretty, if he's dedicated, I'm dedicated."

Go to this location for the complete interview.

(Photo by Marco Syrjälä)