Super Stroke Update

George Lynch, Jeff Pilson, Mick Brown and Robert Mason have formed a new supergroup called, of course, Super Stroke. Remember, Mason was once a member of Lynch Mob. I chatted with Robert Mason recently about Warrant but had to ask how the Super Stroke project was progressing. Here's a little tidbit:

"Super Stroke... who knows what that band will be called, that was a working title of a song. It’s whenever opportunities come at you, you have two choices. So I say no a lot, I’m flattered and really fortunate through hard work and making some of the right friends – that I get asked to do things other than Warrant. I do say no a lot. I also do sessions and writing and I fit whatever I can in… when George and I started talking – Jeff Pilson was the producer for [new Warrant album] Louder Harder Faster – so we all got along so well. I was in a band with George and Mick and Jeff is a close friend now, so it was a natural thing for the record company to say 'Hey do a record, it will have the essential DNA from Lynch Mob and Dokken and it’s kind of interesting to see where everyone is now.' It offers us all closure. We were set to do a third Lynch Mob record once upon a time that never really happened. We’re not finished with the Super Stroke record. We’re all fitting it in on spare time as a side project."

I never thought about closure through the lens of a musician before, but I get it. It's just like anything else in life. A band is an intimate relationship. You spend a lot of time with the same core group of people, working and laughing and fighting. You have goals and plans for the future. When all that abruptly ends... well, it would be jarring to say the least. The rest of my interview with Robert Mason will run soon in the Dayton City Paper and I'll post that here.