Just when I thought your previous thread comparing and contrasting the abilities of JET to Pearl Jam was going to be your greatest accomplishment, you go and top yourself.
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"We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"
They just are. When Dokken put out a shitty album like riot act, I'll confess otherwise. Jeff & Stone wish they could have great harmonious (like that word, advanced-level white people?) background vox like Dokken have.
NOT TO MENTION DOKKEN PUT OUT ONE OF THEIR BEST ALBUMS EVER, LIGHTNING STRIKES AGAIN, NEARLY 30 YEARS INTO THEIR CAREER...
But Seriously............tonight, Dokken were AWESOME. Don got a 5-8 year old little girl up on stage with him, sang "Alone Again" to her. I bet her parents were proud as could be. The musicianship was incredible.
And FUCK Wilco.
lol, i saw dokken open for loverboy in 1986. talk about a strange bill.
Last year, the same weekend Pearl Jam played Lollapalooza, Dokken was also playing a large music festival...Bratwurst Days in Sheboygan, WI. Looks like the Dokken fans trumped our asses on that one!
P.s. I'm not kidding, there actually is Bratwurst Days and Dokken really was there! Luckily, I was in Chicago that weekend!
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Okay, here's the oh-so-serious review that I wrote up for all my buddies who couldn't go with me. Since a few of you like Dokken (and those you who do not - you should), I C&P here.
Screw Wilco, though.
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We got eight row! We walked right up to the box office at 6:50 (Bach went on at 7pm) and got them! Once again this strategy worked; online all I could pull up was Row Z in the back section.
Ticketmaster holds some tickets back and raises the price the day of show. Ticketmaster is almost just like Stubhub and all those other scalper sites. For $57 it was worth it to be that close.
Sebastian Bach was awesome. Don't miss him! He puts his all into it and just screams like it's 1989. He can still hit the notes and his voice is still in top form. If you saw him with GNR in 2006, you know exactly what I mean by this. He's fun and I don't know what you think about Skid Row, but just trust me and check him out. His enthusiasm is kidlike and it's just refreshing.
Dokken RULED! Don did not attempt high notes hardly at all and just sang "within himself." He looked a bit pudgy (he looked great in 2004 when we saw Dokken) and is looking older. He looked very happy & content though. The only member from the 2004 lineup is lead guitarist (and George Lynch clone) Jon Levin. The songs were played at a bit slower pace, probably because Don fired the drummer a few weeks ago and this guy is pretty new. Only one song from the new album, which to me was disappointing. The band was clearly more interested in playing the new song than the others.
You know what you are getting with Poison. Which is good and bad; good because they are fun, but bad because it's no different than any other year. Last year's tour was the most mixed-up they had done in some time, but this year was very vanilla. Not worth seeing twice in a summer anymore, but worth seeing once each summer. Bret's guitar still "needs checked to see if it's in tune" before Every Rose. The same shit, fun, but the same shit. The guys are all from the Pittsburgh area, and they were very happy to be in front of their hometown crowd.
Last night's show will be on the first episode of Bret's "Rock Of Love Season 3."
The venue, the Starlake Amphitheater, is pretty nice, looks pretty new. It's kind of like Indy's Deer Creek in that it's in a rural area, by itself, a two lane road getting in & out of there. It'd be horrible if we were going towards Pittsburgh, but since we headed south, traffic was a breeze getting out. It's kind of like Cincinnati's Riverbend in that there are lots of places to go hang out & talk if you wanted to step out of the amphitheater itself.
The setlists were more "even" than ever, timewise. I remember when the opening act got like 4-5 songs. I may be off on the order here & there, but the setlists were:
Bach:
Back in the Saddle Again (cover)
Big Guns
Here I Am
American Metalhead
18 & Life
Some other new song that I can't remember
Monkey Business
I Remember You
Youth Gone Wild
Dokken (who ruled):
Tooth & Nail
Into The Fire
Just Got LuckyThe Hunter
Inside Looking Out (the only new song played)
Kiss of Death
Alone Again (pulled a 5-6 year old girl up on stage, sang it while she sat beside him. Don said "I'd be asking you out if I was 60-70 years younger." - hahaha)
It's Not Love
Dream Warriors (!!!!! - I've never heard this live)
Breaking The Chains
In My Dreams
Poison:
Cat Dragged In
I Want Action
Ride The Wind
CC guitar solo ("Amazing Grace" is the centerpiece of it)
Fallen Angel
Something To Believe In
Every Rose
That's What I Like About You (cover)
Rikki drum solo
I Won't Forget You
Unskinny Bop
Talk Dirty To Me
Encore:
Nothing But A Good Time
No "Love on the Rocks" or "Cry Tough," although Cry Tough has been played a few times this year. I guess I'll never get to hear that song. And thank GOD, they left out CC's atrocious "I Hate Every Bone In Your Body But Mine."
