56 year old truck driver here, but I transformed to a 17 year old head banger when i heard this on the radio today. A sweet taste of youth for a few moments.
I'm EXTREMELY picky with music, but TooL is my favorite band followed by Dokken. Definitely my favorite of 80s bands (also my favorite era of everything.. I'm 30 btw.
55 years old Brazilian cancer surgeon here. Traveling into a time that we'll never forget!! The legacy and the passion of all hair bands has been passed on and on to my kids now!! 🎵🎶🎼. And will last for decades yet to come
The Hair and Gears made it standout in the 70s and 80s makes it spectacular Art in a glamorous way lols 😂😆.To be blessed and part of the greatest decade of all time never to forget miss it so much oh hail the 80s atmosphere could harp on and explain vibes and feelings like no other time or place in history
80's rock will never be matched. Was so lucky to grow up with this. It gets better over the years and proves this was real music, real artists not the fake crap of today. Dokken was under rated.
Exactly, the intro is so powerful ,then the guitar playing through the verses, so awesome and how Don put the vocal melody on top is brilliant as well, makes you wonder what came first the guitar riff or the vocal Melody I would have loved to been a fly on the wall how those songs came together almost all of the Dokken songs they were all listenable from front-to-back most bands could not say that back in that era, yeah Poison, Ratt,Motley Crue etc they had huge hits but they had a lot of filler songs on their albums, every song was well thought of and well-written on Dokken albums, that is not my opinion that's a damn fact to my musical ear
53 y.o. e.r. doc here, I remember this awesome tune from the late 80's when i had long hair and a beat up drum kit. Drove my parents nuts! Thanks Dokken for some great tunes and memories!
Love their hair, love Don's voice, love the clothes, love the song, love the amazing guitars. In 1987 i was 4 years old. 2023 is a musical shame. I wanna go back to the 80's. Rock to live. Live to rock Dokken FOREVER
@@masterblaster3914 He is awesome!! Saw them in 84 opening for Aldo Nova, his guitar tech was playing around and someone yelled "cut loose!!", he cranked it, hit a chord, and turned it down instantly. A guy with a blonde puffy top hair with dark bottom half of his hair cut a hard look from around his amps, when they came out it was obvious this was no average guitar player, and was the guy with the funny hair. He made the band, poor Don always got butt hurt over that.
This has to be the best rock band I've ever heard probably my favourite or one of them. I love their music I didn't even know they existed until recently.
Study Listen AND Learn young man AND YOU too, can be ROCKIN' w/AND LIKE, the Great "DOKKEN.....also Axe-Mastered courtesy Strings Riffed Ripped and Wrung-Torn by Lynch Master Stringer Strummer AND ROCK-Rope Wrangler GEORGE LYNCH..!!
I was in the 80's but i was a child. I started listening to metal in the 90's. Your dad is proud of you, surely. I wish you could buy a guitar and start singing and your generation could create the Global New Wave of Hard and Heavy!!!
If you want to hear the 80's in today's timeline, look my band up...Whatever... Featuring Chuck Wolfe. My promoter said my songs (all original) were that era for sure!
Love this song and the music... Hair nation music. My dad was a big fan and always played this rock music when I was 7 years old and I loved it as a child and now in my 30's and still rock out to this music. Dokken still one of the greatest 80's rock band.
WOW! 1987 now classic HARD anthem Hair-Band ROCK, Rockin 'w/Dokken! Don AND George up front knocking' 'em out great melodic rhythm-like lead string solos...!
All I can say is damn......takes me back to the 80s. Best music ever...my wife is still dumbfounded as to how I can listen to "Hair Nation" whenever we are in the car.
Timothy Hyde Oh I must have missed it. I dont get online everyday too much crap in RL to do lol would kill to go back to my 20's when we had little to no responsibilities lol. Not sure if TH-cam has inbox or not but you can always tag them to my page. I generally try to check that when I am able to get on :)
I agree to the comment. That 80s rock is unmatched even in today’s world. 2021 and still rocking out with 80s bands. I grew up with it best times ever. And I’ve tried other / newer music. And with few exceptions. It always comes back too 80s rock bands that I still wanna crank up and get the best feelings listening too. Man if I had a time machine. I’d go back to this time period. Glad to have been a part of it all.
