Erase the Slate

Performer: Dokken
Engineer: Rob Easterday
Producer: Dokken
Distributor: RED Distribution

Notes: Dokken: Don Dokken (vocals); Jeff Pilson (vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, Mellotron, keyboards, bass); Mick Brown (vocals, drums, perussion); Reb Beach (guitar). Principally recorded at 710 Studios, Redondo, California. This is a DualDisc, which contains a CD on one side of the disc and a DVD on the other. Even though pop-metal heroes Dokken reunited in the 1990s, old habits refused to die for singer Don Dokken and guitarist George Lynch, who still could not see eye to eye. Wishing to pursue a heavier musical direction, and feeling restricted by his old bandmates, Lynch once again left Dokken shortly after 1997's SHADOW LIFE. Instead of going on hiatus again as they once did in the late '80s, Dokken decided to soldier on, with ex-Winger guitarist Reb Beach taking Lynch's vacated spot. On the first Dokken album with Beach, 2000's ERASE THE SLATE, the music remains more straight-ahead than on Dokken's glossy '80s releases, but incorporates more melody into the mix than their later '90s efforts--check out the title track and "The Maddest Hatter" for the proof.

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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