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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
2 ноя 2023 :	DON DOKKEN Says NETFLIX Is Working On 'Movie About DOKKEN From The '80s'
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'

28 июн 2016

It's Official: Classic DOKKEN Lineup To Reunite For Six Shows In Japan

Don Dokken has confirmed that the classic lineup of DOKKEN will reunite for a series of concerts in Japan, with no plans to take the reunion to the rest of the world.

The six shows will take place this October, and will include an appearance at the Loud Park festival, which last year celebrated its tenth anniversary.

During an appearance on last night's (Saturday, June 25) installment of "The Classic Metal Show", Don explained how the long-rumored DOKKEN reunion finally came to fruition.

"Years and years ago, I made a comment offhandedly, like, 'You wanna do a reunion tour? I'll do it for this amount of money," Don said (hear audio below). "It was like a one and a lot of zeros. And that was my price, and everybody said, 'You're crazy.' And I said, 'Well, that's my price, and I'm not gonna do it [for anything less].' And now, fifteen years later, somebody came up with that price. So I approached George [Lynch, former DOKKEN guitarist] and Jeff [Pilson, former DOKKEN bassist], and I said, 'You guys wanna make a shitload of money for about one week of work?' And I told them the price, and I told them how much I wanted and how much they'd make, and, basically, they could make more money in one week than they'd probably make in several years. And so everybody said, 'Okay.' So I said, 'Well, I'll do it on the condition that I don't wanna do it in America or Europe or anywhere else. Just six shows in Japan.' 'Cause we were very big in Japan, and it's just a… It's a reunion tour. So they agreed, and we're gonna do six shows in Japan. We're gonna be playing Loud Park, headlining with the SCORPIONS. The two headliners are us and SCORPIONS. We're playing the same night — back to back on two different stages. And then we're gonna buzz off and do five more shows. And it's very temporary."

Despite the fact that there is plenty of interest from promoters in other parts of the world to book the DOKKEN reunion, Don claims that the Japanese dates are the only shows the group is committed to doing.

"Of course, everybody came out of the woodwork, and they want us to do Sweden Rock, Wacken festivals, M3… People are throwing money at us to do a DOKKEN reunion in the States and Europe, and my answer to everybody is, 'No. It's not gonna happen,'" he said.

"I feel bad for my agents, 'cause they're getting bombarded from these offers for us to play these big festivals all over the world as a reunion, but I'm just not interested; I'm sorry, I'm just not," he continued. "Jeff's busy. He plays like crazy in FOREIGNER. He's on the road. George is out, you know, playing the bars with LYNCH MOB, so everybody's busy. So I don't see any reason… I can't say, 'We can make all this tons of money…' And we're doing this tour for a lot of money, but I'm doing it to put an exclamation point on a very temporary reunion."

According to Don, part of the reason there are no plans for the reunited DOKKEN to play any other shows after the Japanese run is the fact that the current lineup of DOKKEN — which includes fellow member of the band's classic lineup, drummer Mick Brown, alongside longtime guitarist Jon Levin and bassist Chris McCarvil — is still very much an active entity, with a steady schedule of live shows throughout the year.

"I'm so happy with Jon Levin and Chris," he explained. "I mean, we get along so, so good. We're happy. We get on a plane, we fly to a venue, we hang out together and we go to dinner and we do the show and we hang out in the dressing room. It's very easy; you know, there's no drama. And at my age now, the last thing I need in my life is drama. So I am hopeful everything goes smoothly in Japan [with the reunion shows], but I am ready [laughs] for something to… There was always drama in DOKKEN, so I don't expect anything to change. I'm just gonna kind of keep myself removed from it all. All I'm gonna do is go up there and sing my butt off and play two or three songs on guitar and just make it a fun thing for [the fans]."

Don also admonished the other members of DOKKEN's classic lineup for leaking details of the band's reunion before it was made official. "Mick said we were doing it a month ago, George has been saying it, and Jeff was saying it," he said. "Which I have to laugh, because I said, 'Please don't anybody talk about it until the contracts are signed,' and I hadn't signed the contracts until a couple of days ago."

He continued: "Doing a tour like this is not easy; there's a lot of logistics, money, accountants, taxes, overhead, equipment, video. It's a lot of logistics to put together, and it's taken a long, long time to put this Japanese tour together. But we did it, and we're gonna do six shows.

"Everybody was talking like it was a done deal, which is a very bad thing to do. You should never announce a tour before it's announced, because then the promoters think we're gonna do it no matter what, and it kind of hurts my negotiating skills. If we say we're gonna do this, and we're kind of bartering about how much money, and they feel we're gonna do it no matter what — if it's a half a million or million dollars — I said, 'Please don't say we're doing it, because it hurts my negotiating position. So I've said nothing until tonight."

For DOKKEN fans in other parts of the world who are hoping to catch a glimpse of the reunited band, Don says that there is a small silver lining in all of this. "I'm hoping that, in rehearsals" — which will take place at the Badlands Pawn in Sioux Falls, South Dakota — "we feel that we're tight enough on the final day that we actually do a show and we're gonna film the whole thing," he said. "And hopefully it comes out good and we'll edit it and put out a live DVD."

Serious discussions about a reunion of DOKKEN's classic lineup have been held, on and off, for at least the past half decade. Back in may 2010, Dokken and Lynch appeared on VH1 Classic's "That Metal Show" together in hopes that a reunion would follow. Despite their efforts, it never happened and Don went forward with DOKKEN's current lineup.

All the members of DOKKEN's classic 1980s lineup reunited on stage for the first time in more than a decade on November 29, 2009 during an encore at a DOKKEN show at the House of Blues in Anaheim, California.

It's Official: Classic DOKKEN Lineup To Reunite For Six Shows In Japan

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28 июн 2016

Family Ghost

Что-то судя по афише, называть их хэдлайнерами опрометчиво)
И, как бы то ни было, с удовольствием гляну и записи на ютюбе, и возможный двд. Может у Дона уже и нет голоса, но история есть история

28 июн 2016

Alex ASP

Danger Danger в оригинальном составе?

29 июн 2016

overgrin

Что то много о бабле и ноль про музыку!!!
Парни то съиграют...(и Джордж "сидящий в барах" и остальные ребята!!!!!
А Ты то Дон....споёшь? ...уже давно тяжело как то.....
Видать действительно неплохо предложили......
Правда на месте Линча надо было его на Хер послать....только понты, а на сцене старый мудак просто:(,а не вокалист

1 июл 2016

KellianaValandy

По афише- хэдлайнер только Скорпионз. Чтобы Доккен отыскать, надо потрудиться- это аж третья строчка.
А пафоса-то в его словах, ужс.