I agree about the time machine. Also the eighties was the decade of the guitar. Everything had a shredding guitar, even pop songs like Beat It for example, in which EVH played the solo.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: DOKKEN is a gift to Humanity and shall never be taken for granted🤘🏻👨🏼🎤🎶 It's December 2020 and I'll still be burnin' like a flame🔥 in 2021👅
Growing up in the 80's and loving the metal of the time was life changing. When I got into my 40's I am into Progressive Metal. When I hear Dokke I am taken back to my bedroom as a kid learning how to play guitar and loving the music.
I've said for years that Alone Again should've been the first power ballad instead of Motley's Home Sweet Home. That's coming from a bigger Crue Fan than Dokken. I still love Dokken though.
I am so in love with these guys. Born in 86, my brother used to play all this music when I was little. I wish I could go back in time! It’s all about rock and roll!!! 🔥✌🏼
Man I miss those days... George Lynch is a beast on guitar and Don's vocals were freakin awesome back in the day, if only I had a time machine lol class of '87 btw
Love reading comments from so many who love this music. Not sure why I never hera dof so many great hair bans in the 80's. I love music and listened to a lot of it but no where on stations in NYC and Jersey. Have been finding great band for years and now and still finding more. Dokken was great and years ago I found hardline and many more.
Too many comments to read though right now but when I heard this song for the first time I knew i was hearing a groundbreaking sound in Metal - 5 string bass. It was prominent and in your face. When the band launches in, that low D was unmistakable and just tickled me pink! 🤟🏻Peace, Dean
One of my favorite Dokken songs. Check out that bass line - compliments the song perfectly! The musicianship is not over the top and yet so much in the pocket.... What more can you say about this song, except it just flippin' rocks!!!
This was the very first CD I purchased back in 1987. The CD player was $200 at Best Buy and the CD was $16. Every song on this album is gold! Love Dokken!!!
I don't remember exactly how much my first cd player cost, but I know it was a lot and it was really big and had a huge remote control. This was one of the first CDs I bought. And Ratt, Metallica, Cinderella, Warrant, Dio.....I could go on and on, man the 80s were great
Listening to Dokken since 2012 but suddenly for the last couple of weeks this song has become a Dokken favourite for me since earbuds fell on this for the first time. So much metal crunch tone..Lynch is insane.
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Kirk Preston George Lynch was a guitar God.He will go down as one of the top 5 axemen of all time.If you doubt this listen to his guitar solo on IN MY DREAMS and show me anyone but randy rhoads .eddie van halen jimie hendrix or slash who could do it as good as the lynch man.
Sweet Jesus. I lived it and loved it. 80s had the most awesome men and music. Wish longer hair and guy-liner would come back. You guys look at the number of hits these hair metal vids get??? ; )
56 year old truck driver here, but I transformed to a 17 year old head banger when i heard this on the radio today. A sweet taste of youth for a few moments.
I know exactly what you're talking about..😊
Absolutely
I'm 39 years old and feel the same. They were awesome!
Headbanging from Brazil
Dokken FOREVER
No, I'm not crying right now... 😊
@@emanemanrus5835 Hi brothers,here 41old hard and heavy fan from Karviná,north east part of Czech Republik by grenge with Poland!!!!!🤘🤘🤘
This is the first Dokken song I ever heard. I saw it on MTV Headbanger's Ball back in 1987. I have been a fan of Dokken ever since.
Rockin with dokken🤘😎🤘
Robert B
Same for me
Same here ... i saw it in 1987 and graduated in 88 ... never forgot this!
Yeah buddy!
Rock on, Bob! Back when they played great videos. I remember.
Dokken is so incredibly underrated
I'm EXTREMELY picky with music, but TooL is my favorite band followed by Dokken. Definitely my favorite of 80s bands (also my favorite era of everything.. I'm 30 btw.
