Fantastic chat. Many years ago I saw them at the Madina ball room in Minneapolis. Cinderella was playing with them that night. Don had a broken leg from a jet ski accident. Kudos to him for performing!
😎✌️🩵 Hey man..... GREAT INTERVIEW ‼️....I saw Dokken in 85.... STILL one of my favorite bands of all time.... Thank you... For this great interview ‼️‼️☮️✅
I love Don's interviews I've binged on them before I'd love to meet him one day at a convention it would be amazing if he did a panel discussion and took questions from the audience Dokken's greatest hits is an impressive collection of timeless tunes that I never get tired of so hats off to Don and company for gifting the fans such a great legacy. 🍻🍾🥂🍗🤘👍
Really enjoyed this interview great questions. This is super cool I have met Dokken a handful of times I was there at the closing of his Redondo Beach Studio called 7:10. I am a huge fan at the time and when I met him he was very personal and friendly he came into the party late grabbed the Les Paul and ripped into Led Zeppelin rock and roll it blew my f****** mind
Don is great! However, George and Jeff wrote the version that we all know today. Don wrote his own version of Dream Warriors also. Don's version got rejected and the Lynch/Pilson version was accepted.
I was a huge Dokken fan! I was in love with Don! I was 18yrs old in 1986 and I had seen Dokken several times in the 80s! I saw them in a field in Iowa where the were one of 5 bands. Aerosmith was last. Dokken rocked and Arrow much sucked!
It is important to know who the creative force was in a band, I have no issue with Don Dokken letting people know. George probably got too much credits among the casuals than he should have, and Don not enough
When people here dokken most people give George all the credit and rightfully so George should get credit he is great but Don is the voice of dokken and deserves alot of credit he was dokken before George, jeff, and mick,but when you put them four together it's magic
Last time I heard of George Lynch he was playing a "concert" in a 12 seat bar in Ludington Michigan (basically small town nowhere) To be fair the place was filled to capacity, I think there might have been 15 people in the crowd at times when the bartender came out on the floor to tell him to turn the noise down.
Think the group Tipper Gore went after the most was Twisted Sister and also made reference to lyrics from Shout At The Devil and maybe Dr Feelgood but not sure on that .
I saw Dokken twice .one with George Lynch on the Tooth And Nail tour Johnson City Tenn in front of 30.000 and the last in the 90s without Lynch at a brand new Marriott Hotel Ballroom in Kingsport Tenn with Great White opening up .there couldn't have been more than 7 or 8 hundred people .was awesome show and got to go on the "Greats" tour bus after the show and smoke some weed with them .but remember feeling sad for these guys having to play really small venues after Nirvana and grunge basically killed all the 80s Rock Music .
aI think it was 94 ? and I was living in the Sacramento area and the radio (remember those😅) and they announced DOKKEN was playing the boardwalk in Orangevale California a little club and idk how many times I've seen them in the 80s with DIO or Y&T so I was thinking it'll be cool to see them in a club I was up front and had to move back by the bar it was so fn loud I was cool with loud music but I wanted to keep my hearing 😅 but I wasn't disappointed the chick behind me kept grabbing my ass 😊 so it was a time when I left there was a car that pulled out of the driveway going the wrong way, stupid because you could hurt someone or yourself about a month later Great White played the same club but after that they started playing to 15 or 16 thousand people so glad I got to see those bands in the club btw I did see them at Candlestick stadium in 89 for monsters of ROCK that was eventful we sat in our seats watching a chick with a spiked ring just bloody this poor bastered up he didn't fight back as he shouldn't touch a woman so we yelled get away dude run away and he didn't 😅 he just took it 😅
No need to write anymore. The new album is decent. But we didn't need that either. Love Dokken, always will. Don is 70 now. And let's be honest, most of the time is just barely getting through performances.
Don's son 767 pilot!!!!!
Wow major!!
Damn I'm old.
Met Don on his tour bus, 1997 at The Canoe Place Inn in the Hamptons. Invited "the Canadians" on for a beer after the show. Super great guy!
From Concordia Kansas a faithful fan for life ...rock on.. surprise us with a new album. Love all DOKKEN/ LYNCH
Fantastic chat. Many years ago I saw them at the Madina ball room in Minneapolis. Cinderella was playing with them that night. Don had a broken leg from a jet ski accident. Kudos to him for performing!
😎✌️🩵 Hey man..... GREAT INTERVIEW ‼️....I saw Dokken in 85.... STILL one of my favorite bands of all time.... Thank you... For this great interview ‼️‼️☮️✅
Thanks for listening!
