“I remember Eddie Van Halen asking me, ‘What’s wrong with you? Where’s that fire, dude?’ But I didn’t want to explain it to him”: George Lynch, the guitar hero who connected with EVH but got burned by Ozzy Osbourne

George Lynch performing with Dokken in the '80s.

George Lynch became famous in the ’80s as one of the greatest rock guitarists of his generation, starring in multiplatinum band Dokken.

But Lynch has also had some crushing setbacks in his career – kicked in the teeth by Ozzy Osbourne, Kiss star Gene Simmons, German hard rockers Scorpions… and by the singer who became his nemesis, Don Dokken.