55 years old Brazilian cancer surgeon here. Traveling into a time that we'll never forget!! The legacy and the passion of all hair bands has been passed on and on to my kids now!! 🎵🎶🎼. And will last for decades yet to come
Damn man..."Brazilian cancer surgeon ".... if I had a nickel for each time Ive heard that phrase....Id have a nickel now!!
your kids have a very cool dad and great taste on music . best wishes from Canada!
The Hair and Gears made it standout in the 70s and 80s makes it spectacular Art in a glamorous way lols 😂😆.To be blessed and part of the greatest decade of all time never to forget miss it so much oh hail the 80s atmosphere could harp on and explain vibes and feelings like no other time or place in history
80's rock will never be matched. Was so lucky to grow up with this. It gets better over the years and proves this was real music, real artists not the fake crap of today. Dokken was under rated.
Jeff Henry yes I agree with you on that
My all-time favorite band. High school was all Dokken ALL THE TIME. CLASS OF 1988.
Jeff Henry preach brotha ✊🏽🤘🏽
Jeff Henry Way. They had some of the best 80s songs out there.Breaking the chains.into the fire .in my dreams and who can ever forget Dream Warriors.
Scott Patterson You bet .I rocked to dokken over everyone else.Class of 86.
George Lynch what a guitar player. That riff running through this song is just class 👍🤘🏻🎸
Eddie van who?
Exactly, the intro is so powerful ,then the guitar playing through the verses, so awesome and how Don put the vocal melody on top is brilliant as well, makes you wonder what came first the guitar riff or the vocal Melody I would have loved to been a fly on the wall how those songs came together almost all of the Dokken songs they were all listenable from front-to-back most bands could not say that back in that era, yeah Poison, Ratt,Motley Crue etc they had huge hits but they had a lot of filler songs on their albums, every song was well thought of and well-written on Dokken albums, that is not my opinion that's a damn fact to my musical ear
L...George
Lynch
Dokken's pitch was so perfect. Not so high, not so low. Very calming voice he used to have once.
He was a way better singer than a lot of his contemporaries...
58 yrs old and still rockn to 80s rock ❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😊😊😊😊
That guitar is ICONIC!!
53 y.o. e.r. doc here, I remember this awesome tune from the late 80's when i had long hair and a beat up drum kit. Drove my parents nuts! Thanks Dokken for some great tunes and memories!
So good! Im 63 still with waaay long hair beating up the drums
Love their hair, love Don's voice, love the clothes, love the song, love the amazing guitars. In 1987 i was 4 years old. 2023 is a musical shame. I wanna go back to the 80's. Rock to live. Live to rock
Dokken FOREVER
What a song, what a band..
This song has aged very well, still got it cranked in 2020!!!!
Loved this one since it first came out...😬👍🤘💯🎸
@@jennrat513 A men 80s music is better then now I think.
Me too
I've said it before...I'll say it again....GEORGE LYNCH IS A BEAST!!!!
@@masterblaster3914 He is awesome!! Saw them in 84 opening for Aldo Nova, his guitar tech was playing around and someone yelled "cut loose!!", he cranked it, hit a chord, and turned it down instantly. A guy with a blonde puffy top hair with dark bottom half of his hair cut a hard look from around his amps, when they came out it was obvious this was no average guitar player, and was the guy with the funny hair. He made the band, poor Don always got butt hurt over that.
This has to be the best rock band I've ever heard probably my favourite or one of them. I love their music I didn't even know they existed until recently.
27 year old this is My music ❤❤❤
Im 14 and thanks to my dad I started listening to rock when I was younger and I still love it today I wish I could have been in the 80s
Study Listen AND Learn young man AND YOU too, can be ROCKIN' w/AND LIKE, the Great "DOKKEN.....also Axe-Mastered courtesy Strings Riffed Ripped and Wrung-Torn by Lynch Master Stringer Strummer AND ROCK-Rope Wrangler GEORGE LYNCH..!!
I was and it was great.
Great times man. Movies, music and the chicks with big hair!
