The Definitive Rock Collection

Performer: Dokken
Engineer: Don Dokken; Michael Wagener; Neil Kernon; Darian Rundall; Yoshio Niwano; Masayuki Amano; Geoff Workman; Brian Daugherty; Syn Davis; Mike Lesniak; Angelo Arcuri
Producer: Don Dokken; Tom Werman; Michael Wagener; Neil Kernon; Syn Davis; Angelo Arcuri; Tom Werman; Roy Thomas Baker; Michael Wagener; Neil Kernon
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: Dokken: Don Dokken, George Lynch, Juan Croucier, Mick Brown . Personnel: Don Dokken (vocals, guitar); Jeff Pilson (vocals, keyboards, background vocals); Wild Mick Brown (vocals, drums, background vocals); Juan Croucier (vocals); George Lynch, Jonathan Levin (guitar); Barry Sparks (background vocals). Audio Mixers: Michael Wagener; Neil Kernon; Syn Davis; Michael Barbiero; Steve Thompson . Audio Remasterers: Dan Hersch; Bill Inglot. Liner Note Authors: Bryan Reesman; Steve Woolard. Editor: Dorothy Stefanski. Photographers: Jodi Summers Dorland; Ross Halfin. Pop-metal outfit Dokken maintained an impressive presence on the charts and in the arenas throughout the 1980s, and continued to churn out albums in the 1990s and 2000s. The hefty, two-disc DEFINITIVE ROCK surveys the band's entire career, dating back to the title track from their debut, BREAKING THE CHAINS, and continuing through to 2004's HELL TO PAY. Marked by pounding riffs, hooky melodies, Don Dokken's soaring vocals, and Greg Lynch's pyrotechnic guitar work, Dokken epitomizes the golden age of hair metal, and their best-loved tunes ("Into the Fire;" "Dream Warriors") are here alongside a bevy of choice album cuts and live tracks.

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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