Don Dokken Once Again Rules out Dokken Tour

Don Dokken has once again stated that he doesn’t want to reunite and tour with the classic Dokken lineup.

The singer, guitarist George Lynch, bassist Jeff Pilson and drummer "Wild" Mick Brown went on a short Japanese tour last October in Osaka, before heading to Fukuoka, Tokyo for an appearance at the Loud Park festival and continuing on to Hiroshima, Aichi and finally, back to Tokyo for the final concert.



A new live Dokken concert DVD focusing on the band's reunion tour is tentatively due before the end of the year. The set will feature footage from two of the Japanese shows — including Tokyo — as well as the band's very first comeback gig, which was held on September 30, 2016 at Badlands Pawn Guns Gold And Rock 'N' Roll in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

In a brand new interview with "The Classic Metal Show", Don spoke about the new recording: "There's one [new song]. It's called 'It's Just Another Day'. And I was just at Jeff's last night working on that. We're still working on it. We're almost ninety percent done with fixing some problems we had from.. 'Cause the problem was we were gonna do the DVD from the South Dakota show. We filmed it, we recorded it, there were technical problems, I wasn't crazy about some of the stuff we had on it. So then we went to Japan. We recorded that too and filmed it. So now I've decided to take the Japan recordings and the footage from the big Loud Park festival and mix it in with the DVD, with footage of Dakota and Japan, which is gonna be a lot more work. So now I have to mix two records. We have to do all the songs from Japan and all the songs from Dakota, so it turned into a double-duty project. But we're almost done. Jeff's done a great job. He's a great engineer. And I just go to his house, and I'm just doing some vocal repairs. The other night I was working on the new song, 'It's Just Another Day'. There's just a couple of lyrical things that I didn't like. I thought they were a little negative. Not negative, but just a little too much 'woe is me,' so I just kind of flipped a few words to a more positive vibe on the lyrical end of it. And that song came out killer. And it'll be coming out with the DVD. And as far as the other two new songs [are concerned], they're not new, they're just acoustic versions. We did a new acoustic version of 'Heaven Sent', we did an acoustic version of 'Will The Sun Rise?' So those are the three quote-unquote bonus tracks — two old DOKKEN songs acoustically and one brand new song called 'It's Just Another Day'."

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Lindsay OConnor     April 22, 2017