I was in the 80's but i was a child. I started listening to metal in the 90's. Your dad is proud of you, surely. I wish you could buy a guitar and start singing and your generation could create the Global New Wave of Hard and Heavy!!!
Yes please tell all your friends to check out all the great bands from the 80s it was a great time for music all around
We need the 80s back . Life is to short to taken serious. Glad I lived through this decade.
Yeah please find a time machine quickly. I'm so glad I grew up in that time. The millennials will never know how good we had it.👍🎸🎸
@@frankrizzo4460 '80s rock and BMX! Hell yeah. 😎🎸 🚲
I wish I was born in the 80s I hate this present generation 😒 😶😶😶😶
@@yngwiemalmsteem7287 just enjoy the music and let it take you back...because it was great!
If you want to hear the 80's in today's timeline, look my band up...Whatever... Featuring Chuck Wolfe. My promoter said my songs (all original) were that era for sure!
Love this song and the music... Hair nation music. My dad was a big fan and always played this rock music when I was 7 years old and I loved it as a child and now in my 30's and still rock out to this music. Dokken still one of the greatest 80's rock band.
How wonderful was Dokken back then.. 80's the best era!
Wow I forgot how great this song is. I’m here from the 80’s. Hey everyone else from the 80’s. Rockin with Dokken for life 🤘🏻🔥
Lynch's tone on this album is just amazing.
AGREED
WOW! 1987 now classic HARD anthem Hair-Band ROCK, Rockin 'w/Dokken! Don AND George up front knocking' 'em out great melodic rhythm-like lead string solos...!
What a song!!! The memories... Real music indeed. Long live 80’s Metal.
They used say they were cheesy but I love cheese and I love dokken !
Dokken was easily one of the best 80's bands. Didn't get the airplay they deserved. Back for The Attack is a classic album . Their best!
Yep every song very listenable well-thought-of unlike many other popular bands back in the day only had one or two hits on each album
Man Lynch's solo as the song was fading was just blistering!
YES..!! Just BLISTERING..!!
It's all about the end solo, he just burns it up as it fades out!
For real!!! The fade out pisses me off , haha. George was tearin' it up! If only we could hear the unfaded version..
All I can say is damn......takes me back to the 80s.
Best music ever...my wife is still dumbfounded as to how I can listen to "Hair Nation" whenever we are in the car.
Jim Lucerino tell her to be cool
Hair nation is awesome!!
Get a new wife.
I have my Sirius satellite presets fixed to HAIR NATION always......
Yeah! Channel 39! Lol top three for me. I also like Volume and First Wave (lol)
Dokken was way underrated Lynch was (still is) an animal!
Still rockin to Dokken in 2024.
Dokken will go toe to toe with anyone 💪💪🤟🤟
Unmistakable Lynch tone, Pilson and Brown backup vocals, AND...the first time I EVER heard a 5 string bass
I still love Dokken! Ever since I heard them in like 1982 I was hooked. Dokken is my drug.
I WAS THERE WHEN THEY SHOT THIS VID, GOT COOL STORIES IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HEAR THEM...
Timothy Hyde Sure why not :)
Violet Crush I TOLD THE STORY OF WHAT HAPPENED! THE SECOND PART IS WAY BETTER!
Timothy Hyde Oh I must have missed it. I dont get online everyday too much crap in RL to do lol would kill to go back to my 20's when we had little to no responsibilities lol. Not sure if TH-cam has inbox or not but you can always tag them to my page. I generally try to check that when I am able to get on :)
Violet Crush ITS IN A POST FURTHER DOWN, FUNNY STUFF!
Very well played and produced track right there.
Holds up well, 35 years later.
Lynch is on my top 5 of all time.
2022, still listening. Beautiful harmony.
I agree to the comment. That 80s rock is unmatched even in today’s world. 2021 and still rocking out with 80s bands. I grew up with it best times ever. And I’ve tried other / newer music. And with few exceptions. It always comes back too 80s rock bands that I still wanna crank up and get the best feelings listening too. Man if I had a time machine. I’d go back to this time period. Glad to have been a part of it all.