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What was their one hit back 20+ years ago? something to do with a girl in tight pants and big hair and it had explosions and confetti? wait was that Dokken,Poison, Warrant, Ratt, Motley Crue, Lifehouse, Madhouse, Arthouse, Firehouse, Outhouse....jeez I cant remember
You seem to really like that 80's hair metal rock wich is cool to each their own.
It is too bad you can't get into wilco i think they are phenominal band with good melodies and good lyrics.
I noticed you mentioned the singer from dokken bringing the girl on stage to sing to her. It reminded me when i saw Wilco he saw a girl around 5 years old in the crowd and asked what her favorite song was. Then he climbed out into the crowd about 8 rows deep and held her in his arms standing on the chair and sang the song to her and danced with her. Nice little touch when people can do that.
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You seem to really like that 80's hair metal rock wich is cool to each their own.
It is too bad you can't get into wilco i think they are phenominal band with good melodies and good lyrics.
I noticed you mentioned the singer from dokken bringing the girl on stage to sing to her. It reminded me when i saw Wilco he saw a girl around 5 years old in the crowd and asked what her favorite song was. Then he climbed out into the crowd about 8 rows deep and held her in his arms standing on the chair and sang the song to her and danced with her. Nice little touch when people can do that.
I was just being obnoxious. I don't really have that strong of an opinion on Wilco. I read a thoughtful, well-written post like yours and then I feel bad for being so obnoxious.
Lynch Mob was better than Dokken, and even they sucked.
Out of all the remarks, I hold this one in high regard.
PBM
"We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"
Lynch Mob was better than Dokken, and even they sucked.
Da Lynch Mob rocked though
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Dwight Schrute, a popular character on the American TV series The Office, was a Dokken fan as shown in Dwight's web log entry from September 27, 2007. In this entry Dwight opened a time capsule from himself that was sealed in 1985, and it included a letter to his future self that read: "Dokken Rules. Dwight."[4]
Dwight Schrute, a popular character on the American TV series The Office, was a Dokken fan as shown in Dwight's web log entry from September 27, 2007. In this entry Dwight opened a time capsule from himself that was sealed in 1985, and it included a letter to his future self that read: "Dokken Rules. Dwight."[4]
They just are. When Dokken put out a shitty album like riot act, I'll confess otherwise. Jeff & Stone wish they could have great harmonious (like that word, advanced-level white people?) background vox like Dokken have.
NOT TO MENTION DOKKEN PUT OUT ONE OF THEIR BEST ALBUMS EVER, LIGHTNING STRIKES AGAIN, NEARLY 30 YEARS INTO THEIR CAREER...
But Seriously............tonight, Dokken were AWESOME. Don got a 5-8 year old little girl up on stage with him, sang "Alone Again" to her. I bet her parents were proud as could be. The musicianship was incredible.
And FUCK Wilco.
So why aren't you posting all this on the Dokken board?
So why aren't you posting all this on the Dokken board?
Because there probably isn't a Dokken board. Their fans are so hard core, they are too busy chugging JD and snorting blow off of the sleeves of their jean jackets to have discovered the internet yet.
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lol, i saw dokken open for loverboy in 1986. talk about a strange bill.
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Yeah, Freddy Krueger forever!!!
but seriously I have recently gotten into Queensryche/ Operation Mindcrime again so what do I know.
Together we will float like angels.........
In the moment that you left the room, the album started skipping, goodbye to beauty shared with the ones that you love.........
Uh-oh. I just checked out that link and ended up going through not only Dokken, but L.A. Guns, W.A.S.P. and Ratt too!
YouTube can be hazardous to one's state of mind.
"What a stupid lamb."
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
P.S.: Sky Blue Sky is pretty fucking sweeeet.
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P.s. I'm not kidding, there actually is Bratwurst Days and Dokken really was there! Luckily, I was in Chicago that weekend!
KINGDOM COME *Get It On* sounds better than that stuff at least they have that Led Zep sound.
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Screw Wilco, though.
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We got eight row! We walked right up to the box office at 6:50 (Bach went on at 7pm) and got them! Once again this strategy worked; online all I could pull up was Row Z in the back section.
Ticketmaster holds some tickets back and raises the price the day of show. Ticketmaster is almost just like Stubhub and all those other scalper sites. For $57 it was worth it to be that close.
Sebastian Bach was awesome. Don't miss him! He puts his all into it and just screams like it's 1989. He can still hit the notes and his voice is still in top form. If you saw him with GNR in 2006, you know exactly what I mean by this. He's fun and I don't know what you think about Skid Row, but just trust me and check him out. His enthusiasm is kidlike and it's just refreshing.
Dokken RULED! Don did not attempt high notes hardly at all and just sang "within himself." He looked a bit pudgy (he looked great in 2004 when we saw Dokken) and is looking older. He looked very happy & content though. The only member from the 2004 lineup is lead guitarist (and George Lynch clone) Jon Levin. The songs were played at a bit slower pace, probably because Don fired the drummer a few weeks ago and this guy is pretty new. Only one song from the new album, which to me was disappointing. The band was clearly more interested in playing the new song than the others.