I love Don's interviews I've binged on them before I'd love to meet him one day at a convention it would be amazing if he did a panel discussion and took questions from the audience Dokken's greatest hits is an impressive collection of timeless tunes that I never get tired of so hats off to Don and company for gifting the fans such a great legacy. 🍻🍾🥂🍗🤘👍
Really enjoyed this interview great questions. This is super cool I have met Dokken a handful of times I was there at the closing of his Redondo Beach Studio called 7:10. I am a huge fan at the time and when I met him he was very personal and friendly he came into the party late grabbed the Les Paul and ripped into Led Zeppelin rock and roll it blew my f****** mind
Thank you for listening!
When did Don close his studio? I know he lived in Redondo forever.
Legend.....
Great interview, I always liked listening to dons interviews
Im not even a huge fan of his music but i too enjoy listening to his interviews and stories.
met don a few years ago super nice guy!!
Don's always been my favorite 💓
Don Dokken, please do a show in Bengaluru.
Just love the guy.
It was 1985 when dokken was on American bandstand they did just got lucky and alone again
❤Dokken
Don talking Ed Wood…don’t know how he got there, but that’s something new. Nice interview!
Thanks for listening!
Don is great! However, George and Jeff wrote the version that we all know today. Don wrote his own version of Dream Warriors also. Don's version got rejected and the Lynch/Pilson version was accepted.
Dokken was the first concert I went to, orange show pavilion San Bernardino CA
Bet that was cool!
I was a huge Dokken fan! I was in love with Don! I was 18yrs old in 1986 and I had seen Dokken several times in the 80s! I saw them in a field in Iowa where the were one of 5 bands. Aerosmith was last. Dokken rocked and Arrow much sucked!
Great story!
It is important to know who the creative force was in a band, I have no issue with Don Dokken letting people know. George probably got too much credits among the casuals than he should have, and Don not enough
100%
Don was imo the best hard rock melodic singer period. His vibrato was unmatched.
When people here dokken most people give George all the credit and rightfully so George should get credit he is great but Don is the voice of dokken and deserves alot of credit he was dokken before George, jeff, and mick,but when you put them four together it's magic
Last time I heard of George Lynch he was playing a "concert" in a 12 seat bar in Ludington Michigan (basically small town nowhere) To be fair the place was filled to capacity, I think there might have been 15 people in the crowd at times when the bartender came out on the floor to tell him to turn the noise down.
Think the group Tipper Gore went after the most was Twisted Sister and also made reference to lyrics from Shout At The Devil and maybe Dr Feelgood but not sure on that .
I saw Dokken twice .one with George Lynch on the Tooth And Nail tour Johnson City Tenn in front of 30.000 and the last in the 90s without Lynch at a brand new Marriott Hotel Ballroom in Kingsport Tenn with Great White opening up .there couldn't have been more than 7 or 8 hundred people .was awesome show and got to go on the "Greats" tour bus after the show and smoke some weed with them .but remember feeling sad for these guys having to play really small venues after Nirvana and grunge basically killed all the 80s Rock Music .
I thought DOKKEN was a European Band early on.
The Donald Trump of rock & roll.
Looks good at 70. Interesting interview. Quit those smokes though, they can't be helping your voice.
He doesn't look 70, he actually reminds me a bit of glen Tipton here.
aI think it was 94 ? and I was living in the Sacramento area and the radio (remember those😅) and they announced DOKKEN was playing the boardwalk in Orangevale California a little club and idk how many times I've seen them in the 80s with DIO or Y&T so I was thinking it'll be cool to see them in a club I was up front and had to move back by the bar it was so fn loud I was cool with loud music but I wanted to keep my hearing 😅 but I wasn't disappointed the chick behind me kept grabbing my ass 😊 so it was a time when I left there was a car that pulled out of the driveway going the wrong way, stupid because you could hurt someone or yourself about a month later Great White played the same club but after that they started playing to 15 or 16 thousand people so glad I got to see those bands in the club btw I did see them at Candlestick stadium in 89 for monsters of ROCK that was eventful we sat in our seats watching a chick with a spiked ring just bloody this poor bastered up he didn't fight back as he shouldn't touch a woman so we yelled get away dude run away and he didn't 😅 he just took it 😅
Donkey Kong, LOL,
Don like anyone in America can do anything he wants as long as he's not breaking laws. He doesn't need your opinion or permission. Get a life.
Another daryl hall.
No need to write anymore. The new album is decent. But we didn't need that either. Love Dokken, always will. Don is 70 now. And let's be honest, most of the time is just barely getting through performances.
In the lower left hand thumbnail picture, he has sunken cheeks and baggy eyes. I know he has had health problems but the wear and tear is showing.😮🫣