I agree about the time machine. Also the eighties was the decade of the guitar. Everything had a shredding guitar, even pop songs like Beat It for example, in which EVH played the solo.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: DOKKEN is a gift to Humanity and shall never be taken for granted🤘🏻👨🏼🎤🎶 It's December 2020 and I'll still be burnin' like a flame🔥 in 2021👅
1:25 DON WAS REALLY DANCIN LIKE AXEL ROSE LMAO😂😂😂 hes so cute i luv him
The 80's were the BEST,there is nothing more to say.
wish we could go back .... and stay
Yes😊
Growing up in the 80's and loving the metal of the time was life changing. When I got into my 40's I am into Progressive Metal. When I hear Dokke I am taken back to my bedroom as a kid learning how to play guitar and loving the music.
Don Dokken KING of the Power ballad !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He was doing them before they named them !!
I've said for years that Alone Again should've been the first power ballad instead of Motley's Home Sweet Home. That's coming from a bigger Crue Fan than Dokken. I still love Dokken though.
George Lynch !!!!!!!!!!!!
Dokken is just bad ass!! They are great in concert as well!! Rock classics 🎉🎸🎤😎
At 54 I am still jamming to this song,thanks Dokken for the music".
I am so in love with these guys. Born in 86, my brother used to play all this music when I was little. I wish I could go back in time! It’s all about rock and roll!!! 🔥✌🏼
George has such great tone on this.
LONG LIVE THE "HAIR BANDS"
They will never die
😜🤘
I woke up this morning with this song in my head!
My favorite Dokken song!! Such a great band!
every generation CLAIMS to have the best music ..... ours actually DID ;)
Fire Marshall dokken. He doesnt put out fires, he makes them burn hotter. Rokken with Dokken!!
Back for the attack is one of the best albums ever made !
Facts!!! Top 5 for me!!
Man I miss those days... George Lynch is a beast on guitar and Don's vocals were freakin awesome back in the day, if only I had a time machine lol class of '87 btw
Had all the 80s Dokken albums....on cassette!
Graduated high school in 1991. Dokken was our music of choice (along with a case of beer)
Rockin' with Dokken !
This is real rock -n- roll .
DOKKEN Rocks !
Prime years Dokken right here. The whole album is fantastic. Back for the Attack!
Where did I put my eyeliner and AquaNet?? Love, love, love this!!!
George Lynch is an ungodly guitarist! So much tone, treble, and metal crunch, it should be illegal!
I can't tell if you're saying that as a good thing
@@mack7235 Mack ...It is GREAT BRO !!!:-):-):-)
Eddie Van who....George Lynch mob always!
@@stephenroach739 nah man i'm sorry Lynch is amazing and terribly underrated but Eddir is the guitar god himself
@@elliotcharest4033 haha why? Because VH was more popular? Doesn't make him better at all. Wanna talk guitar god, let's chat about nuggent then.
Love reading comments from so many who love this music. Not sure why I never hera dof so many great hair bans in the 80's. I love music and listened to a lot of it but no where on stations in NYC and Jersey. Have been finding great band for years and now and still finding more. Dokken was great and years ago I found hardline and many more.
Back For The Attack is a perfect album front to back! Their peak IMO
Boston Fire representing. Some kids in our high school were in this video.
Killer record. Just killer.
Too many comments to read though right now but when I heard this song for the first time I knew i was hearing a groundbreaking sound in Metal - 5 string bass. It was prominent and in your face. When the band launches in, that low D was unmistakable and just tickled me pink! 🤟🏻Peace, Dean
Get it George!!!
One of my favorite Dokken songs. Check out that bass line - compliments the song perfectly! The musicianship is not over the top and yet so much in the pocket.... What more can you say about this song, except it just flippin' rocks!!!
Real music❤️Real men❣️
80s banger
This was the very first CD I purchased back in 1987. The CD player was $200 at Best Buy and the CD was $16. Every song on this album is gold! Love Dokken!!!
1985 for me. First CD player bought and Tooth and Nail was one of the first 5 CD's I ever bought.