You know what you are getting with Poison. Which is good and bad; good because they are fun, but bad because it's no different than any other year. Last year's tour was the most mixed-up they had done in some time, but this year was very vanilla. Not worth seeing twice in a summer anymore, but worth seeing once each summer. Bret's guitar still "needs checked to see if it's in tune" before Every Rose. The same shit, fun, but the same shit. The guys are all from the Pittsburgh area, and they were very happy to be in front of their hometown crowd.
Last night's show will be on the first episode of Bret's "Rock Of Love Season 3."
The venue, the Starlake Amphitheater, is pretty nice, looks pretty new. It's kind of like Indy's Deer Creek in that it's in a rural area, by itself, a two lane road getting in & out of there. It'd be horrible if we were going towards Pittsburgh, but since we headed south, traffic was a breeze getting out. It's kind of like Cincinnati's Riverbend in that there are lots of places to go hang out & talk if you wanted to step out of the amphitheater itself.
The setlists were more "even" than ever, timewise. I remember when the opening act got like 4-5 songs. I may be off on the order here & there, but the setlists were:
Bach:
Back in the Saddle Again (cover)
Big Guns
Here I Am
American Metalhead
18 & Life
Some other new song that I can't remember
Monkey Business
I Remember You
Youth Gone Wild
Dokken (who ruled):
Tooth & Nail
Into The Fire
Just Got LuckyThe Hunter
Inside Looking Out (the only new song played)
Kiss of Death
Alone Again (pulled a 5-6 year old girl up on stage, sang it while she sat beside him. Don said "I'd be asking you out if I was 60-70 years younger." - hahaha)
It's Not Love
Dream Warriors (!!!!! - I've never heard this live)
Breaking The Chains
In My Dreams
Poison:
Cat Dragged In
I Want Action
Ride The Wind
CC guitar solo ("Amazing Grace" is the centerpiece of it)
Fallen Angel
Something To Believe In
Every Rose
That's What I Like About You (cover)
Rikki drum solo
I Won't Forget You
Unskinny Bop
Talk Dirty To Me
Encore:
Nothing But A Good Time
No "Love on the Rocks" or "Cry Tough," although Cry Tough has been played a few times this year. I guess I'll never get to hear that song. And thank GOD, they left out CC's atrocious "I Hate Every Bone In Your Body But Mine."
1996: Ft Lauderdale
1998: Birmingham
2000: Charlotte, Tampa
2003: Tampa, Atlanta, Phoenix
2004: Kissimmee
2008: West Palm Beach, Bonnaroo, Columbia
2010: MSG2
2012: Music Midtown
2014: Memphis
2018: Wrigley 1, Fenway 1
2022: Nashville
2023: Ft. Worth II
What was their one hit back 20+ years ago? something to do with a girl in tight pants and big hair and it had explosions and confetti? wait was that Dokken,Poison, Warrant, Ratt, Motley Crue, Lifehouse, Madhouse, Arthouse, Firehouse, Outhouse....jeez I cant remember
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It is too bad you can't get into wilco i think they are phenominal band with good melodies and good lyrics.
I noticed you mentioned the singer from dokken bringing the girl on stage to sing to her. It reminded me when i saw Wilco he saw a girl around 5 years old in the crowd and asked what her favorite song was. Then he climbed out into the crowd about 8 rows deep and held her in his arms standing on the chair and sang the song to her and danced with her. Nice little touch when people can do that.
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I was just being obnoxious. I don't really have that strong of an opinion on Wilco. I read a thoughtful, well-written post like yours and then I feel bad for being so obnoxious.
Out of all the remarks, I hold this one in high regard.
PBM
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1996: Ft Lauderdale
1998: Birmingham
2000: Charlotte, Tampa
2003: Tampa, Atlanta, Phoenix
2004: Kissimmee
2008: West Palm Beach, Bonnaroo, Columbia
2010: MSG2
2012: Music Midtown
2014: Memphis
2018: Wrigley 1, Fenway 1
2022: Nashville
2023: Ft. Worth II
But why? Dokken rules.
Dwight Schrute, a popular character on the American TV series The Office, was a Dokken fan as shown in Dwight's web log entry from September 27, 2007. In this entry Dwight opened a time capsule from himself that was sealed in 1985, and it included a letter to his future self that read: "Dokken Rules. Dwight."[4]
Well there you go!!!
You like Dokken too then..? :rolleyes:
Personally I thought they were rubbish, compared to the mighty Skid Row anyway
Because there probably isn't a Dokken board. Their fans are so hard core, they are too busy chugging JD and snorting blow off of the sleeves of their jean jackets to have discovered the internet yet.
OK, Queensryche....now we're talking