One Live Night

Performer: Dokken
Engineer: Wyn Davis
Producer: Dokken; Wyn Davis
Distributor: BMG (distributor)

Notes: Dokken: Don Dokken (vocals, acoustic & slide guitars, bass); Jeff Pilson (vocals, acoustic guitar, guitar, piano, acoustic bass, bass); Mick Brown (vocals, percussion, sound effects); George Lynch (acoustic 12-string & electric guitars, sound effects). Recorded live at The Strand, Redondo Beach, California on December 13th, 1994. L.A. melodic rockers Dokken broke up at the height of their popularity in 1988, just as they wrapped up touring as part of the mammoth US MONSTERS OF ROCK tour (headlined by Van Halen) and were enjoying one of their most commercially successful records, BACK FOR THE ATTACK. The members went their separate ways for several years (Don Dokken released a solo album, Jeff Pilson joined Dio, while George Lynch and Mick Brown assembled a whole new band, the Lynch Mob), but none of their post-Dokken projects were as successful. With just about every dormant hard rock act reuniting in the mid/late-'90s, including Kiss, Motley Crue, Iron Maiden, among others, Dokken patched up their differences and issued an in-concert, all-acoustic set of greatest hits, 1995's ONE LIVE NIGHT. Featured are unplugged but still powerful readings of such Dokken standards "Unchain the Night," "Alone Again," "In My Dreams," and "It's Not Love," as well as covers of the Beatles' "Nowhere Man" and ELP's "From the Beginning."

Part of the same Los Angeles pop metal scene that hatched Motley Crue and Ratt, Dokken rocked hard, with a focus on frontman Don Dokken's melodic songwriting and expressive multi-octave vocals and George Lynch's masterful guitar wrangling. Together since the late 1970s, the band made their initial public impact when Elektra Records picked up the band's impressive '83 debut. The label would go on to release three more Dokken Albums--each better than the last--over the course of the next few years. By the dawn of the '90s, the band were bonafide MTV rock stars, and soon imploded (as all great rock bands do) over intraband conflicts. They reunited in '95 and have released several more albums, embracing a darker, more complex, but no less melodic sound befitting an ever-growing creative unit.

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