I don't remember exactly how much my first cd player cost, but I know it was a lot and it was really big and had a huge remote control. This was one of the first CDs I bought. And Ratt, Metallica, Cinderella, Warrant, Dio.....I could go on and on, man the 80s were great
George Lynch is truly one of the special ones who have ever picked up an axe. His 'sound' was truly unique and incredible.
Rock on!
Keep on burnin
They filmed this video in Boston, first Dokken song I remember!
SUPERSTAR BAND
Best music ever 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😊😊
The end solo on this is insane! Amazing playing George Lynch, amazing track...
Time and Time again I thought that you would be gone...ONE OF THE BEST GUITAR LICKS EVER!!!
Don! Don! Don! you just drive us crazy...
Lynch always brought the 🔥!
Listening to Dokken since 2012 but suddenly for the last couple of weeks this song has become a Dokken favourite for me since earbuds fell on this for the first time. So much metal crunch tone..Lynch is insane.
2012???
1987.
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Still Rockin with Dokken in 2020...🔥🔥🔥🔥
Fantastic rithim and special riff Rockin...
Oh yeah,George is just cranking on guitar,that opening riff is just amazing!
People need to realize that the guitar work makes this WHOLE song... George did absolutely crazy on this! Rhythms and everything
Agreed. George was much more than just a power chords guitarist.
Funny, because George Lynch hates this song.
80's rock rules. Real music and outragous guitar riffs.
I think Don wrote a lot of the songs, as he was a guitar player also. All of those guys were very talented!
@@nickfuller20 the whole band was talented and very underrated
Rokken with Dokken,\m/
My fave metal video. It's got it all...smoking girls, fire trucks, metaphor tropes, dalmatians, and George Lynch shooting pool with a guitar.
Every Dokken song I listen to (or video I watch) I say to myself "That one has the best solo from George... Wait no... THAT one does!"
Kirk Preston your comment should have more likes bruh, GL is the best
Kirk Preston George Lynch was a guitar God.He will go down as one of the top 5 axemen of all time.If you doubt this listen to his guitar solo on IN MY DREAMS and show me anyone but randy rhoads .eddie van halen jimie hendrix or slash who could do it as good as the lynch man.
I do the same lol
My young brother or sister. The 80's is alive and well as we speak.
We that arent dead🤣🤣🤣🤣are still planning to launch the best music yet.
Awesome Tune!
Dokken is a great heavy metal band a,great song, Don Dokken wrote all the songs, George Lynch kicks ass on guitar solo
This song still kick ass
I just wish ~20y olds as me listened to these masterpieces more often..
One of the BEST George Lynch guitar solos on a Dokken track. The Mr Scary guitar coming to life was something else!
Omg Dokken still rocks!
Rockin' with Dokken 4evr ❤ since the 80's
Lifelong Dokken fan and yes Lynch's Jfrog is the raddest guitar ever.
Don Dokken had such an amazing voice back then
This is me and my wife’s wedding song 🤘
Hell yeah! That is so awesome Adrian!
I guess it beats using "just got lucky"
Dude...that is metal.
Cool bro! Nice choice
Hey that's tha best choice for your wedding
Ahh when everything was right in the world!!!
Sweet Jesus. I lived it and loved it. 80s had the most awesome men and music. Wish longer hair and guy-liner would come back. You guys look at the number of hits these hair metal vids get??? ; )
Lol I do time to time
I love long haired guys. 😍
@@ginterka381996 I runned into don Dokken in 05
@@rickypasketofficial I'm 23 years old girl and I love 80s metal and rock. I wish to be alive in 80s and see these great bands in their prime time. 😭
@Noah Partic Wild Mick had the greatest hair in this video. 😎😍
I cannot believe I have never heard of this band before! I love them I love their hair
Only way to defeat unhappiness it's by summiting fire 🔥.....with .....fire 🔥🚒
Rockin with Dokken! :)
Dokkens music so dam good that I just listen to them non stop
Ya, Dokken was the band for me in the 80's. High school rocked, the hairspray, the house-parties!!!!