Japan Live '95

Performer: Dokken
Distributor: BMG (distributor)

Notes: Dokken: Don Dokken (vocals, guitar); George Lynch (guitar); Jeff Pilson (bass, background vocals); Mick Brown (drums, background vocals). Recorded live at Kosei Nenkin Hall, Tokyo, Japan, 1995. Personnel: Don Dokken (vocals, guitar); Wild Mick Brown, Mick Brown (vocals, drums); Jeff Pilson (vocals); George Lynch (guitar). Recording information: Kosei Nenkin Hall, Tokyo, Japan (1995). You simply have to hand it to Dokken. Through highly documented public spats and various lineup changes, the group has remained as true to itself as a band with such longevity can possibly be. However, this 2003 release of a 1995 concert finds Dokken to be a band void of any sort of creative evolution, which can be good and bad -- good because it's giving the fans exactly what they paid for in a concert (the hits) and bad because after a while "Mr. Scary" just doesn't do the trick like it used to. While trying to re-create the fire of its glory years, the group runs through some of its most well-known hits (predominantly from the seminal Beast from the East release), and it seems almost effortless how the musicianship comes across first and foremost. However, this could be a sure sign that the band is just on autopilot and waiting for the real party to begin backstage after the concert. The band sounds as fine-tuned as ever, especially the guitar theatrics of George Lynch, but this is definitely a release only for the die-hard fanatic. ~ Rob Theakston

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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