Tuesday
Oct042016
Dokken Reunion Footage
Tuesday, October 4, 2016 at 12:01AM The classic lineup of Dokken reunited on September 30 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I'm jealous of everyone who got to see this amazing show! Here's the setlist:
01. Tooth and Nail
02. The Hunter
03. Unchain The Night
04. Just Got Lucky
05. Don’t Close Your Eyes
06. When Heaven Comes Down
07. Breaking The Chains
08. Into the Fire
09. Dream Warriors
10. Kiss Of Death
11. Will The Sun Rise (acoustic)
12. Heaven Sent (acoustic)
13. Alone Again (acoustic)
14. Guitar solo / Mr. Scary
15. It’s Not Love
Encores:
16. In My Dreams
17. Paris Is Burning
Reader Comments (17)
They sound very good.
Let's hope Don is being all coy about more shows to drum up demand and the potential for more $$$$$$. I don't care how much he likes his current Dokken lineup. I also don't think Foreigner is touring 12 months out of the year so Jeff can "moonlight" in Dokken for the summer of 2017!!
Doesn't Mick look a bit like "Uncle Vito" from that Bam Margera reality show?
Dokken & LA Guns 2017 WORLD TOUR!!!!
Gary: I couldn't agree with you more. I remember many years ago graduating from college and starting my career. After a few entry-level jobs to build up my resume, I got my first 'professional" job. I shot out of a cannon like a bat out of hell taking people along the way to join me in paradise city, only to eventually realize that I was back in a High School mentality. The backstabbing was relentless, the rumor mill runeth over, the cliques were of historic, Shakespearen levels and on and on and on.
The older (wiser?) I've become, and with each passing day of the "news" cycle (From Fox to CNN), I find myself believing that most of us have really never "grown up". Same rumor mills, same backstabbing, same cliques and/or political party allegiance, etc... One simply has to look at the actions of our convicted (former) PA Attorney General Kathleen Kane to follow the train of the aforementioned thought.
(http://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/08/kathleen_kane_verdict.html)
And, it doesn't make me wonder how and why Donald Trump was able to build up the momentum that he currently has. He epitomize thee High School mentality; so is it any wonder why any of our bands and their respective members engage in such behavior when a lot of their music (and music in general), in and of itself, plays to the quintessential high school mentality? Bon Jovi anyone?
And, with that...I think I'll go and listen to a good dose of Steel Pather!
peace/rock on!
Ratt
Dokken
2017
I would even throw Cinderella in there too if their issues are settled
Nice list, Badland + Shawn's Britny Fox and a reunited L.A. Guns.
But, no matter how you cut it, Mike's right -- Don Dokken's voice doesn't cut it, which is unfortunate when you think about performers who have lost their voices and then regained them, i.e. Tom Kiefer and Steven Tyler, something Don doesn't seem to want to do, not only at his own peril but that of his fans.
It's interesting to see all this new activity aligning at the same time... One has to speculate, as I have recently done here, whether the reuniting of Guns n' Roses has spurred on these other bands to follow suit.
Pilson is the Mike Anthony of this band. That is clear on a song like "Dream Warriors." That said (fanboy alert!), I still love me some Don and Dokken . . . even if this is likely a monetary moment in time. Do they still bring it like they did? Of course not. But they are phoning it in a lot better than many bands of their era, admitting as much, and carrying on for those willing, or lucky enough, to see them. Imagine ever thinking "Well, it is nice Keel hosted them!"
Lynch will go back to (and, at some point, likely ditch) Logan . . . and also be back with Sweet. Pilson will go out with the often Jones-less Foreigner (he's the bald guy pretending to still have a spiky haircut). Brown will do something involving something and laugh sloshily about all of it. Dokken will carry on his b(r)and. All will be well in the world. Not right, mind you. Well.
In other news: Bkallday will plead for discretion on this site. And the Earth's axis will respond thusly (nature loves irony, even if it is unintended).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s71-QaF4E_g
Easy-going, laid back, not uncomfortable. Though it does look like Toni Collette (I mean, Mick Brown) and Jeff Pilson are handlers for Lynch and Dokken. Heck, it almost looks as if they are in different sound-proof rooms, if not for the occasional interjection.
Standing on the sidelines (for a change), I cannot help but LMAO, particularly the comments from the usual suspects, i.e. Toni "Mick Brown" Collette, hahaha!!!, HIM... or... Dokken as the man crossing the Delaware, hahaha!!!, HIM again!
What I realized watching these clips is how great it is to be hearing Lynch crank out all those riffs and solos as only he can with Pilson and Brown. Regardless of how shot Don's voice is, it's obviously well worth seeing and I sure hope they tour so we can!