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Dokken

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Hard Rock
Acoustic Rock
Hard 'n' Heavy
Melodic Hard 'n' Heavy

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13 апр 2025 :	DOKKEN's DON DOKKEN: ''Heaven Comes Down' Is Probably Our Last Record'
10 апр 2025 :	DON DOKKEN Predicts He Will Play His Final DOKKEN Concert 'Probably Within The Year'
15 мар 2025 :	DON DOKKEN Says He 'Gave Up 75 Percent' Of Songwriting Credits In DOKKEN In Order To Appease GEORGE LYNCH
26 фев 2025 :	DOKKEN Releases Music Video For 'Saving Grace' Song From 'Heaven Comes Down' Album
8 янв 2025 :	DOKKEN - Restored 1987 Official "Dream Warriors" Video Streaming
11 ноя 2024 :	JEFF PILSON On Possibility Of One Final DOKKEN Album With Classic Lineup: 'Don't Hold Your Breath'
16 июл 2024 :	Watch DOKKEN Perform In New Buffalo, Michigan
24 июн 2024 :	DOKKEN Postpones European 'Farewell' Tour After DON DOKKEN Fractures Ankle
22 апр 2024 :	JEFF PILSON Says 'The Fun Part Of DOKKEN' Is 'Underreported' By The Rock Media
3 апр 2024 :	DOKKEN - One Live Night To Be Issued On Limited Edition Double Vinyl
29 янв 2024 :	DON DOKKEN Says DOKKEN Members Split Money Equally In Early Days: 'Looking Back, I Could Say It Was A Stupid Thing To Do'
4 янв 2024 :	GEORGE LYNCH On DON DOKKEN's Claim That DOKKEN Frontman Wrote 'A Lot Of' Band's Biggest Songs: 'That's Bulls**t'
16 дек 2023 :	DON DOKKEN Says He Wrote DOKKEN's Hit Songs, Even Though They Were Credited To Entire Band
3 дек 2023 :	Watch DOKKEN Perform In Las Vegas During Summer/Fall 2023 Tour
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26 окт 2023 :	DOKKEN Releases Music Video For 'Over The Mountain' Single From 'Heaven Comes Down' Album
17 окт 2023 :	DON DOKKEN Believes DOKKEN Would Have Taken Off 'A Lot Faster' With WARREN DEMARTINI In The Band Instead Of GEORGE LYNCH
2 окт 2023 :	DON DOKKEN To Fans Criticizing His Vocal Performance: 'If I Can't Sing The Way They Remember Me, Then Just Don't Come To The Show'
25 сен 2023 :	DON DOKKEN On His Relationship With GEORGE LYNCH: 'We're Too Old To Argue Anymore'
20 сен 2023 :	DOKKEN Release New Single "Gypsy"; Official Video Streaming
9 авг 2023 :	DOKKEN Announces 'Heaven Comes Down' Album Details, Shares Music Video For 'Fugitive' Single
6 авг 2023 :	GEORGE LYNCH Admits It's 'A Little Bit Strange' Hearing DOKKEN Perform His Songs Right Before He Joins The Band On Stage
26 июн 2023 :	DOKKEN To Release Long-Awaited New Album In September
8 июн 2023 :	Former DOKKEN Drummer MICK BROWN: 'I Haven't Touched A Drum Stick In Two Years'
10 мар 2023 :	GEORGE LYNCH Doubts Classic DOKKEN Lineup Will Ever Reunite Again: 'That Ship Has Already Left The Harbor'
11 дек 2022 :	DOKKEN Bassist CHRIS MCCARVILL Releases Holiday Song 'It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year'

17 окт 2023

DON DOKKEN Believes DOKKEN Would Have Taken Off 'A Lot Faster' With WARREN DEMARTINI In The Band Instead Of GEORGE LYNCH

In a new interview with "The Chuck Shute Podcast", DOKKEN frontman Don Dokken reflected on the band's formative years, particularly around 1982 when guitarist George Lynch left DOKKEN in order to play with Ozzy Osbourne. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "George left, and Mick [Brown, then-DOKKEN drummer] stayed with me. And Mick and I had an apartment. And he was staying in DOKKEN, and I just kept fighting and fighting and fighting to get a record deal. Our last showcase we did at the Whisky [A Go Go in West Hollywood, California], Warren DeMartini was playing guitar. Warren did a very short run [with DOKKEN]. We had five record companies [looking at us]."

He continued: "I remember standing at the Whisky on stage, looking at the audience, and I see George. What the hell is he doing here? I thought he was in Ozzy. 'Cause everybody said he's going to be in Ozzy. And they flew him to England. He was gonna be the guitar player. So we're playing. I'm very happy. Warren was, like, 18 or 19. We got along great. And I'm seeing George in the audience, and I'm, like, 'What the hell is he doing here?' And he kind of pulled Warren aside, and he goes, 'You don't want to be in DOKKEN. Don's an asshole, man. Everybody knows it. You can't trust Don. Don's a Nazi. He's gonna control everything and take everything.' And I'm, like, 'Whatever.' So Warren went to RATT. Because their EP — I can't remember the name of it, 'Out Of The Cellar' or whatever it was called — took off. And then Juan Croucier [former DOKKEN and RATT bassist] said to me, and you can ask him if you ever interview him, 'I can't play with George. I just can't. I can't. He's too quirky.' So Juan left. Warren left. I had to find Jeff [Pilson] as a bass player, get a new guitar player. We had just landed the BLUE ÖYSTER CULT tour with Aldo Nova, us opening up for 30 minutes. And that's when George came back in the band, because he had nowhere else to go. And that really is the history of DOKKEN.

"Looking back, I have nothing against George. We get along fine, but if I could have kept Warren in the band, we probably just would have went way up a lot faster."

Asked by host Chuck Shute if he thinks it would have been that much different with Warren instead of George, Don said: "Hell yeah. Hell yeah… 'Cause everything we did in the studio [with George] was a fight… Warren was easy breezy. We'd spend an hour on a solo with him and it was amazing, and we're done. [With George] we'd go in to do 'Tooth And Nail'. We have a 32-track recording console. I go in the studio at midnight, because George didn't want me in the studio while he was recording. So they'd all take off at 10 o'clock and they'd all go to the Rainbow [Bar & Grill] to find chicks and cocaine. So I had sneak in the studio with [producer] Michael Wagener, and there was, like, 14, 15 tracks of solos. I'm, like, 'Holy shit.' And I would literally have to pick pieces of solos that were coherent, and we'd cut them. 'Cause George is a freeform guitar player, I'll say — he just picks up the guitar and plays. There's no structure. There's no beginning. There's no end. There's no middle. That's just the way George plays. So I'd go in the studio, take all the tapes. 'That's a good spot. That's a good spot. That's a good spot. That's a good spot.' And we'd cut them all together. And then I'd go home at five in the morning. And I told Michael Wagener, 'Whatever you do, don't tell George I was here helping you. [Laughs] 'Cause he'd flip out."

When Shute noted that George "didn't want you to have that control," Don clarified: "I don't say control; it's just input. I'm a guitar player; I'm a lead guitar player. I go, 'This solo has nothing — this one track has nothing to do with this song. That track has nothing to do with this song.' So I'd have to put it all together that it worked on the song.

"George, I think it's great that he was always trying to reach out and experiment and do something different. And George is trying to expound his musical abilities, and I respect him for that. But it was a nightmare."

DOKKEN will release its 13th studio album, "Heaven Comes Down", on October 27 via Silver Lining Music. The LP was produced by Bill Palmer and Don Dokken and was mixed by Kevin Shirley (AEROSMITH, IRON MAIDEN).

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